Review: Baroness ‘Stone’
The word ‘mature’ is often a means to describe where an artist finds themselves after many years on the road
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Review: Mutoid Man ‘Mutants’
Mutoid Man are another band I was late to the party for. I picked up the second album War Moans
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Review: Stonecutters ‘Eye Of The Skull’
Stonecutters main objective through thick and thin was to live their metal life to the fullest. And, not in the
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Review: Silverburn ‘Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation’
OK, so 2020, it’s mostly a year we would rather forget. With Covid being a global situation, pretty much everything
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Review: High On Fire ‘The Art Of Self Defense’ [Reissue]
Way back in the summer of 2000, the much-fabled CMJ music festival came to Seattle. A music industry showcase, and
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Review: Black Sabbath ‘Paranoid’ (Quadio)
I’m lucky enough to remember precisely where and when I first heard what I would later understand to be Heavy
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Review: Somnuri ‘Desiderium’
While New York’s Somnuri are described as a ‘progressive sludge’ or ‘post-sludge’ band, a term I would prefer to use
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Review: High Priest ‘Invocation’
Hailing from the same city that gave the world the legendary American doom band Trouble, Chicago’s High Priest have unveiled
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Review: Witchskull ‘The Serpent Tide’
The motivation for me covering this album was undoubtedly The Shaman colleague Rob Bryant‘s review of the band’s 2020 album
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Review: Boris & Uniform ‘Bright New Disease’
The fusing of Japan’s premier noiseniks Boris and the stark, corrosive violence of Uniform makes both perfect sense and no
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Review: Yakuza ‘Sutra’
As someone who has read (and written) a lot of column inches about heavy music, one of the phrases that
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