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Review: Onhou ‘Monument’

13th December 20226th February 2023 Lee Beamish Doom, Lay Bare Recordings, Onhou, Sludge, Tartarus Records

Heading out of Groningen, Dutch bruisers Onhou are coming for you, and it would appear the aim is aural destruction,

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Review: Frenzee ‘Frenzee’ EP

12th December 202218th January 2023 Reza Mills Frenzee, Ouga Booga And The Mighty Oug Recordings, Punk

Frenzee is composed of three siblings, Apollonia, Adonis and Nick who were all born in Melbourne Australia but raised and

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Review: Mick’s Jaguar ‘Salvation’

12th December 202218th January 2023 Martin Williams Garage Rock, Mick’s Jaguar, Rock 'n' Roll, Tee Pee Records, Totem Cat Records

I’m a sucker for a great band name. A great band name can not only quip the listener’s curiosity, but

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Review: Lull ‘That Space Somewhere’

7th December 202218th January 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Cold Spring Records, Lull, Mick Harris, Soundscapes

Mick Harris, the man generally credited as the drummer who popularised the blastbeat, the only member of Napalm Death to

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Review: Laces Out ‘Here At The Ashram’

7th December 202218th January 2023 Reza Mills Laces Out, Nefarious Industries, Post-Hardcore

I have to admit to having no idea as to the meaning behind the band’s name, if I were to

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Review: Upupayāma ‘The Golden Pond’

6th December 202218th January 2023 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Cardinal Fuzz Records, Centripetal Force Records, Folk, Psych, Upupayāma

The first time I came across Italian psych acid folk, multi-instrumentalist Alessio Ferrari aka Upupa Rot, whose name shortly changed

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Review: Half Gramme Of Soma ‘Slip Through The Cracks’

6th December 202212th January 2023 Goro Riffs Half Gramme Of Soma, Heavy Rock, Sound Of Liberation Records

On first impression this band is intriguing, starting with their name, album title and cover. It would seem that Half

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Review: Dead Meadow ‘Force Form Free’

5th December 202212th January 2023 Rob Walsh Blues Funeral Recordings, Dead Meadow, Psych

Force Form Free is a rather strange title for an album by long-time psych-merchants Dead Meadow. I can’t decide whether

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Review: Sconsacrata ‘Paroxysms’

5th December 202212th January 2023 Richard Murray Black Metal, Industrial, Sconsacrata, Trepanation Recordings

This is my third consecutive review done on a band consisting of a single member. I’m still blown away by

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Review: Pound Land ‘Defeated’

2nd December 20226th January 2023 Reza Mills Cruel Nature Records, Industrial, Post-Punk, Pound Land

‘You’ve got to laugh, because if you don’t you’ll kill yourself. Or somebody else’, so goes the promo notes and

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Review: Shallow Black ‘MALADROIT [MATTER]’

2nd December 20226th January 2023 Lee Beamish Acoustic, Independent, Industrial, Shallow Black

Never one to sit still, and fresh off the back of THE SECOND MANUSCRIPt, Shallow Black are back before you

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