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2015

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bad Guys ‘Bad Guynaecology’ LP/CD/DD 2015

7th June 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Jay Hampshire, LP, Metal, Noise-Rock, Review, Riot Season

Labels are convenient. They help us recover lost items, take the right medication and stop that twat Gary from finance

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Monolord ‘Vænir’ CD/LP/DD 2015

4th June 20152nd September 2019 Pete Green 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Monolord, Pete Green, Review, RidingEasy Records, Sludge, Vænir

Gothenburg, Sweden’s Monolord slammed downtown into Doomtown last year with their 2014 debut Empress Rising. The trio, comprising ex-Marulk and

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Minsk ‘The Crash And The Draw’ CD/LP/DD 2015

3rd June 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Minsk, Post-Rock, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson, The Crash And The Draw

Minsk first came to my attention a decade ago with their stunning debut Out Of A Center Which Is Neither

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Diesel King ‘Concrete Burial’ CD/DD 2015

3rd June 20153rd September 2019 Brian Burroughs 2015, Brian Burroughs, CD, Concrete Burial, Diesel King, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Review, Sludge, When Planets Collide

Brainhammer intends to bludgeon, I imagine. Right out of the gate, blasts this first song from the new release by

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Weedeater ‘Goliathon’ CD/LP/DD 2015

2nd June 20153rd September 2019 Michael Collins 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Goliathon, Heavy, LP, Michael Collins, Review, Season Of Mist, Sludge, Weedeater

In a genre of rudimentary self-abuse, filled with strange tales of destruction and mis-adventure, there are heavyweights that surpass the

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Enablers ‘The Rightful Pivot’ CD/LP/DD 2015

2nd June 20153rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2015, CD, Chris Moore, Digital, Enablers, Exile On Mainstream Records, Experimental, LP, Review, Spoken Word, The Rightful Pivot

When you’re a band like Enablers, a band that nobody else really sounds like, it doesn’t matter that you’re not

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lucifer ‘Lucifer I’ CD/LP/DD 2015

26th May 20152nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy, Heavy Rock, LP, Lucifer, Lucifer I, Review, Rise Above Records

Once there was The Oath. Then it ended and Johanna Sadonis formed Lucifer. Never dropping the pace to a slower

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Brume ‘Donkey’ CD/DD 2015

26th May 20152nd September 2019 Pete Green 2015, Brume, CD, Digital, Donkey, Heavy. Doom, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, When Planets Collide

I don’t trust that donkey one bit. She’s got a donkey’s head (‘natch), human boobies, scale-y lizard skin, an exhausted

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Desert Storm ‘Omniscient’ CD/DD 2015

24th May 20152nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2015, Blindsight Records, CD, Classic Rock, Desert Storm, Digital, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Omniscient, Review

Tough and gruff Oxford rockers Desert Storm have been kicking up a, er storm in recent times having supported hard

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lord Dying ‘Poisoned Altars’ CD/LP/DL 2015

24th May 20153rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy, Lord Dying, LP, Metal, Paul Robertson, Poisoned Altars, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

I was very taken with Lord Dying‘s 2013 debut album, Summon The Faithless, a scathing, seething mix of High On

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Iced Out ‘Man’s Ruin’ CDEP/DD 2015

16th May 20152nd September 2019 Pete Green 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Iced Out, Man’s Ruin, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, Witch Hunter Records

It is with a tear in my eye that I begin to pen this review. Witch Hunter Records, the one-man

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