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Author: Sandy Williamson

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Review: Mammoth Grinder ‘Undying Spectral Resonance’ EP

20th December 202420th December 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Mammoth Grinder, Relapse Records

If there was ever a band that you knew was going to be heavy as fuck just on the name

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Review: Primal Code ‘Opaque Fixation’

10th December 202410th December 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Primal Code, Relapse Records

The debut record from ferocious Chicago-ans Primal Code, Opaque Fixation, is marked as no-frills death metal, which is always a

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Review: Bile Caster ‘Writhing Between Birth And Death’

6th November 20246th November 2024 Sandy Williamson Bile Caster, Cursed Monk Records, Eggy Tapes, Road To Masochist

Leicester’s Bile Caster have been slugging their way through the British underground for about five years now and following a

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Review: Blood Incantation ‘Absolute Elsewhere’

16th October 202416th October 2024 Sandy Williamson Blood Incantation, Century Media, Death Metal, Prog

The new lords of cosmic progressive death metal have returned from whatever dimension they normally inhabit when not on our

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Review: Eldrim ‘Daudarstev’

1st October 20241st October 2024 Sandy Williamson Eldrim, Folk, Independent, Norse

When you think of Viking folk music, you are inevitably drawn immediately to Wardruna and their litany of special albums

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Review: Kurokuma ‘Of Amber And Sand’

11th September 202411th September 2024 Sandy Williamson Doom, Independent, Kurokuma, Sludge

A decade after Sheffield’s Kurokuma first appeared in the ever productive UK underground, their second full-length record Of Amber And

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Review: Orme ‘No Serpents, No Saviours’ EP

3rd September 20243rd September 2024 Sandy Williamson Doom, Independent, Orme, Sludge

The self-titled, double album debut from UK sludge/drone/doom trio Orme was pretty well received last year, but when it is

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Review: Trog ‘Horrors Beyond’

18th July 202418th July 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Frozen Screams Imprint, Trog

New Jersey death metallers Trog are a band I have kept a close eye on since they were Troglorot and

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Review: SUMAC ‘The Healer’

12th July 202412th July 2024 Sandy Williamson Drone, Post-Metal, Sludge, Sumac, Thrill Jockey Records

SUMAC are a band that I’ve always heard good things about, but never managed to get around to listening to

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Review: Gatecreeper ‘Dark Superstition’

4th June 20244th June 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Gatecreeper, Nuclear Blast Records

I remember really enjoying the last record from Arizona’s Gatecreeper, Deserted, and so this new offering is something that has

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Review: My Dying Bride ‘A Mortal Binding’

15th May 202415th May 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Doom, My Dying Bride, Nuclear Blast Records

Unless you’ve lived under a rock or been a metal fan that is somehow well-adjusted and happy, you know who

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