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High On Fire ‘Luminiferous’ CD/LP/DD 2015

10th July 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Digital, eOne Heavy, High On Fire, LP, Luminiferous, Metal, Review, Sandy Williamson

If you follow this site, or indeed any metal site, you’ll know who High On Fire are. But for those

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Ironsword ‘None But The Brave’ CD/LP/DD 2015

7th July 20153rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2015, Alex Varley, CD, Digital, Ironsword, LP, Metal, None But The Brave, NWOBHM, Review, Shadow Kingdom Records

Epic sounding heavy metal is as victorious in 2015 as it has ever been with more bands than can be

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Groan ‘Highrospliffics’ DD 2015

14th June 20153rd September 2019 Brian Burroughs 2015, Brian Burroughs, Classic Rock, Digital, Groan, Highrospliffics, Metal, Review, Self Released

Groan’s new stoned out release Highrospliffics harkens to a kind punkish, anthem-calling, but metal, pre-genre label mess. I say it’s

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bad Guys ‘Bad Guynaecology’ LP/CD/DD 2015

7th June 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Jay Hampshire, LP, Metal, Noise-Rock, Review, Riot Season

Labels are convenient. They help us recover lost items, take the right medication and stop that twat Gary from finance

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lord Dying ‘Poisoned Altars’ CD/LP/DL 2015

24th May 20153rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy, Lord Dying, LP, Metal, Paul Robertson, Poisoned Altars, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

I was very taken with Lord Dying‘s 2013 debut album, Summon The Faithless, a scathing, seething mix of High On

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Thorr-Axe ‘Gates Of Winter’ CD/DD 2015

8th January 20153rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Gates Of Winter, Metal, Sandy Williamson, Self Released, Sludge, Thorr-Axe

The name Thorr-Axe was what attracted me to this band. I’ll admit it, I read it and thought, ‘there’ll be

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Latitude Egress ‘To Take Up the Cross’ CD/DD 2014

14th December 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Art Of Propaganda, Black Metal, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Doom, Latitude Egress, Metal, Review, To Take Up the Cross

Like a woman making a dress entirely out of used paper plates, like a particularly passionate man constructing a car

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Weed Is Weed ‘Blunt Force Trauma’ CD/DD 2014

3rd November 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Blunt Force Trauma, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Jeremy Moore, Metal, Review, Ripple Music, Rock 'n' Roll, Weed Is Weed

A few years back I surprisingly ran into Dave Sherman outside a Gaithersburg, MD grocery store and suffice it to

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Moth ‘Condemned To Hope’ CD/LP/DD 2014

1st November 20143rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2014, Black Moth, CD, Condemned To Hope, Digital, Doom, Heavy Rock, LP, Metal, New Heavy Sounds, Ollie Stygall, Review

Music journalists are always seeking to pigeonhole bands within certain scenes and genres, it makes their job a hell of

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Cardinal Wyrm ‘Black Hole Gods’ DD 2014

1st November 20143rd September 2019 Gareth Gordon 2014, Black Hole Gods, Cardinal Wyrm, Digital, Doom, Gareth Gordon, Metal, Rock, Self Released, Svart Records

Cardinal Wyrm are a doom band based in Oakland, California. The current line up consists of Pranjal Tiwali on drum

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Orange Goblin ‘Back From The Abyss’ CD/LP/DD 2014

30th October 20143rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2014, Back From The Abyss, Candlelight Records, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Orange Goblin, Review

It’s not often an album leaves you struggling to find anything to write about it. Sometimes it happens when an

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