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Master Musicians Of Bukakke ‘Totem 3’ CD/LP 2011

31st May 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, Album, CD, Experimental, Important Records, LP, Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Totem 3

The Master Musicians have always enthusiastically injected theatre into their music. With identities obscured by Tuareg clothes and Kali mask

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Terminal Sound System ‘Heavy Weather’ CD/LP 2011

26th May 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ambient, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Doom, Drone, HALO, Heavy Weather, LP, Noise, Paul Robertson, Review, Skye Klein, Terminal Sound System

If I had to use only two words to describe Terminal Sound System, those words would be ‘vast’ and ‘filmic’…although

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Diet Pills – S/T – LP 2011

20th May 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, Diet Pills, Force Fed Records, Hardcore, Heavy, LP, Noise-Rock, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Sludge

On a day in May there came a dark cloud of despair, a hot smouldering piece of vinyl, born from

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Lento ‘Icon’ CD/LP 2011

13th May 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Atmospheric, CD, Denovali Records, Doom, Heavy, Icon, Lento, LP, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review

Ohhhhh, Lento, you big hulking brute, where have you BEEN all my life? I cannot believe I let this band

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OvO ‘Cor Cordium’ CD/LP 2011

30th April 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, Avant-Garde, Bass & Drums, CD, Cor Cordium, Experimental, LP, OvO, Pete Green, Post-Hardcore, Review, Supernatural Cat, Two Piece

This is, by some distance, the strangest album I’ve ever listened to. For those unexposed to the Italian duo’s minimalist

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Serpent Venom ‘Carnal Altar’ CD/LP 2011

15th April 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, Carnal Altar, CD, Church Within Records, Doom, Heavy, LP, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Serpent Venom, Stoner Doom, Traditional Doom

Serpent Venom have been touting their formidable version of seventies rock mixed with St.Vitus style doom for a while now

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The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble – S/T – CD/LP 2011

11th April 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Experimental, Instrumental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, TKDE

The self-titled 2006 debut album from The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble gets a well-deserved re-release from the ever-wonderful Denovali Records, including

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The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation ‘Anthropomorphic’ CD/LP 2011

4th April 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Ambient, Anthropomorphic, CD, Dark, Denovali Records, Experimental, Instrumental, Jazz Fusion, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, TKDE

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation are, for those unfamiliar, an improv sideline of members of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, coming

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Winter ‘Into Darkness’ Reissue CD/LP 2011

1st April 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles Blackened Doom, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Into Darkness, LP, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Reissue, Review, Southern Lord, Winter

Out of the darkness emerges the most polished re-release of Winter’s ‘Into Darkness’. Pioneers of the slowest kinds of music,

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Tephra ‘Temple’ CD/LP 2011

16th March 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Golden Antenna Records, Heavy, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Hardcore, Prog Rock, Review, Sludge, Temple, Tephra

When you think back over the history of heavy rock music, it is incredible how much it has diversified since

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Belong ‘Common Era’ CD/LP 2011

15th March 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Belong, CD, Common Era, Experimental, Kranky Records, LP, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Review

I’m a great admirer of Belong’s first record, 2006’s beautifully woozy, out-of-focus ‘October Language’, so, having missed out on the

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