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Unmothered – S/T – 12″ 2013

20th September 20133rd September 2019 Guy Nolan 12", 2013, Guy Nolan, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge, Toxic Assets Records, Unmothered

Unmothered has surprised me, I was expecting a maelstrom of doom laden guitars and other such nonsense, but what I

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Obelyskkh ‘Hymn To Pan’ CD/LP/DD 2013

20th September 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Exile On Mainstream Records, Heavy, Hymn To Pan, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Obelyskkh, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Review

For anyone who has followed the career thus far of German Doom stalwarts Obelyskkh will know that after years avoiding

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Windhand ‘Soma’ CD/LP/DD 2013

19th September 20133rd September 2019 John McNulty 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, John McNulty, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Soma, Windhand

For a band’s promotional blurb to claim that the album you are about to listen to is, on its surface,

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bridesmaid ‘Breakfast At Riffany’s’ LP/DD 2013

12th September 20133rd September 2019 Sean Filkins 2013, Breakfast At Riffany's, Bridesmaid, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Instrumental, LP, Review, Sean Filkins, Self Released, Sludge

As if three dusty-kilted dwarves were time transported to the present, Bridesmaid comes thundering out of the speakers with the

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Body ‘Christs, Redeemers’ CD/LP 2013

11th September 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2013, Atmospheric, Christs Redeemers, Doom, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Review, The Assembly Of Light Choir, The Body, Thrill Jockey Records, Work/Death

There is currently nobody else, to my mind, who does religious apocalypse like The Body. Truly, we’re talking about a

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Prism ‘Satan’s Country’ 7″ 2013

10th September 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2013, 7", Black Prism, Doom, EasyRider Records, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Satan’s Country

There’s no real argument here that Black Prism have arrived to well and truly rock the five Killer Bs: Beer,

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Beehoover ‘The Devil And His Footmen’ CD/LP/DD

9th September 20133rd September 2019 Sean Filkins 2013, Beehoover, CD, Digital, Exile On Mainstream Records, Experimental, Heavy, LP, Prog Rock, Review, Sean Filkins, The Devil And His Footmen

The almighty Beehoover’s music and I go way back. Well, time moves quite slowly for me, so even five years

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Eibon ‘II’ CD/LP/DD 2013

5th September 20133rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2013, Aesthetic Death, CD, Dave Bowes, Digital, Doom, Eibon, Funeral Doom, Heavy, II, LP, Review, Sludge, Throatruiner Records

There are two things that could have pulled intrigued listeners in to Eibon’s second full-length. The first is the band

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Deep ‘Vol.1’ DD 2013

1st September 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2013, Deep, Doom, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Vol 1

Italy’s emergence as a major force on the European heavy music scene has been as triumphant in its growth as

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Dead Meadow – S/T – Reissue 2013

30th August 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Dead Meadow, Heavy, James Parker, Psychedelic, Reissue, Review, Self Titled, Xemu Records

Cast your minds back to the year 2000, when the heavy music world was, as so often, divided like Berlin

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Saint Vitus ‘C.O.D.’ Reissue CD/LP 2013

29th August 20133rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2013, Armando Acosta, C.O.D., Chritus Linderson, Dave Chandler, Doom, Heavy, Mark Adams, Metal, Reissue, Review, Saint Vitus, Saúl Do Caixão, Season Of Mist

One of the major benefits of a band’s discography getting re-appraised in their twilight years, is that neglected albums get

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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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