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Author: Tom McKibbin

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Space Witch – S/T – CD/CS/DD 2014

8th September 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Cassette, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Instrumental, Orchestrated Dystopia Records, Psychedelic, Review, Self Titled, Space Witch, Tom McKibbin

A lot of doom bands like to chortle about only having enough time to play two or three songs in

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Earth ‘Primitive And Deadly’ CD/LP/DD 2014

5th September 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Brett Netson, CD, Digital, Doom, Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Experimental, LP, Mark Lanegan, Primitive And Deadly, Rabia Shaheen Qazi, Rock, Southern Lord, Tom McKibbin

Earth’s post-reformation output has been widely praised; while the band laid dormant between the mid-nineties and mid-2000s, the likes of

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Pissed Jeans ‘Shallow’ CD/LP/DD Reissue 2014

26th August 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, CD, Digital, Grunge, Hardcore, LP, Pissed Jeans, Punk, Reissue, Review, Shallow, Sludge, Sub Pop Records, Tom McKibbin

Pissed Jeans, Pennsylvania’s finest purveyors of sludgey man-child hardcore punk, have enjoyed a slow and steady ride into the hearts

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Music Blues ‘Things Haven’t Gone Well’ CD/LP/DD 2014

11th August 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, CD, Digital, Experimental, Harvey Milk, Heavy, Instrumental, LP, Music Blues, Stephen Tanner, Things Haven't Gone Well, Thrill Jockey Records, Tom McKibbin

If anyone in the band Harvey Milk was likely to branch out and release a “solo” album, you would probably

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Great Sabatini ‘Dog Years’ CD/LP/DD 2014

28th July 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, CD, Digital, Dog Years, Doom, Heavy, LP, Math Rock, Review, Sludge, Solar Flare Records, The Great Sabatini, Tom McKibbin

Montreal’s The Great Sabatini are one of the latest additions to the excellent French label Solar Flare Records’ roster, and

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Comply Or Die ‘Northless’ DD 2014

19th July 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Comply Or Die, Digital, Northless, Post-Hardcore, Punk, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Belfast’s Comply Or Die unfortunately announced their decision to split shortly before they released Northless, their sixth release in as

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Boris ‘Noise’ CD/LP/DD 2014

17th June 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Boris, CD, Digital, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, LP, Noise, Review, Rock, Sargent House, Tom McKibbin

Boris fans certainly get their money’s worth from the prolific, shapeshifting Japanese band. Their constant refusal to be pigeon-holed means

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Naam / White Hills / Black Rainbows / The Flying Eyes – Split CD/12″/DD 2014

28th May 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 12", 2014, Black Rainbows, CD, Digital, Fuzz, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Naam, Psychedelic, Review, The Flying Eyes, Tom McKibbin, White Hills

Split releases are great in theory. For the bands, it’s an opportunity to collaborate, whether loosely or closely, with bands

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11Paranoias ‘Spectralbeastiaries’ LP/DD 2014

6th April 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 11Paranoias, 2014, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Psychedelic, Review, Ritual Productions, Spectralbeastiaries, Tom McKibbin

If the lore is to be believed, 11Paranoias formed on the 11th of November 2011 – 11/11/11 – incidentally the

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Towers ‘II’ LP/DD 2014

14th March 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Digital, Drone, Eolian Empire, Experimental, Heavy, II, LP, Noise-Rock, Review, Tom McKibbin, Towers

Providing further evidence that Oregon is literally built upon an ancient Indian burial ground, yet another otherworldly and insanely heavy

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Iron Witch / The Atrocity Exhibit – Split 7″/DD 2014

6th March 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, 7", Dead Chemist Records, Digital, Hardcore, Heavy, Her Cheating Heart, Iron Witch, Review, Sludge, The Atrocity Exhibit, Throne Of Bile, Tom McKibbin, Witch Hunter Records

Witch Hunter Records and Dead Chemist Records have conspired to release this beastly 7” split between Liverpool’s Iron Witch and

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