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Mellowdeath 'Mellowdeath' Artwork
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Review: Mellowdeath ‘Mellowdeath’

19th December 202519th December 2025 Maxwell Seeman Doom, Independent, Instrumental, Jazz

Mellowdeath are a Berlin-based band who are incredibly innovative. For the past several years, they have been forging new and

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Review: kariti ‘Still Life’

18th December 202518th December 2025 Lee Beamish Ambient, kariti, Lay Bare Recordings

Way back in late 2023, just as Christmas was rearing its yearly apocalypse on all sense and morality, I was

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Sunn O))) 'Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise The Chalice & Reverential' Artwork
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Review: Sunn O))) ‘Eternity’s Pillars B/W Raise The Chalice & Reverential’

17th December 202517th December 2025 Sandy Williamson Drone, Sub Pop Records, Sunn O)))

The first collaboration between drone legends Sunn O))) and the legendary Sub Pop Records, this three-track release sees Greg Anderson

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Review: Maha Sohona ‘A Dark Place’

16th December 202516th December 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Bonebag Records, Maha Sohona, Prog, Stoner

According to Sinhalese folklore, the name Maha Sohona means ‘great graveyard demon’ and is one of the most feared in

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Review: Nuclear Dudes ‘Skeletal Blasphemy’

15th December 202515th December 2025 Martin Williams Grindcore, Hardcore, Nuclear Dudes, The Ghost Is Clear Records

Now, here we have an interesting project. Nuclear Dudes is the Covid-born, brainchild of Jon Weisnewski, the multi-instrumentalist behind not

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Negative Blast 'Destroy Myself For Fun' Artwork
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Review: Negative Blast ‘Destroy Myself For Fun’

11th December 202511th December 2025 Reza Mills Hardcore, Negative Blast, Three One G

San Diego’s Negative Blast formed during Covid and have brought us a wealth of releases including 2020’s The First Four

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Review: Yawning Man ‘Pavement Ends’

10th December 202510th December 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Heavy Psych Sounds, Yawning Man

Forgive the idiom, but like the proverbial buses, November brings a double instalment of one of my favourite guitarists. Recently,

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Review: Anna von Hausswolff ‘Iconoclasts’

9th December 20259th December 2025 Lee Beamish Anna von Hausswolff, Avant-Garde, Neo Classical, Year0001

So here we are, the last remaining weeks of 2025, and just when I thought I had wrapped up my

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Review: Oslo Tapes ‘LÃ¥st Comet’

8th December 20258th December 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Avant-Garde, Experimental, Golden Robot Records, Grazil Records, Kraut, Oslo Tapes, Worst Bassist Records

Leaving aside the musical journeys undertaken by the charismatic Chieti native Marco Campitelli, aka Oslo Tapes, one cannot help but

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Various Artists 'Brown Acid – The Twenty-First Trip' Artwork
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Review: Various Artists ‘Brown Acid – The Twenty-First Trip’

5th December 20255th December 2025 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, Psych, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

If I’m being honest, I was curious to see if LA’s always‑awesome RidingEasy Records was going to continue its iconic,

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Review: Mastiff ‘For All The Dead Dreams’ EP

4th December 20254th December 2025 Sandy Williamson Church Road Records, Hardcore, Mastiff, Sludge

Yorkshire sludge/doom/hardcore monsters Mastiff have been bulldozing their way across these grim shores for over a decade now, and hot

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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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Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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