Heavy Psych Sounds

Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon Review

Big Scenic Nowhere – Vision Beyond Horizon Review

By Cherd on January 31, 2020 in American Metal, American Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Psychedelic Rock, Reviews, Stoner Metal, Stoner Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Metal, Stoner Rock, 28 comments

“I don’t think of desert rock as an especially active genre when it comes to innovation. Brant Bjork God knows it can be self referential to a fault, conjuring with each release the same core components of fuzzy, jammy riffs, psychedelic woo woo vibes, earth tones and a gritty dryness worthy of the California landscape that hatched it. The creative peak that launched its best known bands is easily a few decades in the rearview mirror, yet this old conversion van keeps driving the same dusty highways, pot smoke and 70’s rock worship rolling out it’s open windows.” Big empty.

Ryte – Ryte Review

Ryte – Ryte Review

By Twelve on January 16, 2020 in 2020, Doom Metal, Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Psychedelic Rock, Reviews, Doom Metal, 13 comments

“New year! New you! Oh, how I hate that creed. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, I was sound asleep and alone, joyously flaunting my disregard for this most nonsensical of global traditions. I made no resolutions for the new year either. Yes, this edgiest of numbers started the year in unbearably cool style, so much so that the Master of Muppets itself will be admitting to knowing me any day now. I entered the Field of Desolate Promos with confidence… and somehow, I left with Ryte, the self-titled debut of Ryte, a doom-inspired psych rock/metal project from Austria.” New year, bad attitude.

Alunah – Violet Hour Review

Alunah – Violet Hour Review

By El Cuervo on October 14, 2019 in 2019, British Metal, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Reviews, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, 17 comments

“Those more tenured readers may recall that I was rather taken with Alunah’s Awakening the Forest, a folksy, beforested homage to Black Sabbath featuring exemplary female vocals to carry its tunes. 2017’s Solennial fared less well as I queried the limitations of the style and less memorable song-writing. 2019 has rolled around and with it the succeeding album called Violet Hour. Violet Hour is the first Alunah full-length release (following last year’s EP called Amber & Gold) without founding member and singer Sophie Day. Their sound is hardly one challenging boundaries or progressing its scene but this shake-up to a core component had the potential to change the band more widely. Has it?” Going through changes.