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2017

Circle 'Terminal'
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Review: Circle ‘Terminal’ 2017

16th September 20193rd October 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2017, Circle, Experimental, Review, Southern Lord, Terminal

The Finnish collective that makes up Circle are one of those bands that have gathered a small dictionary of words

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Boris 'Dear'
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Boris ‘Dear’ 2017

1st August 20172nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2017, Boris, Dear, Doom, Drone, Review, Sargent House, Will Beattie

Before I begin, I have to make a confession. It’s something that I have agonised over for days, tossing and

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Grey Widow ‘II’ 2017
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Grey Widow ‘II’ 2017

18th July 20173rd September 2019 Jon Weatherill 2017, Doom, Grey Widow, II, Jon Weatherill, Review, Self Released, Sludge

If you’re a regular on the British sludge metal circuit, you might be forgiven if you’d discovered Brighton-based Grey Widow

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Barrabus – S/T
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Barrabus – S/T – 2017

5th July 20172nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2017, Barrabus, Experimental, Hardcore, Metal, Paul Catten, Review, Undergroove Records, Will Beattie

Gather round, children, and I’ll tell you a tale. The year was 2007, the weather was British and there were

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Obelyskkh 'The Providence'
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Obelyskkh ‘The Providence’ 2017

5th July 20173rd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2017, Doom, Exile On Mainstream Records, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Obelyskkh, Psych, Review, The Providence

Once known as the Phantoms of the German Doom scene for their perceived phobia of the studio, Teutonic heavy groove

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Crippled Black Phoenix 'Bronze' 2017
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Crippled Black Phoenix ‘Bronze’ 2017

19th June 20173rd September 2019 Guido Segers 2017, Bronze, Crippled Black Phoenix, Guido Segers, Heavy Rock, Prog Rock, Review, Season Of Mist

As far as music goes, Crippled Black Phoenix are hard to really put in a box. Their sound really is

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Zhrine ‘Unortheta’ 2017
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Zhrine ‘Unortheta’ 2017

19th June 20173rd September 2019 Will Beattie 2017, Black Metal, Review, Season Of Mist, Unortheta, Will Beattie, Zhrine

On the face of it, the name Unortheta doesn’t give much away. Neither does Zhrine, the name of the Icelandic

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Emptiness ‘Not For Music’ 2017
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Emptiness ‘Not For Music’ 2017

13th June 20173rd September 2019 Will Beattie 2017, Black Metal, Emptiness, Experimental, Industrial, Not For Music, Review, Season Of Mist, Will Beattie

For some strange reason, everyone keeps calling Emptiness a black/death metal band. I might be quite late to the party

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Harvestman 'Music For Megaliths' 2017
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Harvestman ‘Music For Megaliths’ 2017

18th May 201716th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2017, Daniel Pietersen, Dark, Drone, Folk, Harvestman, Music For Megaliths, Neurot Recordings, Review, Steve Von Till

With Harvestman, Neurosis’ Steve Von Till has been exploring a much less bombastic form of music; arboreal, earthy and yet

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Space Witch ‘Arcanum’ 2017
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Space Witch ‘Arcanum’ 2017

17th May 20173rd September 2019 John Reppion 2017, Arcanum, Doom, Heavy, HeviSike Records, John Reppion, Psychedelic, Review, Space Witch

Just under three years ago Stoke on Trent’s Space Witch released their Self-Titled debut LP consisting of two thirty-plus minute

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HARK ‘Machinations’ 2017
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HARK ‘Machinations’ 2017

16th May 20173rd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2017, HARK, Heavy Rock, Machinations, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Progressive, Review, Season Of Mist

HARK’s first album swaggered in and grabbed you like an amorous first world president; it was brash, bold and in

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