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Burden Of The Noose ‘Kill The Bastards’ CD/DD 2013

22nd November 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2013, Burden Of The Noose, CD, Crust, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Kill The Bastards, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, When Planets Collide

There’s a lot of crap in this world, a lot of clutter and a lot of nonsense. But on the

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Blizzard At Sea ‘Certain Structures’ DD 2013

7th November 20133rd September 2019 John Reppion 2013, Blizzard At Sea, Certain Structures, Digital, John Reppion, Metal, Progressive, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Blizzard At Sea are a three-piece from Iowa City, USA playing chunky progressive metal with elements of gut-thumping sludge and

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Gurt / Limb ‘Split Roast’ CD/DD 2013

31st October 20132nd September 2019 Pete Green 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Gurt, Heavy, Limb, Pete Green, Review, Sludge, Split Roast, Witch Hunter Records

If there’s one thing Witch Hunter Records don’t do, its bogstandard everyday releases by mediocre acts in basic crappy jewelcases

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Blackout ‘We Are Here’ LP/DD 2013

25th October 20133rd September 2019 Johannes van der Meer 2013, Blackout, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Johannes van der Meer, LP, Review, Self Released, Sludge, We Are Here

Barbecue, booze and a no bullshit attitude forms this American trio out of Brooklyn, NY and they deliver a dirty

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Call Of The Void ‘Dragged Down A Dead End Path’ CD/LP/DD 2013

24th September 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Call Of The Void, CD, Crust, Digital, Dragged Down A Dead End Path, Grindcore, Hardcore, LP, Paul Robertson, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

We here at The Sleeping Shaman don’t really cover much in the way of Grindcore, Death Metal and whathaveyou. Not

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Maeth ‘Oceans Into Ashes’ DD 2013

22nd September 20133rd September 2019 Sean Filkins 2013, Digital, Heavy, Maeth, Oceans Into Ashes, Post-Rock, Prog Rock, Review, Sean Filkins, Self Released, Sludge

Maeth…well…they came in off the oceanic, untold distances of soundspace (is that even a word?) with the calling of seabirds

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Seal ‘Pyre’ CD/DD 2013

21st September 20133rd September 2019 Gordon Cameron 2013, Black Seal, CD, Digital, Doom, Gordon Cameron, Heavy, Psych, Pyre, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Black Seal play a strange brew of punk/metal crossover with elements of stoner and doomy riffage. Sometimes it reminds me

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Unmothered – S/T – 12″ 2013

20th September 20133rd September 2019 Guy Nolan 12", 2013, Guy Nolan, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge, Toxic Assets Records, Unmothered

Unmothered has surprised me, I was expecting a maelstrom of doom laden guitars and other such nonsense, but what I

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Windhand ‘Soma’ CD/LP/DD 2013

19th September 20133rd September 2019 John McNulty 2013, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, John McNulty, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Soma, Windhand

For a band’s promotional blurb to claim that the album you are about to listen to is, on its surface,

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bridesmaid ‘Breakfast At Riffany’s’ LP/DD 2013

12th September 20133rd September 2019 Sean Filkins 2013, Breakfast At Riffany's, Bridesmaid, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Instrumental, LP, Review, Sean Filkins, Self Released, Sludge

As if three dusty-kilted dwarves were time transported to the present, Bridesmaid comes thundering out of the speakers with the

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Eibon ‘II’ CD/LP/DD 2013

5th September 20133rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2013, Aesthetic Death, CD, Dave Bowes, Digital, Doom, Eibon, Funeral Doom, Heavy, II, LP, Review, Sludge, Throatruiner Records

There are two things that could have pulled intrigued listeners in to Eibon’s second full-length. The first is the band

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