Obake ‘Mutations’ CD/LP/DD 2014
Change isn’t always welcome and, while the departure of Zu’s Massimo Pupillo from the ranks of Obake’s finely-honed jazz-sludge machine
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Sludge
Bog Oak ‘A Treatise On Resurrection And The Afterlife’ CD/LP/DD 2014
A Treatise On Resurrection And The Afterlife. It’s a grand name for an EP. I can tell you off the
Read More >>Spider Kitten ‘Behold Mountain. Hail Sea. Venerate Sky. Bow Before Tree’ CD/DD 2014
Spider Kitten, Spider Kitten, does whatever a Spider Kitten does… In this case what this Spider Kitten does is deliver
Read More >>Usnea ‘Random Cosmic Violence’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2014
In the same vein of perhaps Ocean’s Here Where Nothing Grows, Torture Circle, Aldebaran, Buried At Sea, early, less-bad Moss
Read More >>Wormwood – S/T – CD/LP/CS/DD 2014
Doom, to coin a phrase from Zoolander, is so hot right now. When you read Electric Wizard reviews in the
Read More >>Tombgrinder ‘Under The Black Sun’ DD 2014
What is in a name? Some bands have monikers that make you involuntarily throw your hand into the air in
Read More >>Hang The Bastard ‘Sex In The Seventh Circle’ CD/LP/DD 2014
“We are called Hang The Bastard I have no delusions of grandeur.” That’s what vocalist Tomas Hubbard told me in
Read More >>The Body / Sandworm – Split LP/DD 2014
Despite being around since 1999 and releasing their first demo in 2004, The Body only seem to have gained real
Read More >>Snailking ‘Storm’ CD/LP/DD 2014
Am I allowed to review music? Let me rephrase that slightly differently. Am I, as reviewer, just a fan, or
Read More >>Old Man Lizard ‘Lone Wolf Vs Brown Bear’ CD/DD 2014
Old Man Lizard are headed by the prodigiously talented Jack Newnham (he also drums for the outrageously good Meadows), who
Read More >>Fistula ‘Vermin Prolificus’ LP/DD 2014
Around since ’98, yet often overlooked in favour of the likes of Grief, Dystopia and Noothgrush, Ohio quartet Fistula churn
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