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Author: Martin Williams

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Review: The Death Wheelers ‘Ecstasy Of Möld’

17th March 202517th March 2025 Martin Williams Instrumental, RidingEasy Records, Stoner, The Death Wheelers

Do you hear that unearthly rumble coming from the frozen north of Canada? It can only mean that The Death

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Review: Seein’ Red ‘Refuse Resist’

3rd March 20253rd March 2025 Martin Williams Armageddon Label, Hardcore, Seein' Red

I cannot exactly say when I first heard of long-running Dutch hardcore legends Seein’ Red. It was definitely during my

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Review: Warlung ‘The Poison Touch’

21st February 202521st February 2025 Martin Williams Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Warlung

Houston Texas’s Warlung returns with the follow-up to 2022’s Vultures Paradise, which I enjoyed quite a bit, although, if I’m

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Review: Dax Riggs ‘7 Songs For Spiders’

13th February 202513th February 2025 Martin Williams Blues, Dax Riggs, Fat Possum Records, Folk Rock

Now, here is a record I can honestly say I was beginning to think I might never see released. Dax

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Review: The Hellacopters ‘Overdriver’

5th February 20255th February 2025 Martin Williams Nuclear Blast Records, Rock 'n' Roll, The Hellacopters

Once upon a time, in the mid-to-late ’90s, I was a huge fan of the post-grunge, post-noise and garage punk

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Review: Plastic Crimewave Syndicate ‘Tales Of The Golden Skull’

7th January 20257th January 2025 Martin Williams Cardinal Fuzz, Feeding Tube Records, Kraut, Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, Psych

It goes without saying that one of the many cool aspects of writing for The Sleeping Shaman is the exposure

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Top Ten Of 2024: Martin Williams

19th December 202423rd December 2024 Martin Williams 1000mods, Blue Heron, Duel, Fu Manchu, High On Fire, Necrot, Per Wiberg, Pissed Jeans, The Jesus Lizard, Top Ten 2024, Zig Zags

As has been the case the last half dozen years, I’ve blinked my eyes and arrived near the end of

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Various Artists ‘Brown Acid The Nineteenth Trip’

18th December 202418th December 2024 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, Psych, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

At this point, stoner rockers, doom-metal mavens, garage rock collectors, heavy psych-heads and proto-metal worshipers around the globe can practically

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Review: Oranssi Pazuzu ‘Muuntautuja’

8th November 20248th November 2024 Martin Williams Black Metal, Nuclear Blast Records, Oranssi Pazuzu, Psych

Allow me to begin proceedings by offering a full disclosure; I am in no way a black metal aficionado. There

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Review: Louse ‘Creep Call’

28th October 202428th October 2024 Martin Williams Louse, Noise-Rock, Riot Season, Scum Rock

In the single-note riff-bludgeon department comes Creep Call, the debut album from Newcastle upon Tyne’s Louse, who share both members,

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Review: High Reeper ‘Renewed By Death’

17th October 202417th October 2024 Martin Williams Doom, Heavy Metal, Heavy Psych Sounds, High Reeper

Philadelphia’s High Reeper are another band that seem to have been sitting in my never-ending to-listen-to queue, so as has

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