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Sludge

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Isolation Tank / Art Of Burning Water – Split 7″/DD 2014

28th August 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, 7", Art Of Burning Water, Dave Bowes, Digital, Doom, Grindcore, Isolation Tank, Power Violence, Review, Sludge, SuperFi Records, Survivor Guilt, Vetala Productions

If there’s one thing that could never be aimed at either Isolation Tank or Art Of Burning Water, it’s that

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Inter Arma ‘The Cavern’ 12″/CD/DD 2014

27th August 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 12", 2014, CD, Digital, Heavy, Inter Arma, Post-Rock, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson, Sludge, The Cavern

Inter Arma produced one of last year’s most stunning metal releases in Sky Burial. Its artful mixing of sludge and

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Pissed Jeans ‘Shallow’ CD/LP/DD Reissue 2014

26th August 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, CD, Digital, Grunge, Hardcore, LP, Pissed Jeans, Punk, Reissue, Review, Shallow, Sludge, Sub Pop Records, Tom McKibbin

Pissed Jeans, Pennsylvania’s finest purveyors of sludgey man-child hardcore punk, have enjoyed a slow and steady ride into the hearts

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Fórn ‘The Departure Of Consciousness’ LP/DD 2014

25th August 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Atmospheric, DD, Doom, Forn, Heavy, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, The Departure Of Consciousness, Vendetta Records

The Departure of Consciousness is the soundtrack to collapse – the slow, final collapse of a dying relationship, the slow

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bädr Vogu ‘Agglomeration MMXIV’ CS/DD 2014

20th August 20143rd September 2019 Ross McKendrick 2014, Agglomeration MMXIV, Bädr Vogu, Cassette, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Review, Ross McKendrick, Sludge, Transylvanian Recordings

Oakland’s Bädr Vogu continue the grand tradition of Bay Area sludge begun by their filthy forebears in the likes of

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Greenhorn ‘Doomhawk’ CD/DD 2014

13th August 20142nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2014, CD, Digital, Doom, Doomhawk, Greenhorn, Heavy, Hibernacula Records, Review, Sludge, Will Beattie

Metal should never take itself too seriously. Sure, it’s good to be ‘brutal,’ but usually behind all the heaviness is

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dysteria ‘Fuck The Future’ DD 2014

11th August 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, Crust, Digital, Dysteria, Fuck The Future, Hardcore, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Hardcore, grindcore, crustcore, doomcore, sludgecore, trudgecore, d-beatcore, sorecore, filthcore, mudcore, applecore, boarcore, warcore, fistcore, killcore… Cor blimey, that’s a lot

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Album & EP Reviews P 

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 C 

Collapsian ‘At The Left Hand Of The Sun’ CD/DD 2014

8th August 20143rd September 2019 Kevin Kentie 2014, At The Left Hand Of The Sun, Blackened Doom, CD, Collapsian, Digital, Heavy, Kevin Kentie, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Collapsian hail from Phoenix Arizona and play a mean mixture of doom, sludge, black metal, psychedelic and progressive rock according

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Album & EP Reviews D 

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 T 

The Great Sabatini ‘Dog Years’ CD/LP/DD 2014

28th July 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, CD, Digital, Dog Years, Doom, Heavy, LP, Math Rock, Review, Sludge, Solar Flare Records, The Great Sabatini, Tom McKibbin

Montreal’s The Great Sabatini are one of the latest additions to the excellent French label Solar Flare Records’ roster, and

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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

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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’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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