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DEAD ‘Idiots’ LP/DD 2012

27th March 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, DEAD, Digital, Hardcore, Heavy, Idiots, Jamie Grimes, LP, Metal, Revelations, Review, Sludge, We Empty Rooms

The spirit of the late, great God Head Silo is apparently alive and well and living in in Australia, reincarnated

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Euro-Asia ‘Signals’ DD 2012

25th March 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Digital, Euro-Asia, Green Sky, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Pedro Ortiz, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, Signals

Cast your minds back a ways and you may remember me enthusing about a li’l two-track release by a Miami-based

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Kustodian ‘Dusted Emperor’ DD 2012

22nd March 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Digital, Doom, Dusted Emperor, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, Kustodian, Pete Green, Review, Self Released

Back in the mid-1980s, a young Justin Broadrick pulled back his bedroom curtains and looked out upon the surroundings in

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Conan ‘Mount Wrath: Live At Roadburn 2012’ CD/LP/DD 2013

20th March 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2013, Burning World Records, CD, Conan, Digital, Doom, Drone, Heavy, Live At Roadburn 2012, LP, Mount Wrath - Live At Roadburn 2012, Pete Green, Review, Roadburn Records

You weren’t there man! You weren’t THERE! Well, actually, if you didn’t manage to show up at the tiny Stage01

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Tome – Demo MMXII – CD/DD 2012

14th March 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, CD, Demo MMXII, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Tome

Northern Ireland, while hardly a mecca of all things heavy, has been known to throw up some serious riffage over

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Pombagira ‘Maleficia Lamiah’ CD/LP 2013

11th March 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Black Axis Records, CD, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, Heavy Rock, LP, Maleficia Lamiah, Paul Robertson, Pombagira, Psychedelic, Review

Boom Shanka! It seems that the dirt-path-doom gruesome-twosome of Pombagira have been wearing flowers in their hair, turning on, tuning

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Tombstones ‘Year Of The Burial’ CD/LP 2012

8th March 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Review, Soulseller Records, Stoner Doom, Tombstones, Year Of The Burial

Spreading the spirit of Sabbath is now a global thing with countries as far as Norway producing hypnotic vibes that

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Raedon Kong – S/T – CDEP/DD 2013

6th March 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2013, CDEP, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Prog Rock, Raedon Kong, Review, Self Released, Self Titled

Wow. Purveyors of cosmic woe Raedon Kong are one of those bands you come across every once in a while

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Coma Wall / Undersmile ‘Wood & Wire’ Split 12″/DD 2013

27th February 20133rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2013, Acoustic, Americana, Avant-Garde, Chris Moore, Coma Wall, Doom, Folk Doom, Heavy, Review, Shaman Recordings, Split 12", Undersmile, Wood & Wire

Following on from last year’s debut full length ‘Narwhal’ comes ‘Wood & Wire’ which sees Undersmile cover increasingly ambitious ground

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Opium Lord ‘The Calendrical Cycle – Prologue: The Healer’ CDEP/DD 2013

13th February 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Atmospheric, CDEP, Digital, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Hardcore, Heavy, Metal, Opium Lord, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, The Calendrical Cycle – Prologue: The Healer, Thirty Days Of Night Records

I’ve been doing this reviewing schtick for T’Shaman for a few years now, wading through wave upon wave, pile upon

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Moghul ‘Dead Empires’ LP/DD 2013

12th February 20133rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2013, Dead Empires, Devizes Records, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Moghul, Review, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Good old Scruffy Murphys. Anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting the inconspicuous Birmingham venue in the last few

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