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Earthless / Harsh Toke – Split
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Earthless / Harsh Toke – Split – CD/LP/DD 2016

23rd May 20167th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Acid Crusher, Acid Rock, CD, Digital, Earthless, Harsh Toke, Jam, LP, Mount Swan, Pete Green, Psych, Review, Split, Tee Pee Records

I’ll admit it: I’m an addict. It’s got to the point now with new Earthless releases that I literally get

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Davie Allan / Joel Grind - Split
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Davie Allan / Joel Grind – Split – 10″/CD/DD 2016

16th May 201611th September 2019 Drew Fulton 10", 2016, CD, Davie Allan, Davie Allan And The Arrows, Digital, Drew Fulton, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Joel Grind, Relapse Records, Review, Split, Surf Rock, Toxic Holocaust

“Of course it does, hahaha!”. This is my first thought when Davie Allan’s new jam, Recycled Too crunches in with

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Gorilla / Grifter ‘Gorilla vs Grifter’
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Gorilla / Grifter ‘Gorilla vs Grifter’ LP/CD/DD 2016

11th May 201611th September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2016, Blues Rock, CD, Digital, Gorilla, Gorilla vs Grifter, Grifter, Heavy Rock, HeviSike Records, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rock 'n' Roll, Split

This gem of a release from Hevisike Records features two hard hitting power trios from England who exist purely to

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Primitive Man / Northless – Split
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Primitive Man / Northless – Split LP/DD 2016

9th April 201611th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Doom, Halo Of Flies, Heavy, LP, Northless, Primitive Man, Review, Sludge, Split

If there’s a band out there with a name more appropriate to their music than Primitive Man then I don’t

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Desert Storm / Suns Of Thunder – Split
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Desert Storm / Suns Of Thunder – Split 7″ 2016

22nd March 201623rd February 2024 Pete Green 2016, 7", Desert Rock, Desert Storm, Desertfest, H42 Records, Heavy Rock, Pete Green, Review, Split, Stoner Rock, Suns Of Thunder

Ready for Desertfest Berlin? Hell yeah you are! Tickets? Check. Euros? Check. Clean pants? Somewhere. Liver? Definitely! But wait, H42

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Torpor / Sonance – Split
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Torpor / Sonance – Split 12”/DD 2016

7th March 20161st November 2019 Angela Davey 12", 2016, Angela Davey, Digital, Doom, Heavy, Post-Rock, Review, Sonance, Split, Torpor, Truthseeker Music

Torpor and Sonance have shared a stage so many times that a split between the two was inevitable and, given

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Funerary / Ooze - Split
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Funerary / Ooze – Split LP/DD 2015

18th November 20154th November 2019 Jochem Visser 2015, Digital, Doom, Funerary, Heavy, Jochem Visser, LP, Midnite Collective, Ooze, Review, Sludge, Split

FUNERARY OOZE! A fine name for a band, but there’s two going on here. It’s called a split, and it

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Grey Widow / Sons Of Tonatiuh – Split CD/CS/DD 2015

25th September 20152nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2015, Black Bow Records, Cassette, CD, Digital, Doom, Grey Widow, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Red Valley Records, Review, Sludge, Sons Of Tonatiuh, Split

Released on CD, download and now obligatory cool retro cassette format through UK based Red Valley Records, this six track

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Nomad / Wort – Split – CD/DD 2015

28th July 20152nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Guido Segers, Heavy, Nomad, Red Valley Records, Review, Sludge, Split, Wort

A split release from Manchester’s own Nomad and Huddersfield’s Wort out on Red Valley Records. Seven songs in praise of

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Bismuth / Undersmile – Split 12″/CS/DD 2013

2nd December 20133rd September 2019 John Reppion 12", 2013, At War With False Noise, Bismuth, Cassette, De Graanrepubliek Records, Digital, Doom, Heavy, John Reppion, Review, Sludge, Split, Tartarus Records, Undersmile

Earlier this month, Nottingham’s Bismuth and Oxford’s Undersmile – “two of the UK’s heavyweights in female fronted doom and sludge”

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Coltsblood / Crypt Lurker – Split CS 2013

2nd December 20133rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2013, Cassette, Coltsblood, Crypt Lurker, Doom, Heavy, Metal, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Split

Filth, filth, filth. Late seventies NWOBHM ruffians Tank may have recorded a song and album named Filth Hounds Of Hades,

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Premiere: The Cosmic Dead ‘Furthur’ – New Album ‘Beyond The Beyond’ Drops 17th April
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Premiere: The Cosmic Dead ‘Furthur’ – New Album ‘Beyond The Beyond’ Drops 17th April

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Today at The Shaman, we’re beyond chuffed to be premiering Furthur, a heavy, head-warping dive into The Cosmic Dead’s expansive

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