by Chip McCabe | Jul 31, 2015 | Dissident Aggression
What do you get when you take two Molotov cocktails built out of cheap beer and whiskey bottles, thrown out of an unmarked van barreling down a dusty old highway at about 100 miles per hour? You get the split release from two doom metal/stoner rock/sludge acts about...
by Chip McCabe | Feb 28, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
We should all know by now where metal gets it’s lineage from. The well-documented tales of the likes of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Rainbow and a host of others are aplenty. But the tales of those who carry the proto-metal, psych rock torch are...
by Chip McCabe | Jun 14, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
A couple weeks back we we waxed poetic in this column about how commercial rock stations have continuously dropped the ball over the last twenty or so years and ignored real, live rock n’ roll bands while peddling what essentially amounts to musical eunuchs. ...
by Chip McCabe | May 17, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
It was the mid to late 90’s when commercial rock radio stations started to really drop the ball. As stoner rock started to explode out of the metal underground led by bands like Kyuss, Fu Manchu and Nebula, commercial radio, save for the very few brave enough,...
by Chip McCabe | May 10, 2013 | Dissident Aggression
Do you like riffs? Big, meaty, nasty, sludgy, riffs? Riffs that make you want to punch holes in random walls and possibly even faces? Then Italy’s Zolle might become one of your new favorite bands very quickly. Zolle are a two-piece outfit from the backwoods...