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Drone

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Usko ‘Kuusi’ Cassette/DD 2012

11th May 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Black Metal, Cassette, DD, Digital Download, Drone, Dual Bass, Kuusi, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Penny Whistles And Moon Pies, Review, Sludge, Usko

In these tragic days of the disposable digital download, artists have to come up with increasingly novel ways to get

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Horseback ‘Half Blood’ CD/LP/DD 2012

20th April 20123rd September 2019 George Leeming 2012, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Drone, George Leeming, Half Blood, Horseback, LP, Psychedelic, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

Half Blood marks the third record for North Carolina’s Horseback, the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist/producer Jenks Miller. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare

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Gauchiste – S/T – CD/LP 2012

2nd April 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Ambient, Atmospheric, CD, Drone, Experimental, Gauchiste, Little Black Cloud Records, Loincloth, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Titled, Tannon Penland

Somewhere out there on the fringe, sonic explorers of the of the outer dark Gauchiste skirt the orbit of drone

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Bong ‘Mana-Yood-Sushai’ CD 2012

28th March 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Bong, CD, Doom, Drone, Mana-Yood-Sushai, Psychedelic, Review, Ritual Productions, Tom McKibbin

Writing about drone in many ways defeats the object, it undermines the genre’s primary purpose which is to send the

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Author & Punisher ‘Ursus Americanus’ CD 2012

14th March 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Author & Punisher, CD, Doom, Drone, Dub, Industrial, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Seventh Rule Recordings, Tristan Shone, Ursus Americanus

Throughout literature the concept of the existence of man and machine has always thrown out some fascinating concepts; from mechanoids

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Conan ‘Monnos’ CD/LP/DD 2012

13th March 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Burning World Records, CD, Conan, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Drone, Heavy, LP, Monnos, Review, Tom McKibbin

Conan seem to be the band on everyone’s lips at the moment; signed to Burning World Records, an enviable slot

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Monarch ‘Omens’ CD 2012

3rd February 20123rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2012, At A Loss Recordings, CD, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Monarch, Omens, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review

Monarch have carved such a tight niche for themselves, it would be difficult to imagine them doing anything other than

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Volition / Juhyo – Split 3″ CD/Cassette 2011

31st January 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2011, 3" CD, Cassette, Death Doom, Doom, Drone, Heavy, Juhyo, Noise, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Small Doses, Split, Volition

If you were to look up “underrated extreme music from the UK” you can bet your life that, amongst the

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Aelter ‘Dusk Dawn/Follow You Beloved’ 2xCD 2011

30th January 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Aelter, Atmospheric, Blake Green, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Doom, Drone, Dusk Dawn/Follow You Beloved, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Wolvserpent

Just as Conan broods upon his throne in Aquilonia, so it is that Wolvserpent’s Blake Green broods in his studio,

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Gnaw Their Tongues ‘Per Flagellum Sanguemque Tenebras Veneramus’ CD 2011

22nd January 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, Paul Robertson, Per Flagellum Sanguemque Tenebras Veneramus, Review

Lock your doors. Bar your windows. Seal yourself inside your home. Call the police. It won’t save you, Gnaw Their

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Spire – Digital EP 2010 & ‘Metamorphosis’ Digital EP 2011

15th January 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 2010, 2011, Blackened Doom, Digital EP, Drone, Experimental, James Parker, Metamorphosis, Review, Self Released, Spire

Spire – Digital EP 2010 Australia – land of beer, Sheilas and blokes in dodgy beachwear. Not the sort of

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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