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Endless Forms Most Gruesome
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Review: Endless Forms Most Gruesome ‘Endless Forms Most Gruesome’

7th April 20201st May 2020 Jamie Grimes Endless Forms Most Gruesome, Inverse Records, Metal

Emerging from the minds of members of Swallow The Sun and Ghost Brigade, Endless Forms Most Gruesome is a malformed

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Psalm Zero ‘Sparta’
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Review: Psalm Zero ‘Sparta’

5th March 20209th April 2020 Dave Bowes Last Things Records, Metal, Psalm Zero, Sparta

While Psalm Zero may have been a collaboration between Andrew Hock and ExLife’s Charlie Looker on paper, it had always

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Barrabus – S/T
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Barrabus – S/T – 2017

5th July 20172nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2017, Barrabus, Experimental, Hardcore, Metal, Paul Catten, Review, Undergroove Records, Will Beattie

Gather round, children, and I’ll tell you a tale. The year was 2007, the weather was British and there were

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Raging T 'Radical Reaper' EP 2016
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Raging T ‘Radical Reaper’ EP 2016

17th April 20173rd September 2019 Pete Green 2016, EP, Hardcore, Metal, Pete Green, Punk, Radical Reaper, Raging T, Review, Self Released

More T vicar?! Well, it sure does appear that’s what’s in order right now for all those hard rock-loving reverends

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Ancient Of Days 'Wretched Ones'
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Ancient Of Days ‘Wretched Ones’ EP CD/DD 2016

24th May 20167th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Ancient Of Days, CD, Digital, EP, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

Does anyone remember when bands at least seemed like they were seriously fucking dangerous? Remember that unnerving feeling of being

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Beastmaker 'Lusus Naturae'
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Beastmaker ‘Lusus Naturae’ CD/LP/DD 2016

26th April 201611th September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2016, Beastmaker, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Jeremy Moore, LP, Lusus Naturae, Metal, Review, Rise Above Records

The Sabbath tree of life extends its familiar branches yet again, and somehow our undying love for the arguable originators

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Voivod 'Post Society'
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Voivod ‘Post Society’ CD/DD 2016

5th April 201611th September 2019 Paul Robertson 2016, CD, Century Media, Digital, Experimental, Metal, Paul Robertson, Post Society, Prog Rock, Review, Thrash Metal, Voivod

This may come as almost as big a shock as anything received at the Morgoth Science Hospital when you consider

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Black Cobra ‘Imperium Simulacra’
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Black Cobra ‘Imperium Simulacra’ CD/LP/DD 2016

20th March 201613th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Black Cobra, CD, Digital, Imperium Simulacra, LP, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Season Of Mist, Sludge, Thrash Metal

Just as tick precedes tock, as clip leads clop and as bish paves the way for bosh, so too does

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The Bendal Interlude 'Reign Of The Unblinking Eye'
Album & EP Reviews T 

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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Black Tusk 'Pillars Of Ash'
Album & EP Reviews B 

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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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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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: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June

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