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Nonsun ‘Good Old Evil’ Demo 2012

16th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Demo, Digital, Doom, Drone, Good Old Evil, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Nonsun, Review, Self Released

I would imagine the two members behind the new Ukrainian duo Nonsun have a love of various different orbits of

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Nightstick ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Weymouth’ CD/LP 2012

31st October 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, At War With False Noise, CD, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, LP, Nightstick, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Rock N Roll Weymouth, Sludge

Nightstick. Nightstick, Nightstick, Nightstick. Remember them? Of course you do – three piece? Featured ex-Siege drummer Robert Williams? Did three

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Neurosis ‘Honor Found In Decay’ CD/LP/DD 2012

19th October 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Doom, Folk, Heavy, Honor Found In Decay, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Post-Hardcore, Relapse Records

Steve Von Til was quoted recently as saying, ‘Stagnation is death’ and this is a tenement that Oakland based avant

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Nihill ‘Verdonkermaan’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2012

17th September 20123rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2012, Atmospheric, Black Metal, Cassette, CD, Chris Moore, Digital, Hydra Head Records, LP, Nihill, Review, Verdonkermaan

A rare foray into black metal territory for Hydra Head, a label which – to be fair – is by

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Nether Regions ‘Into The Breach’ LP/DD 2012

18th August 20123rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2012, Abnormal Gait Records, Andrew Sloan, Digital, Heavy, Into The Breach, LP, Metal, Nether Regions, Review, Sludge

It plummeted out of the sky, a screech like grinding metal with a thousand teeth to write their name into

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Necro Deathmort ‘The Colonial Script’ CD/Digital 2012

14th August 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Avant-Garde, CD, Dark, Digital, Distraction Records, Experimental, Heavy, Necro Deathmort, Pete Green, Review, The Colonial Script

With a name that can be translated as ‘Death Death Death’, you know from the off that this will not

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Noothgrush / Suppression – Split 5″ 2012

27th July 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Doom, Fuck Yoga Records, Grindcore, Noothgrush, Power Violence, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Sludge, Split 5", Suppression

With the multitude of labels and bands sprouting up around the world, it’s easy to forget that slow was once

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Nightstalker ‘Dead Rock Commandos’ CD/DD 2012

23rd July 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CD, Dead Rock Commandos, Digital, Fuzz, Nightstalker, Ollie Stygall, Psychedelic, Review, Small Stone Records

Greece may well be on the bones of its arse financially but it seems like they have some serious rock

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Nate Hall ‘A Great River’ CD/Digital 2012

21st June 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, A Great River, Acoustic, Atmospheric, Blues, CD, Digital, Folk, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Nate Hall, Neurot Recordings, Review, USX

Understandably heavily associated with its founding members bands Neurosis and Tribe Of Neurot, Neurot Recordings has quietly (well maybe not

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Natur ‘Head Of Death’ CD 2012

18th May 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Earache Records, Head Of Death, Heavy Metal, Natur, NWOBHM, Review, Thrash Metal

It’s satisfying to know that over the past couple of years traditional heavy metal has been re-valued by the mainstream

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No Anchor ‘Rope/Pussyfootin’ 7″/Digital EP 2012

11th April 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, 7", Alternative, Digital EP, No Anchor, Noise-Rock, Punk, Pussyfootin, Review, Rope, Rope/Pussyfootin, Self Released, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Brisbane’s No Anchor, self proclaimed purveyors of “harshed-out sludge”, whose 2011 album Real Pain Supernova was a surprising amalgamation of

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