Lee Beamish, Author at The Sleeping Shaman

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Review: EMBR ‘Idolatry’ EP

3rd December 202017th March 2021 Lee Beamish Doom, EMBR, Grunge, Idolatry, Independent

Hot off the back of the stunning debut 1823 this summer, Alabama’s Embr have struck again, this time with four

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Review: Electric Hydra ‘Electric Hydra’

2nd December 202010th January 2021 Lee Beamish Electric Hydra, Heavy Rock, Majestic Mountain Records, Tee Pee Records

So, how many of you out there reading this remember ‘hard rock’ in the nineteen eighties? Some of you? Maybe

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Review: Šamane ‘Šamane’

30th November 202010th January 2021 Lee Beamish Alternative, Folk, Last Day Of The North, Šamane

In a world which is so immensely loud, and as volatile as it is right now, to find something so

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Review: Morne ‘Live At Roadburn’

27th November 202031st December 2020 Lee Beamish Armageddon Label, Blackened Doom, Live At Roadburn, Morne, Morne Records

Every April since nineteen ninety-nine, Tilburg in the Netherlands, has played host to the hugely popular Roadburn Festival. One of

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Review: Various Artists ‘Brown Acid: The Eleventh Trip’

23rd November 202022nd December 2020 Lee Beamish Brown Acid, RidingEasy Records, The Eleventh Trip, Various Artists

The Brown Acid series, something which started as a way of showcasing some unique, and all together incredible musical rarities,

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Review: Onsegén Ensemble ‘Fear’

17th November 202018th December 2020 Lee Beamish Fear, Onsegén Ensemble, Prog Rock, Svart Records

Finland’s Onségen Ensemble are somewhat of an oddity. Formed in two thousand and four, they’re only now, in the last

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Review: Dune Sea ‘Moons Of Uranus’

16th November 202018th December 2020 Lee Beamish All Good Clean Records, Dune Sea, Moons Of Uranus, Psych

Three, Two, One…..we have blast off!! Norway’s Dune Sea are about to jet us off on a space stoner adventure,

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Review: Novarupta ‘Marine Snow’

10th November 202014th December 2020 Lee Beamish Alex Stjernfeldt, Marine Snow, Novarupta, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Suicide Records

Once upon a time, in nineteen twelve to be exact, in Alaska, there was a volcanic eruption, so gargantuan, that

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Review: Hey Colossus ‘Dances / Curses’

30th October 20201st December 2020 Lee Beamish Alternative, Dances / Curses, Hey Colossus, Noise-Rock, Wrong Speed Records

Back when nu metal was just dying a timely death, back in the early two thousands, London spewed into the

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Review: POHL ‘Freakspeed’

19th October 202023rd November 2020 Lee Beamish Freakspeed, Noise-Rock, Pohl, Wrong Speed Records

Bristol has, for a very long time, been an epicenter for a wealth of different bands and musicians, from many

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Review: Mr. Bison ‘Seaward’

7th October 20209th November 2020 Lee Beamish Mr Bison, Psych, Ripple Music, Seaward, Subsound Records

In the last two months I’ve been tasked with reviewing two bands from the same location of the globe, I