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Melvins ‘Everybody Loves Sausages’ CD/LP/DD 2013

2nd April 20133rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão (the) Melvins, CD, Covers, Digital, Everybody Loves Sausages, Ipecac Recordings, LP, Melvins, Melvins Lite, Noise-Rock, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Saúl Do Caixão

Ask several discerning Melvins fans which of the group’s two dozen (well, something like that, I’ve lost count!) albums they

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Mothership – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

1st March 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Classic Rock, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mothership, Review, Ripple Music, Self Titled

Some people enter into music trying to be the next big thing, have the next zeitgeist idea that will flip

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Moghul ‘Dead Empires’ LP/DD 2013

12th February 20133rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2013, Dead Empires, Devizes Records, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Moghul, Review, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Good old Scruffy Murphys. Anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting the inconspicuous Birmingham venue in the last few

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Mirbeau ‘Silence And Blue Notes’ CS/DD 2012

7th February 20133rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Americana, Atmospheric, Cassette, Digital, Eidetic Seeing, Folk, Improv, Mirbeau, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Self Released, Silence And Blue Notes

It would be remiss of us at The Shaman to only regale you with tales of the good and bad

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MONO ‘For My Parents’ CD/LP 2012

15th January 20133rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Atmospheric, CD, Classical, For My Parents, LP, Mono, Orchestral, Post-Rock, Review, Temporary Residence Limited, Tom McKibbin

I’ve always been a massive video game nerd and the aspect of a game that will often make or break

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Mage ‘Black Sands’ CD/DD 2012

8th January 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, Black Sands, CD, Digital, Doom, Mage, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released

Mage’s debut EP in 2011 was a tantalising taste of things to come for the band, muscular riffs and raw

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Mugstar ‘Axis’ CD/LP/DD 2012

7th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Agitated Records, Atmospheric, Axis, CD, Digital, Experimental, Jamie Grimes, LP, Mugstar, Psychedelic, Review, Space Rock

I believe it was extravagantly hatted jazz-funk troubadours Jamiroquai who thought to name one of their albums “Travelling Without Moving”.

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Mother Of God ‘Anthropos’ CD/DD 2013

30th November 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, Anthropos, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Grunge, Heavy Rock, Mother Of God, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records

Hot on the heels of bands such as Graveyard, Witchcraft and Horisont Sweden throws up yet another retrogressive bunch of

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Mala Suerte / Uzala – Split 7″ 2012

20th November 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Doom, Fuzz, Heavy, King Of The Monsters Records, Mala Suerte, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Split 7", Uzala

Every now and then I encounter someone with the tenacity to claim they “don’t like splits”. Said people can frankly

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MAKE ‘Trephine’ CD/LP/DD 2012

13th November 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Black Iron Records, CD, Devouter Records, Digital, Doom, LP, Make, Paul Robertson, Post-Rock, Psychedelic, Review, Trephine

It’s an odd name isn’t it, MAKE? I mean, you know roughly what you’re getting into when a band is

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Mamiffer / Pyramids – Split LP/DD 2012

25th October 20123rd September 2019 George Leeming 2012, Ambient, Atmospheric, Digital, Drone, George Leeming, Hydra Head Records, LP, Mamiffer, Mamiffer & Pyramids Split, Post-Rock, Pyramids

I certainly won’t be the first or the last to comment with a heavy heart on the imminent demise of

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