Veteran titans of California’s desert rock scene, Fu Manchu return with filthy riffs aplenty on their tenth studio album, Signs Of Infinite Power.

Japanese garage-metal madmen Electric Eel Shock with a more modern sound and a little less lunacy on their new crowd-funded album, Sugoi Indeed.

Duncan Harris dives deep into Nebula’s psychedelic ocean of stoner riffola on the trio’s latest full-length offering, the appropriately named Heavy Psych.

Danish stoners Fuzz Manta are blowing more than Smokerings on their debut album; female-fronted fuzz rock hasn’t sounded this good in years.

Cherry Choke’s eponymous album of stoner garage is hamstrung by a lack of production; there’s capturing the moment, and then there’s missing the boat.

Turn on, tune in, and bomb out – stoner supergroup Earthless fill ninety minutes with four epic space-rock wigouts on Live at Roadburn. Bring snacks and your own stash.

Munich’s psychedelic explorers Colour Haze add some unabashed sixties retro to the stoner rock template on their seventh album, All.

Floridian space-sludge-poppers Torche put the fun back into heavy metal on their second album, Meanderthal.

Texan riff architect twosome 5ive deliver seven tracks of epic low-slung instrumental doom on their new album Hesperus.

Josh Homme and his gang of post-stoner mad-men, Queens Of The Stone Age, were ejected from a Los Angeles rehab centre …