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Paul Robertson

Monolith Cult
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Monolith Cult: Interview With Bry & Lee

8th July 201315th September 2019 Paul Robertson Bry Outlaw, Future Noise, Interview, Lee Baines, Monolith Cult, Paul Robertson

Bradford’s Monolith Cult are the very latest in a distinguished line of miserably metallic Yorkshire-dwelling doomsters. Featuring members of those

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Across Tundras ‘Electric Relics’ LP/DD 2013

3rd July 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Across Tundras, Americana, Atmospheric, Country, Desert Rock, Digital, Electric Relics, Heavy Rock, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released

Fresh from the open prairie, old world wanderer Tanner Olson and his world-weary ragged band have ridden back into town

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Goatess – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2013

25th June 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Goatess, Heavy Rock, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Titled, Svart Records

I know what you’re thinking, I had exactly the same thought, “Oh fuck, another bloody ‘Goat’ band”, but stop right

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KLLU ‘UpsideDownCrossRoads’ DD 2012

19th June 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2012, Atmospheric, Digital, Drug Honkey, Dub, Electronic, Experimental, Heavy, KLLU, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Self Released, UpsideDownCrossRoads

Comprising one half of those terrible, awful, Drug Honkey bastards, KLLU have come to utterly harsh your mellow, piss on

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Album & EP Reviews G 

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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Album & EP Reviews I 

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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Undersmile @ Gullivers, Manchester 01/06/2013
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Undersmile / Ishmael / Grimpen Mire / Bastard Of The Skies @ Gullivers, Manchester 01/06/2013

10th June 201314th September 2019 Paul Robertson Bastard Of The Skies, Grimpen Mire, Gullivers, Ishmael, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Paul Robertson, Submerge Promotions, Undersmile

It feels like forever since I was last at a doom gig that I wasn’t playing and this is my

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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 G 

Godstopper ‘What Matters’ LP/DD 2013

28th May 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Digital, Godstopper, Hardcore, Heavy, LP, Milgram Records, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, What Matters

Somewhere between the Thunder-Pop of sparkly heavy-hitters Torche, the aggressive sludge of fellow Floridians Cavity and the awkward stop-start dream-logic

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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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Album & EP Reviews C 

CROWN ‘Psychurgy’ CD/DD 2013

20th May 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Atmospheric, Candlelight Records, CD, Crown, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Industrial, Paul Robertson, Psychurgy, Review

The more avid amongst you may well remember my rather enthusiastic review of CROWN‘s debut EP, The One, back in

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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