Review: Benjamin Tod ‘Country Is Dead’
Fatherhood has not slowed Lost Dog Street Band frontman and acclaimed solo artist Benjamin Tod one iota. Tod and his
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Album & EP Reviews
Review: Bosco Sacro ‘Inhabit’
Following Gem in 2023, Italian quartet Bosco Sacro return with Inhabit, an album that takes the musical and emotional coordinates
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Review: Cathedral ‘The Guessing Game [Rethink]’
Cathedral have always experimented, from the downbeat, sludgy doom metal of the debut full-length Forest Of Equilibrium to the stoner-oriented
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Review: Goat Major ‘Death Comes Twice’
From the deepest, darkest parts of picturesque Pembrokeshire, my Welsh brethren, Goat Major, return with the follow-up to their much-acclaimed
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Review: Shy, Low ‘Purity Spiral’
For fifteen years now, Richmond, Virginia’s Shy, Low have been busy carving a name for themselves in the heavy instrumental
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Review: Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol ‘Ca$h Grab’
For me, the undoubted highlight of my first ever visit to Desertfest London 2025 was the forty-odd-minute set from Austin,
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Review: Alessandro Casini ‘Do Colors Dream Of Electric Sound?’
There is something deeply fascinating to me about Alessandro Casini’s Do Colors Dream Of Electric Sound?. Perhaps it is the
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Review: Xeeland ‘Laws & Triangles – Music Inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker’
Andrei Tarkovsky’s works are not easy watches. The Sacrifice, for instance, is painfully slow, a real slog if I’m brutally
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Review: Stoned Jesus ‘Songs To Moon’
In all the years I have been writing for The Shaman, there have been a few bands for whom I
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Review: Krallice ‘Scour Order’
I spent a lot of time with New York’s progressive black metal kingpins Krallice in the late 2000s and early
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Review: Witchsorrow ‘The Devil And All His Works’
Long-running Hampshire, UK doom metal trio, Witchsorrow, return with their first full-length in eight years, The Devil And All His
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