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Review: Frayle ‘Heretics & Lullabies’

21st November 202521st November 2025 Lee Beamish Doom, Frayle, Gothic, Napalm Records

Having been a fan of Frayle for the last few years, when the opportunity came up recently to review the

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Review: God Is An Astronaut ‘Embers’

17th September 202417th September 2024 Josh Schneider God Is An Astronaut, Instrumental, Napalm Records, Post-Rock

2005 was the year that I began my obsessive absorption of music. It started with nu-metal a year or two

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Review: Suldusk ‘Anthesis’

8th March 20248th March 2024 Lee Beamish Blackgaze, Napalm Records, Neo Folk, Suldusk

Back before the world shut down, I became aware of the artist Suldusk. Compelled to purchase the debut album Lunar

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Review: Monkey3 ‘Welcome To The Machine’

29th February 202429th February 2024 Rob Walsh Instrumental, Monkey3, Napalm Records, Post-Rock, Prog

Having put an impressive twenty years into soaring instrumental weaves and mountains, Switzerland’s Monkey3 have returned with their seventh full-length,

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Review: Nytt Land ‘Torem’

11th October 202311th October 2023 Sandy Williamson Napalm Records, Neo Folk, Nytt Land

I reviewed the last Nytt Land record, Ritual, back in 2021 and was spellbound in their Siberian neofolk world. I

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Ahab 'The Coral Tombs'
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Review: Ahab ‘The Coral Tombs’

17th January 20238th March 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ahab, Doom, Napalm Records

Herman Melville’s epic classic Moby Dick is an often terrifying story that takes the backdrop of the nineteenth-century Nantucket whaling

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Candlemass 'Sweet Evil Sun'
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Review: Candlemass ‘Sweet Evil Sun’

16th November 202221st December 2022 Tom Hanno Candlemass, Doom, Metal, Napalm Records

As the godfathers of epic doom metal, Candlemass defined the genre with releases such as Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986) and

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My Sleeping Karma 'Atma'
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Review: My Sleeping Karma ‘Atma’

31st August 20229th December 2022 Harry Holmes My Sleeping Karma, Napalm Records

My Sleeping Karma have long been one of those bands that other people see as central to ‘The Scene’, and

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Conan 'Evidence Of Immortality'
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Review: Conan ‘Evidence Of Immortality’

12th August 202223rd September 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Conan, Doom, Napalm Records, Sludge

There is no doubt that art is subjective. A fitting parallel for this can be found in the fact that

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God Is An Astronaut 'The Beginning Of The End'
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Review: God Is An Astronaut ‘The Beginning Of The End’

18th July 202219th August 2022 Lee Beamish God Is An Astronaut, Napalm Records, Post-Rock

Sometimes in life, we come across something, and as one thing leads to another, before you know it, you’re off,

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Konvent 'Call Down The Sun'
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Review: Konvent ‘Call Down The Sun’

11th April 202226th May 2022 James Bullock Death Doom, Konvent, Napalm Records

One thing worth clarifying is Konvent, translated from Danish to English means ‘convention’ rather than ‘convent’, as in a community

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Video Premiere: IAN ‘Manuel’ – Debut ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’ Drops 17th October
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Video Premiere: IAN ‘Manuel’ – Debut ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’ Drops 17th October

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