Desert Storm - Buried Under The Weight Of Reason

Desert Storm – Buried Under The Weight Of Reason
Release Date: 6th March 2026
Label: Heavy Psych Sounds
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Genre: Sludge, Doom, Stoner Metal, Heavy Psych.
FFO: Neurosis, Mastodon, Crowbar.
Review By: Mark Young

Sometimes it’s difficult to review music. It literally boils down to something that doesn’t click with you, no matter how crushing the riff or how well put together the song is. No matter how many times you listen to it, nothing changes. It is the definition of ‘it’s not you, it’s me’.

This is the situation I am faced with right now with Desert Storm.

On the surface, it has all of the right things happening, from the vocals that range from the clean(ish) to the growl into the guttural, the guitars that sound suitably heavy whilst retaining a clarity around them. It’s all there, and yet for me there is something missing from its build. It’s not something I can put my finger on either, and it would have been so much easier if there was something here that I absolutely hated. There isn’t, but at the same time there is nothing that excites me either. Each of the songs just does its thing without really leaving a mark on me, but that is not to say that this would be the case for someone else.

The songs are not bad songs, as I’ve mentioned the album sounds great with a production that has done a sterling job in getting them committed to tape. You can hear everything clearly so that when they deploy lighter touches such as on Cut Your Teeth which keeps a simple build at its base they ring through. Elsewhere, Dripback shows that they move at speed when the material demands it of them.

Ultimately, as a whole I just couldn’t connect with the album, despite their being some prime riffing on here, such as that unleashed belter on Law Unto Myself. From that perspective, you can’t fault how they have executed it, and you can bet that fans of dense grooves will pile straight onto this.