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Melt 'All The Joy, All The Pain' EP
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Review: Melt ‘All The Joy, All The Pain’ EP

28th July 20219th September 2021 Lee Beamish Alternative, Melt, Rock

It’s been just over a year since dark alternative band Melt unleashed their second album, The Secret Teaching Of Sorrow

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Bis·Nte & Milana ‘Mallorca Stoner Vol.1’
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Review: Bis·Nte & Milana ‘Mallorca Stoner Vol.1’ EP

26th July 20219th September 2021 Dani Bandolier Bis·Nte, Black Night Productions, Burial Records, Discos Macarras Records, Hecatombe Records, Metalway Records, Milana

Mates, my mind wanders … and lately I have been caught in waking dreams of the Iberian Peninsula and the

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Malvost 'Oljud'
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Review: Malvost ‘Oljud’

19th July 20219th September 2021 Spencer Reid Ambient, Drone, Malvost, Trepanation Recordings

The Book Of Lamentations sees the destruction of Jerusalem as an act of Gods hand, due to the sins of

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Merlin Vs Wizzerd ‘Turned to Stone Chapter III’
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Review: Merlin Vs Wizzerd ‘Turned to Stone Chapter III’

15th July 20219th September 2021 Liam Blanc Merlin, Prog, Ripple Music, Turned To Stone, Wizzerd

I’m guessing it’s because of the pandemic, but it’s over a year since the last instalment of Ripple’s Turned To

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Musk Ox ‘Inheritance’
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Review: Musk Ox ‘Inheritance’

14th July 20211st June 2022 Jamie Grimes Folk, Independent, Musk Ox, Neo Classical

Timing is a weird thing with record releases. It seems like a miscalculation for Musk Ox to release Inheritance in

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Mental Cavity ‘Mass Rebel Infest’
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Review: Mental Cavity ‘Mass Rebel Infest’

10th June 202121st July 2021 Reza Mills Creator-Destructor Records, Hardcore Metal, Mental Cavity

Mass Rebel Infest is the third full-length album for Canberra four-piece Mental Cavity and their first on Creator-Destructor Records and

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Mountain Of Smoke ‘Gods of Biomechanics V1.5’
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Review: Mountain Of Smoke ‘Gods of Biomechanics V1.5’

7th June 20217th July 2021 Mark Hunt-Bryden Industrial, Mountain Of Smoke, Seeing Red Records, Sludge

I’ll get my confession out of the way now and it’s two fold. Firstly, I’m a huge Blade Runner fan,

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Monstruwacan ‘Mourn At The Grindstone’
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Review: Monstruwacan ‘Mourn At The Grindstone’

31st May 20217th July 2021 Will J Doom, Drone, Independent, Monstruwacan

For the most part drone music tends to embody certain aesthetic characteristics that make it a rather oblique and metaphysical

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Sigillum S | Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte 'Blues And Doped Flowers From Twenty Three Years After Eschaton'
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Review: Sigillum S | Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte ‘Blues And Doped Flowers From Twenty Three Years After Eschaton’

25th May 202130th June 2021 Reza Mills Dark Jazz, Experimental, Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte, Sigillum S, Subsound Records

The title of this collaboration between Sigillum S and Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte hardly rolls off the tongue, and ‘eschaton’

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Monster Magnet 'A Better Dystopia'
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Review: Monster Magnet ‘A Better Dystopia’

24th May 202130th June 2021 Martin Williams Heavy Rock, Monster Magnet, Napalm Records, Space Rock

Full disclosure: Monster Magnet are one of my all-time favorite bands. They’ve been in my periphery since 1994. I’d heard

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Gridfailure Featuring Mac Gollehon ‘Dismemberment Cabaret’
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Review: Gridfailure Featuring Mac Gollehon ‘Dismemberment Cabaret’

17th May 202118th June 2021 Reza Mills Experimental, Gridfailure, Mac Gollehon, Nefarious Industries, Noise

To say David Brenner has a prolific work rate would be something of an understatement, it’s at Mike Patton levels

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