Having survived playing the main stage of Bloodstock Open Air Festival this past summer, Progressive Stoner Metal riff lords Desert Storm have announced a wealth of European shows for the first half of 2025. They’ll be visiting Iceland, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Scotland on the run, topped and tailed by UK and a trio of
Unlike other festivals we’ve attended where bands don’t start until high noon, Bloodstock Open Air Festival gets going early with bands from 10:30 which is cool because there is no waiting around the be entertained. After yesterday’s overcast and drizzle nonsense, the sun is shining as we emerge from our tents like Ace Ventura from
A byproduct of the great plague years, Wall, the side project of Desert Storm and The Grand Mal that finds brothers Elliot and Ryan Cole playing Stoner Sludge Doom Metal together will be releasing their debut album “Brick By Brick” via APF Records 30th August. Born of the frustration at not being able to tour
While their main squeeze Desert Storm will be playing Bloodstock Open Air Festival this summer, brothers Elliott and Ryan Cole will be unleashing riffs fit for worship with “Brick By Brick“. A debut full length album from their instrumental Stoner Metal project Wall, it will appear as if by magic via APF Records on 30th
Progressive Sludge Metal masters Desert Storm have announced the second leg of a European tour trek for their current album “Death Rattle“. The Oxford heroes skillfully avoid a home town show as the majority of the run takes place throughout April, while the metaphorical jewel in the crown will find them at this years incarnation
Recorded at a studio once owned by legendary folk band Fairport Convention which recent years has seen the likes of Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath and Rob Halford of Judas Priest recording there, Oxford Progressive Sludge Doom Metal act Desert Storm unveiled “Death Rattle” back in March. Their eighth studio record and first without Chris Benoist it was
A pro-shot full set from the Sophie Lancaster Stage at Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2022 with the 2023 incarnation of the annual Metal festival 11 days away is a thing of beauty. This time out Desert Storm are the band of choice, the Oxford Progressive Sludge Doom Metal act having written and recorded but not
“Death Rattle is an album that leans to Desert Storm’s strengths in song-writing ability. It is cohesive and flows with each song telling an individual tale, bound by common topics throughout. Genre traversing, musically progressing from the extreme and hard to softer palettes, moments of the ethereal. The light and dark shades are synonymous with the
The question that APF Records have for you is a simple one – do you want the new Desert Storm album “Death Rattle” in vinyl or cassette edition? It’s available with or without a t-shirt over at bandcamp with a 31st March release date marked on the grave stone of the Oxford Progressive Doom Metal
Oxford Progressive Sludge Doom Metal act Desert Storm have plucked “Bad Trip” as the second single from their 31st March releasing via APF Records album “Death Rattle“. Recorded and mixed at Woodworm Studios in Oxfordshire between winter of 2021 and summer of 2022 by Steve “Geezer” Watkins before being mastered in September 2022 by Brad
