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Sludge

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Loath ‘Total Peace’ CD/DD 2013

29th March 20143rd September 2019 Gordon Cameron 2013, Blackened Crust, CD, Crust, Digital, Gordon Cameron, Inverse Records, Loath, Review, Sludge, Total Peace

‘Total Peace’ is the debut long player from Finland’s Loath. They hail from the crustier end of the grindcore spectrum.

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Hark ‘Crystalline’ CD/LP/DD 2014

28th March 20142nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2014, CD, Crystalline, Digital, Doom, HARK, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Neil Fallon, Review, Season Of Mist, Sludge

Personally I felt it was a sad day for underground British rock music when Taint split up. Having been turned

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Coffinworm ‘IV.I.VIII’ CD/DD 2014

26th March 20143rd September 2019 Kevin Kentie 2014, CD, Coffinworm, Death Metal, Digital, Doom, IV.I.VIII, Kevin Kentie, Profound Lore Records, Review, Sludge

In case you are not familiar with Coffinworm, the band plays a lethal blend of ugly death metal, sludge, doom

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Telepathy ’12 Areas’ CD/LP/DD 2014

21st March 20143rd September 2019 Glen Westall 12 Areas, 2014, CD, Devouter Records, Digital, Glen Westall, Heavy, LP, Post-Rock, Review, Sludge, Telepathy

‘12 Areas’ begins with a calm that belies what is to follow. The short intro, ‘{Hypnos}’, suggests a brooding futuristic

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sapien ‘Toad Handler’ CD/DD 2013

18th March 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Review, Sandy Williamson, Sapien, Self Released, Sludge, Toad Handler

Sapien are a four piece sludge bands from Edinburgh, and are in possession of some class-A riffs. Seriously, listen to

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Limb – S/T – CD/LP/DD 2014

17th March 20143rd September 2019 Angela Davey 2014, Angela Davey, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Limb, LP, New Heavy Sounds, Review, Self Titled, Sludge

Living in the capital has the ability to crush one’s spirit; whether it be an armpit to the face on

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Pist ‘Riffology’ CD/DD 2014

12th March 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, CD, Digital, Heavy, Metal, Pete Green, Pist, Review, Riffology, Sludge, When Planets Collide

If you’re going to be bold enough to entitle your debut EP ‘Riffology’, then you’d better be willing to stick

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Iron Witch / The Atrocity Exhibit – Split 7″/DD 2014

6th March 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, 7", Dead Chemist Records, Digital, Hardcore, Heavy, Her Cheating Heart, Iron Witch, Review, Sludge, The Atrocity Exhibit, Throne Of Bile, Tom McKibbin, Witch Hunter Records

Witch Hunter Records and Dead Chemist Records have conspired to release this beastly 7” split between Liverpool’s Iron Witch and

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Biche – S/T – CD/DD 2013

2nd March 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2013, Biche, CD, Digital, Hardcore, Heavy, Review, Sandy Williamson, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge

Biche are a French duo that play filthy, bleak sludge doom. This sentence alone excites me because I find that

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Loinen – S/T – LP 2014

25th February 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Doom, Heavy, Jeremy Moore, Loinen, LP, Review, Self Titled, Sludge, Svart Records

Finland’s a cold, cold place. And what better to warm the soul than the sonic musings of a band like

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Grey Widow ‘I’ DD 2014

20th February 20143rd September 2019 Matt Breining 2014, Digital, Doom, Grey Widow, Heavy, I, Matt Breining, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Under their “About” section on Facebook, Grey Widow have listed their interests as “Worship nothing, follow no one, destroy everything.”

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