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Review: Lowrider ‘Ode To Io’ [25th Anniversary Reissue]

8th October 20258th October 2025 Lee Beamish Blues Funeral Recordings, Lowrider, Stoner

In all my time of loving heavy music, if ever there was a band I wished I had known about

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Review: Leonov ‘Shape Of Ash’ EP

10th September 202510th September 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Doomgaze, Leonov, Pelagic Records, Post-Metal

As the UK basked in the summer heat (or cowered indoors depending on your affinity with the fiery ball in

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Review: Lorquin’s Admiral ‘Lorquin’s Admiral’

4th August 20254th August 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Argonauta Records, Desert Rock, Hermano, Lorquin's Admiral, Sons Of Alpha Centauri

Speaking to Nick Hannon, one half of the creative drive behind Kent’s acclaimed, (mostly) instrumental post-rock maestros Sons Of Alpha

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Review: Lo-Pan ‘Get Well Soon’

15th April 202515th April 2025 El Jefe Heavy Rock, Lo-Pan, Magnetic Eye Records

I have to say, I really dig bands who just don’t fit into any particular genre. Sounds and styles that

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Review: Love Your Witch ‘Witches Burn Alive’

21st January 202521st January 2025 Lee Beamish Heavy Metal, Independent, Love Your Witch, Stoner

Whenever I get handed a live album, I’m always a bit sceptical. While on paper they sound like a good

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Review: Elephant Tree & Lowrider ‘The Long Forever’

30th October 20242nd June 2025 Matthew Williams Blues Funeral Recordings, Elephant Tree, Lowrider, Post-Rock, Stoner

A thundering, pounding bass line kicks off the seven-song split album from Elephant Tree and Lowrider, and I must admit,

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Review: Louse ‘Creep Call’

28th October 202428th October 2024 Martin Williams Louse, Noise-Rock, Riot Season, Scum Rock

In the single-note riff-bludgeon department comes Creep Call, the debut album from Newcastle upon Tyne’s Louse, who share both members,

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Review: Leila Abdul-Rauf ‘Calls From A Seething Edge’

22nd October 202422nd October 2024 Will J Ambient, Cyclic Law, Drone, Folk, Leila Abdul-Rauf, Syrup Moose Records

Although perhaps best known for her work in the death metal sphere, Leila Abdul-Rauf has actually been crafting a sonically

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Review: Legends Of The Desert: Volume 4 – Eagle Twin & The Otolith

10th October 202410th October 2024 Harry Holmes Desert Records, Doom, Eagle Twin, Legends Of The Desert, The Otolith

With the Legends Of The Desert series the fine people of Desert Records have set about pulling together split releases

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Review: Lowen ‘Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran’

8th October 20248th October 2024 Matthew Williams Church Road Records, Doom, Heavy Metal, Lowen

This was one of those releases that really intrigued me, so I grabbed the opportunity to review Do Not Go

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Review: LizZard ‘Mesh’

2nd October 20242nd October 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Alternative, Lizzard, Pelagic Records

Pelagic Records have a mission statement to release twenty albums a year of high-quality post-rock from artists they like and

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