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Cult Of Occult – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2012

17th August 20123rd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, CD, Cult of Occult, Digital, Doom, Hammerheart Records, Heavy, LP, Pete Green, Review, Self Titled, Sludge

Writing a title-track to depict a record’s chosen concept, emotion, atmosphere or ideology can often be no simple task. Writing

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Necro Deathmort ‘The Colonial Script’ CD/Digital 2012

14th August 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Avant-Garde, CD, Dark, Digital, Distraction Records, Experimental, Heavy, Necro Deathmort, Pete Green, Review, The Colonial Script

With a name that can be translated as ‘Death Death Death’, you know from the off that this will not

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XII Boar ‘Split Tongue, Cloven Hoof’ CDEP/Digital 2012

10th August 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CDEP, Digital, Groove, Heavy, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Split Tongue Cloven Hoof, XII Boar

You’ve all heard the theory that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters and

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Magician ‘Nature Is The Devil’s Church’ CD/LP 2012

1st August 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2012, Adam Stone, Black Magician, Burning World Records, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Nature Is The Devil's Church, Prog Rock, Review, Shaman Recordings

Do not write doom off impetuous child (with your colourful and newly inked arm), for while it may appear ‘unfashionable’

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Album & EP Reviews S 

shEver ‘Rituals’ CD 2012

28th July 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rituals, shEver, Totalrust Music

Having been in existence since the early Noughties, Switzerland’s shEver have produced several self released albums and put in a

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Fister ‘Violence’ CS/DD 2012

26th July 20123rd September 2019 Chris Moore 2012, Cassette, Chris Moore, Digital, Doom, Drone, Fister, Heavy, Review, Self Released, Violence

Fister are a three-piece doom outfit from Saint Louis. Fister is also a small village near Stavanger on the south-western

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The Disease Concept ‘Liquor Bottles and Broken Steel’ CDEP/DD 2012

22nd July 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Blood Farmers, CDEP, Digital, Doom, Fistula, Hardcore, Heavy, Liquor Bottles And Broken Steel, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Sludge, Solace, Sollubi, The Disease Concept

I’ve put myself in an unusual position with this review – that of giving my opinion of a sludge record.

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Seremonia ‘Rock ‘n’ Rollin Maailma’ 7″ 2012

21st July 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, 60's Garage, 7", Heavy, Psych, Review, Rock 'n' Rollin Maailma, Saúl Do Caixão, Seremonia, Svart Records

Ah, Finland! Land of the lakes, the taciturn and the weird! Any country that’s given us the diverse likes of

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Dead In The Woods ‘The Sign Of The Son Of Man’ LP 2012

16th July 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Crust, Dead In The Woods, Dirty Appaaratus, Hardcore, Heavy, LP, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Sludge, The Sign Of The Son Of Man, Viral Age Records

Dead In The Woods are not pining. They have passed on. This band is no more. They have ceased to

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dopelord ‘Magick Rites’ CD/Digital 2012

15th July 20123rd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Can’t Tell You Records, CD, Digital, Doom, Dopelord, Heavy, Magick Rites, Pete Green, Review, Stoner Doom

If you think about it, it was pretty inevitable really. We’ve already had (in no real order): Dopesmoker, Dopethrone (both

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Old Man Gloom ‘No’ CD/LP/CS/Digital 2012

13th July 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, Cassette, CD, Digital, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, Hydra Head Records, James Parker, LP, No, Old Man Gloom, Post-Hardcore, Review, Sludge

Old Man Gloom must be a labour of love, these four as you probably know, having been or still being

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