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When The Deadbolt Breaks
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Premiere: When The Deadbolt Breaks ‘As Hope Valley Burns: Eulogy’ – Releases 31st October

29th October 202115th December 2021 Lee Edwards Doom, Electric Talon Records, Sludge, When The Deadbolt Breaks

It’s a busy end to the year for Connecticut’s sludgey psych doomers When The Deadbolt Breaks as they prepare to

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Witnesses / Greg Schwan
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Premiere: Witnesses ‘The Collapse’ – New Album Releases On Hallows Eve

27th October 20218th December 2021 Lee Edwards Doom, Independent, Metal, Witnesses

Multi-instrumentalist Greg Schwan returns under the Witnesses moniker for a near forty-minute album of mournful and atmospheric doom metal simply

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Grim Earth
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Premiere: Grim Earth ‘Foul And Rotten’ – New Album ‘In The Throes Of Madness’ Lands 5th Nov

19th October 202126th November 2021 Lee Edwards Desert Records, Grim Earth, Sludge

It’s been a busy year for Albuquerque based Desert Records and their run of issuing a release a month is

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Lähdön Aika
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Premiere: Lähdön Aika ‘Pahansuovat’ – New EP ‘Valonaara’ Releases 10th December

14th October 202125th November 2021 Lee Edwards Black Voodoo Records, Bullwhip Records, Doom, Lähdön Aika, Sludge, Trepanation Recordings

Finnish heavy sludge doomers Lähdön Aika which, (according to Google at least) translates to ‘Departure Time’, quite an apt name

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Spider Kitten - Photo by Joseph Patrick Blake
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Video Premiere: Spider Kitten ‘A Problematic Favourite’ – New Album ‘Major Label Debut’ Drops 12th November

13th October 202125th November 2021 Lee Edwards Grunge, Independent, Sludge, Spider Kitten

With a discography spanning near on 20 years, Spider Kitten, the Welsh chameleons of doom, stoner, sludge and grunge, return

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Nothing Is Real
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Premiere: Nothing Is Real ‘At First Chaos Came To Be’ & ‘A State Of Undeath’ – New Double Album Drops 31st October

8th October 20218th November 2021 Lee Edwards Blackened Sludge, Doom, Independent, Nothing Is Real, Prog

Improvised chaotic and blackened sludge doom, wrapped up with progressive sensibilities, is the order of the day as multi-instrumentalist Nicholas

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KITE
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Premiere: KITE ‘Currents’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow Via Majestic Mountain Records

7th October 20218th November 2021 Lee Edwards KITE, Majestic Mountain Records, Post-Hardcore, Sludge

Followers of these hallowed pages should have read Will’s coverage of the latest album by Oslo residents KITE. Entitled Currents,

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Jason Roberts / Breaths
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Video Premiere: Breaths ‘The Patriarch’ – New Album ‘Though Life…’ Due January 2022

6th October 20218th November 2021 Lee Edwards Black Metal, Breaths, Doomgaze, Post-Hardcore

Breaths is a project from multi-instrumentalist Jason Roberts who writes all the music, along with playing all the instruments that

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The Hill Country Devil - Photo by Ericka Poore
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Premiere: The Hill Country Devil ‘Michigan Rose’ – ‘The Magnolia Sessions’ Out Today

1st October 20216th January 2022 Lee Edwards Anti-Corporate Music, Country, Folk, The Hill Country Devil, The Magnolia Sessions

The first Friday of the month really does come around quickly as it only seems like yesterday when we premiered

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The Answer Lies In The Black Void
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Video Premiere: The Answer Lies In The Black Void ‘Okkultas’ – Debut Album ‘Forlorn’ Is Out Now

29th September 20218th November 2021 Lee Edwards Burning World Records, Doom, Jason Köhnen, The Answer Lies In The Black Void

Jason Köhnen has been around the doom and drone scene for many a year, whether it’s as a founding member

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John Cooke
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Premiere: Lair Of The White Worm ‘Waster’ – ‘EP1’ Releases 15th October

22nd September 202128th October 2021 Lee Edwards APF Records, Industrial, Lair Of The White Worm, Trepanation Recordings

John Cooke is better known for shredding his guitar in grind sludge noisenik’s Corrupt Moral Altar and as the touring

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

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Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June

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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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