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Hull ‘Viking Funeral’ CDEP 2010

12th December 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, CDEP, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Hull, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Some of you may remember how massively impressed I was by Hull’s ‘Sole Lord’ album, if not I suggest you

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Album & EP Reviews I 

Iron Witch – Demo 2010

13th November 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, Demo, Doom, Heavy, Iron Witch, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge, Stoner Doom

Since Eyehategod came belching out of our speakers nearly 20 years with their thuggish take on Sabbath riffs, feedback and

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Earth ‘A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction’ CD/LP 2010

10th November 201017th December 2025 Paul Robertson 2010, A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra-Capsular Extraction, CD, Doom, Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Experimental, Instrumental, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, Southern Lord, Sub Pop Records

Look, there’s no easy, tactful way to put this, so I’ll just come out with it. If you don’t own

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Album & EP Reviews S 

SardoniS – S/T – CD/LP 2010

5th November 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, CD, Doom, Electric Earth, Guitar & Drums, Heavy Birth Records, Hydro-Phonic Records, Instrumental, LP, Meteor City, Ollie Stygall, Review, SardoniS, Sludge, Stoner Doom, Two Piece

Have you ever heard a sound so unrepentantly and monolithically dense it makes your head feel as though it’s in

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dopefight ‘Buds’ CD 2010

19th October 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, Buds, CD, Doom, Dopefight, Hardcore, Heavy, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Three things you need to know about Dopefight 1) They’re a 3 piece stoner sludge outfit from Brighton 2) They

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Jackal-Headed Guard Of The Dead ‘The Sky Has Been Riven And Our Flesh Has Been Rent’ CDEP 2010

13th October 20103rd September 2019 Pete Worth 2010, CDEP, Crust, Doom, Jackal-Headed Guard Of The Dead, Pete Worth, Review, Sludge, The Sky Has Been Riven And Our Flesh Has Been Rent

Edinburgh’s wickedly monikered Jackal-Headed Guard of The Dead play instrumental sludge/doom that’s heavily inspired by H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos. Admiration

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Album & EP Reviews U 

Unearthly Trance ‘V’ CD/LP 2010

6th October 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Heavy, LP, Paul Robertson, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Unearthly Trance, V

The three horsemen of the great unveiling known as the apocalypse emerge from the depths of the abyss for the

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Pombagira ‘Baron Citadel’ CD 2010

5th October 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2010, Baron Citadel, Black Axis Records, CD, Doom, Drone, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Pombagira, Review, Sludge

The tall, skeletal and immaculately dressed visage of the Vodou loa Baron Samedi leers out from the front cover of

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Koresh ‘Crippledriver’ CD 2010

25th September 20103rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2010, CD, Crippledriver, Crust, Doom, Hardcore, Koresh, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge, Withered Hand Records

You may all be familiar with the name Koresh. David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell) was a maniacal religious zealot

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sleestak ‘Skylon Express’ CD 2010

22nd September 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, CD, Doom, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Self Released, Skylon Express, Sleestak, Sludge, Stone Rock, Stoner Doom

Sleestak, Library of Skulls – a clear reference to the mythical creatures from the seventies show Land Of The Lost

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hull ‘Sole Lord’ CD 2009

19th September 20103rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2009, CD, Doom, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Hull, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Review, Sludge, Sole Lord, The End Records

Hull. NOT a band name that anyone in the UK would willingly attach to their band, sharing, as it does,

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