When Elder emerged in Massachusetts in the mid-2000s, they worshiped at the altar of stoner-doom heavyweights such as Sleep and Eyehategod. But in the years since, they’ve emerged from behind the weed to establish a voice of their own. By their fifth LP, 2020’s Omens, most of the band had relocated to Berlin, and as […]
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Monolord find universal truths in a conflicted world on Your Time to Shine
The doom scene has long played host to more than its fair share of the “leave politics out of music” crowd. But when online magazine Astral Noize asked Gothenburg stoner-metal trio Monolord whether they’d describe themselves as a political band, drummer Esben Willems replied, “Who isn’t? I think all bands are political in some sense. […]
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Greenmachine reissue a sludgy, noisy cult favorite
Kendrick Lamar was nine years old when Japanese stoner-metal freaks Greenmachine named their debut album D.A.M.N.
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Goatsnake shares a new track off their first record in 15 years
The stoner-metal titans return with more Sabbath worship.
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Listen to ‘Honey Bucket,’ classic sludge from the Melvins
A highlight from the sludge-metal pioneers’ 1993 major-label debut.
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Herb and Heaviosity
Sleep Jerusalem Just one thing stopped Sleep’s Jerusalem from being last year’s best and most ambitious rock album: it never came out. Slated for release in September 1997 by London/Polygram but shelved after the band fell apart last summer, Jerusalem is the holy grail of stoner metal, a 52-minute album consisting of exactly one song–one […]