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Month: May 2011

Review
Album & EP Reviews M 

Master Musicians Of Bukakke ‘Totem 3’ CD/LP 2011

31st May 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, Album, CD, Experimental, Important Records, LP, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Totem 3

The Master Musicians have always enthusiastically injected theatre into their music. With identities obscured by Tuareg clothes and Kali mask

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mage – Demo CD 2011

30th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Demo, Groove, Hard Rock, Heavy, Mage, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released

Anyone remember Outburst? Hailing from Leicester they spent many years grafting away and building up a grass roots following with

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Review
Album & EP Reviews T 

Triggerman ‘Brand New Day’ CD 2011

29th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Album, Brand New Day, CD, Groove, Hard Rock, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Review, Triggerman

Have you ever seen the film Deliverance? The tale of backwoods torment and rape of a group of tourists by

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sun Splitter / Bridesmaid – Spilt 7″ 2011

28th May 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, 7", Bastard Sloth Records, Bridesmaid, Doom, Experimental, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Review, Split, Split 7", Sun Splitter

A tasty wee split seven inch here from pals of Locrian, Sun Splitter and Bastard Sloth homeboys Bridesmaid. Both bands

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Keef ‘Stoned To Doom’ CD 2011

27th May 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, PsycheDOOMelic Records, Review, Stoner Doom, Traditional Doom

Canadian’s often get a rough ride from their southern cousins – the South Park boys famously poked fun at this

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Review
Album & EP Reviews T 

Terminal Sound System ‘Heavy Weather’ CD/LP 2011

26th May 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ambient, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Doom, Drone, HALO, Heavy Weather, LP, Noise, Paul Robertson, Review, Skye Klein, Terminal Sound System

If I had to use only two words to describe Terminal Sound System, those words would be ‘vast’ and ‘filmic’…although

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Review
Album & EP Reviews D 

Diet Pills – S/T – LP 2011

20th May 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, Diet Pills, Force Fed Records, Hardcore, Heavy, LP, Noise-Rock, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Sludge

On a day in May there came a dark cloud of despair, a hot smouldering piece of vinyl, born from

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Ironweed ‘Your World Of Tomorrow’ CD 2011

16th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Ironweed, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Psychedelic, Review, Small Stone Records, Your World Of Tomorrow

I have to admit I never got round to checking out Ironweed’s debut offering “Indian Ladder” which landed in 2008,

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Undersmile Interview

15th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall Interview, Ollie Stygall, Undersmile

Sometimes life can have some serendipitous moments that are truly unexpected yet ultimately rewarding. When I was randomly contacted out

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Review
Album & EP Reviews U 

Undersmile ‘A Sea Of Dead Snakes’ CDEP 2010

14th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, A Sea Of Dead Snakes, Blindsight Records, CDEP, Doom, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review, Undersmile

Occasionally, once in a blue moon when the planets align and the stars shine at their brightest you get to

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lento ‘Icon’ CD/LP 2011

13th May 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, CD, Denovali Records, Doom, Heavy, Icon, Lento, LP, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review

Ohhhhh, Lento, you big hulking brute, where have you BEEN all my life? I cannot believe I let this band

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