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Zombi 'Shape Shift'
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Zombi ‘Shape Shift’ CD/LP/DD 2015

16th January 20161st November 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2015, Antony Paterra, CD, Digital, Experimental, Instrumental, Kraut, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Relapse Records, Review, Shape Shift, Steve Moore, Zombi

Seminal synth wave outfit Zombi have kept fans waiting for 4 long years for a follow up to 2011’s Escape

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CHVE ‘Rasa’
Album & EP Reviews C 

CHVE ‘Rasa’ CD/LP/DD 2015

9th January 20161st November 2019 Guido Segers 2015, CD, Church Of Ra, CHVE, Colin H Van Eeckhout, Consouling Sounds, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Guido Segers, LP, Rasa, Review, Soundscapes

The artist name CHVE stands for Colin H. Van Eeckhout. For the lovers of the complex and heavy, this name

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Gnaw Their Tongues 'Abyss Of Longing Throats'
Album & EP Reviews G 

Gnaw Their Tongues ‘Abyss Of Longing Throats’ CD/DD 2015

5th January 20161st November 2019 Jorge Miguel 2015, Abyss Of Longing Throats, Black Metal, CD, Crucial Blast Records, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, Jorge Miguel, Mories, Noise, Review

Having seen Gnaw Their Tongues live this past October, I can honestly say that we’re talking about one of the

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Hexvessel 'When We Are Death'
Album & EP Reviews H 

Hexvessel ‘When We Are Death’ CD/LP/DD 2016

2nd January 20161st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, CD, Century Media, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Experimental, Folk Rock, Hexvessel, LP, Mat McNerney, Psychedelic, Review, When We Are Death

Hexvessel have always been capricious spirits, dwelling in a particularly darkling glade of the psych-folk forest. Yet it is with

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Pinkish Black 'Bottom Of The Morning'
Album & EP Reviews P 

Pinkish Black ‘Bottom Of The Morning’ CD/LP/DD 2015

28th December 20151st November 2019 Jeremy Moore 2015, Bottom Of The Morning, CD, Digital, Experimental, Jeremy Moore, LP, Pinkish Black, Prog Rock, Relapse Records, Review, Space Rock

When longstanding friend and bassist Tommy Atkins of Ft. Worth, TX trio The Great Tyrant took his life in 2010,

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Dragged Into Sunlight + Gnaw Their Tongues 'N.V.'
Album & EP Reviews D 

Dragged Into Sunlight + Gnaw Their Tongues ‘N.V.’ CD/LP/DD 2015

16th December 20151st November 2019 Guido Segers 2015, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Dragged Into Sunlight, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, Guido Segers, LP, N.V., Negative Volume, Noise, Prosthetic Records, Review

The collaboration between Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues can only have taken place with the full approval of

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Wrekmeister Harmonies 'Night Of Your Ascension'
Album & EP Reviews W 

Wrekmeister Harmonies ‘Night Of Your Ascension’ CD/LP/DD 2015

15th December 20151st November 2019 Will Beattie 2015, CD, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, JR Robinson, LP, Night Of Your Ascension, Review, Thrill Jockey Records, Will Beattie, Wrekmeister Harmonies

Critics and reviews have an irritating tendency to describe artwork as ‘transcendental.’ If a book encourages the reader to think

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Sunn O))) 'Kannon'
Album & EP Reviews S 

Sunn O))) ‘Kannon’ CD/LP/DD 2015

14th December 20151st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2015, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Kannon, LP, Review, Southern Lord, Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) have made a career out of taking their ‘signature’ sound, huge walls of reverberating guitars that punch holes

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Amber Asylum 'Sin Eater'
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Amber Asylum ‘Sin Eater’ CD/LP/DD 2015

8th December 20151st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2015, Amber Asylum, Ambient, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Experimental, LP, Neo Folk, Prophecy Productions, Review, Sin Eater

Many cultures worldwide have some form of the archetype known in the West as a Sin Eater; a person who

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The Body & Krieg
Album & EP Reviews T 

The Body & Krieg – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2015

16th November 20154th November 2019 Angela Davey 2015, Angela Davey, At A Loss Recordings, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, Krieg, LP, Review, Self Titled, The Body

Noise-doom aficionados, The Body, are well renowned for their creative collaborations with some of metal’s finest, producing some absolutely terrifying

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Dreadnought 'Bridging Realms'
Album & EP Reviews D 

Dreadnought ‘Bridging Realms’ CD/LP/DD 2015

21st October 20154th November 2019 Jorge Miguel 2015, Bridging Realms, CD, Digital, Dreadnought, Experimental, Jorge Miguel, LP, Post-Rock, Prog Rock, Sailor Records

Some bands fail to stand out, while others immediately seem to have something special. As you can probably tell if

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