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Author: Paul Robertson

Premonition 13 - Liverpool 03/12/2011
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Premonition 13 / Bow & Arrow / Black Magician – Liverpool 03/12/2011

13th December 201114th September 2019 Paul Robertson Black Magician, Bow & Arrow, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Liverpool, Paul Robertson, Premonition 13, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, The Blade Factory, Wino

The Blade Factory, Liverpool 03/12/2011 The freezing wind whipped across the desolate street, empty save for clustered hairies outside the

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Sulaco ‘Build And Burn’ LP/DD 2011

13th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Build And Burn, DD, Digital Download, Grindcore, Handshake Inc, LP, Metal, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Progressive, Review, Sulaco

Hey, does anyone else remember Sulaco, ’cause it’s been a while. If, like me, you thought they were another casualty

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Hot Graves ‘Knights In White Phosphorus’ CD 2011

11th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, CD, D-Beat, Death Crust, Hot Graves, Knights In White Phosphorus, NHR Records, Northern Horde Records, Paul Robertson, Review, Thrash Metal

“Running and hunting and slashing and crushing and searching and seeing and stabbing and shooting and thrashing and smashing and

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Drainland & Trenches – Split LP 2011

6th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Crust, Doom, Drainland, Hardcore, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Split LP, Trenches

Fresh from having their …And So Our Troubles Began CD unleashed upon the world at large, Dublin’s Drainland return in

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Locrian ‘The Clearing’ LP 2011

5th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ambient, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, Dark, Doom, Drone, Fan Death Records, Industrial, Locrian, LP, Noise, Paul Robertson, Review, The Clearing

Allow me, if you will, to get esoteric and mystical on your collective ass. Indulge me. Listening to The Clearing

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The Body & Braveyoung ‘Nothing Passes’ CD 2011

24th November 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, At A Loss Recordings, Braveyoung, CD, Dark, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Nothing Passes, Paul Robertson, Review, The Body, The Body & Braveyoung

Gospel power-sludge duo The Body are so ridiculously heavy that they can crack continents, part seas, and shift the moon

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Paul Catten ‘Themes And Variations For Strings And Electronics’ CD 2011

16th November 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Avant-Garde, CD, Classical, Electronic, Experimental, Future Noise, Paul Catten, Paul Robertson, Review, Themes And Variations For Strings And Electronics

In another life, Paul Catten would perhaps have been horribly disfgured during the explosion of a machine to communicate with

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Doom - Damnation Festival 2011
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Damnation Festival 2011

14th November 201114th September 2019 Paul Robertson A Forest Of Stars, A Man Called Catten, Conan, Damnation, Damnation 2011, Damnation Festival 2011, Doom, Doom (band), Godflesh, Grand Magus, Humanfly, Lee Edwards, Leeds University, Live Review, Paul Catten, Paul Robertson, Shining, Ulver

Leeds University – 5/11/2011 My feet had trodden the soil of Leeds twice within a week – firstly to see

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Wreck And Reference ‘Black Cassette’ CD/LP/DL 2011

6th November 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, Black Cassette, CD, DD, Digital Download, Experimental, Flenser Records, LP, Music Ruins Lives, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Review, Wreck And Reference

Wreck and Reference have left me bamboozled, wrongfooted by their self-applied ‘electronic doom’ tag and generally unsure of what to

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Dead In The Dirt ‘Fear’ 7″ 2011

5th November 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, 7", Crust, D-Beat, Dead In The Dirt, Fear, Hardcore, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Review, Southern Lord

I’d just about reached the point of total D-beat crust-filth saturation from Southern Lord, following the veritable slew of releases

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Leather Nun America ‘Kult Occult’ CD 2011

31st October 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Kult Occult, Leather Nun America, Paul Robertson, PsycheDOOMelic Records, Review, Stoner Doom

If you were to look up the phrase ‘All Killer, No Filler’ in, say Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase And Fable

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