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2012

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Bevar Sea – S/T – CD/DD 2012

31st March 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Bevar Sea, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Self Titled

These days heavy metal is a fully-fledged global phenomenon and I don’t know about everyone else, but I think that’s

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Album & EP Reviews D 

DEAD ‘Idiots’ LP/DD 2012

27th March 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, DEAD, Digital, Hardcore, Heavy, Idiots, Jamie Grimes, LP, Metal, Revelations, Review, Sludge, We Empty Rooms

The spirit of the late, great God Head Silo is apparently alive and well and living in in Australia, reincarnated

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Euro-Asia ‘Signals’ DD 2012

25th March 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Digital, Euro-Asia, Green Sky, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Pedro Ortiz, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, Signals

Cast your minds back a ways and you may remember me enthusing about a li’l two-track release by a Miami-based

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Kustodian ‘Dusted Emperor’ DD 2012

22nd March 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Digital, Doom, Dusted Emperor, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, Kustodian, Pete Green, Review, Self Released

Back in the mid-1980s, a young Justin Broadrick pulled back his bedroom curtains and looked out upon the surroundings in

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Wo Fat ‘The Black Code’ CD/LP/DD 2012

15th March 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy Rock, Jam, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records, The Black Code, Wo Fat

The word “thick” in the English language has a few uses. It can mean stupid, it can mean something that

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Tome – Demo MMXII – CD/DD 2012

14th March 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, CD, Demo MMXII, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Tome

Northern Ireland, while hardly a mecca of all things heavy, has been known to throw up some serious riffage over

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Twin Guns ‘Sweet Dreams’ LP/DD 2012

12th March 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Digital, Garage Rock, Jamie Grimes, LP, Psychobilly, Punk, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Self Released, Sweet Dreams, Twin Guns

I have, and for as long as I can remember always have had, this unfortunate tendency to associate sound with

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Tombstones ‘Year Of The Burial’ CD/LP 2012

8th March 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Review, Soulseller Records, Stoner Doom, Tombstones, Year Of The Burial

Spreading the spirit of Sabbath is now a global thing with countries as far as Norway producing hypnotic vibes that

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Album & EP Reviews D 

DeathCrawl ‘Accelerated Rate Of Decay’ CD/DD 2012

7th March 20133rd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Accelerated Rate Of Decay, CD, Crust, DeathCrawl, Digital, Doom, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Having scored a favourable Blabbermouth review back in 2009 for the debut release of their self produced ‘The End Is

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A Story Of Rats ‘Vastness And The Inverse’ LP 2012

5th March 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, A Story Of Rats, Atmospheric, Drone, Experimental, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Translinguistic Other, Vastness And The Inverse

Offhand I can think of a few stories of rats, with the most enjoyable being that written by the old

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Larman Clamor ‘Frogs’ CD/LP/DD 2012

3rd March 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, Alex von Wieding, Blues, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Frogs, Larman Clamor, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records

Better late than never as the saying goes. This album actually came out in 2012 and somehow passed us by

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