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Primitive Ring is a Los Angeles power trio: Charles Moothart (Fuzz, GØGGS, a longtime Ty Segall co-conspirator) on guitar and vocals, with Bert Hoover and Jon Modaff of Hooveriii holding down bass and drums. Formed in late 2024, they deal in loud, riff-first '70s hard rock and proto-metal, drawing from the same sludgy well as Blue Cheer and the early Stooges with the sweaty physicality of a great bar band. Their self-titled debut landed on In The Red in May 2026, eleven tracks cut live-feeling by Mark Rains at The Station House.
Our connection here is simple: we are pressing it. This is a Levitation Edition of Primitive Ring, limited to 200 copies on Fire and Brimstone Splatter. When a record hits this hard and this honestly, we want our version on the shelf.
What gets us about Primitive Ring is how little it wastes. No intros that overstay, no studio gloss smoothing over the trio's edges. It is three players in a room leaning into the riff, and you can hear the floor shaking under them. Heads Will Roll is the load-bearing wall, the moment the proto-metal lineage clicks into focus, but the whole 42 minutes moves with the same unfussy momentum. Moothart sings like he means to wear his voice out by the encore.
The press is on the same page. The Fire Note (4/5) calls it a debut that knows what it is, and Reverb Is For Lovers (7/10) hears an authentic return to bone-dry '70s groove rock. Both nods land where we do: this is vintage heavy rock made by people who clearly love the source.
Our one honest gripe: a couple of mid-record cuts blur together if you are not locked in, and the dynamic range stays narrow by design. But that single-minded heaviness is also the point. This is a record built to rattle a turntable, and Fire and Brimstone Splatter is exactly where it belongs.
Recommended if you like: Charles Moothart, Osees, Slift.
