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Ancient Of Days 'Wretched Ones'
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Ancient Of Days ‘Wretched Ones’ EP CD/DD 2016

24th May 20167th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Ancient Of Days, CD, Digital, EP, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

Does anyone remember when bands at least seemed like they were seriously fucking dangerous? Remember that unnerving feeling of being

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Ggu:ll ‘Dwaling’
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Ggu:ll ‘Dwaling’ CD/LP/DD 2016

24th May 20167th September 2019 Guido Segers 2016, CD, Digital, Doom, Drone, Dwaling, Ggu:ll, Guido Segers, Heavy, LP, Review, Ván Records

Ggu:ll have finally released that long awaited full length, titled Dwaling. Its title would translate as ‘error’, but it feels

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Earthless / Harsh Toke – Split
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Earthless / Harsh Toke – Split – CD/LP/DD 2016

23rd May 20167th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Acid Crusher, Acid Rock, CD, Digital, Earthless, Harsh Toke, Jam, LP, Mount Swan, Pete Green, Psych, Review, Split, Tee Pee Records

I’ll admit it: I’m an addict. It’s got to the point now with new Earthless releases that I literally get

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Se Delan ‘Drifter'
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Se Delan ‘Drifter’ CD/LP/DD 2016

19th May 20167th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, Alternative, Belinda Kordic, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Drifter, Gothic, Justin Greaves, Kscope, LP, Post-Punk, Review, Se Delan

So, you’ve laid waste to countless ears with Iron Monkey, had an in-one-door-out-the-next tenure in Electric Wizard and then basically

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Dälek 'Asphalt For Eden'
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Dälek ‘Asphalt For Eden’ CD/LP/DD 2016

18th May 20167th September 2019 Guido Segers 2016, Asphalt For Eden, CD, Dälek, Digital, Experimental, Guido Segers, Hip-Hop, LP, Profound Lore Records, Rap, Review

Congratulations, you might be reading the very first review of a hip-hop album on The Sleeping Shaman. We can’t help

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Alaric ‘End Of Mirrors’
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Alaric ‘End Of Mirrors’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2016

17th May 20167th September 2019 Guido Segers 2016, Alaric, Cassette, CD, Dark, Digital, End Of Mirrors, Gothic, Guido Segers, LP, Neurot Recordings, Post-Punk, Review

Alaric is probably most known for the sacking of Rome in the fifth century. Those were dark times. The namesake

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Davie Allan / Joel Grind - Split
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Davie Allan / Joel Grind – Split – 10″/CD/DD 2016

16th May 201611th September 2019 Drew Fulton 10", 2016, CD, Davie Allan, Davie Allan And The Arrows, Digital, Drew Fulton, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Joel Grind, Relapse Records, Review, Split, Surf Rock, Toxic Holocaust

“Of course it does, hahaha!”. This is my first thought when Davie Allan’s new jam, Recycled Too crunches in with

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Baklavaa ‘Dane On'
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Baklavaa ‘Dane On’ CD/CS/DD 2016

12th May 201611th September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2016, Baklavaa, Cassette, CD, Dane On, Digital, Grimoire Records, Grunge, Noise, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review

I’m a sucker for a good bit of noise rock. There’s something so appealing about the juxtaposition of the ugly

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Gorilla / Grifter ‘Gorilla vs Grifter’
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Gorilla / Grifter ‘Gorilla vs Grifter’ LP/CD/DD 2016

11th May 201611th September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2016, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Gorilla, Gorilla vs Grifter, Grifter, Heavy Rock, HeviSike Records, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Split

This gem of a release from Hevisike Records features two hard hitting power trios from England who exist purely to

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Ghold 'PYR'
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Ghold ‘PYR’ CD/LP/DD 2016

9th May 201611th September 2019 Guido Segers 2016, CD, Digital, Doom, Experimental, Ghold, Guido Segers, Heavy, LP, PYR, Review, Ritual Productions

A progressive noise trio from London they call themselves and they make music that definitely fits the description. Either that

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Amenra ‘Alive’
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Amenra ‘Alive’ CD/LP 2016

5th May 201611th September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2016, Acoustic, Alive, Ambient, Amenra, CD, Consouling Sounds, Dark, Jay Hampshire, LP, Review

A spiritual successor to their 2009 Afterlife EP, Alive sees Belgium’s mysterious purveyors of post-doom/sludge Amenra once more bare their

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