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Traditional Doom

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Bad Boat “Lonely Doom” 12″ 2012

17th November 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 12", 2012, Bad Boat, Doom, Freak Flag Recordings, Gothic, Lonely Doom, Ollie Stygall, Psych, Review, Traditional Doom

This slab of wax from Ireland’s Bad Boat is released almost in tandem with the Howlin’ Widow 7” on Freak

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lost Breed ‘Wino Daze’ LP 2012

7th November 20123rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2012, At War With False Noise, Heavy Rock, Lost Breed, LP, Metal, Ollie Stygall, Review, Traditional Doom, Wino Daze

Lost Breed may have gone on to achieve low level success with the excellent but short lived Hellhound Records label

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Peacemaker – Demo 2012

25th August 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, Demo, Doom, Metal, Peacemaker, Review, Saúl Do Caixão, Self Released, Traditional Doom

Now here’s an interesting demo for your delectation! It’s most definitively doom metal, but let me tell you that this

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hour Of 13 ‘333’ CD 2012

15th June 20123rd September 2019 James Parker 2012, 333, CD, Chad Davis, Doom, Earache Records, Heavy Rock, Hour Of 13, James Parker, Phil Swanson, Review, Traditional Doom

North Carolina, like much of the south east of the US, is a state troubled by hurricanes, and fundamentalist Christians.

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lord Vicar ‘Signs Of Osiris’ CD/2xLP 2011

30th May 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Church Within Records, Doom, Heavy, Lord Chritus, Lord Vicar, LP, Pete Green, Peter Vicar, Review, Signs Of Osiris, Traditional Doom

I’m going to level with you from the start. I haven’t, to my knowledge, heard a single note of any

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Saint Vitus ‘Lillie: F-65’ LP/CD/DD 2012

7th May 20123rd September 2019 Saúl Do Caixão 2012, CD, Dave Chandler, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Henry Vasquez, Lillie: F-65, LP, Mark Adams, Review, Saint Vitus, Saúl Do Caixão, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, Season Of Mist, Traditional Doom, Wino

As heavy metal evolves and its various faces are subverted, rehashed and cross-bred, it is almost inevitable that the originators

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Surtr ‘World Of Doom’ CD 2011

5th March 20123rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2011, Album, Altsphere Productions, Andrew Sloan, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Reverend Bizarre, Review, Surtr, Traditional Doom, World Of Doom

It is with a frantic clash of steel and the scream of battle that these French Doom traditionalists kick off

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Amulet ‘Cut The Crap’ Cassette EP 2012

24th January 20122nd September 2019 Pete Green 2012, Amulet, Cassette, Cut The Crap, EP, Metal, NWOBHM, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Traditional Doom

“Amulet”, noun, from the Latin amuletum; meaning “an object that protects a person from trouble”. Grainy tape cassette recordings and

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Devil ‘Time To Repent’ CD/LP 2011

19th September 20113rd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Devil, Doom, Heavy, LP, Metal, NWOBHM, Pete Green, Review, Soulseller Records, Time To Repent, Traditional Doom

When a doom band’s official place of formation is at a Pentagram gig, you know pretty much what you’re going

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Human Condition ‘Modern Maze’ CDEP 2011

8th September 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CDEP, Doom, Gothic, Heavy Rock, Modern Maze, Pete Green, Review, The Human Condition, Traditional Doom

Doom these days comes in all shapes and sizes, but if you’re really going to get stuck in and hold

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Evangelist ‘In Partibus Infidelium’ CD 2011

15th August 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Evangelist, Heavy, In Partibus Infidelium, Mark Hunt-Bryden, PsycheDOOMelic Records, Review, Traditional Doom

And still PsycheDOOMelic finds more obscure talent from around the globe, proving that no matter what rock you turn over,

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