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Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

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Review: Kal-El ‘Astral Voyager Vol. 1’

30th May 202530th May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom, Kal-El, Majestic Mountain Records, Psych, Stoner

I started a trend a while ago of only including albums that I had reviewed as part of my best-of-year

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Review: Elan ‘Elan Vs Elan’

12th May 202512th May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Elan, Hardcore, Sludge

Once again, emanating forth from the riff mines of Salford’s APF Records are yet more disturbingly brutal noises brought to

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Review: Intensive Care + The Body ‘Was I Good Enough?’

8th May 20258th May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Industrial, Intensive Care, The Body

It’s been roughly a decade since I last wrote about a release from experimental Portland metal duo The Body. Back

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Review: BRUIT ≤ ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’

1st May 20251st May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden BRUIT ≤, Neo Classical, Pelagic Records, Post-Rock

It is hard to try and remain neutral these days when it feels like the world is pushing you to

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Review: Greenleaf ‘Revolution Rock Deluxe’

4th April 20254th April 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues Funeral Recordings, Greenleaf, Heavy Rock

Regular readers of this site should really need no introduction to Greenleaf. The once fledgling side band from Tommi Holappa

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Review: Shane Embury ‘Atonement’

3rd April 20253rd April 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Electronic, Extrinsic Recordings, Shane Embury

Having achieved the distinction of being the longest-serving member of the British institution, grindcore/death metal band Napalm Death, bassist, and

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Review: Ritual King ‘The Futureworks Sessions’

2nd April 20252nd April 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues, Heavy Rock, Psych, Ripple Music, Ritual King

It’s strange that in some quarters, people are ‘celebrating’ or ‘remembering’ the 5th anniversary of the Pandemic. Of course, it

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Review: Telepathy ‘Transmissions’

27th March 202527th March 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Instrumental, Pelagic Records, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Telepathy

Looking back over my time with British-based post-rock quartet Telepathy, it seems more than a little surreal. The week after

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Review: SOM ‘Let The Light In’

25th March 202525th March 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Pelagic Records, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, SOM

Comprising of current and former members of Junius, Caspian, and Constants, North American post-rock/metal act SOM have spent their eight

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Review: you, infinite ‘you, infinite’

19th March 202519th March 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Pelagic Records, Post-Rock, you infinite

To understand the psyche of you, infinite, the debuting act from Texan natives Jeremy Galindo and Raymond Brown, you first

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Review: Pothamus ‘Abur’

13th March 202513th March 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Pelagic Records, Post-Metal, Pothamus

Described in the PR blurb as ‘A maelstrom of music and metaphysics, a crushing conduit for connection, contemplation and catharsis’,

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Following Wednesday’s premiere of an excerpt built around INTERVAL 1, TESA return with a second glimpse into TESA MAN, this

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