Black Sabbath - The Eternal Idol

1987

Right out of the gate I notice the style of the singer doing things very much in the style of Dio, he mellows out on that over the course of the album. Does more of the classic rock Deep Purple style singing.I've listened to this in the past out of curiosity. I'm about half way through it right now. I don't mind it so much, but there's nothing so much memorable about it. I mean after each song is over, I can't even think of anything that stood out about it, or why I should return to it and listen to it again in the future. 

I'm still listening though.

Tentacle - Ingot Eye

2013

Souls at Zero era Neurosis style heaviness and misery without any of the build up. Simiar to Unearthly Trance. These guys are from Boston, Massachusetts.

Yellow Dust - Slodge

2018

You know, the guys sound kind of Grunge to me. Big production sound. Yellow Dust is from Germany.

Witchcryer - Cry Witch

2018

Modernized retro doom with an old school metal edge, good songwriting and wailing vocals. This band is from Austin, Texas.

Welur - Caly ten senny stuff

2018

Well, this certainly seems to have a Sonic Youth thing going on.

Thal - Reach For The Dragon's Eye

2018

High energy doom with some stand out vocals. These guys are from Columbus, Ohio.

Shrooms Circle - EP

2018

Tasty 70's style occult-ness. 

Shine - Moon Wedding

2018

Slow and heavy doom with mellowed out psyche vocals. Lumbering, but still manages to rock when it needs to. These guys are from Poland.

Onyric Joy - Takes From the First Light

2018

Progressive space rock.

Okwaho - Okwaho

2018

Slow and low...and heavy...and slow.

Baro Chandel - Baro Bokhalo

2018

High energy catchy stoner metal/rock.

Shepherds Crook - Black Lake

2018

Low and slow Doom with evil Black Metalish extreme vocals.

Nadu - Determinator

2018

Noisy garage rock one man band.

MaidaVale - Madness Is Too Pure

2018

Modern rock.

Sixcircles - New Belief

2018

Neo Psychedelia. Laid back folk and psched out garage rock revival poppy sheen.

Abysmal Grief - Blasphema Secta

2018

Blackened Alfred Hitchcock soundtrack horror like Ghost but a lot beefier. For some reason I was expecting some kinda of complex progressive Death Doom, but this turned out to much more light weight and verging on being silly.

Thirst Planet - The Essence

2018

Exceptional Stoner Metal from Israel .

Fernando - Fernando

2018

Relatively straight forward hard stoner rockin'. In the neighborhood of Red Fang. Fernando is from Portugal. Once in a while they remind me of Big Business.

Pyraweed - Green Jinn

2018

Sounds like Sleep, leaning pretty heavily on the Om head bobbing side of things. These guys nail that sound. Three songs almost 40 minutes. Pyraweed is from Baku, Azerbaijan. 

Orphans of Doom - Strange Worlds / Fierce Gods

2018

These guys straddle the fence between progressive death doom metal and post rock heaviness. Awesome musicianship with aggressive death growl vocals and long passages of instrumental bits. 

Negative Slug - Bliss of Corpse

2018

Angry Sludge with some almost inhuman screeching vocals. From Zagreb, Croatia.

Killer Boogie - Detroit

2018

This the singer guitar player from Black Rainbows. This is hardly any different than Black Rainbows, but is supposed to be a more stripped down/retro 70's rock.

Hazemaze - Hazemaze

2018

Stoner rock that kinda touches on the Monster Magnet/Nebula thing but goes their own way. Sorta on the kickback side. The rest of the time there on some kinda low profile 70's heaviness trip. This is a standout 2018 release. Hazemaze is from Stockholm, Sweden.

Crypt Trip - Rootstock

2018

Full on Retro 70's awesome rock. One of my favorite releases in 2018. Crypt Trip is from San Marcos, Texas. It like they could have been the most awesome jammin' out hard rock band at Woodstock. You know, they could have gone on right after Santana.There sound and style fits right into that era. Legit. 

BigSure - Hydronaut

2018

Progressive psychedelic rock. Like mid era Pink Floyd. These guys do it well, they are from France.

Sinoptik - Fields on Fire

2018

Progressive Stoner rock like mid era Pink Floyd.

Matote - Up Into The Night Sky

2018

Psychedelic journey space rock.

Soul Thief - Fools and Angels

2018

Total Hendrix at Fillmore East New Years Eve style jam out.From Buckinghamshire, UK. Some mellow trippiness.

Taser - Social Exclusion Blues

2018

Sludge.

The Great Machine - Respect

2018

Great stoner metal from Tel Aviv, Isreal.

The Ugly Kings - Darkness Is My Home

2018

Hark rock Nothing too crazy. Blues rock. Polished. Melbourne, Australia.

Tiger Nest - Camus

2018

Somber slow metal with a guy yelling. Long songs sort of reminiscent of Black metal, but not really at all. I was having a hard time putting my finger on what kind of music this is when I saw that their Bandcamp page says they are "Exploratory Metal". Yeah, that works for me. Post metal.

Weird Tales - The Fall

2018

This is some pretty tasty traditional doom. These guys are from Warsaw, Poland.

Wolftooth - Wolftooth

2018

Maybe it's just the vocals, but this really reminds me of The Sword. I'm only familiar with the first Sword album and haven't heard it in years...also The Sword reminded me of High On Fire back then. This does not. This is really polished really good song writing. If you like the chugga-chugga-chicka-chugga you'll dig this. Lyrical themes remind me of the Sword also. Black Sabbath and Metallica come to mind when I listen to this as well, but these guys don't sound like clones. There is one song that's pretty reminiscent of Children of the Grave.

Dopethrone - Transcanadian Anger

2018

Well now, these guys sound a lot like Bongzilla don't they?

Loudness - Law of the Devil's Land

1983

This album is up there with the very best early 80's Metal bands. Shredding guitar playing. 

King Buffalo - Repeater

2018

Very much on the psychedelic tip. Reminds me of Dead Meadow ish type thing. Pretty mellow. King Buffalo is from New York. There's lots of praise from reviews on their Bandcamp page. It says things like "...ALMOST RELIGIOUS JOURNEY" and "PHENOMENAL".

Hound The Wolves - Camera Obscura

2018

These guys get mentioned in the same breath as Earth and Neurosis. Long journeys from out of the Pacific Northwest. 

Clamfight - III

2018

Epic stoner rocking heavy style. One of the best of 2018. These guys are from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. These guys rock out real, real good. I've heard them described as Post-Sludge.

Absent - Towards The Void

2018

Four long songs. They take their time. Psychedelic Doom. Absent is a three piece from Brazil. Really good stuff. Listening to this is an investment. It's not as extreme a journey as Bell Which, but not quite as rockin' as Conan or Monolord. Either way this is an epic journey that touches lightly on post rock and black metal too.

Flying Hair - Night Fight

2018

Psyche Garage rock like Thee Oh Sees, or Ty Segal. There's a little bit of a scary undertone going on here. These guys are from Los Angeles.

Grajo - Slowgod II

2018

Psychedelic Doom with good heavy tones and a good singer that meshes well. I think this album gets better as it progresses through its songs. I've seen these guys at least once be compared to Windhand. I wouldn't have come up with that, but they're in the same ballpark. Grajo is from Spain.

Fungus Hill - Cosmic Construction on Proxima B

2018

Progressive psychedelic 70's style rockin with some good vocals too. Really good stuff.  This band is from Sweeden.

Ape Cave - Language of the Earth

2018

Attention deficit metal. Lots of chugging and then they go into progressive metal parts. The singers vocals flop all around like Mike Patton death growls to smooth emotional singing. This is pretty long, and I think I would have to listen to it a lot more time to figure out if I like it or hate it. Right now I'm leaning towards liking it.

Kevlar - Kevlar

2018

Catchy pop rock with big fuzz. These guys are from Southern California. Along the lines of who's that one guy?...Ty Segall.

Chivo - Waiting For So Long

2018

Straight forward Stoner Rock. For fans of Kyuss.

Borgonaut - Borgonaut

2018

Big stoner doom. If you like Sleep and Black Sabbath, you're gonna love this. These guys are from Italy.

Granule - Demo #2

2018

Reminds me of 90's power violence, like GASP! Total boombox recording. Distortion is king. These guys are from Japan. I'm hearing some Corrupted influence in there too.

Deathbell - With The Beyond

2018

Big big riffs good vocals sometimes some keyboards. Good songwriting, a favorite 2018 release for me. This band is from France and gets compared to Windhand. Windhand reminds me of Acid King, but with a second guitar player. These guys are big Doom crush riffs.

Suicide Cult - Suicide Cult

2018

Some good old fashion Electric Wizard worship. These guys are from Austin, Texas.