Meet Pontiak's Maker

Pontiak is a band that's hooked on power; tons and tons of power. Their latest album Maker is an album that has enough groove-laden energy to fuel a small city for an eternity. If ever the spirit of Black Sabbath, Kyuss, and doom-laden metla lived, it courses through the blood and brains of this band.

Maker is an epic, dirty and intense record that makes enough noise to keep your ear drums seperate from your skull. Recorded in a 12 x 12 room this is the sound of Pontiak trying to escape it's self-created holding cell. Imagine the sound of a convoy of semi-trucks roaring by you and you can begin to imagine the muscle and intensity of Maker.

From the slowly groove laden destruction of the thirteen minute title track to the short bursts of, "Blood Pride," and "Heat Pressure," listening to Maker is like listening to the greatest 70's era Sabbath record never recorded. This is absolute stoner rock and roll that's heavier than your tax burden. It's a record that churns riffs out like slowly made butter and crushes everything and anything in it's path.

This is an epic album that relies on earthy, heavy, and agonizing textures to get it's point across. Pontiak have done an amazing job of making a record so heavy you might just need a forklift to listen to it. Doom and gloom has never sounded so amazing!

Burn Halo Rise Up From The Ashes

Burn Halo answers the question of what would happen if Alice in Chains were heavier and embraced their inner screamo kid. Their latest album Up From The Ashes is a tour de force of crunchy riffs, mind numbing metal, melodic vocal wipeouts, and absolutely pounding songs that are like pile drivers in your ears. These guys have grown quite a bit since we reviewed their debut album years ago and it’s all for the best. Honed to a sharp point and with songs that are rocket propelled Burn Halo is a force to be reckoned with.

Up From The Ashes is a behemoth of a record with eleven songs that plough through the aural wasteland like a runaway M1 Abrams tank. Taking melodic heaviness to the next level, Burn Halo swerve around clichés like the Stig and forge their own path to oblivion. Their formula is simple, Take post-grunge sounds pump them with steroids, mix some melodic metal influences, and then crank it all up to eleven on the riffometer from hell. Upon completion, Burn Halo create a wave of destruction that's impossible to stop.

Sure there are tons of bands that make this massive metallic stuff...but ask yourself how many are actually good? My friends, Burn Halo are the real deal, they've built themselves up, refined their sound and made themselves into the monster they are and Up From The Ashes are proof of just how good they’ve become.