Iglesia Atomica - Low Cost & High Grasa
Acero Latino Records – 2026 
Rock, Psych, Jam
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I’d like to speak on behalf of an album that was released earlier this year, so let’s take a time warp way back to May. You may very well remember it, or then again, it may have flown completely under your radar. If you’re in the second category here, that’s the whole point of bringing up Low Cost & High Grasa all these months later. Iglesia Atómica hail from Puerto Rico and specialize in a wonderful blend of heavy psych, retro rock, and stoner rock. Extended instrumental jam sessions with an improvisational spirit that don’t necessarily follow a predetermined path form the backbone of all their releases.

Low Cost & High Grasa explodes like a powder keg with the opening title track, as the hard-hitting drums blast away, setting the stage for a barrage of fuzz-drenched riffs and spiraling lead guitar licks. Short of midway through the seven-minute track we’re decelerated and introduced to a funky reggae-inspired sequence that offers a glimpse into the diversity of Iglesia Atómica’s musical direction. The album itself is pretty diverse, we have ‘Monolito’, that taps into the stoner-doom realm with a creeping tempo and repetitive doomy riff that lumbers along a darkened path. ‘Cambrian Explosion’, a noise-driven track that builds from single-celled origins into a chaotic eruption of sound, before evolving into a more defined structure. The extra fuzzy, 70’s inspired ‘Dopper’, that utilizes swaggering lead guitar, bass-wah, and cowbell to achieve a seriously heavy groove. ‘Mandrake’ takes us down a rabbit hole of bluesy heavy psych, gradually building into a massive sonic experience, one you won’t want to crawl out of. All roads so far have led us to the fittingly titled ‘The Magnificent Beast’. What a super fun and funky tune! The use of keys, especially at the beginning, truly elevate this classic rock influenced track. Infused with tons of rhythmic personality and topped off with acid rock guitar, it’s a highly infectious song with a loose, swinging groove that’s impossible to resist.

If you pick up the digital version on Bandcamp there’s also an extra twelve-minute track titled ’20,000’. We’ll let the reader dive into that one, just know it makes for a great alternative ending to the already amazing Low Cost & High Grasa. Iglesia Atómica have had a long journey since 1990, one full of exciting releases. I’d imagine as frequent as they’re making music, it’s possible they’re already in the process of the next chapter. Until then, we’ll continue to savor this latest offering. 

(Written by Jon McGough) 

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Godzilla In The Kitchen – Termination Sequence
Tonzonen Records – 2026
Metal, Alternative, Stoner, Prog
Rated: ****

How on earth… We’ve been spinning the shit out of this one! For weeks! But… But… They only ended up on spot 32 on the October Doom Charts? Insanity! Of course, there have been many other great and heavy releases in October. But… But… But Godzilla In The Kitchen bring their own kind of heaviness. And with the, in every possible way, brand new, Termination Sequence they have set the dials for total destruction! 

A cinematic explosion! A collapsing concrete tower! An unpleasant encounter with the machinery of modern civilization. And somewhere in the midst, there's Godzilla In The Kitchen, who have found themselves a new musical playground to explore. For it is new and unexplored, and it might just all become dust before you can connect, due to the imminent detonation. It is Termination Sequence! And with this new album, the Leipzig three embark on an ambitious musical transformation. Gone are the days of purely instrumental stoner rock origins. And welcomed, is a more adventurous alternative metal sound. 

The new drummer, Brazilian born Thiago Presto changes the beat. And together with bassist Simon Ulm's decision to move behind the microphone gives the band an entirely new dynamic. And without sacrificing the progressive instincts that were always there, the new sound still feels like an entirely new beast. Across eight tracks, the band lurches between pulverizing riffs, hypnotic grooves and atmospheric detours in such a lovely way, that you often feel mesmerized by its development. The color scheme drifting towards Tool on quite a few occasions. And yes, Presto’s Brazilian blood elevates the rhythmic progression and seems to add yet another  unpredictable ingredient to all the chaos delivered by the Godzilla In The Kitchen three.
 

The lyrics seem to peer into the darker corners of humanity, politics and a future that feels ever more destitute. And the atmosphere of the songs mirror that constant somber outlook, but thanks to the constant shifts in execution it never becomes bleak. Songs such as Nothing For None, Birdsong and Wonder demonstrate their uncanny ability to move between aggression and melancholy with unexpected musical twists. Not everything lands perfectly. Luckily. A few passages feel lengthy and the vocals, albeit being highly interesting and varied, still have room to develop. Good. Cause hey, perfection would make this whole freakin affair a whole lot less interesting! In the end, Termination Sequence is a strident, adventurous and convincing reinvention. One that makes one lust, paradoxically enough, for the future. Godzilla In The Kitchen have taken a risk, and it has paid off big, in a huge, expansive and compelling statement. Indeed, Godzilla In The Kitchen is on a whole new rampage! They’ve kicked out the kitchen door, released a monster and left us to deal with the consequences! Termination Sequence is some highly explosive stuff!  

(Written by JK)

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Top 10 Most Listened Artists Last Week…

King Buffalo
Geishas of Doom
Deadeye Navigator
Jerky Dirt
Secrets of Lost Empires
Great Falls
The Samuel Jackson Five
Godzilla In The Kitchen
Capacopter
Laser Dracul

It’s time to look back at the week gone and dusted. And look forward to a new week, where everything is possible. As always. But what will come of it… We’ll see! The review for the new King Buffalo album, so good once again, might be a few weeks off, but two of the other bands in the Top 10 shown here will see a review this week. The writing is almost finished…

Last week, we of course spent a lot of time with the October Doom Charts! But still managed to mention Helldorado Festival! Happening this Saturday, Eindhoven. There might still be a ticket or two. A live album by Geishas of Doom got mentioned, that crazy The Grok album and the awesome new Domkraft record. Let’s see if we can do more this week! Either way, I hope you check all of it out! The bands and their albums are worth it… 

Below is the Top 10 playlist for Week 46, featuring a selection of albums and tracks from my Bandcamp collection that are currently available to listen to...

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Domkraft – Night Songs
Magnetic Eye Records – 2026 
Rock, Psych, Doom, Stoner 
Rated: ****

Love live Domkraft! And Long live Whiskers! May you always find your way back home… Sorry, only a handful of you lucky few readers might get that little joke. Although, maybe it’s a universal thing? I don’t know. What do I know? What I do know, is that the new Domkraft album is once again doing everything you wants it to do. And it will surely make you feel at home in their very own sound! It’s called Night Songs, and will be out November 20th on Magnetic Eye Records. 

Domkraft have of course never needed to prove anything. The re-release of their 2025 self-titled debut for the ten year anniversary was a welcome one but everyone already knew. Everyone has been in tune with the three Swedes for quite some time now. For they have delivering one crushing, fuzzed-out, psychedelic doom record after another. Each release adding yet another dimension to their already impressive sound. That sonically dense and incredibly booming sound.

And after those enormous sonic adventures called Seeds and Sonic Moons we now find ourselves arriving and being whisked away immediately, by their fifth full-length called Night Songs. This time around however, there is something different in the air and it’s completely tangible. Because sometimes, as we all know, life throws things at you that are far heavier than any riff could ever be. And in this case, the personal struggles surrounding this record have clearly left a mark. 

Facing a darkness that’s goes well beyond all the doom you can envision, Guitarist Martin Widholm faced a serious medical ordeal. It brought Widholm and his comrades in the band face to face with mortality. And perhaps that’s the tangible dread that seems to linger in the still cosmically dense power music on Night Songs. It might even be where it derives it’s strength. By turning that darkness, dread and shadow into something powerful, beautiful and utterly absorbing. 

Domkraft remain very much Domkraft on Night Songs. The enormous wave of fuzz, the hypnotic repetitions, the crushing bass lines and the almost smothering psychedelic atmosphere are all still there, alive and pushing. But on some level, Night Songs does feel more introspective, more evocative, yet also more nebulous than before. Seven songs. Seven compositions that seem to breathe differently, allowing more space for atmosphere and emotion to creep into those familiar Domkraft sonic landscapes. The heaviness is still monumental but seems less about pummeling the listener into submission. It’s something a bit more vulnerable that seems to flow underneath all that distortion. It adds something extra.

Recorded once again at Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm by David Castillo and mixed and mastered by Karl Daniel Lidén, this new step in the Domkraft evolution still feels entirely like Domkraft. Which you probably already heard with their first single, Eclipse (Outlast the Night). A slightly airier, more melancholic side of the band, without sacrificing any of that characteristic heft. Opener Unnamed opens the other way around, a sonic explosion first, and then a new chugging march towards that tiny sliver of light shining through the windows. A song that immediately proves Domkraft have taken everything that made them such a formidable force in psychedelic doom, allowed their personal experiences to seep in, and turned it into something that feels both familiar and a surprise. Simply brilliant, and so are the other six songs. Night Songs might have been born out of some very dark circumstances, but what emerges from it is another magnificent piece of psychedelic heaviness, one that keeps pulling you deeper with every spin, like a sonically dense whirlpool…

(Written by JK)

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