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Intensive Care + The Body 'Was I Good Enough?' Artwork
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Review: Intensive Care + The Body ‘Was I Good Enough?’

8th May 20258th May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Industrial, Intensive Care, The Body

It’s been roughly a decade since I last wrote about a release from experimental Portland metal duo The Body. Back

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Iggor Cavalera/Shane Embury 'Neon Gods/Own Your Darkness' Artwork
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Review: Iggor Cavalera/Shane Embury ‘Neon Gods/Own Your Darkness’

27th March 202527th March 2025 Reza Mills Ambient, Cold Spring Records, Electronic, Iggor Cavalera, Industrial, Shane Embury

Even someone like me, who isn’t predominantly a ‘metalhead’, recognises the legendary names on this split release. On the off

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Review: i Häxa ‘i Häxa’

31st October 202431st October 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Electronic, i Häxa, Neo Folk, Pelagic Records

This has truly felt like Schrödinger’s year, simultaneously dragging on forever in the moment yet somehow here we are with

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Review: i Häxa ‘Part Three’ EP

6th September 20246th September 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Electronic, i Häxa, Neo Folk, Pelagic Records

Personally, this year has passed with a surreal sense of time; on the one hand, it seems like an age

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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Water Music’

4th September 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ambient, Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Riot Season

The experimental, free-jazz-oriented album Vertigo from Middlesbrough’s eclectic multi-instrumentalist Oli Heffernan, released under the moniker of Ivan The Tolerable Quintet,

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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Vertigo’

22nd August 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Kraut, Riot Season

The musical journey of Oli Heffernan, the experimental multi-instrumentalist from Middlesbrough, UK who performs under the moniker Ivan The Tolerable,

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Review: Intolerance ‘Waking Nightmares Of An Endless Void’

5th August 20245th August 2024 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Godz Ov War, Intolerance, Memento Mori

Zaragoza, Spain’s Intolerance are back with a brand new record Waking Nightmares Of An Endless Void two years after their

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i Häxa 'Part Two' Artwork
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Review: i Häxa ‘Part Two’ EP

5th June 20245th June 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, i Häxa, Neo Folk, Pelagic Records

Back in March Rebecca Need-Menear (one part of alt-rock combo Anavae) and Peter Miles (Architects, Dodie, Fizz) released the first

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Geezer & Isaak 'Interstellar Cosmic Blues & The Riffalicious Stoner Dudes' Artwork
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Review: Geezer & Isaak ‘Interstellar Cosmic Blues & The Riffalicious Stoner Dudes’

3rd June 20243rd June 2024 Liam Blanc Geezer, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Isaak, Stoner Rock

The good people at Heavy Psych Sounds in Rome are busy folk, so it’s entirely possible that I just missed

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Review: Inter Arma ‘New Heaven’

17th May 202417th May 2024 Ben Brackin Black Metal, Doom, Inter Arma, Prog Metal, Relapse Records, Sludge

After a long five years, the five-piece out of Richmond, Virginia known as Inter Arma has returned. This is one

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Review: i Häxa ‘Part One’ EP

18th March 202418th March 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, i Häxa, Neo Folk, Pelagic Records

Another week and another release from the relentless machine that is Pelagic Records. This time it’s in the form of

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