Daily Peaks · 21.02.2025
'In the Ashes' is the brilliant debut album from Swedish heavy rock and metal merchants TEMPLE OF DISCORD, led by Wytch guitarist Mattias Marklund. Dark and brooding, yet radiant with multifaceted appeal, 'In The Ashes' explores a wide range of genres including classic heavy metal, alternative rock and grunge, dark folk, and progressive rock. Marklund's vocals are intense and heartfelt, taking the instrumentation into uncharted emotional territories while constantly hovering on the brink of...
Daily Peaks · 31.01.2025
Maison Dieu hailing from Ancona, Italy and they sound like a jam between Karma to Burn´s riffing and drumming and Electric Wizzard´s riffing with Jex Thoth on vocals. Actually a lot of reasons to buy the record or their merch. The lyrics are a hermetic poem that speaks of the dialogue between the plant from which the song takes its name (Mandragola) and a person who tries to uproot it to extract the magical properties derived from the root, which is known to be shrouded in countless stories,...
Daily Peaks · 27.01.2025
When Scandinavian bands sing in their native language, whatever music they're playing takes on a slightly sinister, dark aftertaste. It was different with Abba, where the songs sung in Swedish sounded like children's songs, even though they were about heartbreak, separation and betrayal. "Pakten" is an irresistible banger in terms of style, but because the individual syllables of Swedish don't quite fit the beats, this song takes on a very individual direction. You feel like you're trapped in...
Daily Peaks · 16.01.2025
The tags speak for themselves. I never thought I'd copy a press release, but Katie Oldham's voice is quite reminiscent of Hope Sandoval's from Mazzy Star. What the band creates behind it is a fine mix of '60s shredding, stoner, and punk, with a serious melancholic '90s rage. This is pure cinema, as is the fantastic video. So we're back in the '80s; the songs in the music videos were at least as good. But we need to be patient; the entire album will be released 2nd of May 2025.
Daily Peaks · 15.01.2025
The Dutch band Ditch actually came about out of embarrassment and while jamming, and it's precisely this randomness that gives rise to great songs like the previously released, hard-hitting rocker "Everxyone I Know." It casually references Fu Manchu while still creating its own style. The music reflects a lot of '90s spirit and style, be it grunge, stoner, and a bit of neo-punk, but also, as their previous albums demonstrate, plenty of '70s psychedelic and experimental rock. The song definitely...
Heavystoned Albums · 05.12.2024
Welcome back to the 70s and early 80s. Welcome back to the days when you could still listen to records in a record store as a teenager and the clerk would take the trouble to lift the tone arm and play each song for 30-60 seconds. You can't put anything more vintage on a Bandcamp page than the Italian band "Desert Collider" from Cecina. The opening track, *"Orphans of the Sky Part I: Generation Ship"*, kicks off with an atmospheric blend of tribal drumming, liquid bass, and synth whoops. It...