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Author: Martin Williams

Bottomless ‘Bottomless’
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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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Butcher In The Fog ‘Exonerate Me, Baby’
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Review: Butcher In The Fog ‘Exonerate Me, Baby’

24th June 20216th August 2021 Martin Williams Butcher In The Fog, Doom, Metal, Punk, Sleight Of Hand Music

Sometimes when reviewing a new record, or just listening for my own audio fix, I can tell within a few

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Trialogos ‘Stroh Zu Gold’
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Review: Trialogos ‘Stroh Zu Gold’

8th June 202121st July 2021 Martin Williams Conny Ochs, Exile On Mainstream Records, Experimental, Kiki Bohemia, Sicker Man, Trialogos

Trialogos are an experimental/cinematic/soundscape trio featuring dark-folk singer/guitarist Conny Ochs, multi-instrumentalist Kiki Bohemia and Sicker Man, who all came together

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Pig Destroyer ‘Pornographers Of Sound Live At St Vitus’
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Review: Pig Destroyer ‘Pornographers Of Sound Live At St Vitus’

7th June 202121st July 2021 Martin Williams Grindcore, Pig Destroyer, Relapse Records

Honestly, when I saw that Alexandria, Virginia grind/thrash/death metal legends Pig Destroyer were dropping their first live album, I was

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10,000 Years 'II'
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Review: 10,000 Years ‘II’

28th May 202115th October 2021 Martin Williams 10000 Years, Death Valley Records, Doom, Interstellar Smoke Records, Metal, Ogo Rekords, Olde Magick Records

The topic of quality music, quality rock & roll, specifically quality HEAVY rock & roll, in its various genres coming

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Monster Magnet 'A Better Dystopia'
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Review: Monster Magnet ‘A Better Dystopia’

24th May 202130th June 2021 Martin Williams Heavy Rock, Monster Magnet, Napalm Records, Space Rock

Full disclosure: Monster Magnet are one of my all-time favorite bands. They’ve been in my periphery since 1994. I’d heard

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Robots Of The Ancient World 'Mystic Goddess'
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Review: Robots Of The Ancient World ‘Mystic Goddess’

18th May 202122nd June 2021 Martin Williams Grunge, Kozmik ArtIfactz, Mystic Goddess, Robots Of The Ancient World, Small Stone Records

Portland, Oregon purveyors of the finest of West Coast stoner/doom, Robots Of The Ancient World, or known by their acronym

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