I’m dead serious when I say you may not hear a better debut album from a new band this year. Most albums, especially debut albums, have a stinker or two and overall display a band in search of their “own sound” but on Kali Yuga, Obese sound like a band that has been[…]

 The road of melodic insanity they express through the songs will devour any drop of humanity from the listener, 4 enchanting songs from 12 to 28 minutes of psychedelic sludge filled with suppressed anger and hate towards the self and the cosmos. From Metal Temple

Un disco bellissimo questo “Chapter II”, intelligente, maturo, consapevole e coinvolgente. Una perla per gli appassionati del genere e non solo. From Metalitalia

Tovarish uguale apoteosi. In sostanza il terzetto americano con questo incredibile ed allucinante lavoro intitolato “This Terrible Burden” ci trasporta in un mondo post apocalittico invaso da un sound dark ambient attraverso profusioni post atomiche, rumoristiche e futuriste in grado di trasportare l’ascoltatore in una sorta di parallelismo surreale e[…]

Bantoriak’s debut album – Weedooism – is a very hard one to describe. Parts Stoner, Ambient, Drone and New Age Mysticism. Bantoriak feel like the next evolution of Stoner Rock especially if you’re a fan of OM, Sleep and Black Sabbath. There are not many bands around like Bantoriak as[…]

I was a big fan of this French outfit’s second album,Whispering Wild Stories, which came out over four years ago, back in 2011.  Their sound melds the stoner grooves of Fu Manchu with some harsh sludge vocals reminiscent of Eyehategod—and while it sounds like an odd combo at first, it actually[…]

Hailing from Finland, LOWBURN are an impressive band able to blend the pure stoner rock frenzy to the doomier as well as more psychedelic fields. Formed by BATTLELORE members Tomi Mykkänen and Henkka Vahvanen, LOWBURN born as a band since the very first jams, recruiting Miika Kokkola and Tommi Havo (replaced by Tommi Lintunen in the[…]

  OBESE (Holland) is crunchy, catchy, powerful and above all heavy as hell. Bringing the groove back into stoner and feeding your appetite with fat tunes that will leave you hungry for more. The weight and thickness of sound is being explored one track at a time: corpulency never felt that[…]

Formed between Montpellier and Sète in 2003, DENIZEN released a first demo/EP and the first demo/album “Far From Common Strategy” in 2006. Now, after two albums – “Snatches into Uproar” (2009) and “Whispering Wild Stories” (2011) – the band is ready for the come-back with their stunning fourth album “Troubled Waters”,[…]

TOVARISH is the new exciting name in the ARGONAUTA Records family! Based in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) and combining dark ambient electronics, metal guitars and excruciatingly inhuman vocals, Tovarish explore themes such as bio-terrorism, man-made disasters and paranoia. Glacially-paced, cold, and depressive, their music challenges listeners with dense, aleatory textures offering only fleeting[…]