, Witch Mountain and Royal Thunder, Ruby the Hatchet surfaced in the early 2010s with a psychedelic breed of melodic female-fronted stoner/doom metal that caused heavy-lidded eyes to open and heads to bob. A little over a decade later, the southern New Jersey quintet is no longer content to bewitch listeners with trudging, repetitive minor-key power chords and is trippy for sure, but it’s firmly rooted in classic Seventies and Eighties songwriting and imbued with rhythmic diversity — kinda like Fleetwood Mac on meth with references to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
