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Review: Scattered Purgatory ‘Post Purgatory’

6th February 20266th February 2026 Lee Beamish Electronic, Experimental, Guruguru Brain, Scattered Purgatory

One of the things that I love the most about music is that it is always evolving, adapting, and reforming,

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Water Damage & Smote @ The White Hotel, Salford, 2nd September 2025

5th February 20265th February 2026 Matthew Williams Salford, Smote, The Beauty Witch, The White Hotel, Water Damage

Having been somewhat amazed and enthralled at the performance of Smote at the same venue, The White Hotel, in January

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Faetooth & Cwfen @ Ramsgate Music Hall, 20th June 2025

5th February 20265th February 2026 Lee Beamish Cwfen, Faetooth, Mother Brain, Ramsgate Music Hall

So here we are, it’s another sweaty June evening, and we are back at one of my favourite places on

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Review: Enduser ‘Unquiet’

5th February 20265th February 2026 Reza Mills Decay Recordings, Electronic, Enduser

It’s been a good ten years since Enduser, aka Lynn Standafer (originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, now based in Stockholm, Sweden),

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Agriculture / Machukha / Healing Wound @ Dust, Brighton, 4th September 2025

4th February 20264th February 2026 Nessie Spencer Agriculture, Brighton, Dust, Healing Wound, Machukha

Now that the festival season is coming to an end, and (hopefully) so are the heatwaves and mosquito bites, the

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Review: Backengrillen ‘Backengrillen’

4th February 20264th February 2026 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Backengrillen, Doom, Jazz, Svart Records

Sweden’s most famous hardcore punk band, Refused, consistently demonstrated an unquenchable thirst for destruction and distraction, a spirit that seemed

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Neon Heart: An Interview With Magnus Nordén

3rd February 20263rd February 2026 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Kraut, Neon Heart, Psych

Stockholm, Sweden’s experimental psych prog rockers Neon Heart have profoundly captured the very essence of musical and vocal creativity within

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Review: New Mexican Doom Cult ‘Ziggurat’

3rd February 20263rd February 2026 Matthew Williams Majestic Mountain Records, New Mexican Doom Cult

When I grabbed hold of this to review, I perhaps rather naively assumed it would be a band from New

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Review: Dark Sky Burial ‘The Sacred Neurotic’

3rd February 20263rd February 2026 Martin Williams Consouling Sounds, Dark Sky Burial, Extrinsic Recordings

Dark Sky Burial, the prolific, one-man, dark, ambient and experimental project of extreme metal legend Shane Embury. The longtime bassist

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Review: Joe’s Truck Stop ‘The Magnolia Sessions’

2nd February 20262nd February 2026 Mark Hunt-Bryden Anti-Corporate Music, Country, Folk, Joe's Truck Stop, The Magnolia Sessions

For the first two years of its existence, Anti-Corp/Black Matter Mastering’s fantastic The Magnolia Sessions ran at a blistering pace,

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Review: Invictus ‘Nocturnal Visions’

30th January 202630th January 2026 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Invictus, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Memento Mori

In case you hadn’t noticed, the world of death metal is probably at its strongest place since the early 2010s,

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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March

17th February 202617th February 2026 Lee Edwards

Oxford’s very own heavy hitters, Desert Storm, are revving up the engine once again with the premiere of their latest

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