Good afternoon, y’all.
As you may recall, I’ve talked a time or two about the benefits of following bands and labels on Bandcamp. Here’s another argument in favor of that practice: that’s how I found out about Druid Stone, a sorta-experimental doom project from Virginia: because I got the notification from Fiadh Produtions almost six months ago when Fiadh put out a cassette version of their 2023 album The Grateful Undead, which I’d like to tell you about today.
Arizonan thrashers Transgressive, on the other hand, I’ve been familiar with for several years, as they sort of roamed in similar leftist metal twitter circles (back when that used to be a thing). So I’d already heard and had already been a fan of their 2023 album Extreme Transgression, but then I happened to get an announcement last month that it also was being given the cassette treatment by Fiadh. So I figured, let’s check that one out today as well.
Druid Stone – The Grateful Undead (self-released, 26 January 2023 / cassette Fiadh Productions, 31 October 2025)
Transgressive – Extreme Transgression (self-released, 03 March 2023 / cassette Fiadh Productions, 06 March 2026)
Valley of Steel 