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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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Orange Goblin ‘A Eulogy For The Damned’ CD/LP 2012

6th January 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, A Eulogy For The Damned, Candlelight Records, CD, Heavy Rock, LP, NWOBHM, Ollie Stygall, Orange Goblin, Review

“We have a new member joining us for our meeting tonight, would you care to introduce yourself?” “Ahem, yes…my name

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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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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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Wall Of Sleep ‘When Mountains Roar’ CD 2011

3rd July 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, NWOBHM, PsycheDOOMelic Records, Review, Wall Of Sleep, When Mountains Roar

Doom music and a name like Wall Of Sleep… you are thinking Ozzy era Sabbath, those sludgey, crawling guitar sounds

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Lavagoat – S/T – CD 2011

28th June 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Heavy, Lavagoat, NWOBHM, Paul Robertson, Review, Somnambulist Sound System

Canada. There must be something in the water there that makes for such awesome metal bands…possibly beaver pee, I’m not

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45 Rats ‘First Gear’ CDEP 2011

5th May 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CDEP, Heavy Rock, NWOBHM, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released

With the high number of quality stoner acts emerging from Greece right now I wouldn’t be surprised if throwing a

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Iron Void ‘Spell Of Ruin’ CDEP 2010

14th May 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, CDEP, Doom, Doomanoid Records, Iron Void, Metal, NWOBHM, Ollie Stygall, Review, Spell Of Ruin, Traditional Doom

OK hands up who remembers Hellhound records? To refresh your memories they existed from the late 80’s to the mid

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Sourvein / Blood Island Raiders – Split 7″ 2009

5th August 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, 7", Blood Island Raiders, Calculon Records, Doom, Heavy, Metal, NWOBHM, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge, Sourvein, Split 7"

Well bugger me sideways if Calculon Records haven’t gone and done it again with this release. This heavyweight lump of

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Grand Magus ‘Iron Will’ CD/LP 2008

26th June 20086th September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, CD, Doom, Grand Magus, Heavy, Iron Will, LP, Metal, NWOBHM, Review, Rise Above Records

Now I picked up this record after hearing the band’s last two records, 2003’s ‘Monument’ and 2005’s ‘Wolf’s Return’ but

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Blood Island Raiders / Among The Missing – Split 12″ 2005

24th December 20056th September 2019 Mark Burns 12", 2005, Among The Missing, Blood Island Raiders, Blood Island Raiders/Among The Missing, Doom, Heavy, Heavy Rock, Mark Burns, NWOBHM, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 12", Withered Hand Records

First release by promising new label Withered Hand Recs. The guy who runs the label is also in Among the

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