There is a gloom that is growing in the bones of metal once more. A faint light has been shining from a certain cavern, and its dwellers are getting ready to rise once more. Spring is here, the rains ...

Read our Desertfest 2026 Friday review featuring Hermano, Gnome, Cwfen, Witchsorrow, Praetorian and the best performances ...

As a spiritual continuation to the 25 Stoner Bands of Canada list released last month, we now step out of the dope-scented haze and delve into the sludge and doom bands of Canada. The slowness and ...

If you believe everything you see in pop-culture, Los Angeles and Southern California seem like something out of a daydream: good vibes, endless sun, and the promise of becoming a star. But to many ...

In darkness there is light. In expression there is power. In agony there is deafening release. The experimental sludge doom of Salt Lake City’s SubRosa combines all of these things in its haunting, ...

The past decade or so has proven to be quite a potent one for lovers of heavy rock and metal. One particular genre that's benefited with a growing fanbase is stoner rock, which is characterized by its ...

If you don’t know what a combination of “sludge, doom, stoner and black metal” sounds like, get ready to find out. The Boise-based doom metal trio, Ghorot, is set to release their sophomore ...

A not-to-be-missed festival for all lovers of extreme music, Hellfest will once again celebrate hard rock, thrash metal, ...

Not that being one of the only bands making waves in Long Beach playing sludge metal isn’t enough, but O Zorn! also has the benefit of balancing the genre’s melodicism and dissonance. Where a band ...

Exclusive: Missouri sludge crew Fister pay homage to Slayer, Danzig, and more on their new covers album. Fister’s covers of Metallica’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Slayer’s Mandatory Suicide are ...