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Melvins ‘Freak Puke’ CD/LP/DD 2012

31st May 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin (the) Melvins, 2012, CD, DD, Digital Download, Freak Puke, Heavy, Ipecac Recordings, LP, Melvins, Melvins Lite, Noise-Rock, Review, Tom McKibbin

The Mevlins, or Melvins-Lite as their press release is dubbing them, are back with their second record of 2012 (easy

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Lord Vicar ‘Signs Of Osiris’ CD/2xLP 2011

30th May 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Church Within Records, Doom, Heavy, Lord Chritus, Lord Vicar, LP, Pete Green, Peter Vicar, Review, Signs Of Osiris, Traditional Doom

I’m going to level with you from the start. I haven’t, to my knowledge, heard a single note of any

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Druglord ‘Motherfucker Rising’ CDEP 2011

21st May 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, CDEP, Doom, Druglord, Heavy, Motherfucker Rising, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Stoner Doom

Generally I avoid bands with conspicuous drug-referencing names or images as, well, it’s tedious, played-out and quite frankly a little

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Horse Latitudes ‘Awakening’ CD/2xLP 2012

19th May 20123rd September 2019 Jas Murray 2012, Awakening, CD, Doom, Doomentia Records, Dual Bass, Heavy, Horse Latitudes, Jas Murray, LP, Review

Anyone Familiar with Horse Latitudes genre defying masterpiece “Gathering” from 2010 will already have a good idea what to of

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Dopefight / GURT – Split 7″/DD 2012

17th May 20123rd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, 7", DD, Digital Download, Doom, Dopefight, Gurt, Gurt / Dopefight Split, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge

My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It’s 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we’re temporarily stuck

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Coffinworm ‘Great Bringer Of Night’ LP 2012

16th May 20123rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2012, Alex Varley, Blackened Doom, Coffinworm, Doom, Flenser Records, Great Bringer Of Night, Heavy, LP, Review, Sludge

There are few bands that’ll take you to as vile a place as America’s sludge specialists Coffinworm. Formed back in

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Pigs ‘You Ruin Everything’ LP 2012

15th May 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2012, Adam Stone, Heavy, Heavy Rock, LP, Noise-Rock, Pigs, Post-Hardcore, Review, Solar Flare Records, You Ruin Everything

I feel compelled to start with a resounding ‘thank you’ here. This goes out to Dave Curran, Jim Paradise and

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Pike ‘To Cross The Great Divide’ CD/DD 2012

14th May 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, CD, DD, Death Doom, Death Valley Records, Digital Download, Doom, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Pike, Review, To Cross the Great Divide

Something smells a bit fishy around here. There must be something in the water. We’re gunna need a bigger boat…

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Pelican ‘Ataraxia/Taraxis’ CDEP/12″ 2012

6th May 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 12", 2012, Ataraxia/Taraxis, Atmospheric, CDEP, Heavy, Instrumental, James Parker, Pelican, Post-Rock, Review, Southern Lord

This EP from Pelican is a fairly tantalising glimpse of what we might be able to expect from the next

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Bastard Of The Skies / Catatomic – Split LP 2012

4th May 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Bastard Of The Skies, Catatomic, Doom, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Review, Speaks Volumes Records, Split LP, Tom McKibbin

Bastard of the Skies will probably need no introduction to readers here at The Sleeping Shaman – the Blackburn sludge

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Diesel King ‘The Ancient And The Nameless’ CD/DD EP 2012

30th April 20123rd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, CDEP, DD, Diesel King, Digital EP, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge, The Ancient And The Nameless

There’s a train called Diesel in the ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ series isn’t there? Yes, you know full well that

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