Southern Italy's King Potenaz return with a scorched-earth sermon of fuzzy, raw, and occult-fueled doom on their long-awaited second album, Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 1, recently released via Majestic Mountain Records. Formed as a power trio in the deep south of Italy, King Potenaz invoke the classic vibes of Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Monster Magnet, Kyuss, and Sleep, blending stoner riffs with cavernous doom and occult psychedelia...
Kurokuma – Of Amber and Sand
Vicious psych trio, Kurokuma brought a fresh heaviness to the extreme music scene in 2022 with their debut album, Born of Obsidian. In August the genre-mashing threesome will return with their new record, Of Amber and Sand. It's not sludge, it's not doom, it's not death metal. It's Kurokuma! Sitting broadly within the doom genre,..