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Total Fucking Destruction ‘Peace, Love and Total Fucking Destruction’ CD 2008

15th December 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Bones Brigade Records, Brutal Truth, CD, Crust, Grindcore, Hardcore, Peace Love and Total Fucking Destruction, Review, Richard Hoak, Total Fucking Destruction

A mad smear of visionary post-grindcore conceptualised and executed by Brutal Truth drummer Richard Hoak. Robot rhythm machine Hoak (drums

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Fistula ‘Burdened By Your Existence’ CD 2008

20th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Burdened By Your Existence, CD, Crust, Doom, Fistula, Heavy, Nasty, Plague Island, Review, Sludge

Oh my fucking ears, this is a nuclear migraine. Just when I thought sludge had reached its artistic zenith (or

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Dystopia – ST – CD/LP 2008

15th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Crust, Doom, Dystopia, Hardcore, Life Is Abuse, LP, Nasty, Review, Sludge

Punk’s not dead, it merely crawled into a disused orifice of the dark underbelly of the capitalist economic system and

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Lazarus Blackstar ‘Tomb Of Internal Winter’ CDEP 2008

28th August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Blackened Doom, CDEP, Crust, Doom, Future Noise, Heavy, Lazarus Blackstar, Nasty, Review, Tomb Of Internal Winter

Sweet Mary-Jane!! Life is pain – drown me in riffs!! Dust off the Amstrad music centre, kick yer Para-boots off,

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Disfear ‘Live The Storm’ CD 2008

26th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, At The Gates, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Death Crust, Disfear, Entombed, Hardcore, Live The Storm, Relapse Records, Review, Thomas Lindberg, Ulfe Cederlund

What does the term Punk Rock mean these days? It’s a genre so watered down by lightweight, pop star-aspiring posturing,

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Roots Of Sludge

16th August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone Adam Stone, Amebix, Article, Black Sabbath, Burning Witch, Charger, Crust, Discharge, Doom, EyeHateGod, Godflesh, Grief, Hardcore, Iron Monkey, Melvins, Metal, Napalm Death, Neurosis, Punk, Roots Of Sludge, Sludge, Weedeater

Sludge is a thick mud or sediment, greasy, foul and noxious. Sounds good already. But when it comes to music,

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Mary Bell – S/T – CD 2007

17th March 20086th September 2019 Mark Burns 2007, CD, Crust, Doom, Mark Burns, Mary Bell, Review, Sludge, Trabuc Records

After being really impressed with their ‘Derek Sessions’ recording i was well up for checking this out when I became

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V/A ‘Heaviosity’ CD 2005

6th January 20066th September 2019 Lee Edwards 2005, CD, Compilation, Crust, Doom, Gallipoli Records, Instrumental, Iron Hearse, Lee Edwards, Metal, Mothertrucker, Obiat, Outburst, Post-Rock, Review, Sludge, Suns Of Thunder, V/A, Various Artists

Heaviosity is a cracking release from newly formed UK label Gallipoli Records. Although not completely original in concept (who remembers

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EyeHateGod 'Preaching The End-Time Message'
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EyeHateGod ‘Preaching The End-Time Message’ CD 2005

4th January 200614th September 2019 Lee Edwards 2005, CD, Crust, Doom, Emetic Records, EyeHateGod, Hardcore, Heavy, Lee Edwards, Nasty, Preaching The End-Time Message, Review, Sludge

‘Preaching The End-Time Message’ is a Sludge fuelled compilation from those Southern wasters Eyehategod, which features alternative takes, rare &

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Lazarus Blackstar ‘Revelations’ CD 2005

10th December 20056th September 2019 Lee Edwards 2005, Blackened Doom, Crust, Doom, Heavy, Khang, Lazarus Blackstar, Lee Edwards, Nasty, Revelations, Review, Sludge, Undergroove Records

Lazarus Blackstar have made a dramatic impact on the underground doom circuit over the last few months & when you

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Video Premiere: Froglord ‘Croak’ – Swamp-Soaked Sludge From ‘The Mystic Toad’ Repress
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Video Premiere: Froglord ‘Croak’ – Swamp-Soaked Sludge From ‘The Mystic Toad’ Repress

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Emerging once again from the Bristolian mire, the amphibious overlords known as Froglord return to deliver another dose of thick,

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

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