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Author: James Parker

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Mamiffer & Circle ‘Enharmonic Intervals (For Paschen Organ)’ CD/LP/DD 2013

24th December 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Avant-Garde, CD, Circle, Drone, Ektro Records, Enharmonic Intervals (For Paschen Organ), Experimental, James Parker, LP, Mamiffer, Review, Sige Records

In what is one of the year’s most anticipated collaborations in the avant garde rock spectrum, Finland’s celebrated psychedelic warlords

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A Storm Of Light ‘Nations To Flames’ LP/CD/DD 2013

26th October 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, A Storm Of Light, CD, Digital, Heavy, James Parker, LP, Metal, Nations To Flames, Post-Rock, Review, Southern Lord

Neurosis’ ex-visual artist and former Red Sparowes man Josh Graham has said that he was aiming for a challenging, heavy

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Dead Meadow – S/T – Reissue 2013

30th August 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Dead Meadow, Heavy, James Parker, Psychedelic, Reissue, Review, Self Titled, Xemu Records

Cast your minds back to the year 2000, when the heavy music world was, as so often, divided like Berlin

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Palehorse ‘Harm Starts Here’ CD 2013

2nd July 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Candlelight Records, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Harm Starts Here, Heavy, James Parker, Palehorse, Review

AH the NINETEEN-NINETIES. Not only the last decade to have a proper name, arguably the last decade when rock music

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Moss ‘Horrible Night’ CD/LP/DD 2013

10th May 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Horrible Night, James Parker, LP, Metal Blade Records, Moss, Review, Rise Above Records

First off, let’s put to bed immediately the notion that in embracing a bit more, you might say, melody, in

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King Goat ‘Atom’ Digital EP 2013

26th April 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Atom, Digital, Doom, EP, Heavy, James Parker, King Goat, Metal, Review, Self Released

The first lyrics that seep out of new Brighton doom merchants’ King Goat’s debut EP are ‘A lumbering machine…’ and

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Black Moth ‘Savage Dancer’ 7″ 2013

5th April 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, 7", Black Moth, Doom, Heavy Rock, James Parker, Review, Savage Dancer, Too Pure Singles Club

This two-track single marks the return of Leeds retro stoner rockers Black Moth, after what was no doubt a daunting

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Nails ‘Abandon All Life’ CD/LP 2013

19th March 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Abandon All Life, CD, Crust, Death Crust, Hardcore, James Parker, LP, Nails, Review, Southern Lord

Nails. Not often has a band been better named, this full-bore sludgy grindcore three-piece monstrosity is simply HARD AS NAILS.

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Barn Owl ‘V’ CD/LP 2013

4th March 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, Barn Owl, CD, Instrumental, James Parker, LP, Review, Thrill Jockey Records, V

Barn Owl, have, over the process of a few albums, mutated from an organically spiritual drone machine, beloved of more

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Bitter Resolve ‘The Early Interstellar Medium’ DD 2012

18th January 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, Bitter Resolve, Digital, Doom, Heavy, James Parker, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, The Early Interstellar Medium

Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s Bitter Resolve have been ploughing their furrow of dynamic doom for a little while, releasing their

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Bardo Pond ‘Yntra’ (Latitudes Session) CD/LP 2012

16th November 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, Atmospheric, Bardo Pond, CD, Jam, James Parker, Latitudes, Latitudes Session, LP, Psych, Review, Southern Records, Yntra

After eight full-length albums, the psych-rock troupe known as Bardo Pond delivers another great befuddled head feast of a (mini)

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