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Enos ‘All Too Human’ CD/LP/DD 2013

23rd January 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, All Too Human, CD, Digital, Enos, LP, Ollie Stygall, Prog Rock, Review, Space Rock, Stargun Music

A couple of years ago I reviewed the first Enos release “Chapter 1” and was immediately impressed by their blend

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Art Of Burning Water ‘This Disgrace’ LP/DD 2013

21st January 20133rd September 2019 Todd Robinson 2013, Art Of Burning Water, Digital, Heavy, LP, Noise-Rock, Post-Rock, Review, Riot Season, Sludge, SuperFi Records, Swarm Of Nails, This Disgrace, Todd Robinson

London’s Art Of Burning Water mark their debut for Birmingham’s Riot Season (co-released with SuperFi & Swarm Of Nails) with

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Bitter Resolve ‘The Early Interstellar Medium’ DD 2012

18th January 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, Bitter Resolve, Digital, Doom, Heavy, James Parker, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, The Early Interstellar Medium

Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s Bitter Resolve have been ploughing their furrow of dynamic doom for a little while, releasing their

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Spider Goat Canyon / Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Split CD/DD 2012

17th January 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Bro Fidelity Records, Digital, Heavy Rock, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Instrumental, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Psychedelic, Review, Space Rock, Spider Goat Canyon, Split CD

Hotel Wrecking City Traders came to my attention through a split 12″ with fellow label mates Waterways and Sons Of

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Nonsun ‘Good Old Evil’ Demo 2012

16th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Demo, Digital, Doom, Drone, Good Old Evil, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Nonsun, Review, Self Released

I would imagine the two members behind the new Ukrainian duo Nonsun have a love of various different orbits of

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Torpor ‘Bled Dry’ CDEP/DD 2012

9th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Bled Dry, CDEP, Digital, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Metal, Review, Self Released, Torpor

Ah here. No. The alarm bells go off when I see tags on a Bandcamp page that say “noise metal”,

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Mage ‘Black Sands’ CD/DD 2012

8th January 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, Black Sands, CD, Digital, Doom, Mage, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released

Mage’s debut EP in 2011 was a tantalising taste of things to come for the band, muscular riffs and raw

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Mugstar ‘Axis’ CD/LP/DD 2012

7th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Agitated Records, Atmospheric, Axis, CD, Digital, Experimental, Jamie Grimes, LP, Mugstar, Psychedelic, Review, Space Rock

I believe it was extravagantly hatted jazz-funk troubadours Jamiroquai who thought to name one of their albums “Travelling Without Moving”.

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Jaw Horse ‘Cancer Creek’ CD/DD 2012

5th January 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, Cancer Creek, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Jaw Horse, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Punk, Review, Self Released

I’m a man of pretty varied tastes when it comes to music. Sometimes I like to chill out with something

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Sonance ‘Like Ghosts’ DD 2012

3rd January 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Like Ghosts, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Sonance

There’s a visceral beauty at work as Sonance wring twisted leaden sludge and floating spectral ambience seemingly from the very

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Southern Badass ‘Born In Mud’ CD/DD 2012

20th December 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Born In Mud, CD, Digital, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Ozium Records, Review, Sludge, Southern Badass, Southern Rock

Some bands manage to capture an essence, a feel that permeates through the music and ‘Born In Mud’ comes some

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