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Nashville's All Them Witches conjure a hypnotic blend of psychedelic rock, blues, and doom that feels both ancient and urgently modern. Since forming in 2012, the band has built a devoted following through relentless touring and albums like 'Dying Surfer Meets His Maker' and 'Nothing as the Ideal,' which showcase their gift for expansive jams that can shift from whispered menace to thundering crescendo. Their improvisational live shows have earned them a reputation as one of the most captivating bands in modern heavy psych.
Boris is a Tokyo trio—Wata, Atsuo, and Takeshi—formed in 1992 whose discography of over 25 studio albums crosses sludge metal, drone, noise rock, shoegaze, ambient, and J-pop without settling in any single genre. Their debut Absolutego (1996) featured a single 65-minute drone-doom track, while Flood (2000) and the internationally reissued Pink (Southern Lord, 2005) introduced the band to Western audiences and widespread critical acclaim. Few acts in heavy music have maintained Boris's level of formal ambition and prolific output across more than three decades.
Brimstone Coven is a doom metal and occult rock band from Wheeling, West Virginia, formed in 2011 by guitarist Corey Roth, who assembled the group around vocalist 'Big John' Williams and a core of local scene veterans. The band's self-released early material led to a deal with Metal Blade Records in 2014, with their Metal Blade debut appearing that same year and Black Magic following in 2016, both records rooted in the Black Sabbath and Pentagram tradition with additional influence from Led Zeppelin and early Pink Floyd. They later moved to Ripple Music for The Woes of a Mortal Earth (2020).
Elder transcended their early stoner doom origins in Boston to become one of progressive rock's most celebrated modern acts. Albums like 'Lore' and 'Omens' weave together heavy psych, krautrock, and progressive rock into sweeping compositions that build and evolve with patient, masterful pacing. Their instrumental passages recall the adventurous spirit of classic prog while maintaining a heavy foundation that keeps them rooted in the rock underground.
Ozric Tentacles are an English instrumental band whose long-running sound joins space rock, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, dub, electronics, jazz fusion, and festival culture into a restless, immersive whole. Formed at the Stonehenge Free Festival in 1983, the group grew from cassette-trading underground roots into one of the defining acts of the British psychedelic festival circuit. Ed Wynne's guitar and synthesizer work became the central thread, but the Ozrics identity has always depended on motion: bubbling sequencers, elastic bass lines, hand percussion, swirling keyboards, and guitar leads that stretch toward both heavy psych and trance-like improvisation. Their catalog, from early releases through albums such as Pungent Effulgent, Erpland, Strangeitude, Jurassic Shift, and later work, rewards listeners who enjoy rock as atmosphere and momentum rather than verse-chorus storytelling. The music can be bright, humid, cosmic, playful, and surprisingly heavy when the riffs lock in. Ozric Tentacles fit metal-adjacent territory through the same progressive and psychedelic lineage that feeds stoner, space, and heavy psych scenes. Their value lies in making instrumental rock feel communal, expansive, and permanently alive.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are a Perth psychedelic rock band whose music turns heavy psych, garage energy, prog-flavored guitar lines, and dizzy melodic color into a hyperactive modern rock language. Formed in 2014, the group came out of Western Australia's fertile psych scene but quickly established a more riff-hungry and maximalist personality than many of their peers. Jack McEwan's vocals and guitar writing sit at the center, guiding songs that can feel sunburned, surreal, and tightly wound all at once. Albums such as High Visceral, Pt. 1, High Visceral, Pt. 2, And Now for the Whatchamacallit, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound, Night Gnomes, and Fronzoli show a band fascinated by bright tones, odd turns, and riffs that spiral rather than simply repeat. They fit accepted scope through hard rock and metal-adjacent heavy psych, especially when the guitars thicken into stoner-friendly grooves. The music is playful but rarely lazy; underneath the cartoonish titles and saturated artwork are carefully arranged songs with restless momentum. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets matter because they make psychedelic rock feel athletic and loud, carrying the tradition forward without sanding off its weirdness.
Radio Moscow are a psychedelic rock trio from Story City, Iowa, formed in 2003 by singer and guitarist Parker Griggs, drawing heavily from 1960s and 1970s blues-rock touchstones including Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and the Jeff Beck Group. Their self-titled debut was released in 2007 on Alive Naturalsound Records with production by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, and the band has since built a devoted following through relentless touring and a series of albums that faithfully preserve the spontaneity of vintage power-trio recording.
Royal Thunder are a hard rock and psychedelic rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2004 by guitarist Josh Weaver, blending classic rock dynamics with grunge weight and progressive textures. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released their full-length debut CVI in 2012 to critical praise, with NPR calling them 'a modern master of hard-rock,' and continued through Crooked Doors (2015) and Rebuilding the Mountain (2023).
Arthur Brown's Crazy World pioneered theatrical rock performance in the late 1960s, with Brown's flaming headgear, wild costumes, and operatic vocals predating the shock-rock of Alice Cooper and Kiss by years. Their 1968 hit 'Fire' reached number one in the UK and number two in the US, and Brown's influence on rock showmanship and proto-metal intensity has echoed through decades of heavy music.
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