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Author: Lee Beamish

Old Blood ‘Acid Doom’
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Review: Old Blood ‘Acid Doom’

25th August 202025th September 2020 Lee Beamish Acid Doom, DHU Records, Doom, Heavy Rock, Metal Assault Records, Old Blood

Around six months ago, just as the world started losing its mind, and was shutting down over a then relatively

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Mercury Circle ‘The Dawn Of Vitriol’
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Review: Mercury Circle ‘The Dawn Of Vitriol’

7th August 202014th September 2020 Lee Beamish Doom, Gothic, Mercury Circle, Noble Demon, The Dawn Of Vitriol, The Vinyl Division

Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, has quite the heritage when it comes to famous rock and metal bands, the

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OHHMS
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OHHMS – Interview With Vocalist Paul Waller

5th August 202014th September 2020 Lee Beamish Close, Holy Roar Records, Noise-Rock, OHHMS, Paul Waller

Straight off the back of the fantastic new OHHMS album, Close, I had the honour and the opportunity to shoot

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Mummise Guns - S/T
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Review: Mummise Guns ‘Mummise Guns’

29th July 202014th September 2020 Lee Beamish Mummise Guns, Noise-Rock, Psych, Riot Season

Okay, Mummise Guns… What can I say…? Let’s see. To sum up Mummise Guns in the most eloquent way possible,

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Black Royal ‘Firebride’
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Review: Black Royal ‘Firebride’

27th July 202014th September 2020 Lee Beamish Black Royal, Blackened Sludge, Firebride, Suicide Records

I’m not sure what it is about Tampere in Finland right now, maybe it’s something in the water, who knows.Maybe

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Yanomamo ‘No Sympathy For A Rat’
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Review: Yanomamö ‘No Sympathy For A Rat’

24th July 202023rd August 2021 Lee Beamish Independent, No Sympathy For A Rat, Sludge, Yanomamö

Nine years into their existence, and three years on from their previous release, Neither Man Nor Beast, come Australia’s very

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Dun Ringill ‘Library Of Death’
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Review: Dun Ringill ‘Library Of Death’

20th July 202028th August 2020 Lee Beamish Argonauta Records, Doom, Dun Ringill, Library Of Death, Metal

Straight out of the heart of Gothenburg in Sweden come six piece Dun Ringill, who describe themselves as a ‘heavy

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Rückwater ‘Supernova’
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Review: Rückwater ‘Supernova’

15th July 202028th August 2020 Lee Beamish Heavy Rock, Inverse Records, Rückwater, Supernova

Hailing from Tampere in Finland, and ready to rock your world, are your new favourite band, and I can imagine

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Embr ‘1823’
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Review: EMBR ‘1823’

9th July 202017th March 2021 Lee Beamish 1823, EMBR, Metal, New Heavy Sounds, Stoner Doom

Hailing from Alabama in the US, come Embr, who are releasing their debut album 1823 this July through UK label

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Eyes Fly ‘Eyes Fly’
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Review: Eyes Fly ‘Eyes Fly’

2nd July 202031st July 2020 Lee Beamish Eyes Fly, Independent, Prog Metal, Self Titled

Four years ago an idea was birthed, a concept, a dream. That dream was Eyes Fly, and it’s the offspring

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OHHMS ‘Close’
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Review: OHHMS ‘Close’

29th June 202031st July 2020 Lee Beamish Close, Doom, Holy Roar Records, OHHMS, Sludge

It’s June 2020, we’ve just endured months of lockdown, thanks to a killer virus, and the world seems to have

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