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Review & Full Album Premiere: Shovelhead, A Place of Dead Roads
New Jersey heavy rock stalwarts Shovelhead return this Saturday, Sept. 12, with their first new album since 2007. Titled A Place of Dead Roads, the 44-minute self-released seven-tracker is the fourth...
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Review & Full Album Premiere: Solace, Fading Failing Ruin
[Click play above to stream the premiere of Solace’s Fading Failing Ruin in its entirety. Album is out this Friday, July 3, on Magnetic Eye Records.] A new Solace record doesn’t happen every year....
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Solace Post “Spiral Will” Video; European Tour Starts Tomorrow
Yeah, I’ve already posted about Solace‘s Fading Failing Ruin coming out July 3 on Magnetic Eye. And yeah, I’ve already posted about the European tour they’re about to launch tomorrow in Paris, playing...
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Solace Announce New Album Fading Failing Ruin Out July 3; “Beyond Below”...
Solace will spend much of May on tour in Europe and the UK, hitting Desertfest London 2026 and other spots in company with Hermano, which, oof, that’s a good show. The NJ dirt metal heroes’ new...
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In the Studio with Solace — Dec. 21, 2025
It had been a couple months of scheduling and busy weekends and such, then a snowstorm last week, but I arrived at the red barn where Solace were recording their next album at noon and was,...
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Solace Announce European Tour Dates
This Fall, Solace have been in the studio making their awaited fifth full-length. Earlier in the year, the band reissued their 2000 debut, Further (discussed here), for its 25th anniversary, toured...
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Solace Stream Unreleased Lynyrd Skynyrd Cover “On the Hunt”
I know that of course in addition to the original by Lynyrd Skynyrd, at one point or other Corrosion of Conformity also took on “On the Hunt” for a cover version, but this being from the era of their...
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Friday Full-Length: Monster Magnet, Test Patterns Vol. 1 (R.I.P. Tim Cronin)
Tim Cronin was one of the kindest people you could hope to meet, in a heavy-underground context or any other. I don’t remember when we first got in touch, but I’m pretty sure it was when I was in...
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Solace to Reissue Further for 25th Anniversary
Aug. 22 is the release date here, but we’re talking about a record that came out 25 years ago, so I’m not sure how precise we need to be. Further (discussed here), counterintuitive to its title, was...
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Friday Full-Length: Lord Sterling, Today’s Song for Tomorrow
This was a band that could, and regularly did, put on a hell of a show. Didn’t matter that you were in The Saint or the Brighton at 10PM on some Wednesday or other in 2003 — Lord Sterling were about...
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Solace Announce Early 2025 Tour Dates; Playing Planet Desert Rock Weekend and...
Look. I’m not gonna fart around here. This is Solace we’re talking about. It’s not just another oh-hey-band-who-tours-all-the-time-is-announcing-a-tour sort of announcement. This is a different thing....
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Friday Full-Length: Solace, Further
The riff-mad scourge of the Jersey Shore, Solace made their full-length debut in 2000 through MeteorCity with the somewhat counterintuitively titled Further. What was then the four-piece of guitarist...
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Monster Magnet Announce 35th Anniversary Tour
I know the various eras of Monster Magnet have their fans, but what to me undebatable about the long-running New Jersey-based heavy rock progenitors is the impact they’ve had across the span of their...
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Quarterly Review: Darsombra, Bottomless, The Death Wheelers, Caivano,...
Welcome to Thursday of the Fall 202 Quarterly Review. It’s been a good run so far. three days and 30 records, about to be four and 40. I’ve got enough on my desktop and there’s enough stuff coming out...
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Friday Full-Length: Halfway to Gone, Halfway to Gone
Some bands are just always going to have a place in your heart. We’re going on 19 years since Halfway to Gone released their 2004 self-titled third album through Small Stone, and there’s still some...
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Monster Magnet Announce Test Patterns: Vol. 1 Out Nov. 11
This’ll be fun. If you’ve heard those old demos — they’re on YouTube and all that — that earliest Monster Magnet stuff is noisy and experimental and raw as hell. Even as God Unknown Records announces...
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Monster Magnet to Reissue Monolithic Baby! and 4-Way Diablo Sept. 16
Kind of an interesting reframing happening here of Monster Magnet‘s 2007 album, 4-Way Diablo. Originally released like its exclamatory 2004 predecessor, Monolithic Baby! (discussed here), through...
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Tim Cronin of The Ribeye Brothers
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Justin Daniels of Solace
The Obelisk Questionnaire is a series of open questions intended to give the answerer an opportunity to explore these ideas and stories from their life as deeply as they choose. Answers can be short...
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Monster Magnet Post “Solid Gold Hell” Lyric Video
It’s not yet dawn. My coffee is lousy this morning. The medium roast has too much light in this grind. It’s bullshit on a grand scale. To console myself, I’ve put a Monster Magnet t-shirt in a cart on...
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