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Review: Collapse Culture ‘Drag Your Coffin My Lord’

19th September 20229th December 2022 Josh Schneider Collapse Culture, Dub, Electronic, Pax Aeternum

I’m really stepping outside the box with this review. So far, in fact, I’m not sure where the box is

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Review: Man In The Woods ‘Badlands’

19th September 20229th December 2022 El Jefe Argonauta Records, Heavy Rock, Man In The Woods

When it comes to my tastes in heavy fuckin’ rock ‘n’ roll, I like it to be dirty, fat, loud,

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Review: Sonja ‘Loud Arriver’

16th September 20229th December 2022 Goro Riffs Cruz Del Sur Music, Heavy Rock, Metal, Sonja

Loud Arriver is an embodiment of metal and rock ‘n’ roll attitude, the result of the dedication and passion of

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Review: White Hills ‘The Revenge Of Heads On Fire’

16th September 20229th December 2022 Martin Williams Heads On Fire Industries, Psych, White Hills

Any discussion of heavy, psychedelic music over the course of the turn of the millennium must include New York’s legendary

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Review: Petbrick ‘Liminal’

15th September 20229th December 2022 Reza Mills Electronic, Experimental, Neurot Recordings, Petbrick, Rocket Recordings

Iggor Cavalera, you know him well, or should; former drummer of Brazilian metal legends Sepultura and current member of Cavalera

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Review: Nadja ‘Labyrinthine’

15th September 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Adagio830, Bad Moon Rising, Broken Spine Productions, Cruel Nature Records, Doom, Drone, Katuktu Collective, Muzan Editions, Nadja, Pale Ghoul Recordings, UR Audio Visual, WV Sorcerer

Berlin based Canadian duo Nadja have never, to my knowledge, produced anything that you might find best suited to a

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Review: Bastard Noise & Merzbow ‘Retribution By All Other Creatures’

14th September 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Bastard Noise, Merzbow, Noise, Power Electronics, Relapse Records

Two absolute fucking titans of the underground meet to create an album together. Neither Bastard Noise nor Merzbow should need

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Review: Psyclon Nine ‘Less To Heaven’

14th September 20229th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Metropolis Records, Psyclon Nine

By their own admission, Psyclon Nine are not for the faint hearted. Formed in California in 2000, the band is

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Review: Motorpsycho ‘Ancient Astronauts’

13th September 20229th December 2022 Harry Holmes Motorpsycho, Prog, Psych, Rune Grammofon, Stickman Records

Motorpsycho are back with another addition to their bewildering catalogue of releases, and another example of the kind of fruitful

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Review: Fatso Jetson ‘Live At Maximum Festival’ Reissue

13th September 202223rd February 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Fatso Jetson, Go Down Records, Stoner Rock

Reissued in a lavish, updated digi-sleeve CD box edition, the Live At Maximum Festival set from Fatso Jetson sees one

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Review: Pink Frost ‘Until The Summer Comes’

12th September 20229th December 2022 Lee Beamish Alternative, Grunge, Pink Frost, Under Road Records

Usually, by the time you’re six albums into a career, to make any huge departures from what you’re doing is

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