Review: TORSO ‘Annihilation Day’
Over a menacing, droning pulse, a sample intones, January 1st 1984. A frenzied swathe of murders has struck the small
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APF Records
Review: Spider Kitten ‘The Truth Is Caustic To Love’
‘Mental illness? Check. Addiction? Check. Despair? Oh yeah, it’s there. They don’t sing about hope. They sing about what happens
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Review: Elan ‘Elan Vs Elan’
Once again, emanating forth from the riff mines of Salford’s APF Records are yet more disturbingly brutal noises brought to
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Video Premiere: Spider Kitten ‘The Spoiler’ – ‘The Truth Is Caustic To Love’ Releases 27th June
Emerging from the depths of sonic despair, Spider Kitten return with The Spoiler, a short, bludgeoning burst of doomy, sludge
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Review: Praetorian ‘Pylon Cult’
I try to steer clear of letting politics or social commentary seep into my reviews too much these days, but
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Review: Swamp Coffin ‘Drowning Glory’
Rothertham’s Swamp Coffin began life in 2016 with vocalist/guitarist Jon Rhodes and drummer David Winstow looking for a way ‘of
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Review: TORSO ‘Brain Cells’
I love horror movies. Rock music and horror have been linked even before a certain Birmingham four-piece created music with
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Barbarian Hermit / Under / Bodach / Shred Dibnah @ Rebellion, Manchester, 3rd August 2024
After a relative gig drought, for me at least, of some twenty-three days, I was finally back watching some live
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Review: Wall ‘Brick By Brick’
There are a lot of column inches dedicated to a certain pair of musical siblings at the moment. However, it
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Review: Berenice ‘Berenice’ EP
Freshly minted and with the musical equivalent of that new car smell, Berenice, the UK five-piece hailing from East Anglia
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Review: Barbarian Hermit ‘Mean Sugar’
I live about an hour south of Manchester, and I like to think that I keep my ear to the
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