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Bleak Zero – S/T – DD 2014

4th September 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, Bleak Zero, Digital, Doom, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Noise-Rock, Review, Self Released, Self Titled

I’m not sure what they’ve been putting in the water up in Stoke on Trent, but the polycentric urban environment

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Familiars – S/T – DD 2014

31st August 20143rd September 2019 Jamie Grimes 2014, Digital, Familiars, Heavy Rock, Jamie Grimes, Psych, Review, Self Released, Self Titled

Familiars apparently recorded these two tracks on a farm in Ontario, though it wouldn’t be in any way hard to

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Grass On The Sun – S/T – DD 2014

27th August 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Alternative, Digital, Grass On The Sun, Jeremy Moore, Review, Rock, Self Released, Self Titled, Shoegaze

The Reid brothers would be proud. Massa, Italy’s up and coming drug-induced duo, Grass On The Sun, tread the Jesus

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Blues Pills – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2014

20th August 20143rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2014, Blues Pills, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Nuclear Blast Records, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Titled

Blues Pills previous EP, Devil Man proved to be a tantalising glimpse of what this quite extraordinary band is capable

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Raum Kingdom – S/T – CD/DD 2014

17th August 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, CD, Digital, Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy, Post-Rock, Raum Kingdom, Review, Self Released, Self Titled

I don’t know the way to Raum Kingdom, but by the sounds of it, it’s not a happy place to

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bowl Ethereal – S/T – 7”/DD 2014

14th August 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, 7", Bowl Ethereal, Digital, Fancy Metal, Metal, Paul Robertson, Pen Rollings, Review, Self Titled, Southern Lord

Back in 2003, Southern Lord released the debut seven inch by Richmond, Viginia-based Fancy Metal instrumentalists Loincloth, featuring the rhythm

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Paleo – S/T – DD 2014

10th August 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, Digital, Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy, Paleo, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

Imagine a mammoth stuck in tar, that’s about how Paleo describe themselves. This pure cavemen-sludge formation from Austin, Texas unleashes

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Brimstone Coven – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2014

7th August 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, Brimstone Coven, CD, Digital, Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy Rock, LP, Metal Blade Records, Retro, Review, Self Titled

There is nothing flashy and hip about the West-Virginia quartet Brimstone Coven. They play occult rock in the vein of

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Dismal – S/T – CDEP/DD 2014

5th August 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, CD, Digital, Dismal, Doom, Heavy, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

A lot of the promos- perhaps not the majority, but certainly the main kind of music- that get offered up

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Beg – S/T – LP/DD 2014

2nd August 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Beg, Dave Bowes, Digital, Grindcore, Hardcore, LP, Power Violence, Review, Self Titled, SuperFi Records

Featuring Grief from London-based filth-mongerers Art Of Burning Water on guitar and Elliot Smith from like-minded grinders The Afternoon Gentlemen

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Baron Greenback – S/T – CD/DD 2014

15th July 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, Baron Greenback, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Pete Green, Prog Rock, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

What do you get if you combine the experimental, afraid-of-nothing jammage of Baroness, the stoneristic, metallic stylings of Greenleaf and

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