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In The Company Of Serpents ‘Lux’
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Review: In The Company Of Serpents ‘Lux’

14th May 202017th June 2020 Lee Beamish Doom, In the Company Of Serpents, Independent, Lux, Sludge

Lux, by In The Company Of Serpents isn’t your standard sludgy, doom ladened, stoner fayre, it’s so much more than

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Insect Ark 'The Vanishing'
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Review: Insect Ark ‘The Vanishing’

11th March 20209th April 2020 Ian M Drone, Experimental, Insect Ark, Profound Lore Records, The Vanishing

Insect Ark are a project of multi-instrumentalist Dana Schechter of Bee and Flower who has played with such luminaries as

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Ihsahn ‘Telemark’
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Review: Ihsahn ‘Telemark’

12th February 202020th March 2020 Reza Mills Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Emperor, Ihsahn, Prog Metal, Telemark

For those you who don’t follow Black Metal or who are not fans of it, the name Ihsahn probably means

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Inerth ‘Inerth’ EP
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Review: Inerth ‘Inerth’

5th December 201912th December 2019 Josuph Price Death Metal, Doom, Industrial, Inerth, Living Dead Society

The last song on Inerth’s self-titled four-track EP is a cover of Wardance by Killing Joke. If you don’t know

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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik 'Skuggsjá'
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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik ‘Skuggsjá’ CD/LP/DD 2016

29th March 201611th September 2019 Will Beattie 2016, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Einar Selvik, Folk, Ivar Bjørnson, LP, Norse, Review, Seasons Of Mist, Skuggsjá, Will Beattie

Forget the church burnings, the murders, that kvlt feeling when you hold your original pressing of Bathory’s ‘The Yellow Goat’

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Iron Void ‘Doomsday’ CD/DD 2015

18th September 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Doomanoid Records, Doomsday, Iron Void, Metal, Review, Sandy Williamson, Traditional Doom

Doom is an extraordinary, multifaceted genre of metal. Here, musicians and heavy music alchemists have stretched and strained the genre’s

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Ironsword ‘None But The Brave’ CD/LP/DD 2015

7th July 20153rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2015, Alex Varley, CD, Digital, Ironsword, LP, Metal, None But The Brave, NWOBHM, Review, Shadow Kingdom Records

Epic sounding heavy metal is as victorious in 2015 as it has ever been with more bands than can be

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Iced Out ‘Man’s Ruin’ CDEP/DD 2015

16th May 20152nd September 2019 Pete Green 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Iced Out, Man’s Ruin, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, Witch Hunter Records

It is with a tear in my eye that I begin to pen this review. Witch Hunter Records, the one-man

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Iron Void – S/T – CD/DD 2014

27th October 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, Barbarian Wrath Records, CD, Digital, Doom, Iron Void, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Titled, Traditional Doom

With a name featuring the words “iron” and “void” (and bugger all else), a record label who’s mantra reads “Proudly

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Itchy-O ‘Burn The Navigator’ CD/LP/DD 2014

17th October 20143rd September 2019 John Reppion 2014, Alternative Tentacles, Burn The Navigator, CD, Digital, Experimental, Itchy-O, Itchy-O Marching Band, John Reppion, LP, Marching Band, Review

Itchy-O are a thirty-two piece (yes, you read that correctly; thirty-two) Denver-based, percussion-centred electronic marching-band. Their faces hidden behind black,

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Ides Of Gemini ‘Old World New Wave’ CD/LP/DD 2014

15th September 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Ides Of Gemini, LP, Neurot Recordings, Old World New Wave, Review, Sandy Williamson, Sige Records

Ides Of Gemini graced the world with their presence a few years back with the graceful and magical Constantinople record.

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