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Author: Liam Blanc

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Review: The Neptune Power Federation ‘Mondo Tomorrow’

14th April 202614th April 2026 Liam Blanc Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, The Neptune Power Federation

After all that unpleasantness with The Sleeping Shaman limo, the expense account, and that run in with the tax authorities,

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Review: Worshipper ‘One Way Trip’

19th August 202419th August 2024 Liam Blanc Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Magnetic Eye Records, Worshipper

I’m annoyed with myself for how long this review has taken to write. Normally I only get struck by this

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Review: Geezer & Isaak ‘Interstellar Cosmic Blues & The Riffalicious Stoner Dudes’

3rd June 20243rd June 2024 Liam Blanc Geezer, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Isaak, Stoner Rock

The good people at Heavy Psych Sounds in Rome are busy folk, so it’s entirely possible that I just missed

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Review: The Lunar Effect ‘Sounds Of Green And Blue’

29th April 202429th April 2024 Liam Blanc Heavy Rock, Svart Records, The Lunar Effect

It’s not easy being a Shaman scribe. As well as the challenging entrance exams, robust scribe CPD requirements and having

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Review: Heavy Temple ‘Garden Of Heathens’

9th April 20249th April 2024 Liam Blanc Doom, Heavy Temple, Magnetic Eye Records, Stoner Rock

Do you sometimes think that you’re not the intended target of press releases? I should start counting the number of

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Review: The Neptune Power Federation ‘Goodnight My Children’

13th March 202413th March 2024 Liam Blanc Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, The Neptune Power Federation

Maybe it’s because the news is an endless parade of things going wrong or maybe it’s just me, but my

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Review: Hazehound ‘Macrodose’

28th February 202428th February 2024 Liam Blanc From The Urn Records, Garage, Hazehound, Psych, Rock 'n' Roll

When was the last time you encountered something that made you seriously question your life choices? I had one listening

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Review: Ritual Earth & Kazak ‘Turned To Stone Chapter 9’

25th January 202425th January 2024 Liam Blanc Doom, Kazak, Ripple Music, Ritual Earth, Turned To Stone

Ripple Music’s flagship vinyl series rolls on – I can’t believe that we’re at instalment 9 already. Is it going

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Review: The Awesome Machine ‘…It’s Ugly Or Nothing – Beneath The Desert Floor: Chapter 1’

4th January 20244th January 2024 Liam Blanc Ripple Music, The Awesome Machine

I love the idea behind Beneath The Desert Floor, Ripple Music’s new series of vinyl releases, to: ‘uncover lost treasures

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Top Ten Of 2023: Liam Blanc

26th December 202326th December 2023 Liam Blanc Dead Shrine, Fire Down Below, Green Yeti, Hippie Death Cult, Kadabra, King Father Baboon, Mammatus, Saint Karloff, Sorcia, Top Ten 2023, Void Cruiser

It’s crazy to think that this is the fifth top ten album of the year article that I’ve written for

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Review: Travo ‘Astromorph God’

5th December 20235th December 2023 Liam Blanc Fuzz, Prog, Psych, Spinda Records, Travo

I’m not looking for sympathy but writing album reviews can be hard. If it wasn’t for the company car, health

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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