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Kulk
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Video Premiere: Kulk ‘Beyond Gone’ – New Album ‘It Gets Worse’ Drops 10th May via Human Worth

3rd April 20243rd April 2024 Lee Edwards Doom, Human Worth, Kulk, Noise-Rock, Sludge

Raw and abrasive are certainly two words that spring to mind when talking about the Norfolk flatlands guitar and drums

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Review: Blazar ‘Fatal Cosmic Wound’

3rd April 20243rd April 2024 Sandy Williamson Blazar, Carbonized Records, Funeral Doom, Sludge

Fatal Cosmic Wound is the debut full-length from Barcelona’s Blazar, a sludgy funeral doom outfit who take their name from

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Review: Bongzilla ‘Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin In Europe’

19th March 202419th March 2024 Spring ‘The Strutter’ Chase Bongzilla, Heavy Psych Sounds, Sludge

Not too shabby for some shabby, seedy rockers hailing in from the Wisconsin Death Trip county borders. These bong rockers

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Review: Leather Lung ‘Graveside Grin’

18th March 202418th March 2024 Matthew Williams Doom, Heavy Metal, Leather Lung, Magnetic Eye Records, Sludge

I’m sure that I’m not the first, and definitely won’t be the last, person to think this, but upon hearing

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Review: Kollapse ‘AR’

12th March 202412th March 2024 Nessie Spencer Fysisk Format, Kollapse, Post-Metal, Sludge

If you have never heard of Kollapse up until now, let me tell you that this is the perfect time

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Review: Toadliquor ‘Back In The Hole’

11th March 202411th March 2024 Harry Holmes Sludge, Southern Lord, Toadliquor

What has brought Toadliquor crawling back out of the woodwork after being dormant for so long? Indeed, who are these

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We Follow The Earth
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Video Premiere: We Follow The Earth ‘The Cave’ – New Album ‘Extinct’ Drops 1st March

22nd February 202422nd February 2024 Lee Edwards Doom, Independent, Sludge, We Follow The Earth

I was unaware of We Follow The Earth until our very own Josh Schneider catapulted their debut album Lightbearer to

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Review: Lair ‘The Hidden Shiv’

6th February 20246th February 2024 Josh Schneider Doom, Independent, Lair, Sludge

‘You’re going to love Lair’ said Bryan of Doomsday Profit as I was on my way to see them open

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Review: LLNN / Sugar Horse ‘The Horror / Sleep Paralysis Demon’ Split EP

2nd February 202410th September 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Industrial, LLNN, Pelagic Records, Post-Metal, Sludge, Sugar Horse

Ahhhh, split single EPs, something of an anachronism these days maybe, but after separating from my first wife and selling

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T-800
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Premiere: T-800 ‘Sin Of Existence // Dermanecrotic’ – Ferocious Death & Blackened Sludge Drops Today

1st February 20241st February 2024 Lee Edwards Black Metal, Death Metal, Sludge, T-800

After yesterday’s Wasted Death premiere, if you didn’t check out, why the hell not, so head over there now as

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Johnny The Boy - Photo by Chantik Photography
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Premiere: Johnny The Boy ‘Black Aspirin’ – A Tribute To The Gone But Never Forgotten Iron Monkey

10th January 202410th January 2024 Lee Edwards Crippled Black Phoenix, Crust, Iron Monkey, Johnny The Boy, Sludge

What more can be said about Iron Monkey? The purveyors of UK sludge and a band I’ve had a long

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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

30th April 202630th April 2026 Lee Edwards

Few bands have carved out a path quite like –(16)–. For more than three decades, the Southern California veterans have

Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June
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Video Premiere: Alunah ‘La Pucelle’ – From New Split With Samavayo, Out 5th June

23rd April 202623rd April 2026 Lee Edwards
Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Second Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Marks Today’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

3rd April 20263rd April 2026 Lee Edwards
Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

1st April 20261st April 2026 Lee Edwards

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