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2012

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Enabler ‘All Hail The Void’ CD 2012

23rd June 20123rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2012, All Hail The Void, Andrew Sloan, CD, Crossover, Death Metal, Enabler, Hardcore, Review, Southern Lord, Thrash Metal

The slow acoustic strum of a simple chord progression plays through a handful of times as delay echoes in the

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mighty High ‘Legalize Tre Bags’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

22nd June 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Legalize Tre Bags, LP, Mighty High, Ollie Stygall, Punk, Retro, Review, Ripple Music, Rock 'n' Roll

Yeah I know I’m in a band on the same label as these guys but that doesn’t necessarily mean I

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Nate Hall ‘A Great River’ CD/Digital 2012

21st June 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, A Great River, Acoustic, Atmospheric, Blues, CD, Digital, Folk, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Nate Hall, Neurot Recordings, Review, USX

Understandably heavily associated with its founding members bands Neurosis and Tribe Of Neurot, Neurot Recordings has quietly (well maybe not

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sleep ‘Dopesmoker’ Deluxe Reissue CD/2xLP 2012

19th June 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Al Cisneros, Billy Anderson, Brad Boatright, CD, Chris Hakius, Dopesmoker, LP, Matt Pike, Reissue, Review, Sleep, Southern Lord, Stoner Doom, Tom McKibbin

Oh come on. This review really is redundant before it’s even begun isn’t it? I mean, where does one begin

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Ides Of Gemini ‘Constantinople’ CD/LP 2012

18th June 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Atmospheric, CD, Constantinople, Doom, Dream Doom, Ides Of Gemini, LP, Neurot Recordings, Review, Sige Records, Tom McKibbin

LA “dream doom” trio Ides Of Gemini have, as many other reviewers have already pointed out, taken the basic principles

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Inverloch ‘Dusk…Subside’ CD/LP/Digital 2012

17th June 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, CD, d.USK, Death Metal, Digital, diSEMBOWELMENT, Dusk...Subside, Funeral Doom, Grindcore, Inverloch, LP, Paul Robertson, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

Proto-Funeral Doom/Drone grinders diSEMBOWELMENT were, in many ways, the definition of ‘kvlt’, having played zero live shows, recorded one EP,

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hot Lunch ‘Killer Smile’ 7” 2012

16th June 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, 7", Fuzz, Garage Rock, Heavy Rock, Hot Lunch, Killer Smile, Ollie Stygall, Retro Rock, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Who Can You Trust Records

Whoa, without so much as a knock at the door these guys come stumbling into your home and take over

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hour Of 13 ‘333’ CD 2012

15th June 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, 333, CD, Chad Davis, Doom, Earache Records, Heavy Rock, Hour Of 13, James Parker, Phil Swanson, Review, Traditional Doom

North Carolina, like much of the south east of the US, is a state troubled by hurricanes, and fundamentalist Christians.

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Burning Love ‘Rotten Thing To Say’ CD/LP 2012

12th June 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2012, Adam Stone, Burning Love, CD, Crust, Cursed, Hardcore, LP, Post-Hardcore, Punk, Review, Rotten Thing To Say, Southern Lord

Burning Love is a genius name for a band, particularly a hardcore punk band, what with it’s Elvis Presley link

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Martyrdöd ‘Paranoia’ CD/LP 2012

11th June 20123rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2012, Anarcho Punk, Blackened Crust, CD, Crust, D-Beat, LP, Martyrdöd, Paranoia, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Southern Lord

When I was last in Sweden I was given the amazing news that Southern Lord had recalibrated their punk radar

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Owl ‘Feaster From The Stars/Stone Loner’ 7″/Digital 2012

10th June 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, 7", Digital, Feaster From The Stars, Heavy, Magick Hermit Records, Metal, NWOBHM, Owl, Paul Robertson, Review, Stone Loner, Tombs In The Valley Productions

If they weren’t so damn good anyway, I’d already be predisposed toward digging Oakland hessians Owl for the following reasons…

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