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I don't listen to Crowbar enough. I find their earlier albums better than their later albums but they have some great stuff in their catalogue. NP: Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics

Very underrated band for sure! I often will listen through all 12 albums in chronological order and literally enjoy the entire thing. And now, here we are! On the precipice of the release of the brand new Accept album, Humanoid! Talk about Christmas morning coming for the 4th time already, and it's not even May yet. Saxon, Judas Priest, DragonForce, and now Accept - all before my birthday (May 1). Getting up early to go for a 4-mile run, and I will be blasting the new slab of heavy metal greatness from Accept the whole way! Heading to sleep early tonight so Christmas morning will come again sooner!

Solarized/Driven (2001)-follow up to their debut, Neanderthal Speedway-continues the Monster Magneticism with Dave Wyndorf himself providing his endorsement. They moved on from the famed Man's Ruin stoner label which probably was defunct by 2001 to Meteor City. Frontman Jim Hogan, handles vocals, guitar and all the songwriting. Looks like he and the female drummer played in a band with several of the MM guys. I'd say relative to the debut, Hogan cleaned up their sound a little. It still cranks up the fuzz but isn't quite the sludgey, aggressive blur that makes Neandrathal Speedway so much fun, hence, feels a little more typical for the genre, less raw, but with greater clarity and perhaps sharper songwriting. They bring in some southern fried grease (think COC) to the affair so much so that listening in my car, I started wiping my hands on my pants. The cover looks ripped out of Fu Manchu's playbook and hey, the Fu were instrumental to creating the visual aesthetic for stoner rock, such that is. I dig the slacker gen X stoner philosophizing of some of Hogans lyrics, too. Dig the ride, man. Accept/Metal Heart Opeth/Morningside (cued on Spotify for my drive tomorrow)

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - Chunky Shrapnel