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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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The Cosmic Dead
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Premiere: The Cosmic Dead ‘Furthur’ – New Album ‘Beyond The Beyond’ Drops 17th April

29th January 202629th January 2026 Lee Edwards Heavy Psych Sounds, Psych, Space Rock, The Cosmic Dead

Today at The Shaman, we’re beyond chuffed to be premiering Furthur, a heavy, head-warping dive into The Cosmic Dead’s expansive

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Ahab @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Abbi Draper
Featured Live Reviews 

ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Saturday

29th January 202629th January 2026 Tim C Ahab, ArcTanGent Festival, Between The Buried And Me, Bipolar Architecture, Clown Core, DVNE, God Is An Astronaut, Inter Arma, Lo!, Rolo Tomassi, Sugar Horse, Swamp Coffin, The Callous Daoboys, Wren

King Offa of Mercia ruled his Anglo-Saxon kingdom between 757 and 796. Around the middle of his reign, he ordered

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Review: Scott McCloud ‘Make It To Forever’

29th January 202629th January 2026 Reza Mills Acoustic, God Unknown Records, Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud will be a familiar name to those with a love for post-hardcore and hardcore punk (such as myself),

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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Friday

28th January 202628th January 2026 Tim C ArcTanGent Festival, Car Bomb, Coilguns, delving, Dimscûa, envy, Eyes, Frontierer, Giant Walker, Ithaca, meth, Mt. Onsra, Overhead The Albatross, We Lost The Sea

In 1967, French literary critic Roland Barthes published a ground-breaking essay called The Death of the Author. In this piece,

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Review: Temptress ‘hear’

28th January 202628th January 2026 Matthew Williams Blues Funeral Recordings, Temptress

One of the few regrets I have when I once worked in Texas was that I didn’t go to any

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Pelican @ ArcTanGent 2025 - Photo by Abbi Draper
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ArcTanGent Festival 2025 – Thursday

27th January 202628th January 2026 Tim C Arab Strap, ArcTanGent Festival, Codespeaker, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Kylesa, Lemondaze, Melvins, Pelican, Pothamus, REZN, The Grey, We Lost The Sea

Situated at Fernhill Farm, where cattle and sheep roam the lush grassland of the Mendip Hills, attendees at ArcTanGent Festival

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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

3rd April 20263rd April 2026 Lee Edwards

Following Wednesday’s premiere of an excerpt built around INTERVAL 1, TESA return with a second glimpse into TESA MAN, this

Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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

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Video Premiere: The Mon ‘Ritual Of Night Violence’ – From ‘Songs Of Embrace’ That Drops 6th March
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Video Premiere: The Mon ‘Ritual Of Night Violence’ – From ‘Songs Of Embrace’ That Drops 6th March

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