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Cultura Tres ‘El Mal Del Bien’ CD/LP 2011

20th August 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, Alternative, CD, Cultura Tres, Doom, El Mal Del Bien, LP, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

First of all, Cultura Tres deserve to be huge. Although I have to admit that they weren’t really on my

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Melvins ‘Sugar Daddy Live’ CD 2011

17th August 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Alternative, Big Business, CD, Ipecac Recordings, Melvins, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Rock, Sludge, Sugar Daddy Live

For nearly 30 years now The Melvins have existed in a bizarre little bubble of their own making. Perpetual outsiders

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The Moon Mistress / Snakerider ‘Obsessed By Cursed Wastelands’ Split CD 2011

6th August 20113rd September 2019 Cyrill 2011, Cyrill, Doom, Obsessed By Cursed Wastelands, Pestis Insaniae Records, Psychedelic, Review, Sludge, Snakerider, Split, Split CD, The Moon Mistress

For those yet unfamiliar with this record the only advice I can offer is that you should immediately improve the

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Iron Witch ‘Single Malt’ CDEP 2011

4th August 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CDEP, Doom, Iron Witch, Ollie Stygall, Review, Single Malt, Sludge, Witch Hunter Records

Lock up your bitches…something stinking, sick and wicked this way comes!!!! Following in the filthy wake of two excellent rough

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Pombagira ‘Iconoclast Dream’ LP 2011

25th July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Black Axis Records, Doom, Drone, Heavy, Iconoclast Dream, LP, Mordgrimm Records, Paul Robertson, Pombagira, Review, Sludge

The haughty, gaunt face of Baron Samedi glares down at the zombie-like mass emerging from the gates of le cimetière,

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Highgate ‘Black Frost Fallout’ CD 2011

18th July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Black Frost Fallout, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Funeral Doom, Highgate, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, Totalrust Music

Kentucky blackened sludge behemoths Highgate give us this ‘tying up the loose ends’ compilation of demo, live and unreleased tracks

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Iron Witch – Demo 2011

29th June 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Demo, Doom, Heavy, Iron Witch, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge, Stoner Doom

When the first Iron Witch demo landed in 2010 it was immediately apparent that, under the filthy production, there was

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Drainland ‘And So Our Troubles Began’ CD 2011 (Southern Lord)

9th June 20113rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2011, Adam Stone, And So Our Troubles Began, CD, Crust, Drainland, Hardcore, Review, Sludge, Southern Lord

Power and violence, but not power violence. Not quite. Southern Lord have made a canny move in signing this combustive

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Pyramido ‘Salt’ CD 2011

2nd June 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, CD, Crust, Doom, Hardcore, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Pyramido, Review, Salt, Sludge, Totalrust Music

Pyramido have emerged from Sweden as one of most exciting bands to be playing music that merges hardcore with doom.

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Diet Pills – S/T – LP 2011

20th May 20113rd September 2019 Pete Hamilton-Giles 2011, Diet Pills, Force Fed Records, Hardcore, Heavy, LP, Noise-Rock, Pete Hamilton-Giles, Review, Sludge

On a day in May there came a dark cloud of despair, a hot smouldering piece of vinyl, born from

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Olde Growth – S/T – CD 2011

25th April 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Heavy Rock, Meteor City, Olde Growth, Pete Green, Review, Sludge

You know the feeling, the “man, I’ve had enough doomy fuzz metal for the time-being” feeling. I was beginning to

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