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Author: Ollie Stygall

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Catapult The Smoke ‘Born In Fire’ CD 2011

8th October 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Catapult The Smoke, CD, Classic Rock, Fuzz, Ollie Stygall, Orchestrated Misery Records, Review, Stoner Doom

A couple of years ago a CD landed on my doormat with the force of a hand grenade and just

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Freedom Hawk ‘Holding On’ CD 2011

6th October 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Classic Rock, Freedom Hawk, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Holding On, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records

It’s high summer, 1973, you’re making the long drive through the Californian wastelands to pick up a consignment of weed

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Crass ‘Yes Sir, I Will’ Reissue CD 2011

5th October 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Anarcho Punk, CD, Crass, Crass Records, Crassical, Crust, Dial House, Experimental, Hardcore, Ollie Stygall, Punk, Reissue, Review, Yes Sir I will

Crass’ 1982 offering “Christ – The Album” had been an audacious piece of work taking six months to record and

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Groan / Vinum Sabbatum – Split CD 2011

29th September 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Classic Rock, Doom, Doomanoid Records, Groan, Ollie Stygall, Prog Rock, Review, Split, Split CD, Vinum Sabbatum

For a label barely 2 years into their existence, Doomanoid Records have grown at a rate far beyond their tender

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Crass ‘Christ The Album’ Reissue CD 2011

21st September 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Anarcho Punk, CD, Christ The Album, Crass, Crass Records, Crassical, Dial House, Ollie Stygall, Punk, Reissue, Review, Southern Records

Hot on the heels of the first 3 of Crass’s reissue series, known as the Crassical Collection, comes their 1982

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned ’30 Weight’ CD/LP 2011

26th August 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, 30 Weight, Blues Rock, CD, Country, Gideon Smith, Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records

Over the course of the past 10 years or so and with 2 EPs and 2 previous albums to his

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Caretaker / Undersmile – Split CDEP 2011

21st August 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Blindsight Records, Caretaker, CD, Doom, Math Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review, Sludge, Split, Split CD, Undersmile

Split releases can be odd little things. Sometimes they highlight musically sympathetic like minded souls and at other times they

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Melvins ‘Sugar Daddy Live’ CD 2011

17th August 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Alternative, Big Business, CD, Ipecac Recordings, Melvins, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Rock, Sludge, Sugar Daddy Live

For nearly 30 years now The Melvins have existed in a bizarre little bubble of their own making. Perpetual outsiders

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Iron Witch ‘Single Malt’ CDEP 2011

4th August 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CDEP, Doom, Iron Witch, Ollie Stygall, Review, Single Malt, Sludge, Witch Hunter Records

Lock up your bitches…something stinking, sick and wicked this way comes!!!! Following in the filthy wake of two excellent rough

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Borracho ‘Splitting Sky’ CD/LP 2011

2nd August 201123rd February 2024 Ollie Stygall 2011, Borracho, CD, Heavy Rock, LP, No Balls Records, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Southern Rock, Splitting Sky, Stoner Rock

Do you ever look at someone with the distinct feeling that you know them from somewhere but just can’t really

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Album & EP Reviews E 

End Reign – 7″ 2011

26th July 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, 7", Crust, End Reign, Fist In The Air Records, Hardcore, Hemlock 13 Records, Holy Roar Records, Ollie Stygall, Review, Witch Hunter Records

So the small but industrious Witch Hunter Records enters the vinyl fray at last. This release from Durham grinders End

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