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Author: Matthew Williams

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Review: Goya ‘In The Dawn Of November’

6th August 20256th August 2025 Matthew Williams Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom, Goya

As a band that I’d never heard much of until now, the gentle drum accompanied by this huge, unparalleled rumbling

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Review: This Love Is Drone ‘Angst, Anguish & Agnes’

4th July 20254th July 2025 Matthew Williams Doom, Drone, Dungeon Synth, Northern Haze, This Love Is Drone

Angst, Anguish & Agnes – An intriguing album title will always grab my attention, and I’d love to know who

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Review: Black Helium ‘The Animals Are Coming’

13th June 202513th June 2025 Matthew Williams Black Helium, Psych, Riot Season

Even back in my craziest party days during the hedonistic late ‘80s and early to mid ‘90s, I was never

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Review: Witchrot ‘Soul Cellar’

11th June 202511th June 2025 Matthew Williams Doom, Fuzz, Fuzzed And Buzzed Records, Majestic Mountain Records, Witchrot

There’s a slow, pedestrian paced start to Possession Deepens as the rumbling bass line from Jon Ferreira is joined by

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Review: AAWKS ‘On Through The Sky Maze’

15th May 202515th May 2025 Matthew Williams AAWKS, Black Throne Productions, Doom, Stoner

With a huge bell ringing in the background, feedback buzzes around your ears as the opening monologue fades in and

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Review: Clamfight ‘Clamfight’

13th May 202514th May 2025 Matthew Williams Clamfight, Doom, Independent, Metal, Sludge

You are welcomed into the fourth album from New Jersey/Philadelphia band Clamfight, with a gentle and calming introduction, a beat

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Review: SUMAC And Moor Mother ‘The Film’

9th May 20259th May 2025 Matthew Williams Drone, Experimental, Moor Mother, Spoken Word, Sumac, Thrill Jockey Records

After giving this a few listens, I can confirm that SUMAC are another band that is going to be filed

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Dead Space Chamber Music @ The Peer Hat, Manchester, 13th April 2025 – Photo by Lee Edwards
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Dead Space Chamber Music / Futures We Lost / Slow Knife @ Peer Hat, Manchester, 13th April 2025

8th May 20258th May 2025 Matthew Williams Dead Space Chamber Music, Futures We Lost, Manchester, Slow Knife, The Peer Hat

I once saw a quote that said, ‘music is kinetic, as it has motion and feelings that comes from the

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Review: Sons Of Ra ‘Standard Deviation’

30th April 202530th April 2025 Matthew Williams Jazz, Lasers Edge, Prog, Sons Of Ra

Right from the off, I’m going to say one simple thing. This album is beyond cool, so cool that even

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Review: Earl Of Hell ‘Earl Of Hell’

25th April 202525th April 2025 Matthew Williams Copper Feast Records, Earl Of Hell, Heavy Rock

It’s somewhat strange that when I first reviewed Scottish fuzz rockers Earl Of Hell back in April 2022, I ended

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs @ New Century Hall, Manchester, 11th April 2025 – Photo by Lee Edwards
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs & Irked @ New Century, Manchester, 11th April 2025

15th April 202515th April 2025 Matthew Williams Irked, Manchester, New Century Hall, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

A warm, barmy spring evening saw inevitable traffic jams around Manchester’s wondrous inner city road ring network, but as I

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