Recommendations for 21.8.2026: Faerie Ring, Mean Green, Zemetras + Hails and Ales

Firstly, check out Hails and Ales blog. It is a personal blog, but contains a lot of heavy music related posts, like the weekly release roundup where you can check what heavy releases came out that week. I’ve been finding loads of releases there that I would’ve otherwise missed.

Now, three mid-month recommendations for your perusal!
(a bit of an update; I’m dropping the cover images and extra linkage for these. It’s too much of an hassle and makes me not want to do any, these were ment to be quick posts between the main stuff.)

Faerie Ring - Faerie Ring
Doomy heavy rock type music from US.
https://album.link/FaerieRing-ST, out today (21.8.)

Mean Green - Castle
Grooving buzzsaw sludge a'la Bongzilla from US.
https://meangreen.bandcamp.com/album/castle, released last week (14.8.)

Zemetras - Zemetras
Stoner-ish doom in the vein on Dopelord/Windhand from Slovakia.
https://zemetras.bandcamp.com/album/zemetras, released earlier this month (8.8.)

And as per usual, send me a message in Mastodon if you have any ideas or questions.