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Author: Reza Mills

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Review: Haunted Horses ‘Dweller’

10th January 202510th January 2025 Reza Mills Haunted Horses, Industrial, Post-Punk, Three One G

My first review of 2025 comes courtesy of a band who hail from the birthplace of grunge, Seattle, and who

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Review: Orbiter ‘Distorted Folklore’

23rd December 202423rd December 2024 Reza Mills Orbiter, Post-Rock, Salvaged Records, Shoegaze

The city of Gainesville has an active music scene that has produced Tom Petty, Stephen Stills, Bernie Leadon, Don Felder,

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Top Ten Of 2024: Reza Mills

17th December 202417th December 2024 Reza Mills Chrome Waves, Couch Slut, Gouge Away, Gridfailure, High Noon Kahuna, Joyce, Scions, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, The Cure, Top Ten 2024

2024 and not much has changed, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to rage, and the scumbag regime

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Review: Mangene ‘101 Atomic Terms And What They Mean’ EP

5th December 20245th December 2024 Reza Mills A Tree In A Field Records, Electronic, Eugene S Robinson, Mangene, Manuel Liebeskind

Little did I know that Oxbow‘s sublime Love’s Holiday album that I reviewed for The Sleeping Shaman in July last

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Review: Miracle Blood ‘Hello Hell’

18th November 202418th November 2024 Reza Mills Miracle Blood, Nefarious Industries, Noise-Rock, Post-Punk

Boston’s Miracle Blood formed in 2014 and comprises guitarist/vocalist Andrew Wong, bassist Garrett Young and drummer Anthony Bollitier. The band

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Review: Gridfailure ‘When The Lights Go Out Vol. IV’

14th November 202414th November 2024 Reza Mills Ambient, Experimental, Gridfailure, Independent

Gridfailure‘s latest as you might have guessed, is the fourth instalment in the When The Lights Go Out Series, following

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Review: Sly And The Family Drone ‘Moon Is Doom Backwards’

13th November 202421st February 2025 Reza Mills Human Worth, Jazz, Sly & The Family Drone

London five-piece Sly And The Family Drone who comprise of James Allsopp (reeds/bass clarinet), Kaz Buckland (drums/electronics/reeds), Matt Cargill (electronics/voice/percussion),

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Review: Venus Twins ‘/\/\/\/\/’ EP

7th November 20247th November 2024 Reza Mills Hardcore, Noise-Rock, Three One G, Venus Twins

Denton, Texas has a history of producing pretty killer punk rock, what with the likes of The Marked Men, The

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Review: Conny Ochs ‘Troubadour’

6th November 20246th November 2024 Reza Mills Conny Ochs, Country, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk

In May I attended Exile on Mainstream‘s 25th Anniversary celebrations in Leipzig, Germany where I got to meet at long

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Review: Scions ‘To Cry Out In The Wilderness’

4th November 20244th November 2024 Reza Mills Drone, Experimental, Idée Fixe Records, Neo Classical, Scions

Hailing from Canada, the eight-piece outfit Scions comprises Cormac Culkeen (vocals), Dave Grenon (electronics/sound design), Andrew Mackelvie (saxophones/bass clarinet), Ellen

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Review: Contrition ‘Pariahs’ EP

29th October 202429th October 2024 Reza Mills Contrition, Death Metal, Disorder Recordings

From one of my favourite labels, the Indianapolis, Indiana based Disorder Recordings comes Pariahs, the brand new EP from Contrition.

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