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Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

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Author & Punisher ‘Women & Children’ CD/DD 2013

8th May 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Author & Punisher, CD, Digital, Doom, Dub, Heavy, Industrial, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Seventh Rule Recordings, Tristan Shone, Women & Children

Any release from Tristan Shone’s long running Author & Punisher project is an event in my house. Ever since I

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Lazarus Blackstar / Headless Kross – Split 12″ 2013

7th May 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Alicia Morgan, Amon Düül II, Doom, Head Of Crom Records, Headless Kross, Heavy, Lazarus Blackstar, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psychedelic, Review, Sludge, Split 12"

This latest Head of Crom release featuring Lazarus Blackstar and Headless Kross is a clash of style that provides light

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Steve Von Till ‘As The Crow Flies’ Reissue CD/LP/DD 2013

1st May 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Acoustic, Ambient, As The Crow Flies, CD, Dark, Digital, Folk, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Neurot Recordings, Reissue, Review, Steve Von Till

Steve Von Till‘s body of work is well documented; since replacing Chad Salter in Oakland hardcore masters Neurosis in 1989

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Inter Arma ‘Sky Burial’ CD/LP 2013

11th April 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Black Metal, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Inter Arma, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Relapse Records, Review, Sky Burial, Sludge

Having been worrying the underground in Richmond, Virginia and beyond since 2006, Inter Arma have finally released their Relapse debut

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Karma To Burn ‘Live At Club Sidro’ CD/LP 2013

21st March 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Desert Rock, Go Down Records, Instrumental, Karma To Burn, Live At Club Sidro, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review

You have to admire the sheer belligerence of Karma To Burn, having jettisoned the singer they effectively had thrust on

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DeathCrawl ‘Accelerated Rate Of Decay’ CD/DD 2012

7th March 20133rd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Accelerated Rate Of Decay, CD, Crust, DeathCrawl, Digital, Doom, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Having scored a favourable Blabbermouth review back in 2009 for the debut release of their self produced ‘The End Is

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Mothership – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

1st March 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Classic Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mothership, Review, Ripple Music, Self Titled

Some people enter into music trying to be the next big thing, have the next zeitgeist idea that will flip

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Cult Of Luna ‘Vertikal’ CD/LP/DD 2013

14th February 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Atmospheric, CD, Cult Of Luna, Digital, Fritz Lang, Indie Recordings, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Prog Rock, Review, Vertikal

I first heard of Swedish Behemoths Cult of Luna back in 2002 when they stunned my world with the immense

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Clamfight ‘I Versus The Glacier’ CD 2013

6th February 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Clamfight, Doom, I Versus The Glacier, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Review, Southern Rock, The Maple Forum, The Obelisk

With a list of influences that contains some of the most treasured artists in my record collection (Led Zeppelin, Black

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Kongh ‘Sole Creation’ CD/LP/DD 2013

1st February 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Agonia Records, CD, Digital, Funeral Doom, Heavy, Kongh, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Sole Creation

Clearly growing in confidence having produced two excellent albums with 2007’s ‘Counting Heartbeats’ and 2009’s ‘Shadows of the Shapeless’ the

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Spider Goat Canyon / Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Split CD/DD 2012

17th January 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Bro Fidelity Records, Digital, Heavy Rock, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Instrumental, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psychedelic, Review, Space Rock, Spider Goat Canyon, Split CD

Hotel Wrecking City Traders came to my attention through a split 12″ with fellow label mates Waterways and Sons Of

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