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Intensive Care + The Body 'Was I Good Enough?' Artwork
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Review: Intensive Care + The Body ‘Was I Good Enough?’

8th May 20258th May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Industrial, Intensive Care, The Body

It’s been roughly a decade since I last wrote about a release from experimental Portland metal duo The Body. Back

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Review: Full Of Hell & Andrew Nolan ‘Scraping The Divine’

15th November 202415th November 2024 Amanda Votta Andrew Nolan, Closed Casket Activities, Experimental, Full Of Hell

Since 2009, Maryland/Pennsylvania based Full Of Hell have been creating some of the most beautifully nightmarish music you’ll hear, both

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Review: Full Of Hell ‘Coagulated Bliss’

3rd May 20243rd May 2024 Will J Closed Casket Activities, Full Of Hell, Grind

Around two-thirds of the way through Full Of Hell’s headline set at Plan B in Malmö last September, vocalist Dylan

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Review: Spiritual Poison ‘Incorporeal’

8th December 20238th December 2023 Reza Mills Ambient, Closed Casket Activities, Soundscapes, Spiritual Poison

From the grindcore brutality of Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire, Death Of Self and Vermin Womb to

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Review: Full Of Hell And Nothing ‘When No Birds Sang’

7th December 20237th December 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Drone, Full Of Hell, Noise, Nothing, Shoegaze

‘If we’re doing our job, it will freak you the fuck out in the best way, because you’re staring at

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Full Of Hell & Primitive Man 'Suffocating Hallucination'
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Review: Full Of Hell & Primitive Man ‘Suffocating Hallucination’

2nd March 202317th January 2026 Simon Brotherton Closed Casket Activities, Full Of Hell, Primitive Man, Sludge

I’d never refer to myself as a massive sludge or noise fan, so you may be wondering why I picked

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Intensive Care: Jamie Grimes Interviews Andrew Nolan Of The Industrial Noise Duo

6th October 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Closed Casket Activities, Industrial, Intensive Care, Iron Lung Records, Noise

Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer are lifers. The pair have been unleashing and developing their own particular form of industrialised

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

30th April 202630th April 2026 Lee Edwards

Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June
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Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June

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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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