Argue not, Britain is the spiritual home of stoner rock. London heroes Hawkwind and Birmingham’s Black Sabbath basically invented the genre at the dawn of the 1970s, while ’90s stalwarts Electric Wizard, Cathedral and Orange Goblin helped shape it into the smoky standard we know today. Since then, though, the whiff of sweet leaf has been faint in the UK underground, with one-off psychedelic successes like Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and Purson unable to inspire substantial new scenes. Thankfully, the tide looks to be turning. With the monster breakout success of Green Lung, and new outfits as intriguing as Lowen and Goblinsmoker, fresh heroes are rising from the haze. If stomping debut Brazen is anything to go by, Flamebearer will claim a prominent place in that swelling...