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Heavy Rock

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Borracho ‘Splitting Sky’ CD/LP 2011

2nd August 201123rd February 2024 Ollie Stygall 2011, Borracho, CD, Heavy Rock, LP, No Balls Records, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Southern Rock, Splitting Sky, Stoner Rock

Do you ever look at someone with the distinct feeling that you know them from somewhere but just can’t really

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sleestak ‘The Fall Of Altrusia’ CD 2011

24th July 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, Sleestak, Stoner Doom, The Fall Of Altrusia

What’s that coming over the hill, is it a monster? Well yes actually it is. It’s a Sleestak and it’s

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Backwoods Payback ‘Momantha’ CD 2011

22nd July 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Backwoods Payback, CD, Heavy Rock, Momantha, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records, Southern Rock

Backwoods Payback! The name conjures images of some kind of Deliverance style, hillbilly redneck revenge killing…all plaid shirts, mountains of

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lo-Pan ‘Salvador’ CD 2011

12th July 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Lo-Pan, Ollie Stygall, Review, Salvador, Small Stone Records, Southern Rock

Adapt or die that is very much the key to the continued existence of any musical subset and that is

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sigiriya ‘Return To Earth’ CD/LP 2011

11th July 20113rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2011, Acrimony, Adam Stone, CD, Church Within Records, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, LP, Return To Earth, Review, Sigiriya, Stoner Doom

This is the sound of a young man’s hair growing past his shoulders and spilling onto his greasy denim jerkin.

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Album & EP Reviews E 

End Of Level Boss ‘Eklectric’ CD 2011

10th July 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Eklectric, End Of Level Boss, Exile On Mainstream Records, Heavy Rock, Pete Green, Prog Rock, Review

In recent years, EOLB have gathered the kind of respect most underground bands would give up a grandma to have

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Premonition 13 ’13’ CD/LP 2011

7th July 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 13, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Jim Karow, LP, Matthew Clark, Ollie Stygall, Premonition 13, Review, Stoner Doom, Volcom Entertainment, Wino

As he fast approaches his 50th birthday (September 28th if you want to send him a card), Wino shows little

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Wall Of Sleep ‘When Mountains Roar’ CD 2011

3rd July 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, NWOBHM, PsycheDOOMelic Records, Review, Wall Of Sleep, When Mountains Roar

Doom music and a name like Wall Of Sleep… you are thinking Ozzy era Sabbath, those sludgey, crawling guitar sounds

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hittegods ‘Let It Burn’ CD 2011

24th June 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Heavy Rock, Hittegods, Let It Burn, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released

Hmm…ah…um…ok…this is awkward!!!! When a band seem so in love with rock and roll and claim AC/DC as an influence

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Thinning The Heard ‘Oceans Rise’ CD 2011

12th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Oceans Rise, Ollie Stygall, Review, St Mark's Records, Thinning The Heard

It may sound superficial but I think you can always trust a band who sport beards…especially big straggly full face

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45 Rats ‘First Gear’ CDEP 2011

5th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CDEP, Heavy Rock, NWOBHM, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released

With the high number of quality stoner acts emerging from Greece right now I wouldn’t be surprised if throwing a

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