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Review: Crystal Spiders ‘Metanoia’

10th June 202510th June 2025 Lee Beamish Crystal Spiders, Doom, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music

Crystal Spiders are back baby!! And this time there’s more of them. One of North Carolina’s premier hard rocking monoliths

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Top Ten Of 2021: Lee Beamish

15th December 20218th February 2022 Lee Beamish Blackwater Holylight, Bossk, Crystal Spiders, Djiin, Emma Ruth Rundle, Hippie Death Cult, Kollapse, Lore City, Rongeur, Sleep Moscow, Top Ten 2021

As another ludicrous twenty-first century year draws to a close, it’s time to reflect. Not on the lunacy of the

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Crystal Spiders: Interview With Brenna & Tradd

5th October 20218th November 2021 Lee Beamish Crystal Spiders, Doom, Ripple Music

With new album Morieris, which I recently reviewed, having literally been birthed into the world last weekend, Crystal Spiders are

Crystal Spiders 'Morieris'

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Review: Crystal Spiders ‘Morieris’

27th September 202129th October 2021 Lee Beamish Crystal Spiders, Doom, Ripple Music

For anyone in the know, who follows anything I post on The Sleeping Shaman, they will hopefully have checked out

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Top Ten Of 2020: Lee Beamish

17th December 202027th January 2021 Lee Beamish Aleah, Ancient River, Crystal Spiders, EMBR, Melt, OHHMS, Old Blood, Realize, Svalbard, The Ocean, Top Ten 2020

Well, what a year it’s been. It started so promisingly, and then swiftly descended in to a complete shit show,

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Video Premiere: Crystal Spiders ‘Fog’ – Debut Album ‘Molt’ Set To Be Released By Ripple Music

8th September 20208th February 2022 Lee Edwards Crystal Spiders, Fog, Molt, Ripple Music

Crystal Spiders, a bass and drum stoner doom duo of Brenna Leath and Tradd Yancey are a name you really

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Review: Crystal Spiders ‘Molt’

8th September 20207th October 2020 Lee Beamish Crystal Spiders, Doom, Molt, Ripple Music

Rising from the depths of North Carolina, coming at you with an absolutely incredible debut, are Crystal Spiders, and they’re

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Premiere: Ensemble Tikoro ‘Tortoise’ – New Album Lands 23rd October via Jangjang Records

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Enter the hypnotic, boundary-pushing world of Ensemble Tikoro as The Shaman premieres their formidable new full-length work, Tortoise, ahead of

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Premiere: SEK ‘Amore Mio’ – Debut Album ‘Wallensteins Garage’ Lands 30th October

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Premiere: Spider Kitten ‘God Don’t Sleep’ – New Album Lands This Friday, 2nd October

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Premiere: SALVATION ‘Depression’ – New Album ‘The Haunted’ Lands On 16th October

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