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Author: Martin Williams

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Review: Lord Elephant ‘Ultra Soul’

16th February 202616th February 2026 Martin Williams Heavy Psych Sounds, Instrumental, Lord Elephant, Stoner

Florence, Italy’s chasm-opening, instrumental, cosmic doom trio, Lord Elephant, return with their second full-length, released once again through Heavy Psych

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Review: Dark Sky Burial ‘The Sacred Neurotic’

3rd February 20263rd February 2026 Martin Williams Consouling Sounds, Dark Sky Burial, Extrinsic Recordings

Dark Sky Burial, the prolific, one-man, dark, ambient and experimental project of extreme metal legend Shane Embury. The longtime bassist

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Review: The Mon ‘Songs Of Abandon’

26th January 202626th January 2026 Martin Williams Acoustic, Folk, Psych, Supernatural Cat, The Mon

The Mon, the acoustic, psych-folk, solo project from Urlo, the primary architect behind Italian heavy, portal-openers Ufomammut, had been floating

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Review: Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin ‘Stygian Bough: Volume II’

14th January 202614th January 2026 Martin Williams Aerial Ruin, Bell Witch, Doom, Profound Lore Records

After five years, the Pacific Northwest doom ensemble Stygian Bough has returned with the follow-up to their 2020 debut, Volume

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Top Ten Of 2025: Martin Williams

29th December 202529th December 2025 Martin Williams Budos Band, Dax Riggs, HÖG, Negative Blast, Nuclear Dudes, Testament, This Summit Fever, Top Ten 2025, Wino, Year Of The Cobra, Zig Zags

As I predicted at the beginning of the year, 2025 turned out to be an insane, psychotic shit show, especially

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Review: Nuclear Dudes ‘Skeletal Blasphemy’

15th December 202515th December 2025 Martin Williams Grindcore, Hardcore, Nuclear Dudes, The Ghost Is Clear Records

Now, here we have an interesting project. Nuclear Dudes is the Covid-born, brainchild of Jon Weisnewski, the multi-instrumentalist behind not

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Review: Various Artists ‘Brown Acid – The Twenty-First Trip’

5th December 20255th December 2025 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, Psych, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

If I’m being honest, I was curious to see if LA’s always‑awesome RidingEasy Records was going to continue its iconic,

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Review: Wino ‘Create Or Die’

1st December 20251st December 2025 Martin Williams Americana, Doom, Ripple Music, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Wino

Chances are if you’re reading this review, or The Sleeping Shaman in general, the man known as Wino needs no

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Review: Electric Jaguar Baby ‘Clair-Obscur’

12th November 202512th November 2025 Martin Williams Electric Jaguar Baby, Garage Rock, Majestic Mountain Records

Parisian garage-fuzz two-piece Electric Jaguar Baby return after a three-year absence with Clair-Obscur, their first release for Majestic Mountain Records.

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Review: Droni Eye Omi ‘Live At Guild Cinema’

29th October 202530th October 2025 Martin Williams Desert Records, Drone, Droni Eye Omi

Droni Eye Omi (certainly one of the wittiest band names I’ve encountered in some time) is an Albuquerque-based ambient psychedelic,

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Review: Supernaughty ‘Apocalypso’

9th October 20259th October 2025 Martin Williams Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Stoner, Supernaughty

Livorno, Italy’s Supernaughty return with their third full-length, and the four-piece’s first for Ripple Music, the much-anticipated Apocalypso. Supernaughty (undoubtedly

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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March
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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March

17th February 202617th February 2026 Lee Edwards

Oxford’s very own heavy hitters, Desert Storm, are revving up the engine once again with the premiere of their latest

Video Premiere: The Mon ‘Ritual Of Night Violence’ – From ‘Songs Of Embrace’ That Drops 6th March
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Video Premiere: The Mon ‘Ritual Of Night Violence’ – From ‘Songs Of Embrace’ That Drops 6th March

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Premiere: The Cosmic Dead ‘Furthur’ – New Album ‘Beyond The Beyond’ Drops 17th April
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