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Iggor Cavalera/Shane Embury 'Neon Gods/Own Your Darkness' Artwork
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Review: Iggor Cavalera/Shane Embury ‘Neon Gods/Own Your Darkness’

27th March 202527th March 2025 Reza Mills Ambient, Cold Spring Records, Electronic, Iggor Cavalera, Industrial, Shane Embury

Even someone like me, who isn’t predominantly a ‘metalhead’, recognises the legendary names on this split release. On the off

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Review: SOM ‘Let The Light In’

25th March 202525th March 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Pelagic Records, Post-Rock, Shoegaze, SOM

Comprising of current and former members of Junius, Caspian, and Constants, North American post-rock/metal act SOM have spent their eight

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Review: Skloss ‘The Pattern Speaks’

5th March 20255th March 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Doomgaze, Fuzz Club Records, Skloss

The first time I bumped into the Austin-based drummer, visual artist, and producer Karen Skloss, was during her stint with

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Review: Seein’ Red ‘Refuse Resist’

3rd March 20253rd March 2025 Martin Williams Armageddon Label, Hardcore, Seein' Red

I cannot exactly say when I first heard of long-running Dutch hardcore legends Seein’ Red. It was definitely during my

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Review: Spesimin ‘Spesimin’

30th January 202530th January 2025 Matthew Williams Death Metal, Spesimin, Strange Mono Records, Thrash Metal

If you enjoy music that doesn’t let up from start to finish, then this self-titled discography from Philadelphia’s Spesimin is

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Review: Sleepbomb ‘The Sleeping Dead’

28th January 202528th January 2025 Reza Mills Consouling Sounds, Doom, Doomgaze, Drone, Koolarrow Records, Sleepbomb

Compiling an end of year top ten is nigh on impossible as was proven by the fact that Sleepbomb‘s last

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Review: Shotgun Sawyer ‘Shotgun Sawyer’

9th January 20259th January 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Shotgun Sawyer

Auburn, California might not be the first place that springs to mind when you think of the blues, but three-piece

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Review: Skyjoggers / Sula Bassana – Split

6th January 20256th January 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Psych, Skyjoggers, Sula Bassana, Sulatron Records

In the 1970s, releasing a live album was considered an essential part of a band’s discography, a crucial milestone that

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Review: Mammoth Grinder ‘Undying Spectral Resonance’ EP

20th December 202420th December 2024 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Mammoth Grinder, Relapse Records

If there was ever a band that you knew was going to be heavy as fuck just on the name

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Review: Stuffed Foxes ‘Standardized’

20th December 202420th December 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Figures Libres Records, Noise-Rock, Reverse Tapes, Shoegaze, Stolen Body Records, Stuffed Foxes

Discovering Stuffed Foxes, this eclectic French noise-rock collective from Tours, whose name, let’s be clear, would make any avid animal

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Review: Sons Of Ghidorah ‘Hallowmas’

5th December 20245th December 2024 Matthew Williams Argonauta Records, Doom, Heavy Rock, Sons Of Ghidorah

When I see a comment in a press release that states that they’ve ‘been compared favourably to bands such as

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