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2012

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Taurus ‘Life’ LP/CD/Digital 2012

6th August 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Ashley Spungin, Atmospheric, CD, Dark Castle, Digital, Doom, Drone, Life, LP, Psychedelic, Purple Rhinestone Eagle, Review, Self Released, Stevie Floyd, Taurus, Tom McKibbin

When I heard that Stevie Floyd of doom duo Dark Castle had formed a psychedelic doom side-project with Ashley Spungin

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Widows ‘Death Valley Duchess’ CD 2012

3rd August 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Bad News Records, CD, Death Valley Duchess, Doom, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, Southern Rock, Widows

When Def Leppard came up with the name Bludgeon Riffola for their record label maybe, just maybe, Joe Elliot and

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Hark ‘Mythopoeia’ 7″/DD 2012

2nd August 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, 7", Hardcore, HARK, Heavy Rock, Jimbob Isaac, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mythopoeia, Progressive, Review, Sludge, SuperFi Records

For those who got their unique brand of angular power sludge rock it was a sad day back in September

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Magician ‘Nature Is The Devil’s Church’ CD/LP 2012

1st August 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2012, Adam Stone, Black Magician, Burning World Records, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Nature Is The Devil's Church, Prog Rock, Review, Shaman Recordings

Do not write doom off impetuous child (with your colourful and newly inked arm), for while it may appear ‘unfashionable’

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Legal Fingers ‘No Time For Tenderness’ CD 2012

30th July 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CD, Glam Rock, Legal Fingers, Maxed Out Recordz, No Time For Tenderness, Ollie Stygall, Punk, Review, Sleaze Rock

Now, I’m going to blow my credibility totally here and come right out and say that I love a good

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Album & EP Reviews S 

shEver ‘Rituals’ CD 2012

28th July 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rituals, shEver, Totalrust Music

Having been in existence since the early Noughties, Switzerland’s shEver have produced several self released albums and put in a

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Noothgrush / Suppression – Split 5″ 2012

27th July 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Doom, Fuck Yoga Records, Grindcore, Noothgrush, Power Violence, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Sludge, Split 5", Suppression

With the multitude of labels and bands sprouting up around the world, it’s easy to forget that slow was once

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Fister ‘Violence’ CS/DD 2012

26th July 20123rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2012, Cassette, Chris Moore, Digital, Doom, Drone, Fister, Heavy, Review, Self Released, Violence

Fister are a three-piece doom outfit from Saint Louis. Fister is also a small village near Stavanger on the south-western

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Baroness ‘Yellow & Green’ 2xCD/2xLP/DD 2012

25th July 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Atmospheric, Baroness, CD, Digital, LP, Prog Rock, Relapse Records, Review, Rock, Tom McKibbin, Yellow & Green

Yellow & Green, the double-album from Savannah, Georgia sludge band Baroness, is already one of the most talked-about records of

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Botanist ‘III – Doom In Bloom/Allies’ 2xCD 2012

24th July 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, Black Metal, Blackened Doom, Botanist, Experimental, III - Doom In Bloom/Allies, Paul Robertson, Post-Rock, Review, Totalrust Music

I’m always drawn to the rampant individualists in music, those brave souls who go out on a limb and plough

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Nightstalker ‘Dead Rock Commandos’ CD/DD 2012

23rd July 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CD, Dead Rock Commandos, Digital, Fuzz, Nightstalker, Ollie Stygall, Psychedelic, Review, Small Stone Records

Greece may well be on the bones of its arse financially but it seems like they have some serious rock

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