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Formed while these were playing together in another group, Indian Handcrafts emerged together following Brandyn James Aikins and Daniel Brandon Allen noticed that, as the just people in the group who got along, they’d end up being better off being a dynamic duo. Breaking off to their personal band, the …

A shape-shifting, Southern California-based intense metal device that combines components of doom, d-beat, loss of life metallic, grindcore, and dark metallic, Seven Sisters of Rest was formed in ’09 2009 from users of Tafkata as well as the Arm & Sword of the Bastard God. The group, which features the …

Hailing in the Northern Italian city of Como, the hard-hitting yet mercurial trio His Electro Blue Tone of voice features vocalist/guitarist Francesco Mariani, bassist Claudia Manili, and drummer Andrea Napoli. Phoning to mind rings as assorted as Getting rid of Joke, the Melvins, and Xmal Deutschland, the group’s 1st release, …

Salome, who hail from Virginia, are an intensive doom steel power trio whose audio is equivalent parts sludge, speaker-shredding quantity, and sound — all played to a watching-paint-dry tempo. Salome’s MySpace web page describes their audio as “the finish….” Influenced intensely by Dark Sabbath’s funereal riffs, the Melvins’ dynamics, and …

Salt Lake Town, UT’s Eagle Twin pairs up vocalist/guitarist Gentry Densley (ex-Iceburn) with drummer Tyler Smith. The duo started focusing on their improbably bluesy and prog-infused design of sludgy loss of life/doom in 2007 and quickly captured the attention from the Southern Lord label, resulting in the discharge of their …

While citing Black Sabbath as an impact for any large band produces easy stoner rock and roll shorthand, North Carolina’s Caltrop is among the few shining illustrations where the impact can in fact be heard. The quartet, hailing from Chapel Hill, was produced in 2005 by Sam Taylor (electric guitar/vocals), …

Created in Chapel Hill, NC, the Drapes of Night consider sludge/doom and distill it right down to its simplest elements. The duo, composed of guitarist and vocalist Nora Rodgers and drummer Lauren Fitzpatrick, adhere to the requirements, casting apart the swirling synthesizers that have become increasingly more common in the …

Hailing from the city of Oss in holland, and known for contacting themselves the “Wizards of Oss,” Astrosoniq certainly are a stoner/psychedelic/electronic/space rock and roll clothing whose every record cover curiously portrays some semblance of hairs developing out of epidermis, whether from a range or from a microscopic perspective. These …

If the initial Sub Pop roster had an also-ran, it likely could have been the Fluid, MC5-inspired monsters from Denver — which is where in fact the story of Alta May actually begins. Drummer Garrett Shavlik was still in the Liquid in the first ’90s, when he fulfilled up with …

With hardly any exceptions, joke or gimmick bands have usually had an exceptionally short shelf life in the pop market place. There was actually no dependence on a second recording from the faux reggae Led Zeppelin cover music group Dread Zeppelin, for instance. But, most joke rings don’t possess a …