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Review: Dark Sky Burial ‘Solve Et Coagula’

1st August 20241st August 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Dark Sky Burial, Electronic, Extrinsic Recordings

For the second time this year, I find myself joining Napalm Death man Shane Embury on his continuing personal meditative

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Review: Duel ‘Breakfast With Death’

25th July 202425th July 2024 Martin Williams Duel, Heavy Metal, Heavy Psych Sounds, Stoner Rock

Admittedly, I was a bit of a latecomer to Austin, Texas’s Duel. They had been on ‘my list’ for some

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Review: Dopethrone ‘Broke Sabbath’

5th July 20245th July 2024 David J McLaren Doom, Dopethrone, Sludge, Totem Cat Records

I’ve been a fan of Electric Wizard since their Dopethrone album came out. If truth be told I had a

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Review: Diamanda Galás ‘Diamanda Galás In Concert’

1st July 20241st July 2024 Reza Mills Avant-Garde, Diamanda Galás, Intravenal Sound Operations, Neo Classical

My first encounter with Diamanda Galás was her debut album The Litanies Of Satan, one of the most harrowing listening

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Review: Drive By Wire ‘Time Horizon’

14th June 202414th June 2024 Lee Beamish Argonauta Records, Desert Rock, Drive By Wire, Stoner Rock

If ever there was a band deserving of exposure, it’s The Netherlands Drive By Wire. Criminally overlooked, the four-piece have

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Review: Djiin ‘Mirrors’

22nd May 202422nd May 2024 Matthew Williams Djiin, Klonosphere Records, Noise-Rock, Prog Rock, Psych Rock

If you are a fan of psychedelic stoner rock that is mixed with a touch of 70’s prog and has

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Review: Dragged Up ‘High On Ripple’

5th April 20245th April 2024 Reza Mills Alternative, Cruel Nature Records, Dragged Up, Garage Rock, Punk

My fellow Repeater Radio DJ Nick Hutchings, who presents the excellent Velvet Sheep Show, recently featured Dragged Up playing the

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Review: Deadpeach ‘The Cosmic Haze And the Human Race’

1st March 20241st March 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Deadpeach, Independent, Psych, Stoner Rock

‘Let me please introduce the band, a bunch of freaks from planet Earth. Now we need to destroy your city.

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Review: Disastroid ‘Garden Creatures’

22nd February 202422nd February 2024 Martin Williams Disastroid, Grunge, Heavy Psych Sounds

Even after forty years of listening to, and obsessing about, rock ‘n’ roll, I still come across a band whose

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Review: The Body & Dis Fig ‘Orchards Of A Futile Heaven’

19th February 202419th February 2024 Lee Beamish Dis Fig, Doom, Experimental, The Body, Thrill Jockey Records

Back in October of 2021 I had the absolute honour of reviewing the The Body and BIG|BRAVE collaborative album Leaving

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Review: Dark Sky Burial ‘Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum’

6th February 20246th February 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Consouling Sounds, Dark Sky Burial, Electronic, Extrinsic Recordings, Shane Embury

Two things remain constant about Shane Embury’s prolific and experimental ambient electronic project Dark Sky Burial; firstly each release is

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