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Shallow Black
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Premiere: Shallow Black ‘D2E0M2O [CHAPTERS]’ EP – Releases This Friday Over On Bandcamp

23rd March 20224th May 2022 Lee Edwards Doom, Shallow Black, Sludge

When insomnia hits there’s only one thing to do if your name is Eric Bigelow and that’s to work on

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I Klatus
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Premiere: I Klatus ‘Opium Cyborg’ – Taken From New Album ‘Targeted’ That Drops April 1st

16th March 20224th May 2022 Lee Edwards Dead Sage, Doom, I Klatus, Sludge

When a band states it features members who’ve plied their trade in Lair Of The Minotaur, Earthen Grave, Yakuza, and

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Mines 'Your Ever Failing Happiness'
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Review: Mines ‘Your Ever Failing Happiness’

4th March 20224th May 2022 Sandy Williamson Mines, Post-Metal, Sludge, Trepanation Recordings

I know very little about Wales, but if the new Mines album is anything to go by, it doesn’t seem

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Mines
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Premiere: Mines ‘Your Ever Failing Happiness’ – Releases This Friday via Trepanation Recordings

2nd March 20226th April 2022 Lee Edwards Mines, Post-Metal, Sludge, Trepanation Recordings

If filthy blackened sludge wrapped up in a post-metal vision is your idea of musical heaven, or should that be

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Tuskar 'Matriarch'
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Review: Tuskar ‘Matriarch’

28th February 202228th March 2022 Harry Holmes Church Road Records, Doom, Sludge, Tuskar

Without really realising it I had mentally filed Tuskar as a ‘fun live, sick riffing’ band, while certainly true, it

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Gospel Of The Future 'Blowtorch Mankind'
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Review: Gospel Of The Future ‘Blowtorch Mankind’

18th February 202228th March 2022 Goro Riffs Doom, Epidemie Records, Filth Junkies Records, Gospel Of The Future, Kabinet Records, Sludge, Vřesová Studánka

Gospel Of The Future have been considered one of the heaviest and loudest sludge metal acts from the Czech underground.

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Doomsday Profit
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In Search Of Tone: Ryan, Kevin & Bryan Of Doomsday Profit

14th February 202228th March 2022 Josh Schneider Doom, Doomsday Profit, In Search Of Tone, Sludge

I always thought it would be cool to learn of a band at the early stages of its life. See

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Pike vs The Automaton
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Review: Pike vs The Automaton

14th February 202228th March 2022 Martin Williams Matt Pike, Metal, MNRK Heavy, Pike vs The Automaton, Sludge

In the canon of heavy music, metal, stoner, doom, or any riff-based sub-genre, any conversation about guitar player influence, at

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Kurokuma 'Born Of Obsidian'
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Review: Kurokuma ‘Born Of Obsidian’

2nd February 202228th March 2022 Harry Holmes Doom, Independent, Kurokuma, Sludge

Kurokuma have been around for about eight years now, steadily building through a series of shorter recordings and local, UK,

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V - Live At Svansberget
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Video Premiere: V ‘Pathogenisis’ Part Three Of ‘Led Into The Wild – Live At Svansberget’

15th December 20218th February 2022 Lee Edwards Post-Metal, Sludge, Suicide Records, V

As far as concepts go, you have to doff your cap to Sweden’s V who undertook the enormous task of

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Lähdön Aika 'Valonaara'
Album & EP Reviews L 

Review: Lähdön Aika ‘Valonaara’ EP

14th December 20218th February 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Black Voodoo Records, Bullwhip Records, Doom, Lähdön Aika, Sludge, Trepanation Recordings

It has no doubt been a difficult time for bands these past nearly two years. Not only have the global

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

30th April 202630th April 2026 Lee Edwards

Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June
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Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June

23rd April 202623rd April 2026 Lee Edwards
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’

3rd April 20263rd April 2026 Lee Edwards
Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’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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