psychedelic rock

Rough Times opens in a whirl of strangeness that makes you pause, and hints that you’re about to be dragged by the hair deep into the raw depths of Kadavar’s cathartic ven

This is a rather mellow affair bordering on the psychedelic - though admittedly it takes its main influences from the post/prog rock traditions (not that there's anything wrong that).

Mothership is a power trio hailing from Texas delivering their version of heavy celestial intergalactic stoner blues.

I'm not sure if the the overall messiness of Chasma Hideout is part of its charm or part of the problem because I'm wholly divided by this album, created by French nutters Brain Py

I almost dropped my sausage sandwich when I heard On Earth by Jupiter Zeus - and then when I found out these fellows are from Western Australia, I almost dropped it again.

Mount Salem tick all the boxes for me: powerful female vocalist, psychedelic doom rock sound and sultry organ/keyboard work being just three of the said boxes.

Dave Wyndorf, vocalist with Monster Magnet has the sort of voice that ticks all the rock vocalist boxes; it's strong, bluesy and compelling - and it fits perfectly

This comes almost an an antidote to the amount of black metal that I've been consuming lately and it quenches my thirst for some good old fashioned rambling madness.

ASG's fourth album (their first with Relapse) is a chunky little beast; chockful of sludgy, psychedelic swampiness - I immediately thought of Yellow & Gree

Los Angeles art metal band Otep released their sixth and quite possibly last album on Victory Records on January 22.