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Electric Wizard ‘Black Masses’ CD/LP 2010

7th January 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2010, Black Masses, CD, Doom, Electric Wizard, Heavy, LP, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Rise Above Records, Stoner Doom

By the time this review hits the shaman, it would have been two months since the release of the last

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Earth ‘A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction’ CD/LP 2010

10th November 201017th December 2025 Paul Robertson 2010, A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction, CD, Doom, Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Experimental, Instrumental, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, Southern Lord, Sub Pop Records

Look, there’s no easy, tactful way to put this, so I’ll just come out with it. If you don’t own

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Electric Red ‘In This Machine’ CD 2010

28th August 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, Buzzville Records, CD, Electric Red, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review

When Electric Red came under my radar in early 2009 with a three track demo, “Ion” claiming to have recorded

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Electrozombies / Hellborn Messiah – Split CD 2009

13th November 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, Blackened Crust, CD, Crust, Doom, Electrozombies, Electrozombies/Hellborn Messiah, Hardcore, Hellborn Messiah, Odio Sonoro, Review, Split, Split CD

Shock! Horror! Latin America quakes with the old-skool power of blackened CRUST. After seeing these foul and heavy skull fuckers

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Earthless ‘Live At Roadburn’ CD/LP 2008

14th August 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Earthless, Live At Roadburn, LP, Psychedelic, Review, Roadburn, Space Rock, Stoner Jam, Tee Pee Records

I had the very good fortune of seeing San Diego’s lysergic masters of the extended super-jam reality, Earthless, on their

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Elder – S/T – CD/LP 2009

13th August 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, CD, Doom, Electric Earth, Heavy, LP, Meteor City, Review, Stoner Doom

Riffs. Everywhere. Gigantic thick distorted riffs. Help me mother, the riffs are here, and they want fresh plasma and bone

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Evisorax ‘Enclave’ CDEP 2008

8th March 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Anticulture Records, Brutal, CDEP, Death Grind, Enclave, Evisorax, Grindcore, Review

Is it just me or does anyone else break out in an anxious sweat when the subject of modern day

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Electric Red ‘Ion’ CDEP 2008

16th January 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Electric Red, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review, Self Released

The note I got with this release from Belfast based unit claims they’ve only been around for about six months

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Ehnahre ‘The Man Closing Up’ CD 2008

15th September 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Atmospheric, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Ehnahre, Jazz Fusion, Post-Rock, Review, Sound Devastation Records, The Man Closing Up

Here we have a new collective from Boston’s musical underbelly (formed from ex-members of Kayo Dot and Forefedglass amongst others)

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Esoteric ‘The Maniacal Vale’ CD 2008

18th August 20083rd September 2019 Lewis Hunter 2008, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Esoteric, Funeral Doom, Lewis Hunter, Review, Season Of Mist, The Maniacal Vale

Well, it’s long overdue, I’ll give you that. No, not my return to reviewing albums… Esoteric’s new album, The Maniacal

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Electric Wizard ‘Witchcult Today’ CD/LP 2007

21st November 20076th September 2019 Lewis Hunter 2007, CD, Doom, Electric Wizard, Lewis Hunter, LP, Psych, Review, Rise Above Records

When a band as formidable within the stoner doom circuit as Electric Wizard release a new album, people familiar with

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