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Slo Burn became an instant pit stay in vocalist John Garcia’s changeover from desert metallic gods Kyuss to stoned groovers Unida. Also offering Chris Hale on acoustic guitar, Damon Garrison on bass, and Brady Houghton on drums, Slo Burn off split up after issuing an individual EP, 1997’s Amusing the …

Hailing through the Dutch city of Eindhoven, where these were first conceived in 2006 by guitarist Selim Lemouchi, the Devil’s Bloodstream hark back again to the initial sightings of ’70s rock (Dark Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Leaf Hound) as well as the darker aspect of ’60s psychedelia and folk (Coven, Comus, …

Years since Carcass’ Swan Music in 1996, founding guitarist Expenses Steer results with Firebird in late 2000, releasing a self-titled debut. Famous for his pioneering attempts in grindcore and intense metal, Steer requires a different path with Firebird, a blues-based three-piece with origins in past due-’60s and early-’70s rock and …

A hard-hitting Swedish “doom blues” clothing, the seed products for Grand Magus were sewn when Janne (guitar/vocals), Fox (bass), and Iggy (drums) started playing collectively as Smack within their local Stockholm circa 1996. By 1999, fresh drummer Trisse experienced became a member of up and several well-received three-song demos confident …

Mustasch certainly are a Swedish rock music group that rose to Best Five success within their homeland during the period of a half-decade of saving activity. Located in Gothenburg and made up of Ralf Gyllenhammar (business lead acoustic guitar, vocals), Hannes Hansson (tempo acoustic guitar), Mats “Stam” Johansson (bass), and …

Guitarist/vocalist Matt Pike, bass participant George Grain, and drummer Des Kensel shaped High on Open fire in 1999, following a collapse of Pike’s earlier band, doom metallic titans Rest. But while Rest had constructed their popularity on impossibly slothful music and copious weed usage, On top of Fire’s first launch, …

Sweden’s Candlemass helped reintroduce the lumbering power chords of Dark Sabbath to a whole era of post-New Influx of British ROCK and post-thrash metalheads, nearly single-handedly composing the handbook for the present day doom metal motion along the way. After the separation of his 1st music group, Nemesis, in 1985, …

Finnish stoner rockers Mannhai (whose name derives from a renowned child-snatching demon from India’s Uttar Pradesh region) were shaped in Helsinki by guitarist Ilkka Laaksomaa and bassist Olli-Pekka Laine, soon after the latter’s departure from folk-metal legends Amorphis, in 1999. After recruiting youthful drummer Mikko Pietinen, Mannhai lured experienced vocalist …

Produced by ex-Carnage, Carcass, and Candlemass guitarist Michael Amott (also of Religious Beggars) along with his brother Christopher (Armageddon), Arch Enemy had taken a straight-ahead method of death metal similar to Entombed or late-period Carcass, mixing catchy, classic-style steel riffs with crushing grooves for a rigorous yet accessible sound. The …

Rock rockers that compose Orange Goblin are Martyn Millard (bass), Ben Ward (vocals), Joe Hoari (guitar), Pete O’Mally (guitar), and Chris Turner (drums), and together these great bandmates compose the severe doom rock sounds like the likes of Mammoth Volume, Clawfinger, and Kyuss. Originally called Our Haunted Kingdom, Orange Goblin …