Review: Ghoul ‘Noxious Concoctions’ EP
I’m always down for some good, old-fashioned thrash, and when there’s some death metal sprinkled in for good measure, all
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Album & EP Reviews
Review: LLNN / Sugar Horse ‘The Horror / Sleep Paralysis Demon’ Split EP
Ahhhh, split single EPs, something of an anachronism these days maybe, but after separating from my first wife and selling
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Review: Various Artists ‘Hearts & Minds & Crooked Beats’
‘People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world’ – Joe Strummer So reads the
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Review: Utopia ‘Shame’
During the pandemic, I subsisted largely on a diet of APF Records releases and in 2021 I was asked if
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Review: kariti ‘Dheghom’
Over the last year, I have had the honour of reviewing several albums which are on the independent Lay Bare
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Review: Planet B ‘Fiction Prediction’
Planet B‘s 2018 self-titled debut featured a number of guest artists including prominent names as Kool Keith and Martin Atkins
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Review: Bipolar Architecture ‘Metaphysicize’
Pelagic Records are no strangers to rooting out bands that are consumed by the notion of pushing the boundaries of
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Review: Ancient VVisdom ‘Master Of The Stone’
I remember the first time I ever heard Ancient VVisdom, over a decade ago now on their A Godlike Inferno
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Review: ORT ‘Maschinenhafen’
Recently here at The Shaman, a video premiere for ORT‘s Achtern Dub 2 emerged and so intrigued was I that
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Review: Chelsea Wolfe ‘She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She’
So, here we are, just over a month into 2024, and already one of the albums of the year is
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Review: Big Scenic Nowhere ‘The Waydown’
Bob Balch has seemed unfeasibly busy lately. In fact, so have fellow Big Scenic Nowhere collaborators Gary Arce, Bill Stinson
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