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HIGH REEPER: new single + album announced on HPS Records

US heavy metal quintet HIGH REEPER return strong with their third studio album, Renewed By Death, to be released on October 4th through Heavy Psych Sounds. Stream their fierce new single ‘Torn From Within’ exclusively on Distorted Sound Magazine. Three years after appearing on the Doom Sessions Vol. 5 split, HIGH REEPER are back with their most ambitious album yet. Renewed By Death is a true heavy metal assault: eight tracks that take you on a journey to the darkest depths and leave you there to rot, featuring monolithic riffs that pummel you from the opening of the album to […]

ALUNAH: new album, Fever Dream, streaming in full

Birmingham proto-metal and hard rock pillars ALUNAH return with their seventh album, Fever Dream, this September 20th on Heavy Psych Sounds, and premiere the debut single, ‘Never Too Late’, exclusively on The Obelisk today! Featuring guest vocals by Francis Tobolsky from Wucan, their new single ‘Never Too Late’ is an uplifting heavy metal stomper crammed with infectious vocals and heroic riffing. The band comments: “‘Never Too Late’ combines the bones of an idea we came up with right at the start of the writing process for the album, along with fresh inspiration that happened once in the recording studio. Fran […]

Album Review: Saltpig – Saltpig

‘Satan’s War’ is lo-fi ‘70s CROW and ICECROSS worship, yet that’s not to say the sound is thin or otherwise deficient; rather, the rough ‘n’ ragged mix adds to the draw in this age of even “occult” bands sounding fresh off the factory floor at Baphomet-Mart. When the song builds and builds…and builds to a rousing climax, you know the duo are both worshippers and students of the craft. A boogie-type riff and blues rhythm form the backbone of ‘Demon’ Fabio Allesandrini destroying preconceptions and displaying himself as not only a competent but sonically interesting drummer out from behind the […]

PENTAGRAM sign to Heavy Psych Sounds Records

Heavy Psych Sounds welcome US pioneers of doom metal PENTAGRAM to their roster for the release of their long-anticipated new studio album, as well as the reissue of their Sub-Basement and Review Your Choices albums. About signing to Heavy Psych Sounds, PENTAGRAM frontman Bobby Liebling says:“PENTAGRAM was conceived 53 years ago! We’ve seen many ups and downs and if the decades have given us anything, its wisdom. We know our new studio album is the best one we’ve ever written. We also realize that we need the perfect partner who not only understands the music but also knows the importance […]

ANANDA MIDA: Live At Duna Jam album announced on HPS Records

Heavy ’70s blues collective ANANDA MIDA (with vocalist Conny Ochs) announce the release of the Live At Duna Jam album this July 12th on Heavy Psych Sounds, and premiere the video for ‘The Future’ exclusively on It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine. Watch ANANDA MIDA perform ‘The Future’ ANANDA MIDA is a stoner and psychedelic rock music collective led by Max Ear (OJM’s drummer and Go Down Records’ Art Director) and Matteo Pablo Scolaro. From the very beginning of the project, graphic imagery has been given a crucial role thanks to the precious collaboration with the visual artist Eeviac. Since 2015, they […]

Album Review: Big Scenic Nowhere – The Waydown

While I remember digging BIG SCENIC NOWHERE’s initial two EPs, Dying On The Mountain and especially 2020’s more prog-tinged Lavender Blues, I’ll admit to letting 2020 debut LP Vision Beyond Horizon and The Long Morrow of the following year slip under my radar, always “intending to” go back and investigate what the foursome could do within the space of an album. I never did, though, so no better time than now to check in. Opener and title track, ‘The Waydown’ doesn’t so much arrive as materialize before closed eyes and open ears, the vocal harmonies and flowing, yet purposeful momentum […]

BONGZILLA: new live album coming on Heavy Psych Sounds

Wisconsin’s premium stoner metal dealers BONGZILLA announce the release of their new live album, Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin In Europe, this March 15th, with preorders available now on Heavy Psych Sounds. “The Wisconsin natives have been making heavy, groovy doom metal songs about weed since the mid-’90s, and they’ll be making them until the sun extinguishes itself.” Decibel Magazine Following the 2023 release of their revered sixth album, Dab City, on Heavy Psych Sounds, the kings of weed metal BONGZILLA offer some of their smokiest riffs with their exclusive live album Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin In Europe. The album features seven tracks […]

MR.BISON: new video ‘Collision’ available now

Italian heavy psych rock stalwarts MR.BISON reveal the second single taken from their new album Echoes From The Universe, to be issued on February 16th through Heavy Psych Sounds. Enter the stratosphere with ‘Collision’ exclusively on It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine! Get psyched by MR. BISON’s ‘Collision’ video Their upcoming fifth album, Echoes From The Universe, invites the listener to a prismatic voyage that explores the notion of freedom and destiny through Norse mythology and weaves together a vivid and majestic sonic tapestry that brims with liquid riffs, graceful psychedelia, progressive grandeur and vibrant vocals. A modern and fulfilling space trip […]

MARGARITA WITCH CULT: new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ streaming

UK doom rockers MARGARITA WITCH CULT present an intoxicatingly heavy second video taken from their awaited self-titled debut album, to be released on April 21st through Heavy Psych Sounds. About new single ‘The Witchfinder Comes’, the band comments: “A macabre tale of an impending witch hunt climaxing with the subject running in fear over the spiraling coda. The slab of bludgeoning ’70s style proto-metal is a stadium-sized version of the song which first appeared on the band’s demo cassette which brought the band to the public eye in 2022.” Watch new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ on The Sleeping Shaman Get […]

HPS Fest California tickets, timetables available

Day splits and timetables are now available for HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST CALIFORNIA, the stoner and doom festival taking place simultaneously in San Francisco and Joshua Tree over the weekend of March 25-26th. Founded and curated by European music label Heavy Psych Sounds Records, HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS FEST has become a trademark event among heavy and fuzz rock lovers by taking over major European cities from London to Rome, Bruxelles and Paris since its inception in 2015. Embracing the success of the 2019 and 2022 editions, Heavy Psych Sounds Fest returns to California with its biggest lineup to date. Combining […]