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The Construct ‘Titan’ CDEP 2010

20th December 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson Atmospheric, CDEP, Doom, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, The Construct, Titan

Manchester-based post-metallers The Construct formed with the aim of creating music that was stripped out of such things as guitar

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Del Rey ‘Immemorial’ CD/LP 2010

27th October 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Ambient, CD, Del Rey, Experimental, Golden Antenna Records, Immemorial, LP, Paul Robertson, Post-Rock, Review

Del Rey. The name makes me think of 50s throwback greaser bands for some reason. No idea why. Probably because

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Heirs ‘Fowl’ CD/LP 2010

25th October 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, CD, Denovali Records, Doom, Fowl, Heavy, Heirs, Industrial, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review

The age old adage is to never judge a book by its cover, I mean what if it’s a hardback

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Neurosis ‘Live At Roadburn 2007’ CD/LP 2010

24th September 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Atmospheric, Burning World Records, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Live At Roadburn 2007, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Post-Rock, Review, Roadburn, Roadburn Records

There are plenty of bands who never achieve greatness – they excel on record but cannot reproduce it live or

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Album & EP Reviews U 

US Christmas ‘Run Thick In The Night’ CD 2010

5th September 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson Doom, Neurot Recordings, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, Run Thick In The Night, US Christmas, USX

The first two words that spring immediately to mind upon hearing ‘Run Thick In The Night’, the fifth album from

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Omega Massif ‘Geisterstadt’ LP/CD 2010

27th August 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Atmospheric, CD, Denovali Records, Geisterstadt, Heavy, LP, Omega Massif, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review

Do you remember when you first heard the track ‘Mammoth’ by Pelican? You know, the first track on their first

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Neurosis ‘Enemy Of The Sun’ Reissue CD 2010

21st August 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Neurosis, Neurot Recordings, Post-Rock, Reissue, Review, Scott Kelly, Steve Von Till

Reissues can often provide a sober pause to reflect on an album that may have been unnecessarily gushed over or

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Kerretta ‘Vilayer’ CD/LP 2010

5th June 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Ambient, CD, Golden Antenna Records, Heavy, Instrumental, Kerretta, LP, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review

It seems that everywhere you go these days you trip over another instrumental ‘post-rock’ band, all ‘quiet-LOUD-quiet’ dynamics and brooding

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Snowblood – S/T – CD 2010

13th February 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, Snowblood, SuperFi Records

Snowblood are, alas, no more and this, their untitled third LP, is their epitaph. One of the UK’s most sorely

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mothertrucker ‘Dark Transmi55ions’ CD 2009

2nd January 20103rd September 2019 Tom Khuda 2009, CD, Dark Transmi55ions, Heavy, Instrumental, Mothertrucker, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, Tom Khuda

I’ve known of Birmingham’s instrumental quartet, Mothertrucker for some years now, so it was with real interest that I picked

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Album & EP Reviews I 

IRA ‘Visions Of A Landscape’ CD 2009

10th December 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Ambient, CD, Golden Antenna Records, Heavy, IRA, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, Visions Of A Landscape

Hailing from the university town of Konstanz in Germany, IRA are clearly deep thinkers and I don’t mean that in

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