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Mantar 'Pain Is Forever And This Is The End'

Sometimes the way we engage with a particular band or artist over time makes no sense whatsoever… I bought Mantar’s

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Review: BlackLab ‘In A Bizarre Dream’

8th August 202223rd September 2022 Lee Beamish BlackLab, Doom, New Heavy Sounds, Sludge

Every once in a while a band comes along, with such intensity, and with an ‘all guns blazing’ ferociousness about

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Review: Behold! The Monolith ‘From The Fathomless Deep’

14th July 202215th August 2022 Martin Williams Behold! The Monolith, Metal, Ripple Music, Sludge

Sometimes, a band’s name winds up perfectly describing their sound. Los Angeles’s Behold! The Monolith, literally sound exactly like their

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Review: The Wright Valley Trio ‘Metal Doom’

7th July 20229th August 2022 Lee Beamish Doom, Independent, Sludge, The Wright Valley Trio

When I write a review usually, I try to delve into the work, dissect it a little, and give an

Streams

Premiere: TONS ‘A Hash Day’s Night’ – Taken From New Album ‘Hashension’ That Drops 7th October

5th July 20228th August 2022 Lee Edwards Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds, Sludge, Tons

After last year’s critically acclaimed EP Doom Sessions Vol. 4 that they shared with Wisconsin’s celebrated higher-than-hell sludge deviants Bongzilla,

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Review: Radian ‘Discordian’

30th June 20225th August 2022 James Bullock Doom, Elburno Records, Radian, Sludge

This album drops right in. Recently there has been a mild return of the lengthy, corny, skippable, faux-atmospheric intro tracks,

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Review: Come To Grief ‘When The World Dies’

28th June 20225th August 2022 Harry Holmes Come To Grief, Doom, Sludge, Translation Loss Records

There are a couple of inescapable things that are going to need mentioning in trying to write about this record,

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Review: Healing Magic ‘Volume I: Fire’

24th June 202227th July 2022 Goro Riffs Blood Blast, Healing Magic, Sludge, Thrash Metal

There’s angst and anger, and some kind of sickness in this healing. High gain is king here, accompanied by the

Existence Dysphoria - Photo by George Buddy Brecknock

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Premiere: Existence Dysphoria ‘Sculpted Into Nothing’ – Taken From New Album ‘Minus Negative’

22nd June 202227th July 2022 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, Doom, Existence Dysphoria, Sludge, Sludgelord Records

London dwellers Existence Dysphoria might be a new name to some. Formed in 2017, and their two-track EP, Shattered, was

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Review: Made Of Teeth ‘Sociopathogen’

21st June 202227th July 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Made Of Teeth, Noise-Rock, Punk, Sludge

Noisy Welsh muthas Made Of Teeth and beloved label and love child of Andrew Field, APF Records, have for a

Streams

Premiere: Hush ‘I Am Without Heaven And A Law Unto Myself’ – New Album Drops 24th June

16th June 202227th July 2022 Lee Edwards Hush, Independent, Post-Metal, Sludge, Sludgelord Records

Where do we start with a band like Hush? They first hit the scene back in 2014, but in 2022,