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Review: Coltaine ‘Brandung’

22nd January 202622nd January 2026 Matthew Williams Coltaine, Lay Bare Recordings, Post-Metal

There are many bands that gain inspiration from their surroundings, some of which spawn a whole scene, I’m thinking of

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Review: Cathedral ‘Society’s Pact With Satan’

19th November 202519th November 2025 Sandy Williamson Cathedral, Doom, Rise Above Records

When I first heard about a new release from departed British doom legends Cathedral was coming out, I was initially

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Review: Cosmic Reaper ‘Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned’

27th October 202527th October 2025 Rob Walsh Cosmic Reaper, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds

North Carolina’s Cosmic Reaper have returned to reap the unworthy, the pitiful, the uncool… You know who you are! And

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Review: Castle Rat ‘The Bestiary’

15th October 202515th October 2025 Renzo Blues Funeral Recordings, Castle Rat, Doom, Heavy Metal, King Volume Records

The dance of the beasts. Castle Rat‘s second full-length album, The Bestiary, is their most ambitious and realised work yet,

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Review: Cwfen ‘Sorrows’

31st July 202531st July 2025 Lee Beamish Cwfen, Doomgaze, Gothic, New Heavy Sounds

Sometimes a band will come along, and without knowing anything about them, you will just have a gut instinct that

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Review: Cosmic Garden Project ‘Red Sand Blue Soil’

3rd July 20253rd July 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Cosmic Garden Project, Green Street Records, Psych, Sound Effect Records

Have you ever been completely swept away by listening to a record or a particular song? It’s a unique feeling,

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Review: Crystal Spiders ‘Metanoia’

10th June 202510th June 2025 Lee Beamish Crystal Spiders, Doom, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music

Crystal Spiders are back baby!! And this time there’s more of them. One of North Carolina’s premier hard rocking monoliths

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Review: Clamfight ‘Clamfight’

13th May 202514th May 2025 Matthew Williams Clamfight, Doom, Independent, Metal, Sludge

You are welcomed into the fourth album from New Jersey/Philadelphia band Clamfight, with a gentle and calming introduction, a beat

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Review: Conan ‘Violence Dimension’

13th May 202513th May 2025 David J McLaren Conan, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds, Sludge

What could make a new Conan album an even more attractive proposition? Is it a) the inclusion of an exclusive

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Review: Cowards ‘God Hates Cowards’

13th March 202513th March 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Bloody Sound, Cowards, Noise-Rock

The slow, dark, heavy and at times shoegaze musical storm that pervades the nine tracks of God Hates Cowards, the

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Review: Cassels ‘Tracked In Mud’

5th March 20255th March 2025 Lee Edwards Cassels, Human Worth, Noise-Rock, Post-Hardcore

Cassels originally hailed from Oxford (home to one of the country’s top universities, a grumpy detective who goes by the

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