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The Bendal Interlude 'Reign Of The Unblinking Eye'
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The Bendal Interlude ‘Reign Of The Unblinking Eye’ LP/DD 2016

15th March 201613th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Black Bow Records, Digital, LP, Metal, Pete Green, Reign Of The Unblinking Eye, Review, Sludge, The Bendal Interlude

Liverpool’s The Bendal Interlude have been merrily sludging away for several years now. Fuelled by Stu Taylor’s bottomless porridge pot

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Vodun ‘Possession’
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Vodun ‘Possession’ CD/LP/DD 2016

13th March 201613th September 2019 Tal Fineman 2016, CD, Digital, Experimental, Heavy, LP, Possession, Review, Riff Rock Records, Soul, Tal Fineman, Vodun

There’s no point in beating around the bush in a review of Vodun’s first full-length album, Possession; the band have

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Black Tusk 'Pillars Of Ash'
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Black Tusk ‘Pillars Of Ash’ CD/LP/DD 2016

13th March 201613th September 2019 Guido Segers 2016, Black Tusk, CD, Digital, Guido Segers, LP, Metal, Pillars Of Ash, Punk, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

Savannah, Georgia has brought forth some of the nastiest and dirtiest sludge bands in recent years. The burly men from

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Agoraphobic Nosebleed ‘Arc’
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Agoraphobic Nosebleed ‘Arc’ CD/LP/DD 2016

10th March 201613th September 2019 Jon Weatherill 2016, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Arc, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Jon Weatherill, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

Whatever you made of a certain Mr Phil Anselmo’s recent on-stage outburst, we should be proud of the fact that

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Wytch Hazel 'Prelude'
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Wytch Hazel ‘Prelude’ CD/LP/DD 2016

9th March 20161st November 2019 Alex Varley Alex Varley, Bad Omen Records, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Metal, NWOBHM, Prelude, Review, Wytch Hazel

Since their formation in 2011, Lancaster’s Wytch Hazel have been something different. Never committing fully to a genre and genuinely

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Mondo Drag 'The Occultation Of Light'
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Mondo Drag ‘The Occultation Of Light’ LP/CD/DD 2016

7th March 20161st November 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2016, CD, Digital, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mondo Drag, Prog Rock, Psych, Review, RidingEasy Records, Space Rock, The Occultation Of Light

Settle back on your leopard print bean bag, grab a blotter paper sized tab of lysergic acid, turn on your

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Church Of Misery 'And Then There Were None…'
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Church Of Misery ‘And Then There Were None…’ CD/LP/DD 2016

29th February 20161st November 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2016, And Then There Were None…, CD, Church Of Misery, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rise Above Records

For the past two decades Tokyo’s Church Of Misery have melded classic Black Sabbath influenced doom with psychedelic rock under

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Slabdragger 'Rise Of The Dawncrusher'
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Slabdragger ‘Rise Of The Dawncrusher’ CD/LP/DD 2016

28th February 20161st November 2019 Angela Davey 2016, Angela Davey, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Holy Roar Records, LP, Review, Rise Of The Dawncrusher, Slabdragger, Sludge

It’s been five long years since the release of London trio Slabdragger’s debut Regress. Aside from a split with Meadows,

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Ã…rabrot 'The Gospel'
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Ã…rabrot ‘The Gospel’ CD/LP/DD 2016

22nd February 20161st November 2019 Pete Green 2016, Ã…rabrot, Avant-Garde, CD, Digital, Experimental, Fysisk Format, LP, Noise-Rock, Pete Green, Review, The Gospel

As the majority stride onwards into 2016, recent weeks have brought us music lovers unprecedented waves of pain as we

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Elevators To The Grateful Sky 'Cape Yawn'
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Elevators To The Grateful Sky ‘Cape Yawn’ LP/DD 2016

21st February 20161st November 2019 Jeremy Moore 2016, Cape Yawn, Digital, Doom, Elevators To The Grateful Sky, HeviSike Records, Jeremy Moore, LP, Prog Rock, Review

Sometimes you have to recalibrate your listening curve and abandon all expectations when a record like Elevators To The Grateful

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KIND 'Rocket Science'
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KIND ‘Rocket Science’ CD/LP/DD 2015

21st February 201623rd February 2024 Pete Green 2015, CD, Desert Rock, Digital, KIND, LP, Pete Green, Psych, Review, Ripple Music, Rocket Science, Stoner Rock

What do you get when you put four top-rate, yet distinct and well-differentiated musicians from across the desert rock spectrum

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