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Cassius King 'Dread The Dawn'
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Review: Cassius King ‘Dread The Dawn’

26th October 202213th December 2022 Tom Hanno Cassius King, Doom, MDD Records, Metal, Nomad Eel Records

Cassius King, Vessel Of Light and Patriarchs In Black are bands that the prolific guitarist named Dan Lorenzo has been

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The Otolith 'Folium Limina'
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Review: The Otolith ‘Folium Limina’

25th October 202213th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Blues Funeral Recordings, The Otolith

The weighty yet atmospheric majesty of SubRosa will forever be missed in the modern doom scene; a unique voice in

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TONS 'Hashension'
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Review: TONS ‘Hashension’

25th October 202217th December 2022 Harry Holmes Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds, Sludge, Tons

In a musical landscape of introspective lockdown albums and scathing indictments of injustice, sometimes you need a sticky bongful of

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Ruby The Hatchet 'Fear Is A Cruel Master'
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Review: Ruby The Hatchet ‘Fear Is A Cruel Master’

24th October 202217th December 2022 Martin Williams Heavy Rock, Magnetic Eye Records, Ruby The Hatchet

New Jersey’s Ruby The Hatchet are a band that I’ve been hearing about for a minimum of five years now

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DEAD 'The Laughing Shadow'
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Review: DEAD ‘The Laughing Shadow’

24th October 202217th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden DEAD, Forbidden Place Records, Wantage USA, We Empty Rooms

As we get into the weeds of 2022, attention turns to end-of-year reviews and how this one has stacked up.

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Michael Rudolph Cummings 'You Know How I Get'
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Review: Michael Rudolph Cummings ‘You Know How I Get’

21st October 202217th December 2022 Josh Schneider Acoustic, Blood And Strings, Michael Rudolph Cummings, Ripple Music

I didn’t know what to expect seeing Boozewa live earlier this year when they supported Amigo The Devil. I hadn’t

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OFF! 'Free LSD'
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Review: OFF! ‘Free LSD’

21st October 202217th December 2022 Rob Walsh Fat Possum Records, Hardcore, Off!, Punk

What we deem as ‘supergroups’ are actually much more common than you’d expect. But what isn’t common is a long-running

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The Lord & Petra Haden 'Devotional'
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Review: The Lord & Petra Haden ‘Devotional’

20th October 202217th December 2022 Reza Mills Drone, Experimental, Petra Haden, Southern Lord, The Lord

Following up The Lord‘s (aka Greg Anderson) debut full-length Forest Nocturne comes this collaborative effort with Petra Haden; daughter of

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Goat 'Oh Death'
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Review: Goat ‘Oh Death’

20th October 20229th February 2023 Emil Damgaard Andersen Goat, Jazz, Levitation, Psych, Rocket Recordings

There’s always been some kind of mystique involved when talking about Gothenburg-based Goat. They appear to be a very secretive

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Battalions 'King Of A Dead World'
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Review: Battalions ‘King Of A Dead World’

20th October 202211th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Battalions, Sludge

Kingston upon Hull veterans Battalions have been making a sizeable noise in the UK metal scene for the last 12

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Review: In The Ponds 'Polar Night' EP
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Review: In The Ponds ‘Polar Night’ EP

19th October 202217th December 2022 Reza Mills Entelodon Records, In The Ponds, Instrumental, Post-Rock

The Covid pandemic will forever go down as a horrendous time in history, what with the isolation, death, and destruction

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