Review: Maggot Heart ‘Hunger’
Since I started writing for The Sleeping Shaman back in 2019 (how time flies!), I have covered many artists, some
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Svart Records
Review: Hexvessel ‘Polar Veil’
Hailing from the dark forest, progressive folk rockers Hexvessel have been on a path which their founder Mat McNerney describes
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Review: The Coffinshakers ‘Graves, Release Your Dead’
Since forming in 1995, Sweden’s The Coffinshakers are not exactly what you’d call the most prolific of bands seeing as
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Review: Black Magic Six ‘Black Cloud Descending’
Let’s pretend for a second that Dick Dale is on a soul-searching vision quest in the middle of Death Valley.
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Review: Yakuza ‘Sutra’
As someone who has read (and written) a lot of column inches about heavy music, one of the phrases that
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Review: Radien ‘Unissa Palaneet’
Do you enjoy a journey so winding it’s difficult to find your way back home? Setting an immersive tone is
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Review: Sleep Of Monsters ‘ΓΓΓ’
Appearances can be deceptive. Sometimes face value just won’t cut it, and delving deeper is the best way forward. This
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Review: Messa ‘Live At Roadburn’
Sometimes you see a band live and you realise very quickly that you are seeing an artist(s) at the top
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Review: JAAW ‘Supercluster’
I’d first learnt of the JAAW project from an off-air conversation I’d had with Jason Stöll on Ross Holloway’s 1984
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Review: Altari ‘Kröflueldar’
Back in 1975, a nine-year series of eruptions called Kröflueldar occurred in Krafla, North Iceland. The occurrence later became what
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Review: Shaam Larein ‘Sticka En Kniv I Världen’
Sticka En Kniv I Världen which translates as ‘Stick a Knife into the World’, is the sophomore release from Sweden’s
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