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Ghast ‘Dread Doom Ruin’ CD/DD 2014

26th December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Atmospheric, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Doom, Dread Doom Ruin, Ghast, Paul Robertson, Review, Todestrieb Records

Crawling from their fetid nest in darkest Swansea, outlying the blighted Monmouthshire landscape claimed by Machen and Howard as home

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Grizzlor ‘When You Die’ 7″/DD 2014

24th December 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, 7", Digital, Grizzlor, Grunge, Heavy, Money Fire Records, Noise-Rock, Review, Tom McKibbin, When You Die

Let me tell you a little secret about me; if you tell me you play grungey noise rock, you’ve got

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Giant Squid ‘Minoans’ CD/DD 2014

14th November 20143rd September 2019 Jason Hough 2014, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Experimental, Giant Squid, Heavy, Jason Hough, Minoans, Review, Translation Loss Records

Much like their namesake, the mysterious and somewhat elusive collective known as Giant Squid, strike from the depths once again

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Godflesh ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’ CD/LP/DD 2014

13th October 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, A World Lit Only By Fire, Avalanche Recordings, CD, Digital, GC Green, Godflesh, Heavy, Industrial, Justin K Broadrick, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review

It literally seems like a life time ago that I was a first day buyer for Godflesh‘s last appearance, the

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Goat ‘Commune’ CD/LP/DD 2014

30th September 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, CD, Commune, Dave Bowes, Digital, Experimental, Goat, LP, Psych, Review, Rocket Recordings

In most senses of the word, Goat are no longer a band – they are a phenomenon. The anonymous collective

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Godhunter / Secrets Of The Sky ‘GH/0ST:S’ LP/DD 2014

16th September 20143rd September 2019 Tal Fineman 2014, Atmospheric, Battleground Records, Digital, Doom, GH/0ST:S, Godhunter, Heavy, LP, Review, Secrets Of The Sky, Sludge, Tal Fineman, The Compound

The concept of the GH/0ST:S split dates back to Godhunter and Secrets Of The Sky’s recent Southwest US tour, during which

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Guardian Alien / The Cosmic Dead ‘Tunnel Channel Volume One’ LP 2014

1st September 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Dave Bowes, Experimental, Guardian Alien, Instructional Media, Kraut, LP, Psych, Review, The Cosmic Dead, Tunnel Channel Volume One

While I’ve always been somewhat in tune with the strange brainwaves that The Cosmic Dead live out their myriad existences

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Grass On The Sun – S/T – DD 2014

27th August 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Alternative, Digital, Grass On The Sun, Jeremy Moore, Review, Rock, Self Released, Self Titled, Shoegaze

The Reid brothers would be proud. Massa, Italy’s up and coming drug-induced duo, Grass On The Sun, tread the Jesus

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Greenhorn ‘Doomhawk’ CD/DD 2014

13th August 20142nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2014, CD, Digital, Doom, Doomhawk, Greenhorn, Heavy, Hibernacula Records, Review, Sludge, Will Beattie

Metal should never take itself too seriously. Sure, it’s good to be ‘brutal,’ but usually behind all the heaviness is

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Gog – S/T – LP 2014

29th July 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Ambient, Atmospheric, Black Metal, Drone, Experimental, Gog, King Of The Monsters Records, LP, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review

Spaced-out, ominous and blacker-than-black, one-man event horizon expolaration unit Gog has been cracking open our soft fragile eggshell minds for

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Grifter ‘The Return Of The Bearded Brethren’ CD/LP/DD 2014

2nd July 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Grifter, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Ripple Music, Rock 'n' Roll, The Return Of The Bearded Brethren

Music gets a lot of baggage attached these days; but truly great, timeless music always has the weight of conviction

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