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Author: Johannes van der Meer

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Solar Halos – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2014

15th December 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2014, Blues Rock, CD, Devouter Records, Digital, Heavy Rock, Johannes van der Meer, LP, Review, Self Titled, Solar Halos

So is Solar Halos from Chapel Hill, North Carolina a supergroup one can wonder. As they consists of guitarist/vocalist Nora

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Ward – S/T – LP 2013

6th December 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, Death Doom, Doom, Heavy, Johannes van der Meer, Johnny Park Avenue Records, LP, Pupu's Bistro, Rämekuukkeli Records, Review, Self Titled, Tuska & Ahdistus Records, Ward

Finland’s Ward have been at it since 2005 and this their self-titled album is sure to put them on the

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Pyramido ‘Saga’ CD/LP 2013

30th November 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, Black Sabbath And The Birth of Heavy Metal, CD, Crust, Doom, Ecocentric Records, Farewell Records, Heart & Crossbone Records, Johannes van der Meer, La Familia Records, LP, Pyramido, Review, Saga, Sludge

So this is the third full length album from Swedish Malmö based Pyramido and this time they’ve decided to write

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Oranssi Pazuzu ‘Valonielu’ CD/LP/DD 2013

2nd November 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Experimental, Johannes van der Meer, LP, Oranssi Pazuzu, Psychedelic, Review, Svart Records, Valonielu

The orange pazuzu spread casts a dark strange shadow over us all standing beneath it. The cosmic coloured demon wings

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Domovoyd ‘Oh Sensibility’ CD/LP/DD 2013

28th October 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, CD, Digital, Domovoyd, Doom, Heavy, Johannes van der Meer, LP, Oh Sensibility, Psychedelic, Review, Svart Records

It is nothing new that Finland is in the forefront of doom metal in general and psychedelic doom in particular.

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Blackout ‘We Are Here’ LP/DD 2013

25th October 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, Blackout, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Johannes van der Meer, LP, Review, Self Released, Sludge, We Are Here

Barbecue, booze and a no bullshit attitude forms this American trio out of Brooklyn, NY and they deliver a dirty

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Tombstoned – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

18th October 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Johannes van der Meer, LP, Psychedelic, Review, Self Titled, Svart Records, Tombstoned

The search for that original sounding really heavy and yet energetic doom is sometimes a long, hard and miserable search

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