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Review: Hey Colossus ‘Heaven Was Wild’

18th March 202618th March 2026 Martin Williams Hey Colossus, Learning Curve Records, Noise-Rock, Post-Punk, Wrong Speed Records

Hey Colossus, the long-running, prolific, UK heavy noise-rockers return with album number fifteen, Heaven Was Wild, which, in the crazy

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Review: Hermano ‘Clisson, France’

17th March 202617th March 2026 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Hermano, Ripple Music

As someone who names John Garcia amongst his top three vocalists, Hermano have always been a project of supreme cool.

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Review: Helicon X Al Lover ‘Arise’

17th February 202617th February 2026 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Al Lover, Electronic, Fuzz Club Records, Helicon, Psych

Formed in 2009 by brothers John-Paul Hughes and Gary Hughes, both on guitar/vocals, Helicon is a fascinating psych rock collective

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Review: Homegrown ‘Homegrown’

20th January 202620th January 2026 Rob Walsh Homegrown, Instrumental, Majestic Mountain Records, Psych

Homegrown… in our circle, it generally means two things. One is a local act, the other is local devil’s lettuce.

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Review: Howling Giant ‘Crucible & Ruin’

26th November 202526th November 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Howling Giant, Magnetic Eye Records

The passage of time has fared very strangely this year. Whilst the news has been an exhausting deluge of relentless,

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Review: HÖG ‘BLACKHOLE’

16th September 202527th December 2025 Martin Williams HÖG, Proto-Metal, RidingEasy Records

Now, HERE is a sound that I can completely get behind. HÖG, hailing from Portland, via Central Valley, California, have

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Review: Hebi Katana ‘Imperfection’

9th September 20259th September 2025 Matthew Williams Doom, Heavy Rock, Hebi Katana, Proto-Metal, Ripple Music

Since joining the roster of writers for The Sleeping Shaman, I’ve had my musical mind opened to a wide range

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Review: Holy Scum ‘All We Have Is Never’

19th August 202519th August 2025 Martin Williams Experimental, Holy Scum, Industrial, Noise, Rocket Recordings

Just as I found myself wondering when, or if, I’d hear another record from Holy Scum, the Manchester-area collective spearheaded

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Review: Hiroe ‘Wield’

15th August 202515th August 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Hiroe, Instrumental, Pelagic Records, Post-Rock

Relative newcomers to the instrumental post-rock scene, Philadelphia based quintet Hiroe (pronounced Hero-way) have taken form from the ashes of

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Review: Hexvessel ‘Nocturne’

7th August 20257th August 2025 Reza Mills Black Metal, Folk, Hexvessel, Prophecy Productions

Mat ‘Kvohst’ McNerney has been a constant since the early days of my Shaman writing career when I covered Hexvessel‘s

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Review: Hippie Death Cult ‘Live At The Star Theater’

16th June 202516th June 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Psych Sounds, Hippie Death Cult, Psych, Stoner

I was trying to explain the exhilaration I get from seeing live music recently. The majority of the time, I

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