Martin Williams, Author at The Sleeping Shaman

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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