Review: Year Of No Light ‘Consolamentum’
Bordeaux’s post-metal giants Year Of No Light have returned with their fourth full length, Consolamentum. A sprawling and unruly album,
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Review: Amenra ‘De Doorn’
Few bands in our genre garner the level of excitement that an Amenra release creates. The combination of their emotive
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Book Review: Freedom Run – From Kyuss Lives To Vista Chino
Readers of The Shaman are probably well-acquainted with the core subject matter of this beautifully produced photobook – Kyuss, the
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Review: Gangrened ‘Deadly Algorithm’
Gangrened produce a varied and excellent debut album, confounding expectations with an open-minded take on the sludge genre. I found
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Review: Sarin ‘You Can’t Go Back’
You Can’t Go Back is the third album release from Toronto’s Sarin. Primarily focussed on the more immediate end of
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Top Ten Of 2020: Ian M
It’s obviously tricky to do a snappy write up of 2020 without sounding morose, so I’ll stick with some positives.
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Review: Mountain Caller ‘Chronicle I: The Truthseeker’
After seeing Mountain Caller live a couple of times and been both engaged and somewhat puzzled by their sound and
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Review: Seismic ‘Seismic’ EP
Seismic from Philadelphia release their debut EP, a three track slab of classy doom and heavy rock that matches up
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Review: Sons Of Otis ‘Isolation’
Sons Of Otis return with another slab of heavy psychedelic doom with their eleventh release Isolation. It’s not clear whether
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Review: Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge ‘Blitz Sessions’
Blitz Sessions is the debut album from Norwegian instrumental crew Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge itself is a
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Review: Stonebirds ‘Collapse And Fail’
On Collapse And Fail Stonebirds return with their third album and first on Ripple Music. As we have come to
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