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Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

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Chrome Hoof ‘Crush Depth’ CD/2xLP 2010

8th June 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Avant-Garde, CD, Chrome Hoof, Crush Depth, Experimental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Southern Records

I promised myself I’d try and get through this review without mentioning drugs. The effects of drugs, doing drugs, being

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bumsnogger ‘2002-2006’ CD 2010

1st June 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Bumsnogger, CD, Compilation, Discography, Doom, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Witch Hunter Records

A greatest hits from a band that were a wilfully uncommercial event? A gathering of their material from their debut

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dead In The Woods / Diet Pills – Split 12″ 2010

24th May 20103rd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Black Box Recordings, Dead In The Woods, Dead In The Woods/Diet Pills, Diet Pills, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Noise-Rock, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 12"

They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Whilst the chest is the more geographically correct

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Grifter ‘The Simplicity Of The Riff Is Key’ CDEP 2010

12th May 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Blues Rock, Catacomb Records, CDEP, Classic Rock, Grifter, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Southern Rock, The Simplicity Of The Riff Is Key

Ever since Grifter burst onto the scene back in 2004/2005 with a beer in hand, a roach in the ashtray

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Arc Of Ascent ‘Circle Of The Sun’ CD 2010

23rd April 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Arc Of Ascent, Astral Projection, Atmospheric, CD, Craig Williamson, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psych Rock, Psychedelic, Review

Ah New Zealand, the temptation to form an opinion based on stereotypes of sheep worrying, Lord Of The Rings and

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Shape Of Nexus / Kodiak – Split 12″ 2010

9th April 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, B.SON, Black Shape Of Nexus, Black Shape Of Nexus/Kodiak, Doom, Drone, Funeral Doom, Kodiak, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 12"

How do you approach 38 minutes of mind bending Doom? Quite simply shut yourself away, roll a fat one and

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Great Falls – Demo 2009

6th March 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Demo, Great Falls, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Noise-Rock, Post-Hardcore, Retro Rock, Review, Self Released

Fuelled by the demise of seminal hardcore act Playing Enemy, Demian Johnston and Shane Mehling went on to do a

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Album & EP Reviews I 

IRA ‘Visions Of A Landscape’ CD 2009

10th December 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Ambient, CD, Golden Antenna Records, Heavy, IRA, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, Visions Of A Landscape

Hailing from the university town of Konstanz in Germany, IRA are clearly deep thinkers and I don’t mean that in

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Airpeople ‘The Golden City’ CD 2009

12th November 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Airpeople, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, CD, Experimental, Golden Antenna Records, Instrumental, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, The Golden City

In all fairness the bio accompanying this release put me off slightly as it comes off more than a little

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Queen Beast Interview

12th September 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden Interview, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Queen Beast

They were born from a band called ‘Pile of Dead Woman’, they play ‘ADD-driven, southern, psychedelic, experimental, filth-core’ and think

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mourning Dawn ‘For The Fallen’ CD 2009

21st August 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, For The Fallen, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mournful, Mourning Dawn, Review, Totalrust Music

One of the virtues of heavy music being so relatively young a genre is that it can still be bent

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