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Sunn O))) 'Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise The Chalice & Reverential' Artwork
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Review: Sunn O))) ‘Eternity’s Pillars B/W Raise The Chalice & Reverential’

17th December 202517th December 2025 Sandy Williamson Drone, Sub Pop Records, Sunn O)))

The first collaboration between drone legends Sunn O))) and the legendary Sub Pop Records, this three-track release sees Greg Anderson

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Earth 'Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix' Artwork
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Review: Earth ‘Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix’

2nd November 202317th December 2025 Reza Mills Brett Netson, Drone, Dub, Flowdan, Industrial, Justin K Broadrick, Remix, Robert Hampson, Sub Pop Records, The Bug

Having recently reviewed and thoroughly enjoyed Earth 2 Special Low Frequency Version (as was to be expected), if you’ve decided

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Review: Earth ‘Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version’ [Reissue]

31st October 202317th December 2025 Reza Mills Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Sub Pop Records

Olympia, Washington drone metal outfit Earth formed in 1989 and took their title from Black Sabbath’s original name. Dylan Carlson,

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GOAT Unveil New Video For The Track ‘Hide From The Sun’

10th October 2014 Lee Edwards Commune, Goat, Hide From The Sun, New Album Details, New Video, News, Rocket Recordings, Stranded Rekords, Sub Pop Records

GOAT‘s Commune is the Swedish collectives critically acclaimed follow up to 2012’s World Music. It has become their first UK

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Pissed Jeans: Tom McKibbin Interviews Frontman Matt Korvette

7th October 201411th September 2019 Tom McKibbin Interview, Matt Korvette, Pissed Jeans, Shallow, Sub Pop Records, Tom McKibbin

Pennsylvanian punks Pissed Jeans have been tearing us all a new a-hole for a decade now and so following the

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GOAT: New Album Commune Now Available To Stream In Full

15th September 2014 Lee Edwards Commune, Goat, New Album Details, News, Rocket Recordings, Stranded Rekords, Sub Pop Records

The Time Is Now. Commune, the hotly anticipated second album from Sweden’s psych overlords, GOAT, is now streaming in full

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Pissed Jeans ‘Shallow’ CD/LP/DD Reissue 2014

26th August 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, CD, Digital, Grunge, Hardcore, LP, Pissed Jeans, Punk, Reissue, Review, Shallow, Sludge, Sub Pop Records, Tom McKibbin

Pissed Jeans, Pennsylvania’s finest purveyors of sludgey man-child hardcore punk, have enjoyed a slow and steady ride into the hearts

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GOAT Release New Track ‘Words’; Listening Party Announced For New Album ‘Commune’

12th August 2014 Lee Edwards Commune, Goat, New Album Details, New Video, News, Nothing Is Joining The Commune, Nothing is..., Rocket Recordings, Stranded Rekords, Sub Pop Records, The Alibi, Words

When Commune, the follow-up album to GOAT”s World Music was announced, the internet exploded in a frenzy of excitement. Hide

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PISSED JEANS: Sub Pop To Reissue ‘Shallow’; UK & US Tours Incoming

12th August 201417th December 2025 Lee Edwards Fun Fun Fun Fest, Made In America Festival, News, Pissed Jeans, Reissue, Shallow, Sub Pop Records, UK Tour 2014, US Tour 2014

PISSED JEANS were noisy as a motherfucker and proud of it on Shallow. The album sounds like a big pile

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Rocket Recordings To Release New GOAT Album ‘Commune’; New Track ‘Hide From The Sun’ Now Streaming

1st July 2014 Lee Edwards Commune, Goat, Hide From The Sun, New Album Details, News, Rocket Recordings, Stereogum, Stranded Rekords, Sub Pop Records

Swedish rock collective GOAT will release their highly-anticipated second album, Commune on CD/LP/DL on 22nd September 2014 via Rocket Recordings

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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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Video Premiere: Oreyeon ‘I’m Your Mistake’ – New Album ‘The Grotesque Within’ Drops 13th Feb
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Video Premiere: Oreyeon ‘I’m Your Mistake’ – New Album ‘The Grotesque Within’ Drops 13th Feb

16th December 202516th December 2025 Lee Edwards

Today, The Sleeping Shaman is proud to host the exclusive video premiere for I’m Your Mistake by Northern Italian heavyweights,

Video Premiere: IAN ‘Manuel’ – Debut ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’ Drops 17th October
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Video Premiere: IAN ‘Manuel’ – Debut ‘Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!’ Drops 17th October

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Video Premiere: SoftSun ‘Sacred Heart’ – New Album ‘Eternal Sunrise’ Drops 7th November
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Video Premiere: SoftSun ‘Sacred Heart’ – New Album ‘Eternal Sunrise’ Drops 7th November

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Video Premiere: ORT ‘Bodden Dub’ – ‘Sperrwerk’ 10″/CD Out Now Via My Proud Mountain
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Video Premiere: ORT ‘Bodden Dub’ – ‘Sperrwerk’ 10″/CD Out Now Via My Proud Mountain

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