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Month: August 2008

Review
Album & EP Reviews T 

The Killing Cure – S/T – CDEP 2008

31st August 200823rd February 2024 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Desert Rock, Fury 76 Records, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Stoner Rock, The Killing Cure

Picture the scene. The sun hangs high in the sky, blazing the eyes and distorting the landscape with its intense

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Review
Album & EP Reviews U 

Ufomammut ‘Idolum’ CD/LP 2008

31st August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone Adam Stone, CD, Idolum, LP, Malleus, Psychedelic, Review, Space Rock, Stoner Doom, Supernatural Cat, Ufomammut

Acid rock for the sludge generation. Yes, it was with an almost sexual joy that I stylishly flipped the disc

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Medamaki Interview

30th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall Interview, Medamaki, Ollie Stygall

Medamaki won’t be a name too familiar with many of you hailing as they do from the rock and roll

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Medamaki ‘Warbird’ CDEP 2008

30th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Classic Rock, Fury 76 Records, Heavy Rock, Medamaki, Ollie Stygall, Review, Warbird

“Hello Evesham, you guys rock!!!” Hmmm, it doesn’t really have much of a ring to it does it? I can’t

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Space Witch - Manchester 28/08/08
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Lazarus Blackstar / Space Witch / They Are Cowards – Manchester 28/08/08

29th August 200814th September 2019 Adam Stone Adam Stone, Future Noise, Lazarus Blackstar, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Space Witch, Star & Garter, They Are Cowards

The Star & Garter, Manchester 28/08/08 The UK’s premier ‘purveyors of metal and doom’, Future Noise, were six years old

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lazarus Blackstar ‘Tomb Of Internal Winter’ CDEP 2008

28th August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Blackened Doom, CDEP, Crust, Doom, Future Noise, Heavy, Lazarus Blackstar, Nasty, Review, Tomb Of Internal Winter

Sweet Mary-Jane!! Life is pain – drown me in riffs!! Dust off the Amstrad music centre, kick yer Para-boots off,

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Steve Von Till ‘A Grave Is A Grim Horse’ CD 2008

27th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Acoustic, Andrew Sloan, Blues, CD, Country, Dark, Folk, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Review, Steve Von Till

First we had Scott Kelly and now Steve Von Till, I’m guessing there was a break in the Neurosis schedule

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Disfear ‘Live The Storm’ CD 2008

26th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, At The Gates, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Death Crust, Disfear, Entombed, Hardcore, Live The Storm, Relapse Records, Review, Thomas Lindberg, Ulfe Cederlund

What does the term Punk Rock mean these days? It’s a genre so watered down by lightweight, pop star-aspiring posturing,

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Review
Album & EP Reviews I 

I Klatus ‘Borningroom’ CD 2008

23rd August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Avant-Garde, Borningroom, CD, Dark, Experimental, I Klatus, Industrial, Noise, Review, Self Released

A newly released album by electronic avant-experimentalists I Klatus was available as a free download, this collection of nine tracks

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Review
Album & EP Reviews S 

Scott Kelly ‘The Wake’ CD/LP 2008

23rd August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Acoustic, Andrew Sloan, CD, Country, Dark, Folk, LP, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Review, Scott Kelly

I’ve been sat here for twenty five minutes listening to Scott Kelly’s second solo album wondering how I can possibly

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Review
Album & EP Reviews S 

SardoniS – 7″ 2008

22nd August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, 7", Doom, Electric Earth, Guitar & Drums, Heavy, Instrumental, Ollie Stygall, Review, SardoniS, Sludge, Stoner Doom, Two Piece

Attention all bass players!!! Your services are no longer required, you have been deemed surplus to requirements. Please collect your

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