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2012

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Bong – S/T – Reissue CD 2012

12th September 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Bong, CD, Doom, Drone, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psychedelic, Reissue, Review, Ritual Productions, Self Titled

The UK’s trippiest doomhounds Bong scored great acclaim earlier this year with their latest album Mana-Yood-Sushai, (described on this very

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Serpentine Path – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2012

11th September 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, CD, Dark, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Self Titled, Serpentine Path, Tim Bagshaw, Unearthly Trance

For all the moaning you encounter from people young and old, there’s actually a hell of a lot of good

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lazarus Blackstar ‘Hymns For The Cursed’ CD 2012

10th September 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2012, Adam Stone, Blackened Doom, CD, Crust, Doom, Hymns For The Cursed, Lazarus Blackstar, Review, Sludge, Undergroove Records

Unwashed scum lords of post-anarcho Yorkshire Pennine misery (although one is from Brum and one is from Scouseville), the titanic

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Witchsorrow ‘God Curse Us’ CD/LP 2012

9th September 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Doom, God Curse Us, Heavy, LP, Metal, Review, Rise Above Records, Witchsorrow

Rise Above always know how to make supreme choices when it comes to picking the best underground grooves to push

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Salem’s Pot ‘Sweeden’ DD 2012

8th September 20123rd September 2019 Sam Orr 2012, Digital, Doom, Psych, Review, Salems Pot, Sam Orr, Self Released, Stoner Doom, Sweeden

With a name like this it is incredibly hard to imagine a sound that isn’t doom or Sabbath inspired.  The

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OBELYSKKH ‘White Lightnin’’ CD/LP/DD 2012

7th September 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, CD, Digital, Doom, Exile On Mainstream Records, Heavy, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Obelyskkh, Psych, Review, Sludge, White Lightnin'

Having been labelled as the ‘Phantom Of German Doom’ because of their self-proclaimed abstinence from record releases, the German doom

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Samothrace ‘Reverence To Stone’ CD/LP 2012

6th September 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 20 Buck Spin, 2012, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Reverence To Stone, Review, Samothrace, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Releasing albums with the same tectonic urgency that they propel their songs along with, Seattle’s Samothrace have recently released their

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Switchblade – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2012

5th September 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, CD, Denovali Records, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Titled, Sludge, Switchblade

You barely have time to register the humming, swirling buzz of the Hammond organ that opens  this, Swedish behemoths Switchblade’s

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Slomatics ‘A Hocht’
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Slomatics ‘A Hocht’ CD/LP 2012

4th September 20124th November 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2012, A Hocht, Burning World Records, CD, Doom, Head Of Crom Records, Heavy, LP, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Psych, Review, Slomatics, Sludge

The Slomatics have emerged from their triumphant down-tuned sludge anthems that appeared on the 12” split with Conan with something

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Dying ‘Born’ CD/Digital 2012

3rd September 20123rd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Born, CD, Digital, Doom, Dying, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Punk, Review, Self Released, Sludge

After my favourite Fayetteville (de)mentalists Queen Beast fell apart the members have resurfaced in various forms trying their hands at

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Maeth ‘Horse Funeral’ Digital EP 2012

2nd September 20123rd September 2019 Jawor Iwanow 2012, Digital EP, Heavy, Horse Funeral, Jawor Iwanow, Maeth, Metal, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Review, Self Released

Maeth are, a relatively new band from a small town in Minnesota with cool artwork and a great sense of

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