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Mojo & The Kitchen Brothers 'Into The Center Of The Cat's Eye Nebula' Artwork
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Review: Mojo & The Kitchen Brothers ‘Into The Center Of The Cat’s Eye Nebula’

8th January 20258th January 2025 Lee Beamish Lay Bare Recordings, Mojo & The Kitchen Brothers, Prog, Psych

Well, hey there avid readers, it’s so great to see you, welcome to 2025, the year that hopefully breaks the

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Review: Various Artists ‘The Very Best Of Jethro Tull Redux’

16th December 202416th December 2024 David J McLaren Doom, Elephant Tree, Hashtronaut, Heavy Rock, Jethro Tull, Lowrider, Magnetic Eye Records, Mr Bison, Oceanlord, Prog, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Sweat, The Golden Grass, Various Artists

Internal David-monologue, approx. 1994: Everything must be heavier than everything else! Metallica are for girls (NB I was sexist as

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Review: Kosmodome ‘Ad Undas’

16th December 202416th December 2024 Lee Beamish Kosmodome, Prog, Stickman Records

So, here we are, the closing weeks of 2024 and I’m still finding new albums to review. Today it is

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Review: Weite ‘Oase’

6th December 20246th December 2024 Lee Beamish Instrumental, Prog, Stickman Records, Weite

Every now and then something will come along that you didn’t know you needed until you are caught up in

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Review: Crippled Black Phoenix ‘The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature’ + ‘Horrific Honorifics Number Two(2)’

6th December 20246th December 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Alternative, Crippled Black Phoenix, Prog, Season Of Mist

In the twenty years since former Iron Monkey drummer Justin Greaves founded the dark rock band Crippled Black Phoenix, encouraged

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Review: Blood Incantation ‘Absolute Elsewhere’

16th October 202416th October 2024 Sandy Williamson Blood Incantation, Century Media, Death Metal, Prog

The new lords of cosmic progressive death metal have returned from whatever dimension they normally inhabit when not on our

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Review: Mammoth Volume ‘Raised Up By Witches’

27th August 202427th August 2024 Martin Williams Blues Funeral Recordings, Heavy Rock, Mammoth Volume, Prog

Sweden’s Mammoth Volume will forever induce flashbacks to the late ‘90s for me. When I was first getting into stoner

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Review: delving ‘All Paths Diverge’

23rd August 202423rd August 2024 Rob Walsh Blues Funeral Recordings, delving, Nick DiSalvo, Prog, Psych, Stickman Records

No one could ever fault Nick DiSalvo for not being busy. When the Elder frontman isn’t pushing as many complex

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Review: Sacri Monti ‘Retrieval’

7th August 20247th August 2024 Martin Williams Prog, Psych, Sacri Monti, Tee Pee Records

I like to think that I’m pretty in tune with the global stoner, doom, and psych rock scenes, but despite

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Review: The Swell Fellas ‘Residuum Unknown’

31st July 202431st July 2024 Matthew Williams Heavy Rock, Independent, Prog, Psych, The Swell Fellas

A strange forty seconds of noise begins the album, leading into the sombre beginning that is Chore to Bathe, almost

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Review: Louise Patricia Crane ‘Netherworld’

23rd July 202426th July 2024 Lee Beamish Folk, Louise Patricia Crane, Peculiar Doll Records, Prog

For all the albums I’ve covered since writing for The Sleeping Shaman, there have only really been a couple of

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