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Bismuth 'Unavailing'
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Bismuth ‘Unavailing’ LP/CS/DD 2015

22nd December 20151st November 2019 Angela Davey 2014, Angela Davey, Bismuth, Box Records, Cassette, De Graanrepubliek Records, Digital, Doom, Drone, Dry Cough Records, Heavy, LP, Review, Tartarus Records, Unavailing

Dry Cough Records, De Graanrepubliek Records, Box Records, Viral Age Records and Tartarus have all come together to make this

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Owl 'Aeon Cult'
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Owl ‘Aeon Cult’ DD 2015

20th December 20151st November 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, Aeon Cult, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Industrial, Owl, Review, Sandy Williamson, Zeitgeister Music

Aeon Cult is shorter than some of Owl’s previous songs, let alone releases! This EP is the third release in

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Wrekmeister Harmonies 'Night Of Your Ascension'
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Wrekmeister Harmonies ‘Night Of Your Ascension’ CD/LP/DD 2015

15th December 20151st November 2019 Will Beattie 2015, CD, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, JR Robinson, LP, Night Of Your Ascension, Review, Thrill Jockey Records, Will Beattie, Wrekmeister Harmonies

Critics and reviews have an irritating tendency to describe artwork as ‘transcendental.’ If a book encourages the reader to think

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Sunn O))) 'Kannon'
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Sunn O))) ‘Kannon’ CD/LP/DD 2015

14th December 20151st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2015, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Kannon, LP, Review, Southern Lord, Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) have made a career out of taking their ‘signature’ sound, huge walls of reverberating guitars that punch holes

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Battalions ‘Nothing To Lose’ DD 2015

29th November 20154th November 2019 Guido Segers 2015, Battalions, Digital, Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy, Nothing To Lose, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Heavy sludge from the wastelands of Hull, if that doesn’t sound depressive to you, then I don’t know what will

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Slomatics ‘Flooding The Weir’
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Slomatics ‘Flooding The Weir’ & ‘Kalceanna’ DD Reissue 2015

23rd November 20154th November 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, Black Bow Records, Digital, Doom, Flooding The Weir, Heavy, Jay Hampshire, Kalceanna, Reissue, Review, Slomatics, Sludge

Some things in life are just inherently ‘right’. Like cold pizza the morning after a booze session, or that blissful

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Funerary / Ooze - Split
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Funerary / Ooze – Split LP/DD 2015

18th November 20154th November 2019 Jochem Visser 2015, Digital, Doom, Funerary, Heavy, Jochem Visser, LP, Midnite Collective, Ooze, Review, Sludge, Split

FUNERARY OOZE! A fine name for a band, but there’s two going on here. It’s called a split, and it

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Ommadon 'Empathy For The Wicked'
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Ommadon ‘Empathy For The Wicked’ LP/DD 2015

17th November 20154th November 2019 Jeremy Moore 2015, Digital, Doom, Drone, Empathy For The Wicked, Golden Mantra, Heavy, Jeremy Moore, LP, Ommadon, Review

I wish I could say it was due to some unheralded gift for clairvoyance that I could predict what Ommadon’s

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The Body & Krieg
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The Body & Krieg – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2015

16th November 20154th November 2019 Angela Davey 2015, Angela Davey, At A Loss Recordings, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, Krieg, LP, Review, Self Titled, The Body

Noise-doom aficionados, The Body, are well renowned for their creative collaborations with some of metal’s finest, producing some absolutely terrifying

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Pist 'Rhythm & Booze'
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Pist ‘Rhythm & Booze’ CD/DD 2015

15th November 20154th November 2019 Will Beattie 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Pist, Review, Rhythm & Booze, Sludge, When Planets Collide, Will Beattie

Ignoring the opening salvos of the excellently-named Shitstorm, the title of Pist‘s debut album, Rhythm And Booze, acts as a

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Trapped Within Burning Machinery 'The Filth Element'
Album & EP Reviews T 

Trapped Within Burning Machinery ‘The Filth Element’ LP/DD 2015

9th November 20154th November 2019 Pete Green 2015, Black Voodoo Records, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Midnite Collective, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, The Filth Element, Trapped Within Burning Machinery

Buoyed by the sheer dirty depravity of debut The Putrid Stench Of Self Decay and the somewhat knuckled-headed but devilishly

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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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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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