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Album & EP Reviews

Sergeant Thunderhoof 'This Sceptred Veil'
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Review: Sergeant Thunderhoof ‘This Sceptred Veil’

2nd June 20226th July 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Pale Wizard Records, Sergeant Thunderhoof

I’m not sure quite when the fact that Sergeant Thunderhoof have become such a great band dawned on me. Having

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Malignant Aura 'Abysmal Misfortune Is Draped Upon Me'
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Review: Malignant Aura ‘Abysmal Misfortune Is Draped Upon Me’

2nd June 20226th July 2022 Matt Alexander Bitter Loss Records, Death Doom, Malignant Aura

As the weather improves and the days get longer here in the UK, I often need something to drag me

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Rubber Oh 'Strange Craft'
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Review: Rubber Oh ‘Strange Craft’

1st June 20226th July 2022 Reza Mills Pop, Psych, Rocket Recordings, Rubber Oh

As we wait for a follow-up to Pigs x7‘s Viscerals, guitarist Sam Grant is keeping us occupied in the meantime

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Liquid Shit 'Untold Horrors'
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Review: Liquid Shit ‘Untold Horrors’ EP

1st June 20226th July 2022 Harry Holmes Dry Cough Records, Liquid Shit, Sludge

Grebe… was squatting in his armchair, the dun decanter already aloft. ‘Shit “huuu”?’ The philosopher enquired. ‘I won’t, thanks,’ Busner

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Cave In 'Heavy Pendulum'
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Review: Cave In ‘Heavy Pendulum’

31st May 20226th July 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Cave In, Heavy Rock, Post-Rock, Relapse Records

If I’m honest it took me a long time to ‘get’ Cave In. I have been enough of a student

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Trouble 'Plastic Green Head' & 'Simple Mind Condition'
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Review: Trouble ‘Plastic Green Head’ & ‘Simple Mind Condition’ Reissues

31st May 20221st July 2022 David J McLaren Doom, Hammerheart Records, Metal, Trouble

Trouble is a band that I grew up with – one of the few constants that have never fallen into

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Las Cruces 'Cosmic Tears'
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Review: Las Cruces ‘Cosmic Tears’

30th May 20221st July 2022 Martin Williams Doom, Las Cruces, Ripple Music

Way back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, I was living in Seattle when I was just getting into

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Aidan Baker 'Tenebrist'
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Review: Aidan Baker ‘Tenebrist’

30th May 20221st July 2022 George Green Aidan Baker, Cruel Nature Records, Drone, Experimental

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are suffocating in inner space. Aidan Baker is probably best known as half of the experimental,

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Review: Blue Heron ‘Ephemeral’

27th May 202223rd February 2024 Martin Williams Blue Heron, Desert Rock, Kozmik ArtIfactz, Seeing Red Records, Stoner Rock

In the genre we call desert rock, outside of Kyuss, and the bands and artists that splintered from them, it

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Imbernon & Mikel Vega 'Eolian Dawn'
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Review: Imbernon & Mikel Vega ‘Eolian Dawn’

27th May 20221st July 2022 Josh Schneider Drone, Experimental, Imbernon, Mikel Vega, Sentencia Records

I’m sold. Jon Imbernon is half this album well then here’s my debit card number and keep the tab open.

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Gramma Vedetta 'The Hum of The Machine'
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Review: Gramma Vedetta ‘The Hum of The Machine’

26th May 20221st July 2022 Reza Mills Gramma Vedetta, Heavy Rock, Mandrone Records, Prog

Since forming in 2017, London based Gramma Vedetta have released two EPs including 2018’s Proof Of Concept and 2020’s A.C.I.D.

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