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Astrohenge ‘Astrohenge II’ CD 2011

27th November 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, Astrohenge, Astrohenge II, CD, Doom, Experimental, Eye Of Sound, EyesofSound, Fairground Doom, Jazz, Metal, Pete Green, Review

Imagine Cephalic Carnage playing the theme-tune to The Magic Roundabout. Or Tesseract jamming in an Early Learning Centre with a

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The Black Lanterns – S/T – CD 2011

23rd November 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Blues Rock, CD, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Punk Rock, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, The Black Lanterns

Cementing their first year in existence with the release of a self titled, self produced mini CD, The Black Lanterns

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rue ‘Thorns’ CD/DD 2011

20th November 20113rd September 2019 George Leeming 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, George Leeming, Metal, Review, Rue, Shifty Records, Sludge, Thorns

When Rue’s second full-length ‘Thorns’ opens to the gently layered, acoustic guitar musing of the title track, the unwary listener

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Thorr-Axe ‘Wall Of Spears’ CD 2011

17th November 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Doom, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Thorr-Axe, Wall Of Spears

When I was 16 I was still listening to The Offspring, Blink 182 and all the other teen-pop-rock nonsense you

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Five Will Die ‘Worth And Soul’ CD 2011

15th November 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, Doom, Five Will Die, Metal, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Tom McKibbin, Worth and Soul

There are few more commanding ways to start an album than by screaming “BOW DOWN!” in the way that Five

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Cobra ‘Invernal’ CD/DD 2011

3rd November 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, Black Cobra, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Ernest Shackleton, Invernal, Metal, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, Southern Lord

“Shit me! How the fuck is he doing that?!” was pretty much my real-time verbal response upon surrendering my unsuspecting

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rising ‘To Solemn Ash’ CD/LP/DD 2011

24th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Exile On Mainstream Records, Hard Rock, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, NWOBHM, Review, Rising, To Solemn Ash

Having landed on Germany’s home of cool alternative rock, Denmark’s The Rising offer the first slab of straight up Metal

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Yob ‘Live At Roadburn 2010’ CD/DVD 2011

14th October 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Burning World Records, CD, Doom, DVD, Heavy, Live, Live At Roadburn 2010, Metal, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Roadburn, Roadburn Records, Yob

“We’re gonna play four songs and that will be one hour” says Yob mainman Mike Scheidt at the beginning of

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Devil ‘Time To Repent’ CD/LP 2011

19th September 20113rd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Devil, Doom, Heavy, LP, Metal, NWOBHM, Pete Green, Review, Soulseller Records, Time To Repent, Traditional Doom

When a doom band’s official place of formation is at a Pentagram gig, you know pretty much what you’re going

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Amebix ‘Sonic Mass’ CD/LP 2011

18th September 20113rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2011, Adam Stone, Amebix, Amebix Records, CD, Crust, Dark, Easy Action Records, Heavy, LP, Metal, Punk, Review, Sonic Mass

Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together and show your respect for the originators of the sound that we

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Wounded Kings ‘In The Chapel Of The Black Hand’ CD 2011

28th July 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, CD, Doom, Heavy, I Hate Records, In the Chapel of the Black Hand, Metal, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Peter Hamilton-Giles, Review, The Wounded Kings

The Wounded Kings have returned from the mist soaked gossima moors of the West Country with a new doom opus

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