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Acid Mammoth ‘Under Acid Hoof’
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Review: Acid Mammoth ‘Under Acid Hoof’

10th January 202030th January 2020 Liam Blanc Acid Mammoth, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds, Under Acid Hoof

I picked this one to review largely on the basis that I thought the band name was cool. In fact,

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Arrakis ‘Technontology Vol. 1’
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Review: Arrakis ‘Technontology Vol. 1’

30th December 201922nd January 2020 Reza Mills Arrakis, Instrumental, Self Released, Technontology Vol. 1

Ah, Greece. One of the world’s oldest civilisations that gave us literature, mathematics, philosophy and democracy. It also has a

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Adversvm ‘Dysangelion’
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Review: Adversvm ‘Dysangelion’

10th December 201920th January 2020 Francisco Javier Adversvm, Dysangelion, Funeral Doom, Moribund Records

The doom genre is currently as dense as the riffage and guitars that often prescribes the scene but there are

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A Horse Called War 'Good For Glue (And Nothing Else)'
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Review: A Horse Called War ‘Good For Glue (And Nothing Else)’

24th October 20191st November 2019 Josuph Price A Horse Called War, APF Records, Good For Glue (And Nothing Else), Review, Sludge

Listening to this reminded me of The Foul Year Of Our Lord by Charger. I got thinking about UK sludge

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Ancient Of Days 'Wretched Ones'
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Ancient Of Days ‘Wretched Ones’ EP CD/DD 2016

24th May 20167th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Ancient Of Days, CD, Digital, EP, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

Does anyone remember when bands at least seemed like they were seriously fucking dangerous? Remember that unnerving feeling of being

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Alaric ‘End Of Mirrors’
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Alaric ‘End Of Mirrors’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2016

17th May 20167th September 2019 Guido Segers 2016, Alaric, Cassette, CD, Dark, Digital, End Of Mirrors, Gothic, Guido Segers, LP, Neurot Recordings, Post-Punk, Review

Alaric is probably most known for the sacking of Rome in the fifth century. Those were dark times. The namesake

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Amenra ‘Alive’
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Amenra ‘Alive’ CD/LP 2016

5th May 201611th September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2016, Acoustic, Alive, Ambient, Amenra, CD, Consouling Sounds, Dark, Jay Hampshire, LP, Review

A spiritual successor to their 2009 Afterlife EP, Alive sees Belgium’s mysterious purveyors of post-doom/sludge Amenra once more bare their

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Aires 'Fantasma'
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Aires ‘Fantasma’ DD 2015

30th March 201611th September 2019 Jorge Miguel 2015, Aires, Brutal Panda Records, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Fantasma, Jorge Miguel, Review, Soundscapes

Aires is a Portuguese musician/sound artist who creates haunting yet awe-inspiring drone. If you visit his label’s bandcamp page you

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Agoraphobic Nosebleed ‘Arc’
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed ‘Arc’ CD/LP/DD 2016

10th March 201613th September 2019 Jon Weatherill 2016, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Arc, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Jon Weatherill, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

Whatever you made of a certain Mr Phil Anselmo’s recent on-stage outburst, we should be proud of the fact that

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Årabrot 'The Gospel'
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Årabrot ‘The Gospel’ CD/LP/DD 2016

22nd February 20161st November 2019 Pete Green 2016, Årabrot, Avant-Garde, CD, Digital, Experimental, Fysisk Format, LP, Noise-Rock, Pete Green, Review, The Gospel

As the majority stride onwards into 2016, recent weeks have brought us music lovers unprecedented waves of pain as we

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Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell 'Isobelle' 7”
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Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell ‘Isobelle’ 7” 2016

14th February 20161st November 2019 Ollie Stygall 2016, 7", Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Classic Rock, Heavy Rock, Isobelle, Ollie Stygall, Review, Rise Above Records

It’s impossible not to love Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. It doesn’t matter that these two tracks sound like a lost

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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