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2011

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Dixie Witch ‘Let It Roll’ CD/DD 2011

30th October 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Classic Rock, DD, Digital Download, Dixie Witch, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Let It Roll, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records, Southern Rock

Twelve years and four albums into their career and five years since the last album, “Smoke And Mirrors” it’s very

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Mike Patton ‘The Solitude Of Prime Numbers’ OST CD 2011

29th October 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, Film Score, Instrumental, Ipecac Recordings, Mike Patton, OST, Review, Soundtrack, The Solitude Of Prime Numbers, Tom McKibbin

Reviewing the soundtrack to a film that you’ve not seen presents a number of problems to the objective writer. Film

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White Darkness ‘Tokage’ CD/LP/DD 2011

28th October 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, CD, DD, Denovali Records, Digital Download, Experimental, Jason Köhnen, LP, Paul Robertson, Rachael Kozak, Review, Tokage, White Darkness

Dread. Unease. The Ain Soph Aur trickling down into creation. The white hot oblivion of forcible unconsciousness. The inescapable fear

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Wolves In The Throne Room ‘Celestial Lineage’ CD/LP/DD 2011

26th October 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, Ambient, Atmospheric, Black Metal, CD, Celestial Lineage, DD, Digital Download, Jessika Kenney, LP, Pete Green, Review, Southern Lord, WITTR, Wolves In The Throne Room

Where do you start with a record you can barely comprehend in its dense complexity? Where do you start to

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Mos Generator – ST – 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition CD/LP 2011

25th October 20113rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, 2011, CD, Classic Rock, Heavy Rock, LP, Mos Generator, Review, Ripple Music, Saúl Do Caixão, Tony Reed

Mos Generator are a band whose name I’ve always been aware of but never actually checked out – therefore this

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Rising ‘To Solemn Ash’ CD/LP/DD 2011

24th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Exile On Mainstream Records, Hard Rock, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, NWOBHM, Review, Rising, To Solemn Ash

Having landed on Germany’s home of cool alternative rock, Denmark’s The Rising offer the first slab of straight up Metal

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Heartless ‘Hell Is Other People’ CD/LP 2011

20th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Crust, Grindcore, Hardcore, Heartless, Hell Is Other People, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Punk, Review, Southern Lord

I don’t claim to be an expert on hardcore by any stretch; to me it tends to fall into two

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Hellbender ‘Cosmolux’ LP 2011

17th October 20113rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2011, Cosmolux, Hellbender, Kraut, LP, Prog Rock, Psych, Review, Rock, Saúl Do Caixão, Self Released

Another day, another psychedelic jam band. Today’s offering comes from Nashville Tennessee’s Hellbender! With an opener (“Neon Cross”) that tips

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Yob ‘Live At Roadburn 2010’ CD/DVD 2011

14th October 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Burning World Records, CD, Doom, DVD, Heavy, Live, Live At Roadburn 2010, Metal, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Roadburn, Roadburn Records, Yob

“We’re gonna play four songs and that will be one hour” says Yob mainman Mike Scheidt at the beginning of

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Black Capricorn – ST – CD 2011

13th October 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 12th Records, 2011, Black Capricorn, CD, Doom, Heavy, Ollie Stygall, Review, Stoner Doom

I’d like to start this review, if I may, with a brief history of doom according to…me. Back in the

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The Proselyte ‘Sunshine’ LP 2011

12th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Hardcore, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Sunshine, TDB Records, The Proselyte

The creative explosion in musical styles over recent years has had a fairly decent impact on the scene, particularly the

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