• Wizards of Firetop Mountain – Wizards of Firetop Mountain

    December 1, 2015 - By 

    Having been a staple part of the Irish rock food pyramid for many years, gigging religiously and opening up for titans such as Boris, Sleep, and Red Fang, to name but a few, when Wizards of Firetop Mountain announced their debut LP would finally materialize this November, many would be slapping their knees and roaring “it’s about time!” The band have well proven their mettle over the last four years on the back of a demo, double-sided single, a popular Youtube video, and of course, their rise to furniture-level recurrence in music venues all around the country.  With many of…

  • Watch: Wizards Of Firetop Mountain – Ain’t Gonna Lose

    November 26, 2015 - By 

    Some bands – and some considerably better than others of their ilk – are well and truly compelled by the riff. Having recently melted the face of your writer supporting Japanese psych gurus Acid Mother’s Temple at Belfast’s Voodoo recently, Dublin rockers Wizards of Firetop Mountain are one such act. Set to launch their self-titled debut album at Dublin’s Bello Bar tomorrow (Friday, November 27) night, the band are comprised of members of some of the city’s finest pioneering underground bands including Zom, No Spill Blood, Dread Soverign and others. At the epicentre of seismic, hat-tipping craft is a combined worship of the…

  • Monday Mixtape: Ror Conaty (No Spill Blood)

    March 9, 2015 - By 

    Ror Conaty is currently drumming with cosmic heft overlords No Spill Blood and with Wizards of Firetop Mountain. Today, he shares a playlist of some heavy duty tunes he’s currently enjoying. In his own words: “These are songs I’ve been hounding on lately, some are better off heard in the context of the album like Clint Mansell or Swans but all of them psych me out, some for their intense drive or their ability to make me focus while making things and others for giving me that last shot of serotonin when I though I was empty.” No Spill Blood launch their debut album…