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Black Breath ‘Sentenced To Life’ CD/LP/DD 2012

23rd March 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Black Breath, CD, Crust, DD, Digital Download, LP, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Sentenced To Life, Sludge, Southern Lord, Thrash Metal

Got your filthiest, most indecipherably nasty metal t-shirt on? Toe-cap clamped firmly on the monitor or stage front? Ear-protection duly

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bad Luck Rides On Wheels – S/T – LP/CD 2009

19th March 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2009, Bad Luck Rides On Wheels, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Metal, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Sludge, W.I.F.A.G.E.N.A. Records

I don’t know about you, but when I first heard the name ‘Bad Luck Rides On Wheels’ I imagined a

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Headless Kross ‘Bear’ Digital CD 2011

7th March 20123rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2011, Adam Stone, Bear, Digital CD, Doom, Headless Kross, Metal, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Bear with a fucking sore arse more like. This 40 minute album (download it from bandcamp) of six songs by

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Tort – S/T – CD 2012

27th February 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, CD, Doom, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Titled, Sludge, Thrash Metal, Tort, Totalrust Music

Thrash metal. Doom metal. One an unrelenting and unforgivingly savage Minotaur trapped in the dungeon of its own manic psychosis;

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hazzard’s Cure – S/T – CD/Cassette 2011

20th February 20123rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Cassette, CD, Hazzard's Cure, Heavy, Lummox Records, Metal, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Titled

If you open an album with a riff that instantly puts me in mind of ‘In The Grip Of Winter’

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lurk – S/T – CD 2012

10th February 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, CD, Doom, Lurk, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Titled, Sludge, Totalrust Music

With a front cover and inner sleeve featuring grisly images of the jaw lines of what look like mechanised, alien

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Amulet ‘Cut The Crap’ Cassette EP 2012

24th January 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Amulet, Cassette, Cut The Crap, EP, Metal, NWOBHM, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Traditional Doom

“Amulet”, noun, from the Latin amuletum; meaning “an object that protects a person from trouble”. Grainy tape cassette recordings and

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Devil’s Blood ‘The Thousandfold Epicentre’ CD/LP 2012

18th January 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, CD, Cinematic, Doom, Gothic, LP, Metal, Metal Blade Records, Occult, Ollie Stygall, Review, The Devil’s Blood, The Thousandfold Epicentre, Ván Records

It seems to me there is an increasing number of bands grabbing themselves a female singer, throwing some loose witchy

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Tusk ‘Set The Dial’ CD/LP/DD 2011

10th January 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Black Tusk, CD, DD, Digital Download, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Punk, Relapse Records, Review, Set The Dial, Sludge

It is always a good sign for a reviewer when you start making notes on an album and you can’t

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rwake ‘Rest’ CD/LP/DD 2011

9th January 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Heavy, LP, Metal, Relapse Records, Rest, Review, Rwake, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Little Rock, Arkansas’s Rwake rock more than a little; their songs are propelled by a primal force that may well

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sulaco ‘Build And Burn’ LP/DD 2011

13th December 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Build And Burn, DD, Digital Download, Grindcore, Handshake Inc, LP, Metal, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Progressive, Review, Sulaco

Hey, does anyone else remember Sulaco, ’cause it’s been a while. If, like me, you thought they were another casualty

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