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Killing Joke 'EXTREMITIES, The Albini Demos And Live Beginnings '88' Artwork
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Review: Killing Joke ‘EXTREMITIES, The Albini Demos And Live Beginnings ’88’

3rd March 20263rd March 2026 Reza Mills Invisible Records, Killing Joke, Overdrive Records, Post-Punk

The late ‘80s marked a turbulent period in Killing Joke’s history, first there were the departures of founding member Big

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Review: Deeper Graves ‘Pull Me Toward The Dark’

27th February 202627th February 2026 Reza Mills Death Rock, Deeper Graves, Disorder Recordings

It was at the beginning of my writing career for The Sleeping Shaman when I was first exposed to the

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Review: Enduser ‘Unquiet’

5th February 20265th February 2026 Reza Mills Decay Recordings, Electronic, Enduser

It’s been a good ten years since Enduser, aka Lynn Standafer (originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, now based in Stockholm, Sweden),

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Review: Scott McCloud ‘Make It To Forever’

29th January 202629th January 2026 Reza Mills Acoustic, God Unknown Records, Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud will be a familiar name to those with a love for post-hardcore and hardcore punk (such as myself),

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Review: Ulver ‘Neverland’

16th January 202616th January 2026 Reza Mills Ambient, Electronic, House Of Mythology, Ulver

Forming in 1993, Norway’s Ulver were predominantly a black metal outfit, producing three albums in that style, 1995’s Bergtatt –

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Review: Lavisher ‘Aligned & Vital’

8th January 20268th January 2026 Reza Mills Alternative, Lavisher, Nefarious Industries, Post-Hardcore

Chicago, Illinois’ Lavisher were formed in 2017 by guitarist Gavin Cushman III and Idin Alexander (later of Something Is Waiting),

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Top Ten Of 2025: Reza Mills

30th December 202530th December 2025 Reza Mills Bag People, Jean Claude Vannier, Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter, Lavisher, Mac Gollehon, mclusky, Ministry, Negative Blast, Swans, Top Ten 2025, Venamoris

Has another year really passed? It doesn’t feel like five minutes since we were seeing in 2024. Much has happened

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Review: Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter ‘Forever, I’ve Been Being Born’

29th December 202529th December 2025 Reza Mills Country, Folk, Ideologic Organ, Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter, Southern Lord

Following the dissolution of short-lived band Hominy, which Jesse played in with then husband Jim, she teamed up with Whiskeytown’s

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Review: Negative Blast ‘Destroy Myself For Fun’

11th December 202511th December 2025 Reza Mills Hardcore, Negative Blast, Three One G

San Diego’s Negative Blast formed during Covid and have brought us a wealth of releases including 2020’s The First Four

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Review: Gridfailure ‘Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III’

6th November 20256th November 2025 Reza Mills Ambient, Gridfailure, Nefarious Industries, Noise

The second installation of the Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery series was my first exposure to Gridfailure, and I remember finding it

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Review: Mac Gollehon & The Hispanic Mechanics ‘Pistoleros’

23rd September 202523rd September 2025 Reza Mills Funk, Jazz, Mac Gollehon, World Funk Orchestra

At the risk of sounding overly gushing, I’m a superfan when it comes to Mac Gollehon‘s output. From his 2021

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