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Monolith Cult ‘Run From The Light’ CD/LP/DD 2013

1st July 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Future Noise, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Monolith Cult, Review, Run From The Light

Something of a supergroup from the UK Underground Doom scene Monolith Cult features members of the mighty Lazarus Blackstar, Solstice,

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Graven ‘The Filth Will Cleanse’ DD 2012

15th June 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Digital, Graven, Hardcore, Heavy, Metal, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Sludge, The Filth Will Cleanse

Once upon a time there was a band. They were named Swarm Of The Lotus and they were very good

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Kylesa ‘Ultraviolet’ CD/LP/DD 2013

12th June 20132nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2013, CD, Digital, Hardcore, Kylesa, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Psychedelic, Review, Season Of Mist, Sludge, Ultraviolet

In the course of their existence Savannah’s Kylesa have chalked up 6 albums in 12 years, not to mention an

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Iron & Stone ‘Maelstrom’ DD 2013

11th June 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Iron & Stone, Maelstrom, Metal, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released

If you name your band after a particularly shit-kicking early track by The Obssessed then there is  quite a  high

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Owl – S/T – LP/DD 2012

3rd June 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Metal, NWOBHM, Owl, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Self Titled

In Twin Peaks it was said that ‘The owls are not what they seem‘, well THESE Owls, however, are exactly

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Beastwars ‘Blood Becomes Fire’ CD/LP/DD 2013

23rd May 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Beastwars, Blood Becomes Fire, CD, Destroy Records, Digital, Heavy, LP, Metal, Paul Robertson, Review

Dirtier than a ditch-diggers arse during the wet season and twice as uncouth, Kiwi barbarians Beastwars have returned to take

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Lair Of The Minotaur ‘Godslayer’ 7″/DD 2013

16th May 20133rd September 2019 Lyndon Renney 2013, 7", Digital, Godslayer, Heavy, Lair Of The Minotaur, Lyndon Renney, Metal, Review, The Grind-House Records

A Mongol General once asked Conan “What is best in life?” He replied: “To crush your enemies, see them driven

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Iron Hearse ‘Get In The Hearse’ CD/DD 2013

11th May 20133rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Get In The Hearse, Heavy, Iron Hearse, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Review, Shake Mountain

I’ve always had a soft spot for Iron Hearse. These Wiltshire lads have always, in the past, managed to churn

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Nightbitch ‘Chainmaker’ 12″/DD 2013

6th May 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 12", 2013, Chainmaker, Digital, Heavy Metal, Heavy Rock, Metal, Nightbitch, One Ear Productions, Pete Green, Review

If I had a penny for every time I’ve read, heard and even written the phrase “occult metal” throughout the

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Album & EP Reviews K 

King Goat ‘Atom’ Digital EP 2013

26th April 20133rd September 2019 James Parker 2013, Atom, Digital, Doom, EP, Heavy, James Parker, King Goat, Metal, Review, Self Released

The first lyrics that seep out of new Brighton doom merchants’ King Goat’s debut EP are ‘A lumbering machine…’ and

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Atomic Cries ‘Suspended Between The Mouth Of God And The Fist Of Man’ 7″/DD 2013

7th April 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, 7", Atmospheric, Atomic Cries, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Metal, Paul Robertson, Primitive Doom Metal, Review, Suspended Between The Mouth Of God And The Fist Of Man, Svart Records

You know what a huge, colossal bummer of a downer Cathedral’s ‘Reaching Happiness, Touching Pain’ is? I mean, that is

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