Montreal retro-rockers Priestess bring the proto-thrash riffola and seventies melodics back to heavy metal on their second album, Prior To The Fire.

Montreal rednecks-in-waiting Barn Burner bring out the Sabbathy stoner clichés with gusto on Bangers… but sadly, that’s pretty much all there is to it.

Psychedelic stoner-krautrock? Kyuss meets Can? Sign youself up for the Summer Sessions, as Causa Sui invoke the lazy vibes of hazy days smoking in the park.

A Sort Of Spasmic Phlegm Induced by Leaden Fumes of Pleasure… that’s the album title of the year right there, thanks to tongue-in-cheek Swiss stoners Phased.

What if Curve had been based in Seattle and listened to A Perfect Circle albums through a wormhole in spacetime? Luder’s Sonoluminescence, that’s what.

Oakland stoners Saviours have been indulging in some Accelerated Living, a slightly cleaner take on their blend of heavy thrashy metal’s aesthetic high points.

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

Turn on, tune up, rock out – it’s time to get yourself a Contact High from garage psyche-rock maestros You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All Turn Into Demons.

Looking for some good ol’ fashioned stoner blues-rawk? Life’s just a long hard catalogue of Black Light, White Lines for the Sun Gods In Exile.

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.