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Gridfailure 'Perpendicular To The Living Ones'
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Review: Gridfailure ‘Perpendicular To The Living Ones’

9th January 20238th March 2023 Reza Mills Ambient, Experimental, Gridfailure, Independent, Noise

Gridfailure aka David Brenner (also of Earsplit PR) has never been workshy as is evident with this, his fourth release

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Boris 'Fade'
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Review: Boris ‘Fade’

5th January 20238th March 2023 Sandy Williamson Boris, Doom, Drone, Independent

THREE new Boris records in 2022? Man, I am a blessed human to have this much of my favourite band

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Thelegati 'Senza Paura'
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Review: Thelegati ‘Senza Paura’

4th January 20238th March 2023 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Garage Rock, Ortovox Records, Psych, Thelegati

When on his 1977 debut album Terra Mia (My Land), the Neapolitan singer songwriter Pino Daniele was solemnly singing in

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Tidal Wave 'The Lord Knows'
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Review: Tidal Wave ‘The Lord Knows’

3rd January 20238th March 2023 Martin Williams Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Tidal Wave

As has been covered multiple times, by much better writers than myself, the country of Sweden, for whatever reason, something

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Obituary 'Dying Of Everything'
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Review: Obituary ‘Dying Of Everything’

3rd January 20238th March 2023 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Obituary, Relapse Records

Obituary. Godfathers of death metal. A band who have stubbornly refused to change an iconic sound for thirty plus years

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Private Prisons 'Extrication'
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Review: Private Prisons ‘Extrication’

28th December 20226th February 2023 Reza Mills Death Metal, Doom, Private Prisons, Sludge, Trepanation Recordings

Private Prisons are an Anaheim, California quartet who consist of Ryan Beitler – guitars, vocals, loops and synth, Federico Pennacchini

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Sula Bassana 'Nostalgia'
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Review: Sula Bassana ‘Nostalgia’

27th December 20226th February 2023 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Kraut, Psych, Space Rock, Sula Bassana, Sulatron Records

Talking about a master of musical engineering such as the indefatigable German multi-instrumentalist, electronic, kraut and space rocker Dave Schmidt

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Mos Generator 'Time//Wounds'
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Review: Mos Generator ‘Time//Wounds’

26th December 20226th February 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Mos Generator, Music Abuse Records, Pale Wizard Records

Readers of this fine website will doubtless be familiar with the extensive output of veteran Tony Reed, producer, studio owner,

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Lost In Bohemia 'Volume 1'
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Review: Lost In Bohemia ‘Volume 1’

23rd December 20226th February 2023 Reza Mills Goth, Industrial, Lost In Bohemia, Trepanation Recordings

Lost In Bohemia are a South London male-female duo comprised of Samson Deluxe and Howling Mina respectively. As to the

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-(16)- 'Into Dust'
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Review: -(16)- ‘Into Dust’

23rd December 20226th February 2023 Harry Holmes -(16)-, Metal, Relapse Records, Sludge

The band -(16)- have never quite landed squarely in my field of interest, on the face of it, they are

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Gosudar/Malignant Altar – Split
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Review: Gosudar/Malignant Altar – Split EP

21st December 20226th February 2023 James Bullock Death Metal, Gosudar, Malignant Altar, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Rotted Life Records

The guttural, sludgy death metal of Texas’s Malignant Altar meeting the gloomy majesty of Moscow’s Gosudar seems like a meeting

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