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Slift @ Desertfest London 2025 - Photo by Tim Bugbee
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Desertfest London 2025 – Sunday

4th June 20254th June 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desertfest, Dopelord, Dunbarrow, Earth, London, Mr Bison, Oldblood, Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol, Slift

After killing the morning wandering aimless around Camden, I headed up to Stoner Ally to catch up with Matthew and

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Review: Dopelord ‘Songs For Satan’

5th October 20235th October 2023 Tom Hanno Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom, Dopelord

October 6th, 2023 will bring a brand new album from the stoner doom heavyweights of Dopelord. Their fifth full-length, lovingly

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Review: Dopelord ‘Sign Of The Devil’

17th April 202023rd July 2020 Sandy Williamson Doom, Dopelord, Green Plague Records, Sign Of The Devil

Lords of Eastern European classic doom, Poland’s Dopelord have returned to follow up their classic third record, Children Of The

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Heavy Days In Doomtown III: First Bands Now Announced For 2014

12th December 2013 Lee Edwards 3th Sign Collective, Abysmal Grief, Baby Woodrose, Copenhagen, Dopelord, Doublestone, Goatess, Heavy Days In Doomtown, Heavy Days In Doomtown III, News, Switchblade, Ungdomshuset, Vidunder, Whitehorse, Windhand, Yuri Gagarin

Copenhagen’s inaugural Heavy Days In Doomtown Fest have started announcing bands that will be playing next year’s festival and so

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Soggy Bog 85 – Svart Records Spotlight + Tribute To Ol Nick

31st July 2012 Lee Edwards Bedemon, Bongripper, Dopelord, From Beyond, Ghost, Green & Wood, Hell, Lucifers Friend, News, Pagan Altar, Podcast, Ramesses, Sabbath Assembly, Seremonia, Soggy Bog, Soggy Bog 85, Svart Records, The Devil’s Blood, Trouble, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

The latest Soggy Bog Podcast, episode 85, is now available and this week features a spot light on Svart Records

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Soggy Bog 84 – The Drunken Mess Episode

26th July 2012 Lee Edwards Catapult The Smoke, Coffins, Count Raven, Dopelord, Evoken, Make, Mares Of Thrace, News, Open Tomb, Pilgrim, Podcast, Rites, Soggy Bog, Soggy Bog 84, Sourvein, Stonehelm, Windhand, Witchsorrow

The Soggy Bog Podcast returns this week with Episode 84, and Bob, head honcho over at the Bog apologised in

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Dopelord ‘Magick Rites’ CD/Digital 2012

15th July 20123rd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Can’t Tell You Records, CD, Digital, Doom, Dopelord, Heavy, Magick Rites, Pete Green, Review, Stoner Doom

If you think about it, it was pretty inevitable really. We’ve already had (in no real order): Dopesmoker, Dopethrone (both

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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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Today, The Shaman is pleased to premiere La Pucelle, the new video from Birmingham heavy rockers Alunah. Taken from their

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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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March
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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March

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