Exclusive Album Premiere of Psych Stoner Rockers ATOM JUICE Brilliant Self Titled New Album

Formed by ex-Weedpecker, Makiwara and Clockmaid members, the quintet crafts a warm multi-dimensional sound that heartily takes its cue from Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles, Pond or Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band. Recorded entirely in their rehearsal space, "Atom Juice" forms an aural rainbow of lush guitar layers, dreamy and alluring vocal harmonies and spacey effects, all exquisitely melding into magical landscapes and otherworldly daydreams that turn into reality as soon as you hit play. Dive in...

Recorded entirely in their rehearsal space, the album features layered guitars, rich vocal harmonies, and spacey effects — all crafted with great attention to detail.

“We poured everything we had into this record over the years it took to create it. We hope you enjoy the listen.”

We're excited to premiere the new album in full below thanks to the great folks over at Purple Sage PR and Heavy Psych Sounds.

Thanks to Purple Sage PR for the promo.

Atom Juice is available to buy now on CD/DD/Vinyl via Heavy Psych Sounds.

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Alternative Metal Duo Sisters announce cult concept album Wings of Deliverance out August 29th on Spartan Records

Sisters have been carving out their own heavy, melodic world since the release of their debut album Leecheater in 2023 — a record that laid the foundation for their signature sound: raw, riff-driven rock with an unflinching honesty. Now, the duo Jason Blackmore (vocals / guitar / bass / keyboards ) and Mario Quintero (vocals / drums / guitar / keyboards), return with Wings of Deliverance, a darker, more experimental follow-up that examines Blackmore’s fascination with cults, religion, and power structures led through a conceptual exploration of the Jonestown Massacre.

The premise of the record comes to life in title track and opener “Wings of Deliverance” out now. As Blackmore divulges:

“The beginning. After preaching and holding healing revivals for two years at the Laurel Street Tabernacle Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church, Jim Jones leaves in 1955 and starts his own church.”

The track boasts a noise punk meets industrial electronic sound, setting off with an unhinged scream into a persuasive vocal delivery. The lo-fi video for the song mixes trippy graphics with imagery of Jim Jones and his followers, try not to get brainwashed. You can watch the video HERE and the track will hit streaming services tomorrow.

Wings of Deliverance will release on August 29th through Spartan Records and is available for preorder now.

Both Jason Blackmore and Mario Quintero have a wealth of experience that feeds into Sisters’ unique approach. Blackmore, a founding member of Molly McGuire, a band known for its heavy, emotionally-charged sound, brings years of songwriting experience to the table. Quintero, best known as the guitarist and vocalist for Spotlights, has contributed his technical prowess and musical vision to a band that’s been recognized for its atmospheric, heavy tones. Together, their combined experience in crafting songs for bands with distinct and powerful sounds has shaped Sisters into what it is today.

Wings Of Deliverance tells a chilling narrative about the cult of personality and the horrors of Jim Jones and the Jonestown tragedy. The record explores the devastating consequences of blind faith and how easily minds can be swayed by egomaniacal leaders. Sonically it enacts the floaty heart of Deftones with the experimental energy of Nine Inch Nails, boasting through a combination of alternative metal, industrial, and noise rock. Recorded in Quintero’s basement, the production is raw and exclusive. The album packs depth in both sound and concept, digging deep into the darker corners of the human psyche and delivering Sisters most true to form body of work yet.

Wings Of Deliverance Tracklist:

1. Wings of Deliverance
2. Home Is Where The Heart Is
3. Peoples Temple
4. The Angels of Violence
5. Golden Sunbeams
6. The Planning Commission
7. White Night
8. Death Is A Friend

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Acidsloth - ACIDSLOTH (Album Review)

Release Date: July 11th 2025. Record Label: Interstellar Smoke Records / Three Moon Records. Formats: Cassette/CD/DD

ACIDSLOTH - Tracklisting

1.Float 05:43

2.Hole 08:58

3.Free 05:31

4.Sin 09:39

5.Puke 06:28

6.Satan 08:09

Members

- Drums: Adam Gajeski (*Hyad*) 

- Bass: Wiktor Kozak (*Moonstone*, *Minor God*) 

- Guitar: Patryk Kozera (*Cosmic Carnage*) 

- Vocals: Julia Markiewicz (*Float*), Jan Gajewski (*Hole*), Radosław Bury (*Free*, *Puke*), Mateusz Zborowski (*Satan*), Patryk Kozera (*Sin*)

Review

Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metallers Acidsloth release their new album ACIDSLOTH which sees the band move firmly away from their Psych Stoner Rock sound they delivered on their previous records. This time round the band have adapted into a heavier and primal creative unit with a firm reliance on Post-Metal that allows a destructive COSMIC energy to breathe new life into the band.

Acidsloth take similar DOOM themes from bands such as Electric Wizard, CONAN, EYEHATEGOD and UFOMAMMUT for a mind expanding style of brutality which comes across with the five different vocalists that appear throughout the album. The majority of these vocals are harsh and quite extreme with the music being primarily the COSMIC and PSYCHEDELIC force which is one of the best parts of the record. As Acidsloth blend mind-expanding grooves and subtle changes into a straightforward style of Stoner Rock/Metal in the more mellow parts of the record.

There’s a lot to take in with this album as Acidsloth uses different creative methods and vocal methods for each track that makes it feel quite disjointed in places. However, everything works superbly well with Acidsloth constructing a different type of modern day underground Sludge/Stoner Metal record. Standout tracks for me are Float, Hole, Free and Sin with the band showcasing a great style of musical styles that pays to the likes of PELICAN, ISIS and NEUROSIS when the band move briefly into the Post-Metal stratosphere. However, everything still sounds highly original especially when the extended instrumental passages take complete control.

The use of different vocalists for the tracks is an inspired choice especially with all of them projecting HARSH/SCREAM based vocals. This may put some folks off but this gives the album a truly exciting vibe as you don’t know what to expect next. Some of the songs are perhaps a bit too long but Acidsloth always conjures up a GIGANTIC groove or riff where you can’t help but HEADBANG or ROCK OUT fully too.

ACIDSLOTH is a demanding, brooding and brilliantly aggressive record with flashes of top-notch COSMIC DOOM and DOOMGAZE energy shining throughout. If you want to experience a different style of Sludge/Stoner Metal from the famed Polish Underground Scene then Acidsloth are the band for you. 

This is top-notch stuff from start to finish.

Words by Steve Howe

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HIbernaut - Obsidian Eye (Album Review)

Release Date: July 11th 2025. Record Label: Olde Magick Records. Formats: Cassette/CD/DD/Vinyl

Obsidian Eye - Tracklisting

1.Engorge Behemoth 07:56

2.Venatic Rite 07:54

3.Pestiferous 06:54

4.Obsidian Eye 08:10

5.Revenants 08:33

6.Beset 07:51

Members

Dave Jones - Guitar and Vocals

Zach Hatsis - Drums

Josh Dupree - Bass

Matt Miller - Guitar

Review

Psych Sludge/Stoner Metallers Hibernaut return with their sophomore album Obsidian Eye which is a concept album of sorts with the band explaining about the whole concept below:

“Obsidian Eye tells a harrowing tale of infection, resurrection, and the unknowable will of an alien intelligence. Set in a pre-industrial world teetering on the edge of understanding, the album explores the question: Who decides when to die?”

Hibernate constructs a decaying style of Progressive Metal to build their creative landscape upon with moments of Psych, Sludge, Doom and Stoner Metal roaming free to play an unforgiving style of music. The sound is quite apocalyptic with flashes of fast paced Progressive Sludge grooves that hide a haunting Post-Doom and Post-Metal quality. Hibernaut channels the likes of Neurosis, GOJIRA, Mastodon, Black Sabbath, YOB and Cult Of Luna through this sordid and nightmarish world that has a downbeat attitude especially with the lyrics written for the album.

The vocals from Dave Jones are perfectly pitched for an album about the END OF THE WORLD with a despairing and NO FUCKS GIVEN attitude hidden behind his frontman persona. The progressive melodies and harsh Post-Metal environments lead into some intense musical tempos and instrumental passages with a sudden shift to different types of METAL such as Groove, Thrash and Industrial can be heard especially within the highly destructive tracks of Engorge Behemoth and Venatic Rice. 

HIbernaut operate with a fast and loose approach that gives the record a more honest vibe where the music becomes more destructive and aggressively violent as a result but still holding a quite an earnest melodic quality. The FUZZED up sounds lend a helping hand of keeping things quite grounded when the story of the album becomes slightly CHAOTIC and downright CINEMATIC on tracks such as Pestiferous, Obsidian Eye and Revenants. The songs are quite long with Hibernaut playing through a TON of different genres but everything is played with great originality and the songs are constructed superbly well to hold the listeners attention throughout.

This is the type of album that the RELAPSE RECORDS crowd would have loved around fifteen to twenty years ago when they were the go to Sludge/Stoner Metal label to be signed to back in the day. So if you miss those good old days when Relapse Records had High On Fire, Mastodon, Baroness, Black Tusk and Neurosis signed to their label then Obsidian Eye is perhaps the closest record you’ll hear to capture that legendary era of music.

Obsidian Eye is played at such a fast and breakneck speed that the forty nine minute run-time just flies by with Hibernaut playing huge classic riffs over, over and over again. The album can be quite unforgiving and bleak with its whole APOCALYPTIC theme holding everything together but that only adds to the overall effect of the musical journey that Hibernaut takes you upon.

Hibernaut have released another exciting and unmissable record with Obsidian Eye with superb production values to match. Add this one to your collection and embrace the perfect Sludge/Stoner Metal soundtrack to the end of the world.

Words by Steve Howe

Obsidian Eye is available to buy on Cassette, Digital, CD and Vinyl

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Dallas Heavy Rock Trio TEMPTRESS Signs To Blues Funeral Recordings

US independent heavy powerhouse Blues Funeral Recordings is proud to welcome Dallas, Texas heavy tripolar noisemakers TEMPTRESS to their roster for the release of the band's sophomore album in early 2026.

Temptress is a heavy trio founded in Dallas, Texas who fuse drone, doom, post-rock, noise, grunge and classic metal into an unexpected blend that sounds at times like each of these yet is also entirely unique. Comprised of veteran touring musicians Andi Cuba (drums/vocals), Kelsey Wilson (guitar/vocals) and Christian Wright (bass/vocals), Temptress began their musical journey in 2019. Within just five months, these experienced players went from jamming for fun to writing and recording their first potent songs, self-releasing the self-titled "Temptress" EP that year and immediately launching into live performances.

Recording their first full-length album "SEE" with Kent Stump (Wo Fat) at Crystal Clear Sound Studio and releasing the record in 2023 through Metal Assault Records, Temptress toured extensively, leveraging the members’ vast onstage experience to present their hybrid heaviness in the most natural and impactful setting. In their relatively short tenure, Temptress has played 200+ shows across the USA and Canada, sharing stages with bands like Khemmis, Royal Thunder, Eyehategod and Black Tusk, and performing at events like Ripplefest Texas, Grim Reefer Fest in Baltimore, Atlanta Doom Fest and the early days of Austin’s Gravitoyd Doom Fest.

Signing to Blues Funeral Recordings with plans to release their second album in early 2026, Temptress is ready to harness their relentless work ethic and explosive live presence to incinerate new stages and make instant new fans with their ambitious, genre-warping heaviness worldwide. "We are ecstatic to join forces with the mighty Blues Funeral for the release of our upcoming album, and are equally thankful to be included alongside such a diverse talented roster of visionary artists and labelmates. We can't wait to see what the future has in store, " bassist and vocalist Christian Wright enthuses.

Guitarist and vocalist Kelsey Wilson adds: "We as a group put much of our heart and soul into our recording and expressing our individuality through our songs. I'm happy to be partnered with a label that shares in that enthusiasm, grateful to be part of this community, and look forward to the future of our next release and the upcoming years."

Stay tuned for more Temptress news and tunes coming soon on Blues Funeral Recordings!

Temptress is

Andi Cuba – Drums & Vocals
Kelsey Wilson – Guitar & Vocals
Christian Wright – Bass & Vocals

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Blues Funeral Recordings links

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Thanks to Purple Sage PR for all of the details.

SkullDozer - High Tide (Album Review)

Release Date: July 04th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD

High Tide - Tracklisting

1.Bloody Ground 06:33

2.Sign of the Times 04:59

3.High Tide 05:00

4.Erosion 04:51

5.Mass Production 06:36

6.Misanthromation 10:14

7.Hand of Fate 05:25

Members

Ben House - Vocals

Justin Morgan - Guitars

Jay Erbe - Drums

Dylan Wills - Bass

Review

High Tide is the second full length album from Doom/Grunge/Stoner Metallers SkullDozer who have expanded to a four piece with the addition of Dylan Wills on bass since their 2019 debut full length album. Their music has a lot more power with those extra bone-crunching bass lines being provided by Dylan adding a solid line of frenzied heaviness which adds a subtle Grunge sound starting to form.

Justin Morgan on Guitars and Jay Erbe on Drums return with a refreshing style of Groove, Thrash, Sludge and Fuzz being constructed and bounced around with supreme enthusiasm. Rounding the lineup is Ben House on vocal duties which has its roots in almost every corner of the Doom, Grunge and Stoner Metal stratosphere. There’s even a 1980’s Classic Hard Rock energy appearing when Ben reaches those grizzled high notes which he does spectacularly throughout the whole album.

 

The opening tracks of Bloody Ground and Sign Of The Times are highly influenced by the likes of Metallica, Crowbar, Pantera and Corrosion Of Conformity with that classic Portland, Oregon based Stoner Metal grit where the band are originally from. The sound is quite aggressive, distorted and ultimately melodic with the thrashy guitars working superbly well with the Psych Doomed Out moments that almost lead into areas of Prog Stoner Metal on the later stages of the album.

SkullDozer takes influence from the likes of DOZER, MASTODON, THE SWORD and BLACK SABBATH throughout this intense musical journey. The band do allow themselves the time to put their own highly confident and creative stamp with a sludge based DOWN-TUNED environment on tracks such as High Tide, Erosion, Mass Production and Misanthromation. The later stages of High Tide take elements of heavier sounds such as Prog Metal and Drone which gives this record quite an unforgiving atmosphere. 

The production values are OFF THE SCALE with massive amounts of HEAVY VOLUME filling upto the brim as SkullDozer firmly move confidently over into the realm of LOW & SLOW and AMPLIFIER DISTORTION before the album closes on an exciting finish. High Tide have used their time away superbly well and have returned with a BIGGER, HEAVIER, AGGRESSIVE and more THREATENING sound that demolishes everything that’s put right in front of them.

High Tide is an absolute thrill ride with EPIC GROOVES to match. This is the type of album you play at the LOUDEST VOLUME possible and to piss off your family, friends and neighbours with. What more could you possibly want!!!

Words by Steve Howe

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Psalm - In Darkness… Have Mercy (EP Review)

Release Date: July 15th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: CD/DD/Vinyl

In Darkness… Have Mercy - Tracklisting

1.MISERY

2.MESSIAH

3.VALUE THE SUFFERING

4.BLESSED ARE THE CURSED’ 25

Members

Jon "Fro" Torres - Vocals/Bass

Carlos Martinez - Guitar

Ian Henneforth - Drums

Review

Doom/Stoner Metallers Psalm return after a four year absence and with a revised line-up with Jon”Fro” Torres being the only member left from their excellent 2021 EP - Blessed Are The Cursed. Jon is joined by Carlos Martinez on Guitar and Ian Henneforth on Drums. This version of Psalm is a heavier, doomier and groovier unit compared to previous one especially on their new EP - In Darkness… Have Mercy.

In Darkness… Have Mercy sees Psalm conjure up visions of the golden era of Proto-Doom with influences such as Trouble, Pentagram, Saint Vitus and The Obsessed starting to appear. However, there’s a sense of Groove Metal surroundings that you can hear as well. Though, Psalm most definitely believes in the power of the ALMIGHTY RIFF and puts their authoritative stamp on proceedings. I can hear other old school influences such as Black Sabbath, Led Zepp and Pantera being thrown about. Psalm play their own great sound which moves from Old School Heavy Metal to modern day Stoner/Sludge Rock with a ton of FUZZY guitars being added.

Opening track Misery is a throwback to the good old days of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal with Psalm bridging the gap between both eras with relevant ease with a great sense of melody and catchy aggressive melodies which the Groove Metal era of music becomes quite dominant on the later stages of the track. Jon “Fro” Torres vocals are excellent and he fully commits to the role which has a deep emotional range throughout.

Second song Messiah is a Groove, Sludge and Proto-Metal driven sound with Psalm adding layers of Post-Doom atmospherics within the lyrics and vocals used for the song. The song is mostly inspired by Pantera and Alice In Chains at times with Psalm never losing their true Proto-Doom creative energy. Perhaps the most emotionally engaging track on the EP which offers serious firepower in the VOLUME department where Psalm gets down and dirty playing a grizzled style of Doom/Stoner Metal.

The final two tracks of Value The Suffering and Blessed Are The Cursed is where Psalm use a destructive HEAVY METAL approach with a great style of bravado and muscular sounds being quite realistic and grounded. Psalm always allow themselves ample opportunities to prove what great musicians they really are with Carlos Martinez intense guitars, Ian Henneforth bombastic drumming and Jon’s epic bass sounds creating a whole destructive instrumental force that never goes out of fashion whatever style of music you’re playing or currently listening to.

There’s something for everyone who is a true fan and dedicated follower of HEAVY METAL within In Darkness… Have Mercy. This is a first rate EP from Psalm and I’m looking forward to their next creative chapter.

Words by Steve Howe

Thanks to Good Boy PR for the promo.

In Darkness… Have Mercy is available to buy from all good digital stockists now. Cassette, CD and Vinyl releases will be released at a later date.

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