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Dune ‘Aurora Majesty’ CD/DD 2014

20th December 20143rd September 2019 Calum Darroch 2014, Aurora Majesty, Calum Darroch, CD, Digital, Doom, Dune, Heavy, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released

If you take one thing away from Dune’s latest EP it’ll probably be this: these guys fucking love sci-fi. Following

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Slomatics / Holly Hunt - Split
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Slomatics / Holly Hunt – Split 7″/DD 2014

19th December 20144th November 2019 Pete Green 2014, Black Bow Records, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Holly Hunt, Pete Green, Review, Slomatics, Sludge, Split 7"

What’s that you say? Your poor turntable didn’t take enough punishment this year from all those disgustingly heavy releases that

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Album & EP Reviews V 

Volition ‘Wreck Among Ruin’ CD 2015

18th December 20143rd September 2019 Ross McKendrick 2015, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Heavy, Review, Ross McKendrick, Totalrust Music, Volition, Wreck Among Ruin

Have you ever heard of Barrow-In-Furness? Nope, me neither, but apparently it’s some sort of portal to hell, given the

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Album & EP Reviews V 

V A I L S – Demo 2014 – DD

29th November 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, Demo, Digital, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Pete Green, Self Released, Sludge, V A I L S

Now, if there are two words which, when put together, immediately begin to tickle my musical pickle, it’s the sizzling,

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Today Is The Day ‘Animal Mother’ CD/LP/DD 2014

20th November 20143rd September 2019 Jochem Visser 2014, Animal Mother, CD, Digital, Hardcore, Heavy, Industrial, Jochem Visser, LP, Review, Sludge, Southern Lord, Today Is The Day

I’ve been up for a few days. An Italian lady had to do with the second night; molecules with the

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Blown Out ‘Drifting Way Out Between Suns’ CD/LP/DD 2014

16th November 20143rd September 2019 Jochem Visser 2014, Blown Out, CD, Digital, Drifting Way Out Between Suns, Experimental, Heavy, Jochem Visser, LP, Psych, Review, Riot Season

Ah… Mike Vest. How many bands can an axe slinger take on in any given amount of time? How many

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bog Oak ‘A Treatise On Resurrection And The Afterlife’ CD/LP/DD 2014

15th November 20143rd September 2019 Glen Westall 2014, A Treatise On Resurrection And The Afterlife, Black Metal, Bog Oak, CD, Digital, Doom, Glen Westall, Heavy, LP, Review, Sludge, Svart Records

A Treatise On Resurrection And The Afterlife. It’s a grand name for an EP. I can tell you off the

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Spider Kitten ‘Behold Mountain. Hail Sea. Venerate Sky. Bow Before Tree’ CD/DD 2014

14th November 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, Behold Mountain Hail Sea Venerate Sky Bow Before Tree, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Spider Kitten, Undergroove Records

Spider Kitten, Spider Kitten, does whatever a Spider Kitten does… In this case what this Spider Kitten does is deliver

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Giant Squid ‘Minoans’ CD/DD 2014

14th November 20143rd September 2019 Jason Hough 2014, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Experimental, Giant Squid, Heavy, Jason Hough, Minoans, Review, Translation Loss Records

Much like their namesake, the mysterious and somewhat elusive collective known as Giant Squid, strike from the depths once again

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Anatomy Of Habit ‘Ciphers + Axioms’ CD/LP/DD 2014

13th November 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, Anatomy Of Habit, CD, Ciphers + Axioms, Digital, Drone, Heavy, LP, Mark Solotoroff, Post-Rock, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson

Anatomy Of Habit is the brainchild of noise icon Mark Solotoroff, and Ciphers + Axioms marks their Relapse Records debut.

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin ‘Nomadic’ CD/LP/DD 2014

12th November 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, CD, Digital, Guido Segers, Heavy, Improv, Jazz, LP, Moksha Samnyasin, Nomadic, Sonny Simmons, Sonny Simmons & Moksha Samnyasin, Svart Records

If I’d be wearing a hat, I’d tip mine to Sonny Simmons. Sonny is 82 years old and felt it

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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