Of the sundry stoner/riff-heavy bands that emerged from my beloved Garden State in the wake of Monster Magnet‘s run at major label success, one of the most often and most unfortunately overlooked is Solarized. They had two albums in 1999’s Neanderthal Speedway (Man’s Ruin) and 2001’s Driven (MeteorCity), a split with Solace, and they appeared […]

I’ve posted bios from the backs of original Man’s Ruin Records promo CDs already for High on Fire and for Brant Bjork, and though I didn’t really get any response off either of them, I thought especially in light of today’s SunnO))) announcement from Roadburn, I’d put the one that came in the mail yesterday […]

A while back I purchased a promo of the Man’s Ruin release of High on Fire‘s first album, The Art of Self-Defense, and posted the bio included with that. It didn’t get much of a response, but when I received the promo of Brant Bjork‘s Jalamanta (which I’m certain is exactly the same as the […]