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Author: Reza Mills

Reza Mills
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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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Review: Swans ‘Birthing’

1st September 202527th December 2025 Reza Mills Experimental, Mute Records, Noise-Rock, Swans, Young God Records

It is intimidating covering a band you love as you pray you’ll do them justice; there’s an omnipresent feeling that

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Review: The Long Hunt ‘Natural Order’

28th August 202528th August 2025 Reza Mills Doom, Drone, Independent, Psych, The Long Hunt

The Long Hunt are from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and are Trevor Richards – guitar, Allison Kacmar Richards – bass and Mark

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Review: Hexvessel ‘Nocturne’

7th August 20257th August 2025 Reza Mills Black Metal, Folk, Hexvessel, Prophecy Productions

Mat ‘Kvohst’ McNerney has been a constant since the early days of my Shaman writing career when I covered Hexvessel‘s

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Review: Dez Dare ‘CHERYL! Your Love Shines Down Like A Supernova’s Death’

3rd July 20253rd July 2025 Reza Mills Dez Dare, God Unknown Records

Dez Dare, aka Darren Smallman, grew up in Geelong, a port city some 47 miles southwest of Melbourne, Victoria in

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Review: Xeeland ‘Water’ [Vinyl Reissue]

3rd June 20253rd June 2025 Reza Mills Ambient, Drone, God Unknown Records, Jason Stoll, Xeeland

Xeeland is Jason Stöll, who has been in many bands over the years including Sex Swing, Twin Sister, Mugstar, Dømes,

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Review: mclusky ‘the world is still here and so are we’

15th May 202515th May 2025 Reza Mills Ipecac Recordings, mclusky, Post-Punk

I’d like to start by dedicating this review to my friend Adam York Gregory, who was responsible for introducing me

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