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Corephallism / Gnaw Their Tongues – Split 10″ 2012

28th February 20133rd September 2019 Todd Robinson 2012, Atmospheric, Corephallism, Drone, Gnaw Their Tongues, Lascivious Aesthetics, Mories, Noise, Power Electronics, Review, Split 10", Todd Robinson

What a disturbing little 10” this turned out to be, split between Corephallism (featuring a member of Boston based noise/grind

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Opium Lord ‘The Calendrical Cycle – Prologue: The Healer’ CDEP/DD 2013

13th February 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Atmospheric, CDEP, Digital, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Hardcore, Heavy, Metal, Opium Lord, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, The Calendrical Cycle – Prologue: The Healer, Thirty Days Of Night Records

I’ve been doing this reviewing schtick for T’Shaman for a few years now, wading through wave upon wave, pile upon

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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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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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Horders ‘Fimbulvetr’ LP/DD 2012

18th December 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Feast Of Tentacles, Give Up, Horders, LP, Paul Robertson, Review

Field transmissions from someplace cold, desolate and uncaring are what appear to make up Fimbulvetr,the first full-length recording from Horders,

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Dull Knife – S/T – LP/DD 2012

13th December 20123rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes Atmospheric, Debacle Records, Digital Download, Drone, Dull Knife, Experimental, Jamie Grimes, LP, Noise, Review, Self Titled

As someone who enjoys the genre, I still sometimes feel there’s something vaguely derogatory about the term “Noise”. That may

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Sun Splitter ‘III’ LP/DD 2012

19th November 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Bloodlust!, Digital, Doom, Drone, Experimental, III, LP, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Review, Sun Splitter

Merchants of industrialised psychedelic ur-doom, Chicago’s Sun Splitter have been honing their craft over the last couple of years and

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Sunwølf ‘Beyond The Sun’ CD/DD 2012

8th November 20123rd September 2019 Calum Darroch 2012, Ambient, Calum Darroch, CD, Digital, Drone, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, Sunwølf

Sunwølf are a band that will confound your expectations. Clocking in at around 26 minutes, their debut mini-album “Beyond the

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Guardian Alien ‘See The World Given To A One Love Entity’ CD/LP 2012

29th October 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, CD, Drone, Experimental, Greg Fox, Guardian Alien, LP, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, See The World Given To A One Love Entity, Thrill Jockey Records

Transphasing in from the depths of the bright realm, Guardian Alien may be corporeally based in New York but it’s

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Mamiffer / Pyramids – Split LP/DD 2012

25th October 20123rd September 2019 George Leeming 2012, Ambient, Atmospheric, Digital, Drone, George Leeming, Hydra Head Records, LP, Mamiffer, Mamiffer & Pyramids Split, Post-Rock, Pyramids

I certainly won’t be the first or the last to comment with a heavy heart on the imminent demise of

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Locrian ‘The Clearing / The Final Epoch’ CD/DD 2012

9th October 20123rd September 2019 Todd Robinson 2012, Ambient, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, CD, Dark, Digital, Doom, Drone, Industrial, Locrian, Relapse Records, Review, The Clearing, The Clearing / The Final Epoch, The Final Epoch, Todd Robinson

Locrian have been lurking around in the murk of the underground for coming close to a decade now, I first

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