Review: Slomatics ‘Atomicult’
Belfast’s Slomatics are an institution at this point in the UK underground doom and sludge scenes, but their sound has
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Album & EP Reviews
Review: Vulture God ‘No Easy Answer’ EP
In my long journey to end up as the old dog of The Sleeping Shaman writing staff, one thing has
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Review: Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter ‘Forever, I’ve Been Being Born’
Following the dissolution of short-lived band Hominy, which Jesse played in with then husband Jim, she teamed up with Whiskeytown’s
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Review: Wolftooth ‘Wizard’s Light’
Having gotten into heavy music at the tail-end of the ‘eighties ’80s, my tastes have walked a tightrope between what
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Review: Pupil Slicer ‘Fleshwork’
Back in May of 2023, I had my eyes well and truly opened to a band that, at the time,
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Review: Julie’s Haircut ‘Radiance Opposition’
There is an unparalleled therapeutic quality to truly losing oneself in music, a deeply personal estrangement that offers perfect relaxation
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Review: Mellowdeath ‘Mellowdeath’
Mellowdeath are a Berlin-based band who are incredibly innovative. For the past several years, they have been forging new and
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Review: kariti ‘Still Life’
Way back in late 2023, just as Christmas was rearing its yearly apocalypse on all sense and morality, I was
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Review: Sunn O))) ‘Eternity’s Pillars B/W Raise The Chalice & Reverential’
The first collaboration between drone legends Sunn O))) and the legendary Sub Pop Records, this three-track release sees Greg Anderson
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Review: Maha Sohona ‘A Dark Place’
According to Sinhalese folklore, the name Maha Sohona means ‘great graveyard demon’ and is one of the most feared in
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Review: Nuclear Dudes ‘Skeletal Blasphemy’
Now, here we have an interesting project. Nuclear Dudes is the Covid-born, brainchild of Jon Weisnewski, the multi-instrumentalist behind not
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