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Absolution: good heavy doom sludge / melodic rock fusion debut needs a few tweaks

Khemmis, Absolution, United States, 20 Buck Spin, SPIN075 (2015) The debut album from Denver band Khemmis (cool name!), which the

Terminal Lovers Flight Out USA BIOLOGICAL RECORDS BR-06 CD (2015) Very welcome return of Terminal Lovers, whose LP As Eyes

Entertaining and slightly demented split LP (OG2014) from the Old Gold label. Ben Lawless’s side is Friday Night 4 Lyfe,

Low Flying Hawks, Kofuku, Magnetic Eye Records, CD MER040 (2016) An interesting new presence coming over the horizon of sludge

Desert Suns, self-titled, Ripple Music / HeviSike Records (2016) Hailing from San Diego is a new four-piece stoner doom band Desert

Nice to receive a double-CD album The Night Before (PATAPHYSIQUE RECORDS DD-012 / CAPTAIN TRIP RECORDS CTCD-686) of heavy Japanese

Vrag, Species of One, Germany, Schattenkult Produktionen, CD SKP069 / ROPE 005 (2015) If the music industry had awards for

Most excellent album in the form of While The Recording Engineer Sleeps (STAUBGOLD 138) by The Cocoon, a 1985 recording

Ariya, Maniya Velichiya, independently released in 1985 At long last I found a hitherto long-forgotten and ancient Judas Priest album where

The Ruminator (NO LABEL) is mostly a solo work by Steve Schmitt, taking a break from his Seattle “surf noir”