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Telepathy ’12 Areas’ CD/LP/DD 2014

21st March 20143rd September 2019 Glen Westall 12 Areas, 2014, CD, Devouter Records, Digital, Glen Westall, Heavy, LP, Post-Rock, Review, Sludge, Telepathy

‘12 Areas’ begins with a calm that belies what is to follow. The short intro, ‘{Hypnos}’, suggests a brooding futuristic

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Iron Walrus ‘Insidious Black Sea’ CD/LP 2014

19th March 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, CD, Doom, Heavy, Insidious Black Sea, Iron Walrus, Jeremy Moore, LP, Post-Hardcore, Redfield Records, Review

The birth of post-hardcore and grunge marked an era where musical artistic integrity and the sensibilities of the mainstream were

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The Oath – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2014

18th March 20143rd September 2019 Ross Horton 2014, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Metal, Review, Rise Above Records, Ross Horton, Self Titled, The Oath

The Oath’s debut 7” contained two prime cuts of ominous, buzzing, classic rock with an irrepressible feminine energy – something

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Sapien ‘Toad Handler’ CD/DD 2013

18th March 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Review, Sandy Williamson, Sapien, Self Released, Sludge, Toad Handler

Sapien are a four piece sludge bands from Edinburgh, and are in possession of some class-A riffs. Seriously, listen to

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Limb – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2014

17th March 20143rd September 2019 Angela Davey 2014, Angela Davey, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Limb, LP, New Heavy Sounds, Review, Self Titled, Sludge

Living in the capital has the ability to crush one’s spirit; whether it be an armpit to the face on

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Mount Salem ‘Endless’ CD/DD 2014

15th March 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, CD, Digital, Doom, Endless, Heavy, Metal Blade Records, Mount Salem, Review, Sandy Williamson, Stoner Doom

Mount Salem have what we like to call in the reviewing business ‘swagger’. That’s not the same as ‘swag’, that’s

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Towers ‘II’ LP/DD 2014

14th March 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Digital, Drone, Eolian Empire, Experimental, Heavy, II, LP, Noise-Rock, Review, Tom McKibbin, Towers

Providing further evidence that Oregon is literally built upon an ancient Indian burial ground, yet another otherworldly and insanely heavy

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Pist ‘Riffology’ CD/DD 2014

12th March 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, CD, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Pist, Review, Riffology, Sludge, When Planets Collide

If you’re going to be bold enough to entitle your debut EP ‘Riffology’, then you’d better be willing to stick

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Coltsblood ‘Into The Unfathomable Abyss’ CD/DD 2014

11th March 20143rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2014, Adam Stone, Blackened Crust, Candlelight Records, CD, Coltsblood, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Into The Unfathomable Abyss, Review

This is the sound of three doomo-sapiens who have let a certain stylistic musical genre annex their existences; who have

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Dread Sovereign ‘All Hell’s Martyrs’ LP/CD 2014

11th March 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2014, Alex Varley, All Hell's Martyrs, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Dread Sovereign, Heavy, LP, Review, Ván Records

When it was announced that Primordial mastermind A.A Nemtheanga had formed a doom band of the most ferocious kind, internet

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Slow Mover ‘Move Slower’ LP/DD 2014

10th March 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, Digital, Heavy, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Move Slower, Noise-Rock, Review, Self Released, Slow Mover

Some bands are defined by their name. EyeHateGod for example conjure up a vicious and spiteful image that is befitting

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