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Elephant Tree – ‘Habits’ (Holy Roar Records/Deathwish Inc.)

Elephant Tree are generally held in quite high regard throughout a lot of alternative music bands and fans alike, quite frequently seen on festival lineups that feature somewhat off-the-beaten track artists such as Arctangent, Desertfest or Manchester’s Riffolution Fest. Boasting quite a unique sound that lets them slip into a myriad of different lineups, their self-stated stoner/doom/psych sound ends up with a proggy streak and makes for some pretty bloody interesting stuff.

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DevilsBridge – ‘Endless Restless’ EP (Fastball Music)

Swiss quintet DevilsBridge are very much a new entity, as far as both Über Rock and the wider Überverse are concerned, as they have just two previous single releases, at the end of last year and the beginning of this, before presenting us collectively with this, their debut EP – which, rather cleverly, does not feature either of the two aforementioned singles but rather contains another six new tracks for our approval.

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Witchcraft – ‘Black Metal’ (Nuclear Blast)

Its 20 years now since Witchcraft first formed in Sweden, fuelled by an obsession with Roky Erickson and Pentagram’s Bobby Liebling. Their brand of occult-tinged doom and classic 70’s rock captured our imaginations here in the UK with their much loved self-titled debut album on Rise Above Records back in 2004, with ‘Firewood’ and ‘The Alchemist’ following fairly swiftly and cementing the band’s reputation. The days of that original band on Rise Above are well in the past now, and Witchcraft have carried on very much in the image of front man Magnus Pelander ever since, with numerous line-up changes and sporadic but still quite magnificent albums for Nuclear Blast, such as 2012’s ‘Legend’ and 2016’s ‘Nucleus’, which marked a progression from Witchcraft’s original sound. However, fans of any of those previous albums need to be aware that ‘Black Metal’ is a different beast entirely.

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Stocksnskins – ‘Drinks ‘n’ Nibbles’ (Analogue Trash)

Well, after listening to this, John B very confused and feeling somewhat self-conscious about the size of my refrigerator. This is unlike anything he has ever heard before and, at first, he did not really know what to make of it. After listening to it for a bit though turns out he really likes it… even if he’s still not entirely sure what to make of it…

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