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CRIPPLE BASTARDS: Relapse Confirms Album Details For Italian Grind/Hardcore Masters

12th December 2013 Lee Edwards Cripple Bastards, Gigs, Maryland Deathfest, Nero In Metastasi, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records

Having mauled the planet for over 25 years through an enormous arsenal of releases and widespread touring, Northwestern Italy’s unstoppable

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Indian ‘From All Purity’ CD/LP/DD 2014

12th December 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, CD, Digital, Doom, From All Purity, Heavy, Indian, LP, Pete Green, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

It’s cold; almost zero degrees with an icy Western breeze. It’s dark; nearly black, but the pale dawn sun is

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INDIAN: Blackened Doom Deviants Unleash New Song ‘Rhetoric Of No’

6th December 2013 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, From All Purity, Indian, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Rhetoric Of No

Hoping to lurch you into a full-blown, noise-strewn, festive sound orgy, Chicago blackened doom deviants INDIAN offer up a taste

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CULTED Reveal Details Of New Album ‘Oblique To All Paths’; Set For Release Via Relapse Jan 2014

26th November 2013 Lee Edwards Culted, New Album Details, News, Oblique To All Paths, Relapse Records, Video Trailer

Blackened doom merchants CULTED have revealed the details behind their upcoming second full-length album and first release in over four

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Obliteration ‘Black Death Horizon’ CD/LP/DD 2013

26th November 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Black Death Horizon, CD, Death Metal, Digital, Indie Recordings, LP, Metal, Obliteration, Paul Robertson, Relapse Records, Review

How does a headache-inducing mix of Voivod’s spikiest, most antisocial album, Rrröööaaarrr, and  the filth-encrusted doomed early years of disgusting

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ASG Premiere ‘Scrappy’s Trip’ Video

21st November 2013 Lee Edwards ASG, Blood Drive, Desertfest 2014, New Video, News, Relapse Records, Roadburn 2014, Scrappy’s Trip

ASG, who released their Relapse Records’ debut Blood Drive in May, have premiered a video for Scrappy’s Trip. The video

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Horseback ‘A Plague Of Knowing’ CD/DD 2013

21st November 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, A Plague Of Knowing, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Horseback, Jenks Miller, Kraut, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Relapse Records, Review

Imagine, if you will, that Neil Young’s Crazy Horse are playing at their most ragged and visceral when, suddenly, the

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INDIAN Reveal Details Of New Album ‘From All Purity’; Video Trailer Now Available

20th November 2013 Lee Edwards From All Purity, Indian, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Video Trailer

Chicago doom misanthropes INDIAN have revealed the details behind their long awaited fifth full-length album, entitled From All Purity. Recorded

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LOCRIAN Premiere ‘Two Moons’ Music Video

14th November 2013 Lee Edwards Locrian, New Video, News, Relapse Records, Return To Annihilation, Roadburn Festival 2014, Rosamaria Montalbano, Two Moons

Chicago’s experimental avant-drone trio LOCRIAN have premiered another new video from their critically acclaimed new release Return To Annihilation. The

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THE SHRINE And RED FANG To Join Forces For Worldwide Tour Dates

12th November 2013 Lee Edwards Euro Tour 2014, New Video, News, North American Tour 2013, Red Fang, Relapse Records, Tee Pee Records, The Shrine, Wasted Prayer

Venice, CA ripping rockers THE SHRINE have announced worldwide tour dates in support of their celebrated sophomore LP Primitive Blast

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TOMBS Begin Recording New Album

12th November 2013 Lee Edwards Enter Studio, News, Relapse Records, Tombs

Brooklyn, NY’s TOMBS have announced that they will be entering the studio today to begin recording their follow-up to 2011’s

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Premiere: –(16)– ‘Forgeries Vol 1, 1972–1984’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow, 1st May
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Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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