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A Storm Of Light ‘Nations To Flames’ LP/CD/DD 2013

26th October 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, A Storm Of Light, CD, Digital, Heavy, James Parker, LP, Metal, Nations To Flames, Post-Rock, Review, Southern Lord

Neurosis’ ex-visual artist and former Red Sparowes man Josh Graham has said that he was aiming for a challenging, heavy

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Ak’chamel ‘Pus Ch’en’ DD 2013

26th September 20133rd September 2019 Sean Filkins 2013, Ak'chamel, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Noise, Pus Ch'en, Review, Sean Filkins, Self Released

If the jungle was given voice, Ak’chamel has successfully channelled it through their music. Suddenly and irreversibly, it is one

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All Pigs Must Die ‘Nothing Violates This Nature’ CD/LP 2013

8th September 20133rd September 2019 Guy Nolan 2013, All Pigs Must Die, CD, Crust, Death Metal, Grindcore, Guy Nolan, LP, Nothing Violates This Nature, Review, Southern Lord

All Pigs Must Die have a history for a band that is as good as it gets and on previous

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American Sharks – S/T – CD/LP 2013

6th September 20133rd September 2019 Sean Filkins 2013, American Sharks, CD, Heavy Rock, LP, Punk Rock, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Sean Filkins, Self Titled, The End Records

American Sharks came blasting out of my speakers for the first time with an unexpected reckless fury that I welcomed

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Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno ‘Doobie Wonderland’ CD/DD 2013

4th September 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Acid Mothers Temple, Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Alex Varley, CD, Digital, Doobie Wonderland, Improv, Kawabata Makoto, Kraut, Parallax Sounds, Psych, Review, Space Rock

Acid Mothers Temple and its many, many offshoots have being challenging underground psychedelia for some years now. Formed in 1995

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Autopsy ‘The Headless Ritual’ LP/CD/DD 2013

25th July 20133rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2013, Autopsy, CD, Death Doom, Death Metal, Digital, LP, Peaceville Records, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, The Headless Ritual

I think it’s only fair to admit that this review is heavily biased. There is no attempt to engage in

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Ape Skull – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

5th July 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Ape Skull, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, LP, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Self Titled

As music technology progresses at an alarming rate and any old Tom, Dick and Harry can be thrown into a

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Across Tundras ‘Electric Relics’ LP/DD 2013

3rd July 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Across Tundras, Americana, Atmospheric, Country, Desert Rock, Digital, Electric Relics, Heavy Rock, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released

Fresh from the open prairie, old world wanderer Tanner Olson and his world-weary ragged band have ridden back into town

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Ape Machine ‘Mangled By The Machine’ CD/LP/DD 2013

18th June 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Ape Machine, Blues, CD, Classic Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Mangled By The Machine, Ollie Stygall, Retro, Review, Ripple Music

“There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” Sorry for hitting you with some Shakespeare in

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Age Of Taurus ‘Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times’ CD/LP/DD 2013

30th May 20133rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2013, Age Of Taurus, CD, Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times, Digital, Doom, Heavy Metal, LP, Metal Blade Records, NWOBHM, Review, Rise Above Records, Saúl Do Caixão

The words “hotly anticipated” do not even come close to summing up how I have been salivating to hear this

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Author & Punisher ‘Women & Children’ CD/DD 2013

8th May 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Author & Punisher, CD, Digital, Doom, Dub, Heavy, Industrial, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Seventh Rule Recordings, Tristan Shone, Women & Children

Any release from Tristan Shone’s long running Author & Punisher project is an event in my house. Ever since I

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