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Ommadon 'Empathy For The Wicked'
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Ommadon ‘Empathy For The Wicked’ LP/DD 2015

17th November 20154th November 2019 Jeremy Moore 2015, Digital, Doom, Drone, Empathy For The Wicked, Golden Mantra, Heavy, Jeremy Moore, LP, Ommadon, Review

I wish I could say it was due to some unheralded gift for clairvoyance that I could predict what Ommadon’s

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Opium Lord ‘The Calendrical Cycle: Eye Of Earth’ CD/LP/DD 2015

16th September 20153rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2015, Candlelight Records, CD, Digital, Doom, Dry Cough Records, Heavy, LP, Opium Lord, Review, Sludge, The Calendrical Cycle: Eye Of Earth, Tom McKibbin

Birmingham’s Opium Lord have had a kind of fast-track experience since forming just a few years ago. Their first EP

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Odota ‘Fever Marshall’ DD 2014

22nd February 20152nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, Black Metal, Digital, Fever Marshall, Guido Segers, Industrial, Jarmo Nuutre, Odota, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Jarmo Nuutre is a peculiar figure. A graphic designer, car fanatic, tattoo artist and a lover of all things sludge

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Owl ‘The Last Walk’ DD 2014

14th January 20153rd September 2019 Ashlinn Nash 2014, Ambient, Ashlinn Nash, Avant-Garde, Digital, Doom, Owl, Review, The Last Walk, Zeitgeister Music

Owl, a band that when you first hear their work you could only describe them as being a whole-hearted ,

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Old Testament – S/T – 2014 CD/LP/DD 2014

8th December 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Americana, Cardinal Fuzz Records, CD, Digital, Evil Hoodoo, Folk Rock, Jason Simon, Jeremy Moore, LP, Old Testament, Psych, Review, Self Titled

It’s been a long and successful road for Jason Simon, and as the longstanding leader of hazy retro rockers Dead

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Obake ‘Mutations’ CD/LP/DD 2014

18th November 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Avant-Garde, CD, Dave Bowes, Digital, Doom, LP, Mutations, Obake, Rare Noise Records, Review, Sludge

Change isn’t always welcome and, while the departure of Zu’s Massimo Pupillo from the ranks of Obake’s finely-honed jazz-sludge machine

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Obliterations ‘Poison Everything’ CD/LP/DD 2014

5th November 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, CD, Digital, Hardcore, Jeremy Moore, LP, Obliterations, Poison Everything, Punk, Review, Southern Lord

Leave it to a band like Southern Lord’s Obliterations to make all of us who’ve archived our pre-Rollins era Black

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Orange Goblin ‘Back From The Abyss’ CD/LP/DD 2014

30th October 20143rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2014, Back From The Abyss, Candlelight Records, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Orange Goblin, Review

It’s not often an album leaves you struggling to find anything to write about it. Sometimes it happens when an

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Old Man Lizard ‘Lone Wolf Vs Brown Bear’ CD/DD 2014

19th October 20143rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2014, Adam Stone, CD, Digital, Heavy, Lone Wolf Vs Brown Bear, Old Man Lizard, Prog Rock, Review, Sludge, Wickerman Recordings

Old Man Lizard are headed by the prodigiously talented Jack Newnham (he also drums for the outrageously good Meadows), who

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Obituary ‘Inked In Blood’ CD/LP/DD 2014

15th October 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Inked In Blood, LP, Obituary, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson

Full disclosure: the first time I ever heard Obituary, I fucking hated it. I did, I admit it. A mate

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Oraculum ‘Sorcery Of The Damned’ CD/DD 2014

12th October 20143rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2014, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Invictus Productions, Jamie Grimes, Oraculum, Sorcery Of The Damned, Thrash Metal

I believe it was top 20th century philosopher Shane Embury who once famously posited that there was, at one time,

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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