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Author: Sandy Williamson

Exhumed 'To The Dead'
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Review: Exhumed ‘To The Dead’

28th November 202229th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Exhumed, Relapse Records

You’d think after 32 years that Exhumed would have run out of steam, or macabre shit to write about. But

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Darkthrone 'Astral Fortress'
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Review: Darkthrone ‘Astral Fortress’

31st October 202212th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Black Metal, Darkthrone, Peaceville Records

There is often much debate about modern Darkthrone vs classic Darkthrone, and whether one of the most important black metal,

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The Otolith 'Folium Limina'
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Review: The Otolith ‘Folium Limina’

25th October 202213th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Blues Funeral Recordings, The Otolith

The weighty yet atmospheric majesty of SubRosa will forever be missed in the modern doom scene; a unique voice in

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Autopsy 'Morbidity Triumphant'
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Review: Autopsy ‘Morbidity Triumphant’

29th September 20229th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Autopsy, Death Doom, Peaceville Records

What do you even say about Autopsy at this point in their long and illustrious career? If you’ve by some

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Sonic Flower 'Me And My Bell Bottom Blues'
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Review: Sonic Flower ‘Me And My Bell Bottom Blues’

28th September 20229th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Sonic Flower

Starting as a side project of Church of Misery‘s Tatsu Mikami and Takenori Hoshi in 2001, I’m assuming to get

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Spiritus Mortis 'The Great Seal'
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Review: Spiritus Mortis ‘The Great Seal’

6th September 20229th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Doom, Metal, Spiritus Mortis, Svart Records

Classic Finnish doom legends Spiritus Mortis have been churning out mighty hymns to heavy metal since 1988, but The Great

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Boris 'Heavy Rocks 2022'
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Review: Boris ‘Heavy Rocks 2022’

15th August 202223rd September 2022 Sandy Williamson Boris, Heavy Rock, Relapse Records

The simple idea that Heavy Rocks is so true and so potent that Japanese legends BORIS (and this is the

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Monasterium 'Cold Are The Graves'
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Review: Monasterium ‘Cold Are The Graves’

21st July 202228th August 2022 Sandy Williamson Doom, Monasterium, Nine Records

I know that Poland’s history with metal isn’t exactly empty, but I feel like the last two years have been

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Ataraxy 'The Last Mirror'
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Review: Ataraxy ‘The Last Mirror’

13th June 202215th July 2022 Sandy Williamson Ataraxy, Dark Descent Records, Death Doom, Me Saco Un Ojo Records

I’ve followed Spanish underground legend death metallers Ataraxy for a number of years now, since I heard their Revelations Of

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Wardruna 'Kvitravn - First Flight Of The White Raven'
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Review: Wardruna ‘Kvitravn – First Flight Of The White Raven’

7th June 202215th July 2022 Sandy Williamson Folk, Music For Nations, Wardruna

Remember when a yearning for being a Viking was only for metalheads and medieval reenactors, instead of wildly misinformed racists

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I Am The Night 'While The Gods Are Sleeping'
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Review: I Am The Night ‘While The Gods Are Sleeping’

11th May 202215th June 2022 Sandy Williamson Black Metal, I Am The Night, Svart Records

I Am the Night may be a brand new entity but their music is conjured into being by four long

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