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Review: Ten East & SoftSun ‘Turned To Stone Chapter 10’

13th April 202613th April 2026 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Ripple Music, SoftSun, Ten East, Turned To Stone

Ripple Music’s split vinyl series Turned To Stone has become a benchmark for high-quality, heavy and thematic releases. Each chapter

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Review: Suplecs ‘Hymns Under A Blood Moon Sky’

10th March 202610th March 2026 Martin Williams Ripple Music, Stoner, Suplecs

When I first began really digging into stoner rock around the turn of the millennium, one of the first bands

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Review: Scattered Purgatory ‘Post Purgatory’

6th February 20266th February 2026 Lee Beamish Electronic, Experimental, Guruguru Brain, Scattered Purgatory

One of the things that I love the most about music is that it is always evolving, adapting, and reforming,

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Review: Scott McCloud ‘Make It To Forever’

29th January 202629th January 2026 Reza Mills Acoustic, God Unknown Records, Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud will be a familiar name to those with a love for post-hardcore and hardcore punk (such as myself),

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Review: Smote ‘Songs From The Free House’

7th January 20267th January 2026 Nessie Spencer Drone, Psych, Rocket Recordings, Smote

There is something about Smote that captivates you, almost like a spell has been cast upon your soul from the

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Review: Slomatics ‘Atomicult’

5th January 20265th January 2026 Sandy Williamson Doom, Majestic Mountain Records, Slomatics

Belfast’s Slomatics are an institution at this point in the UK underground doom and sludge scenes, but their sound has

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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: SoftSun ‘Eternal Sunrise’

7th November 202522nd December 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Doomgaze, Heavy Psych Sounds, Shoegaze, SoftSun

SoftSun are wasting little time in trying to stamp their mark on the scene. For a band that only came

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Review: Space Witch ‘Mountains Of Neptune’

5th November 20255th November 2025 Matthew Williams Independent, Psych, Space Witch, Stoner Doom

Before you press play and listen to the latest doom masterpiece from one of Stoke-on-Trent’s finest, Space Witch, make sure

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Review: Stonebirds ‘Perpetual Wasteland’

31st October 202531st October 2025 Matthew Williams Post-Metal, Ripple Music, Stonebirds

Perpetual Wasteland is the fourth and final episode from Breton trio Stonebirds, and it’s a collection of six songs that

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Review: Supernaughty ‘Apocalypso’

9th October 20259th October 2025 Martin Williams Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Stoner, Supernaughty

Livorno, Italy’s Supernaughty return with their third full-length, and the four-piece’s first for Ripple Music, the much-anticipated Apocalypso. Supernaughty (undoubtedly

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