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Medamaki ‘Warbird’ CDEP 2008

30th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Classic Rock, Fury 76 Records, Heavy Rock, Medamaki, Ollie Stygall, Review, Warbird

“Hello Evesham, you guys rock!!!” Hmmm, it doesn’t really have much of a ring to it does it? I can’t

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Gonga ‘Transmigration’ CD 2008

21st August 20083rd September 2019 Mark Burns 2008, CD, Gonga, Heavy, Heavy Rock, Invada Records, Mark Burns, Review, Transmigration

After being plagued with line up changes, this Bristol four piece Gonga have now unleashed their long awaited second album.

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Aluna ‘Fall To Earth’ CDEP 2008

15th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, Aluna, Alunah, Catacomb Records, CDEP, Doom, Fall To Earth, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Space Rock

If the only musical legacy the West Midlands ever left us was Black Sabbath they’d be doing pretty well in

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Gentlemans Pistols – S/T – CD/LP 2007

5th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2007, Blues Rock, CD, Classic Rock, Gentlemans Pistols, Heavy Rock, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Rise Above Records

Whoa there, hold the phone have I missed something??? I seem to have fallen asleep and woken up in 1973

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Grifter ‘The High Unholy Mighty Rollin’ CDEP 2008

29th July 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Blues Rock, CDEP, Classic Rock, Fury 76 Records, Grifter, Heavy Rock, Review, Southern Rock, The High Unholy Mighty Rollin

Like that day old taste of sour mash, that tinnitus from blasting AC/DC and Clutch out of your car stereo

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Fatty Chan ‘Tunguska’ CDEP 2008

15th March 20086th September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Fatty Chan, Heavy Rock, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Review, Southern Rock, Tunguska

I’m guessing the name Fatty Chan won’t mean too much to anyone at the moment as, although the band have

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Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight ‘Imaginarianism’ CDEP 2008

15th March 20086th September 2019 Ollie Stygall Blues Rock, CDEP, Classic Rock, Heavy Rock, Imaginarianism, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Stoner Doom, Trippy Wicked, Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight, Two Piece

Where do I start? Trippy Wicked, or to give them their full name Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of

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Grifter ‘Elephantine’ Demo 2005

9th January 20066th September 2019 Lee Edwards 2005, Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Demo, Elephantine, Grifter, Heavy Rock, Lee Edwards, Review, Self Released, Southern Rock

I’d been eagerly awaiting this debut demo for sometime now from new kid of British Stoner Rock Grifter and it

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Blood Island Raiders / Among The Missing – Split 12″ 2005

24th December 20056th September 2019 Mark Burns 12", 2005, Among The Missing, Blood Island Raiders, Blood Island Raiders/Among The Missing, Doom, Heavy, Heavy Rock, Mark Burns, NWOBHM, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 12", Withered Hand Records

First release by promising new label Withered Hand Recs. The guy who runs the label is also in Among the

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Corrosion Of Conformity 'In The Arms Of God'
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Corrosion Of Conformity ‘In The Arms Of God’ CD 2005

21st April 200514th September 2019 Dom Finbow 2005, CD, COC, Corrosion Of Conformity, Dom Finbow, Heavy Rock, In the Arms of God, Pepper Keenan, Review, Sanctuary Records, Southern Rock

Its almost scary to think that it’s been over ten years since Deliverance blew my stereo speakers, and keeping with

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Outburst ‘100 Tonnes Of Stone’ CDEP 2005

17th March 20056th September 2019 Lee Edwards 100 Tonnes Of Stone, 2005, CDEP, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Lee Edwards, Outburst, Review, Self Released

‘100 Tonnes of Stone’ is the latest self financed release from Leicester’s Outburst who dish out some pretty dirty, riff

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