Review: Remote Viewing ‘State Violence’
There’s no messing with this record’s title. Arriving with the PR foreshadowing of ‘their most direct statement yet’, it poses
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Hardcore
Negative Blast: An Interview With Rain Pesebre Of The San Diego Hardcore Deviants
As a fifty-plus-year-old, rock and roll lifer, I still never fail to get excited when I discover a band that
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Review: Pleb ‘Grease Trap’ EP
Pleb don’t ease you into Grease Trap; they hurl you straight into the meat grinder. Hailing from Leeds, UK, the
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Review: Nxmad ‘The Second Fall’
Once upon a time in the North of England, there was a band called Nomad. They were full of raw
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Review: Converge ‘Hum Of Hurt’
Blessed are we, those who suffer under the yoke of life, to receive TWO NEW CONVERGE RECORDS IN ONE YEAR!
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Review: Burned Up Bled Dry ‘Next Stop… Dead Stop…’
On one hand, the bursts of high intensity, unbridled fury that await those brave enough to engage with the new
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Review: Void ‘Live – 1982’
Maryland might perhaps be familiar to The Shaman regulars for its doom scene and bands such as Internal Void, Revelation,
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Review: Rocky & The Sweden ‘Punks Pot Head’
Despite considering myself to be knowledgeable about both punk rock, as well as Japanese music and culture in general, I
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Review: Converge ‘Love Is Not Enough’
When you are entrusted to review the new record by one of hardcore and extreme music’s most venerated and celebrated
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Review: Locusts ‘Lapsus Ab Inferno’ EP
In my escapades as a writer for The Sleeping Shaman, occasionally I will be asked if I can do a
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Review: Pupil Slicer ‘Fleshwork’
Back in May of 2023, I had my eyes well and truly opened to a band that, at the time,
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