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Author: Martin Williams

Kadabra 'Ultra'
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Review: Kadabra ‘Ultra’

9th September 202111th October 2021 Martin Williams Heavy Psych Sounds, Kadabra, Psych

Heavy Psych Sounds, the Italian label specializing in all thing’s stoner, doom and everything in between, run by Black Rainbows

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Ruin ‘Spread Plague Death’
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Review: Ruin ‘Spread Plague Death’

30th August 202130th September 2021 Martin Williams Death Metal, Nameless Grave Records, Ruin

When it comes to death metal, I’m by no means some sort of purist. Maybe that’s because whilst I am

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Eric Wagner / The Skull - Roadburn 2016 - Photo by Lee Edwards
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Run To The Light: Rest In Peace Eric Wagner

25th August 202127th September 2021 Martin Williams Doom, Eric Wagner, RIP, Tee Pee Records, The Skull, Trouble

The heavy metal world, specifically the stoner/doom corner awoke the morning of August 23rd, 2021, to the grim, gut-wrenching news

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Borracho ‘Pound Of Flesh’
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Review: Borracho ‘Pound Of Flesh’

18th August 202123rd February 2024 Martin Williams Borracho, Heavy Rock, Kozmik ArtIfactz, Stoner Rock

The Washington D.C. area has a long and storied history with cutting edge music. From go-go to hardcore punk and

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The Osiris Club ‘The Green Chapel’
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Review: The Osiris Club ‘The Green Chapel’

16th August 202122nd September 2021 Martin Williams Bad Elephant Music, No Profit Recordings, Prog, The Osiris Club

Allow me to begin by saying that I’m in no way what one might consider a progressive rock/metal aficionado. Sure,

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Fimir 'Tomb Of God'
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Review: Fimir ‘Tomb Of God’

29th July 20219th September 2021 Martin Williams Argonauta Records, Doom, Fimir

When a band opens their debut album with a church/funeral bell, that’s making a bold statement in my opinion, because

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Bottomless ‘Bottomless’
Album & EP Reviews B 

Review: Bottomless ‘Bottomless’

16th July 20219th September 2021 Martin Williams Bottomless, Doom, Spikerot Records

Over the last fifteen-to-twenty years, Italy has been home to a thriving, vibrant, underground stoner/doom/psyche rock scene. The country, while

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Atomic Vulture ‘Moving Through Silence’
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Review: Atomic Vulture ‘Moving Through Silence’

12th July 202113th August 2021 Martin Williams Atomic Vulture, Instrumental, Polder Records

Instrumentals, whether they be a song, or full band can work really well, or can be un-welcome to my ears.

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Dark Bird 'Out Of Line'
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Review: Dark Bird ‘Out Of Line’

7th July 202113th August 2021 Martin Williams Cardinal Fuzz Records, Dark Bird, Noise Agony Mayhem, Psych

As humanity moves into the halfway point of 2021, we are collectively beginning to see what the pandemic hath wrought

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Deathchant ‘Waste’
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Review: Deathchant ‘Waste’

2nd July 20216th August 2021 Martin Williams Deathchant, Heavy Rock, Proto-Metal, RidingEasy Records

I had an idea that Waste, the second full length release by Los Angeles’s Deathchant on RidingEasy Records, was going

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Sun Crow 'Quest For Oblivion'
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Review: Sun Crow ‘Quest For Oblivion’

28th June 20216th August 2021 Martin Williams Doom, Ripple Music, Stoner Witch Records, Sun Crow

Seattle’s Sun Crow made quite the impression with their Bandcamp-released debut Quest For Oblivion in November of 2020. Instantly generating

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