Dune Sea - New Wave of Cosmic Heavy Metal (2025) Hi Res

New Wave Of Cosmic Heavy Metal is the fourth album from Psych/Space/Stoner Rockers Dune Sea and continues their musical obsession with heavier, thicker and aggressive Doomed Out melodies. Taking cues from Weedpecker, ELDER and King Buffalo along the way, the album title is perhaps a false flag if folks are expecting a HEAVY METAL assault on the senses. The record is superbly heavy but it’s not HEAVY METAL but perhaps more Alt Rock and Cosmic Rock based with the band experimenting with different soundscapes, landscapes, psychedelic shifts and musical instruments throughout the album.

Dune Sea play at a brilliantly addictive fast pace which doesn’t give up for a second especially within the early stages of the album on tracks such as Fremen, Omuamua and Molduga which sees KYUSS sonic landscapes developing within a muscular FUZZ ROCK attitude with a certain Prog Rock flavour. The vocals are quite varied and highly interesting that Dune Sea operate with a classic Nineties Alt-Rock attitude to tell the narrative of the whole album.

This is perhaps Dune Sea’s heaviest and most diverse record to date though I still prefer their previous two records for the sheer entertainment factor of it all. However, Dune Sea create the biggest and wildest ideas of their career to date on this record especially on the longer tracks on the album such as: Molduga, H.T.B ( Voyager I Slight Return) and Astromental where they let the true progressive and outlandish themes of the album to really take centre stage.

The record does feel like a SPACE ROCK / STONER ROCK opera come to life at times with its small touches to science fiction and fantasy storytelling running throughout the record. Another major strength of the record is how the tracks feel quite different to each other which allows Dune Sea to play themes from Post-Rock and Classic Rock that adds a fresh musical perspective at the same time.
New Wave Of Cosmic Heavy Metal is a big, bold and brash musical adventure which serves Dune Sea superbly well. This is a record that will no doubt appeal to a huge section of the Psych/Stoner Rock fan-base with its hugely exciting sounds and cool cinematic vision.