Torpor & Host Body @ The Peer Hat, Manchester, 18th November 2024
With the first drops of snow forecast for mid-November, it’s a cold and dark night as I head up to
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Sludge
Review: Witchpit ‘Forever Spoken’
I remember when I first listened to South Carolina’s mighty sludge masters Witchpit as it was a time when I
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Review: Swamp Coffin ‘Drowning Glory’
Rothertham’s Swamp Coffin began life in 2016 with vocalist/guitarist Jon Rhodes and drummer David Winstow looking for a way ‘of
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Review: Kurokuma ‘Of Amber And Sand’
A decade after Sheffield’s Kurokuma first appeared in the ever productive UK underground, their second full-length record Of Amber And
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Review: Orme ‘No Serpents, No Saviours’ EP
The self-titled, double album debut from UK sludge/drone/doom trio Orme was pretty well received last year, but when it is
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Barbarian Hermit / Under / Bodach / Shred Dibnah @ Rebellion, Manchester, 3rd August 2024
After a relative gig drought, for me at least, of some twenty-three days, I was finally back watching some live
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Review: Dionize ‘Lighthouse’
I’ve always been in awe of the one-person musical act. Whether it was the work of Boston’s Tom Scholz and
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Review: Berenice ‘Berenice’ EP
Freshly minted and with the musical equivalent of that new car smell, Berenice, the UK five-piece hailing from East Anglia
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Review: Barbarian Hermit ‘Mean Sugar’
I live about an hour south of Manchester, and I like to think that I keep my ear to the
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Review: Gurt ‘Satan Etc’
If you are into sludge metal, Gurt is one of those bands that everybody agrees on: these lads are downright
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Review: King Bastard ‘From Whence They Came’
New York four-piece King Bastard made a splash two years ago with their independently released debut album It Came From
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