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Bongripper ‘Live At Roadburn 2012’ CD/LP/DD 2013

4th February 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2013, Bongripper, Burning World Records, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Instrumental, Live At Roadburn 2012, LP, Pete Green, Review, Roadburn Records

Screaming and running through the dark and drizzled night, from the Het Patronaat venue they came. “Behold!” many cried, “We

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Kongh ‘Sole Creation’ CD/LP/DD 2013

1st February 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, Agonia Records, CD, Digital, Funeral Doom, Heavy, Kongh, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Sole Creation

Clearly growing in confidence having produced two excellent albums with 2007’s ‘Counting Heartbeats’ and 2009’s ‘Shadows of the Shapeless’ the

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Humanfly ‘Awesome Science’ CD/LP/DD 2013

31st January 20133rd September 2019 Sam Orr 2013, Atmospheric, Awesome Science, Brew Records, CD, Digital, Heavy, Humanfly, LP, Post-Rock, Prog Rock, Review, Sam Orr

Weird Science is one thing but ‘Awesome Science’ is another matter all together, explosions and chemical reactions are badass and

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Skarab – S/T – CD/DD 2012

27th January 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Avant-Garde, CD, Dark, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Paul Robertson, Prog Rock, Review, Self Titled, Skarab, Zeitgeister Music

Does anyone else remember the days when you could always rely on certain record labels to consistently release music that

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The Earls Of Mars ‘The Skies Are Falling!’ CDEP/DD 2012

25th January 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, CDEP, Digital, Experimental, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, The Earls Of Mars, The Skies Are Falling!

The twisted brain-wrong of one-off man-mental Harry Armstrong (ex-Decomposed, ex-Hangnail and current End Of Level Boss mainman), aided and abetted

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Art Of Burning Water ‘This Disgrace’ LP/DD 2013

21st January 20133rd September 2019 Todd Robinson 2013, Art Of Burning Water, Digital, Heavy, LP, Noise-Rock, Post-Rock, Review, Riot Season, Sludge, SuperFi Records, Swarm Of Nails, This Disgrace, Todd Robinson

London’s Art Of Burning Water mark their debut for Birmingham’s Riot Season (co-released with SuperFi & Swarm Of Nails) with

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bitter Resolve ‘The Early Interstellar Medium’ DD 2012

18th January 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, Bitter Resolve, Digital, Doom, Heavy, James Parker, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, The Early Interstellar Medium

Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s Bitter Resolve have been ploughing their furrow of dynamic doom for a little while, releasing their

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Nonsun ‘Good Old Evil’ Demo 2012

16th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Demo, Digital, Doom, Drone, Good Old Evil, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Nonsun, Review, Self Released

I would imagine the two members behind the new Ukrainian duo Nonsun have a love of various different orbits of

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Boris / Joe Volk – Split 12″ 2012

14th January 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Acoustic, Atmospheric, Boris, Experimental, Heavy, Invada Records, Joe Volk, Pete Green, Review, Split 12"

Trying to even remotely predict what Japanese psych/drone/doom/pop mentalists Boris will do next is a task akin to fire-toasting marshmallows

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Torpor ‘Bled Dry’ CDEP/DD 2012

9th January 20133rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2012, Bled Dry, CDEP, Digital, Heavy, Jamie Grimes, Metal, Review, Self Released, Torpor

Ah here. No. The alarm bells go off when I see tags on a Bandcamp page that say “noise metal”,

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Sonance ‘Like Ghosts’ DD 2012

3rd January 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Like Ghosts, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Sonance

There’s a visceral beauty at work as Sonance wring twisted leaden sludge and floating spectral ambience seemingly from the very

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