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Review: Törzs ‘Menedék’

9th June 20259th June 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Instrumental, Pelagic Records, Post-Rock, Törzs

The angry teenage me never really had any time for instrumental music. The music that caught my attention was stories

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Review: Rise To Thunder ‘Black Reflections’

1st April 20251st April 2025 Matthew Williams Future Noise, Heavy Rock, Instrumental, Psych, Rise To Thunder

I remember the days well of watching Rise To Thunder on various stages across their home city of Stoke-on-Trent, or

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Review: Telepathy ‘Transmissions’

27th March 202527th March 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Instrumental, Pelagic Records, Post-Metal, Post-Rock, Telepathy

Looking back over my time with British-based post-rock quartet Telepathy, it seems more than a little surreal. The week after

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Review: The Death Wheelers ‘Ecstasy Of Möld’

17th March 202517th March 2025 Martin Williams Instrumental, RidingEasy Records, Stoner, The Death Wheelers

Do you hear that unearthly rumble coming from the frozen north of Canada? It can only mean that The Death

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Review: Hanry ‘Disruption’ EP

31st January 202531st January 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Hanry, Instrumental, Pelagic Records, Post-Rock

As the temperature in the UK comes down with the decorations and gone are the bright lights shining in the

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Review: Monteceneri ‘Due’ EP

29th January 202529th January 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Instrumental, Lady Lovely Records, Monteceneri, Post-Rock, Prog

The allure of post-rock bands has captivated me for many years, drawing me in with their mesmerising instrumental compositions that

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Review: Weite ‘Oase’

6th December 20246th December 2024 Lee Beamish Instrumental, Prog, Stickman Records, Weite

Every now and then something will come along that you didn’t know you needed until you are caught up in

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Review: ALAN+ ‘S.A.L.I.G.I.A. Le 7 vie del vizio’

2nd December 20242nd December 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo ALAN+, Experimental, Instrumental, Libri di Mompracem, Post-Rock

‘The universe breathes. Like an infinite diaphragm that swells and contracts, the universe has a name. And a sound. There

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Review: Tidal Shock ‘Riffs Of Ha’

28th November 202428th November 2024 Rob Walsh Independent, Instrumental, Stoner, Tidal Shock

Based on the Greek island of Crete before relocating to Luxembourg during the pandemic, Tidal Shock are a rip-roaring instrumental

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Review: God Is An Astronaut ‘Embers’

17th September 202417th September 2024 Josh Schneider God Is An Astronaut, Instrumental, Napalm Records, Post-Rock

2005 was the year that I began my obsessive absorption of music. It started with nu-metal a year or two

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Review: Wall ‘Brick By Brick’

2nd September 20242nd September 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Doom, Heavy Rock, Instrumental, Stoner, Wall

There are a lot of column inches dedicated to a certain pair of musical siblings at the moment. However, it

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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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Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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