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White Hills ‘Live at Roadburn 2011’ CD/DD 2011

7th January 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, Burning World Records, CD, Dave W, DD, Digital Download, Ego Sensation, Live, Live at Roadburn 2011, Pete Green, Psychedelic, Review, Roadburn, Roadburn Records, Space Rock, Stoner Jam, White Hills

Watching KISS dominate the Download Festival in 2009 in all their tickertape-drenched glory is the greatest show I’ve ever seen.

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Chelsea Wolfe ‘Ἀποκάλυψις (Apokalypsis)’ CD/LP/DD 2011

28th December 20113rd September 2019 George Leeming 2011, Apokalypsis, Atmospheric, CD, Chelsea Wolfe, Dark, DD, Digital Download, Folk Doom, George Leeming, Heavy, LP, Pendu Sound, Review, Ἀποκάλυψις, Ἀποκάλυψις (Apokalypsis)

I first came across the name of Chelsea Wolfe upon its addition to the already jaw-dropping lineup for Roadburn Festival

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Infernal Overdrive ‘Last Rays Of The Dying Sun’ CD/DD 2012

20th December 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall CD, Classic Rock, DD, Digital Download, Heavy Rock, Infernal Overdrive, Last Rays Of The Dying Sun, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records

OK, how many awesome albums are there out there that have truly awful covers? Plenty…Flotsam And Jetsam “Doomsday For The

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Sulaco ‘Build And Burn’ LP/DD 2011

13th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Build And Burn, DD, Digital Download, Grindcore, Handshake Inc, LP, Metal, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Progressive, Review, Sulaco

Hey, does anyone else remember Sulaco, ’cause it’s been a while. If, like me, you thought they were another casualty

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Rue ‘Thorns’ CD/DD 2011

20th November 20113rd September 2019 George Leeming 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, George Leeming, Metal, Review, Rue, Shifty Records, Sludge, Thorns

When Rue’s second full-length ‘Thorns’ opens to the gently layered, acoustic guitar musing of the title track, the unwary listener

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Wreck And Reference ‘Black Cassette’ CD/LP/DL 2011

6th November 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, Black Cassette, CD, DD, Digital Download, Experimental, Flenser Records, LP, Music Ruins Lives, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Review, Wreck And Reference

Wreck and Reference have left me bamboozled, wrongfooted by their self-applied ‘electronic doom’ tag and generally unsure of what to

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Heavy Glow ‘Midnight Moan’ CD/DD 2011

4th November 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Blues, CD, Classic Rock, DD, Digital Download, Heavy Glow, Midnight Moan, Ollie Stygall, Retro Rock, Review, Self Released

Ok, I’ll admit the majority of recent music I get to listen to is as a result of this reviewing

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Black Cobra ‘Invernal’ CD/DD 2011

3rd November 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, Black Cobra, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Ernest Shackleton, Invernal, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, Southern Lord

“Shit me! How the fuck is he doing that?!” was pretty much my real-time verbal response upon surrendering my unsuspecting

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Aun ‘Phantom Ghost’ CD/LP/DD 2011

2nd November 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, Ambient, AUN, CD, DD, Denovali Records, Digital Download, Drone, Electronic, Experimental, LP, Phantom Ghost, Review, Tom McKibbin

Taking Aun’s Phantom Ghost at face value you could probably do a fair job of predicting the sounds within. The

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Dixie Witch ‘Let It Roll’ CD/DD 2011

30th October 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Classic Rock, DD, Digital Download, Dixie Witch, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Let It Roll, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records, Southern Rock

Twelve years and four albums into their career and five years since the last album, “Smoke And Mirrors” it’s very

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White Darkness ‘Tokage’ CD/LP/DD 2011

28th October 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, CD, DD, Denovali Records, Digital Download, Experimental, Jason Köhnen, LP, Paul Robertson, Rachael Kozak, Review, Tokage, White Darkness

Dread. Unease. The Ain Soph Aur trickling down into creation. The white hot oblivion of forcible unconsciousness. The inescapable fear

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