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Review: Mutagenic Host ‘The Diseased Machine’

13th January 202513th January 2025 Matthew Williams Death Metal, Dry Cough Records, Gurgling Gore, Memento Mori

I used to salivate at the thought of listening to any new death metal album but as I’ve aged and

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Review: Coffin Mulch ‘Spectral Intercession’

29th June 202329th June 2023 Matt Alexander At War With False Noise, Coffin Mulch, Death Metal, Dry Cough Records, Gurgling Gore, Memento Mori

In an ever-burgeoning UK extreme metal scene, one of the stand-out acts and one of the records I have been

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Review: Thorn ‘The Encompassing Nothing’ EP

28th September 202026th October 2020 Will J Brutal Cave Productions, Death Doom, Gurgling Gore, The Encompassing Nothing, Thorn

There’s few things that please me more in death metal than when an artist manages to blend old and new

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Premiere: Ensemble Tikoro ‘Tortoise’ – New Album Lands 23rd October via Jangjang Records

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Enter the hypnotic, boundary-pushing world of Ensemble Tikoro as The Shaman premieres their formidable new full-length work, Tortoise, ahead of

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