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Bull Elephant ‘Bull Elephant’
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Review Round Up: Bull Elephant, Pist, Queen Elephantine, Slow & Trippy Wicked

20th December 201914th January 2020 Tom McKibbin APF Records, Argonauta Records, Aural Music, Bull Elephant, Eat Lead And Die Music, Pist, Queen Elephantine, Slow, Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children Of The Knight

It’s been an odd year all things considered so it was strangely fitting that the Shaman dusted off his cloak

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Pist 'Rhythm & Booze'
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Pist ‘Rhythm & Booze’ CD/DD 2015

15th November 20154th November 2019 Will Beattie 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Pist, Review, Rhythm & Booze, Sludge, When Planets Collide, Will Beattie

Ignoring the opening salvos of the excellently-named Shitstorm, the title of Pist‘s debut album, Rhythm And Booze, acts as a

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Summer Sizzler 2014 This Weekend w/ GURT, IRON WITCH, GRIFTER, ASTROHENGE, DIESEL KING & More!

27th August 2014 Lee Edwards Astrohenge, Brixton, Diesel King, Dysteria, Elephant Tree, Grifter, Gurt, Horrendosaurus, Iron Witch, Pist, Sedulus, Siege Mentality, Summer Sizzler Session, Teef, The Bendal Interlude, When Planets Collide, Windmill

This Friday & Saturday at The Windmill in Brixton sees the first Full weekend of fun from When Planets Collide

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Church Of Misery @ Academy 3, Manchester 28/07/2014
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Church Of Misery / Sedulus / PIST @ Academy 3, Manchester 28/07/2014

5th August 201413th September 2019 Alex Varley Academy 3, Alex Varley, Church Of Misery, Live Review, Manchester, Phil Jenkins, Pist, Sedulus

Japanese doom mentalists Church Of Misery last played Manchester just two months prior to this trip at the more intimate

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Sigiriya @ The Star & Garter, Manchester 09/05/2014
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Goatess / Serpent Venom / Sigiriya / Pist @ The Star & Garter, Manchester 09/05/2014

16th May 201420th September 2019 Alex Varley Alex Varley, Goatess, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Pist, Serpent Venom, Sigiriya, Star & Garter

The debut outing for Goatess in Manchester got off to a rocky start, running almost two hours late due to

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VOLITION To Play The Alma Inn, Bolton On Saturday; New Album To Drop This Summer

15th May 2014 Lee Edwards A Wreck Among Ruins, Bastard Of The Skies, Bolton, Forneus Records, Gig, News, Pist, The Alma Inn, The Vastness Consumes Us, Tide Of Iron, Totalrust Music, Volition

It’s been a while since we heard any rumblings from Northern doom wasters VOLITION, but the silence has now been

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‘Kin Hell Fest Kicks Off This Weekend; Full Line Up & Running Order Available

30th April 2014 Lee Edwards 'Kin Hell Fest, A Storm Of Light, Birdflesh, Desecration, Eiger Studios, Khuda, Leeds, Lock Up, Massacre, Necro Deathmort, News, Pist, Undersmile, Wizard's Beard

Over this coming bank holiday weekend, May 2nd-4th at Leeds Vox & Eiger Studios, 43 bands from around the world

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Pist ‘Riffology’ CD/DD 2014

12th March 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, CD, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Pist, Review, Riffology, Sludge, When Planets Collide

If you’re going to be bold enough to entitle your debut EP ‘Riffology’, then you’d better be willing to stick

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PIST: Debut EP ‘Riffology’ To See Feb Release Via When Planets Collide

13th January 2014 Lee Edwards New EP Details, News, Pist, Pre-Orders, Riffology, When Planets Collide

After last weeks announcement of the SWAMP MACHINE album, newly formed label When Planets Collide attack us with info of

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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

1st October 20251st October 2025 Lee Edwards

Today marks the premiere of IAN’s new video for their single Manuel, the latest glimpse of their debut album Come

Video Premiere: SoftSun ‘Sacred Heart’ – New Album ‘Eternal Sunrise’ Drops 7th November
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Video Premiere: SoftSun ‘Sacred Heart’ – New Album ‘Eternal Sunrise’ Drops 7th November

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Video Premiere: ORT ‘Bodden Dub’ – ‘Sperrwerk’ 10″/CD Out Now Via My Proud Mountain
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Video Premiere: ORT ‘Bodden Dub’ – ‘Sperrwerk’ 10″/CD Out Now Via My Proud Mountain

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Premiere: Cosmic Reaper ‘Bloodfeather’ – New Album Releases 26th September
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Premiere: Cosmic Reaper ‘Bloodfeather’ – New Album Releases 26th September

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