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WINDHAND Announce New Album ‘Soma’ Out September 2013 On Relapse Records

19th July 2013 Lee Edwards New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Roadburn Festival 2014, Soma, Windhand

Richmond, Virginia’s psychedelic doom band, WINDHAND, are set to release their second full-length album Soma via Relapse Records on September

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Black Tusk: Interview With Guitarist/Vocalist Andrew Fidler

19th July 201315th September 2019 Angela Davey Andrew Fidler, Angela Davey, Black Tusk, Interview, Relapse Records

Long-time defenders of Savannah metal, Black Tusk, are fresh off the road of their tour with Kvelertak and Cancer Bats.

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TRUE WIDOW: New Album ‘Circumambulation’ Now Available To Stream

17th July 2013 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Circumambulation, News, Relapse Records, True Widow, US Tour 2013, Vpro 3voor12

On TRUE WIDOW’s highly anticipated third album ‘Circumambulation’, the Dallas heavy ‘stonegaze’ trio hone in on their trademark syrupy simplicity

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Black Tusk ‘Tend No Wounds’ CD/LP/DD 2013

17th July 20133rd September 2019 Angela Davey 2013, Angela Davey, Black Tusk, CD, Digital, LP, Metal, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Swamp Metal, Tend No Wounds

Black Tusk are a band often accused of basking in the reflected glory of bands such as Kylesa and Baroness

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TRUE WIDOW: Free Download & New Track Premiere

13th July 2013 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Circumambulation, Creeper, Four Teeth, Free Download, HW:R, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Terrorizer Magazine, True Widow

TRUE WIDOW, the Texas trio NPR recently described as “hypnotic”, have made their track ‘Four Teeth‘ available as a free

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HIGH ON FIRE: Classic Albums Reissued On Vinyl By Relapse Records

10th July 2013 Lee Edwards Blessed Black Wings, Death Is This Communion, High On Fire, New Vinyl Details, News, Reissue, Relapse Records, Surrounded By Thieves

HIGH ON FIRE’s classic records, Surrounded By Thieves, Blessed Black Wings, and Death Is This Communion are each receiving a

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PRIMITIVE MAN: Blackened Doom Nihilists Unveil New Track Via Pitchfork

9th July 2013 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Mordgrimm Records, News, Primitive Man, Rags, Relapse Records, Scorn, Throatruiner Records, US Tour 2013

Major league web portal Pitchfork is pleased to unveil “Rags,” from Denver gloom troupe and recent Relapse Records signees, PRIMITIVE

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Coffins ‘The Fleshland’ CD/LP/DD 2013

9th July 20133rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2013, Alex Varley, CD, Coffins, DD, Death Doom, Death Metal, Doom, LP, Relapse Records, Review, The Fleshland

Spewing out a slow motion Autopsy since 1996, Coffins have gained a reputable name through a couple of thousand splits

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HORSEBACK: Announce Singles + Rarities Collection

2nd July 2013 Lee Edwards A Plague Of Knowing, Horseback, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records

Chapel Hill, NC’s experimental artisan HORSEBACK has announced a singles and rarities collection entitled A Plague Of Knowing. This limited

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COFFINS Stream Entire New Album ‘The Fleshland’ Online

1st July 2013 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Coffins, Gigs, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Terrorizer Magazine, The Fleshland, The Vacant Pale Vessel

Ahead of its release next week, COFFINS are streaming their brand new album via the Terrorizer website from today. The

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COFFINS: Sailing The Seas Of Disease With “The Unhallowed Tide” At MetalSucks

27th June 2013 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Coffins, MetalSucks, News, Pitchfork, Relapse Records, Rotten Disciples, The Fleshland, The Unhallowed Tide

As The Fleshland, the fourth LP from Tokyo’s torture squad COFFINS, grows ever closer to reaching the human populations —

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