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Review: Anna von Hausswolff ‘Iconoclasts’

9th December 20259th December 2025 Lee Beamish Anna von Hausswolff, Avant-Garde, Neo Classical, Year0001

So here we are, the last remaining weeks of 2025, and just when I thought I had wrapped up my

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Review: Oslo Tapes ‘Låst Comet’

8th December 20258th December 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Avant-Garde, Experimental, Golden Robot Records, Grazil Records, Kraut, Oslo Tapes, Worst Bassist Records

Leaving aside the musical journeys undertaken by the charismatic Chieti native Marco Campitelli, aka Oslo Tapes, one cannot help but

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Review: Various Artists ‘Brown Acid – The Twenty-First Trip’

5th December 20255th December 2025 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, Psych, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

If I’m being honest, I was curious to see if LA’s always‑awesome RidingEasy Records was going to continue its iconic,

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Review: Mastiff ‘For All The Dead Dreams’ EP

4th December 20254th December 2025 Sandy Williamson Church Road Records, Hardcore, Mastiff, Sludge

Yorkshire sludge/doom/hardcore monsters Mastiff have been bulldozing their way across these grim shores for over a decade now, and hot

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Review: The Devil’s Trade ‘Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép’

2nd December 20252nd December 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Doom, Folk, Folk Doom, Pelagic Records, The Devil’s Trade

The Devil’s Trade has undoubtably been one of my favourite musical discoveries in recent years. Hungarian singer/songwriter Dávid Makó (formerly

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Review: Wino ‘Create Or Die’

1st December 20251st December 2025 Martin Williams Americana, Doom, Ripple Music, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Wino

Chances are if you’re reading this review, or The Sleeping Shaman in general, the man known as Wino needs no

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Review: The Utopia Strong ‘Doperider’

27th November 202527th November 2025 Matthew Williams Electronic, Kraut, Rocket Recordings, The Utopia Strong

When I was first introduced to The Utopia Strong by The Shaman himself, I was a bit taken aback by

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Review: Howling Giant ‘Crucible & Ruin’

26th November 202526th November 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Howling Giant, Magnetic Eye Records

The passage of time has fared very strangely this year. Whilst the news has been an exhausting deluge of relentless,

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Review: Psychonaut ‘World Maker’

24th November 202524th November 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Pelagic Records, Post-Metal, Prog Metal, Psychonaut

Life comes at you thick and fast these days. I’ve frequently talked about the volume of music that is made

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Review: Frayle ‘Heretics & Lullabies’

21st November 202521st November 2025 Lee Beamish Doom, Frayle, Gothic, Napalm Records

Having been a fan of Frayle for the last few years, when the opportunity came up recently to review the

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Review: Today Is The Day ‘Never Give In’

20th November 202520th November 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Post-Metal, SuperNova Records, Today Is The Day

’It’s a way of life and one that is necessary in these dystopian and dark days we live in. I

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