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Dopefight / GURT - Split 7"/DD 2012
My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It's 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we're temporarily stuck between stations on London's busiest underground network. A range of moods meet my glance about the carriage. There's the ... Read More... »
Coffinworm 'Great Bringer Of Night' LP 2012
There are few bands that’ll take you to as vile a place as America’s sludge specialists Coffinworm. Formed back in 2007, it’s easy to imagine that their plan was simply to decimate the ears of doomsters by making the ... Read More... »
Pigs 'You Ruin Everything' LP 2012
I feel compelled to start with a resounding ‘thank you’ here. This goes out to Dave Curran, Jim Paradise and Andrew Schneider for basically putting together the kind of album that reminded me of my halcyon days at university, ... Read More... »
Pike 'To Cross The Great Divide' CD/DD 2012
Something smells a bit fishy around here. There must be something in the water. We're gunna need a bigger boat... Sorry, I just need to gut myself of all the awful fish puns that I could possibly slip into ... Read More... »
In these tragic days of the disposable digital download, artists have to come up with increasingly novel ways to get people to pay attention to their physical product. As such we have seen a resurgence in vinyl offerings and ... Read More... »
The name Cortez may not be hugely familiar within the stoner rock scene. I remember the debut EP, “Thunder In A forgotten Town”, released in 2007 on Belgium’s Buzzville Records being a decent if unremarkable release. When guitarist Tony ... Read More... »
Melvins 'Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls And The Bees' Digital EP 2012
What do Melvins records and buses have in common? Wait for one and two show up at the same time. Also they're both massive, they're both slow and would both crush you if you got in their way. The ... Read More... »
Uaral 'Lamentos A Poema Muerto' CD 2007
The act of mixing genres, once regarded as blasphemy, has become really common nowadays. Two styles of music used particularly often in such a fusion of different worlds are folk and metal. One could describe Uaral (to my knowledge ... Read More... »
Saint Vitus 'Lillie: F-65' LP/CD/DD 2012
As heavy metal evolves and its various faces are subverted, rehashed and cross-bred, it is almost inevitable that the originators of its various genres should attempt a return to the frontline as their influence is hailed. The last decade ... Read More... »
Pelican 'Ataraxia/Taraxis' CDEP/12" 2012
This EP from Pelican is a fairly tantalising glimpse of what we might be able to expect from the next album, being as how it only feels really like two ‘proper’ tracks, bookended by two very well put together, ... Read More... »
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SONIC TITANS: UK Compilation Download Now Available, Limited CD Available Next Month
17th May 2012 at 11:01 am
SONIC TITANS is a compilation of hard rock from some of the UK finest hard rockin’ bands. SONIC TITANS takes you on a journey through an eclectic mix of hard rock styles including heavy blues, a slice of doom, with…
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Soggy Bog 76 – Featuring Entire Pike Album + New Alaskan, Royal Thunder, Black Moth & More
17th May 2012 at 9:31 am
The latest Soggy Bog Podcast, number 76 is now available and this week features the entire Pike album ‘To Cross the Great Divide’, Pete’s review for which you can read here, there’s also new tracks by Black Moth, Sun Preachers,…
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Dopefight / GURT – Split 7″/DD 2012
17th May 2012 at 9:01 am
My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It’s 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we’re temporarily stuck between stations on London’s busiest underground network. A range of moods meet my glance about the carriage. There’s the “I’m…
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Tags: 2012, 7", DD, Digital Download, Doom, Dopefight, Gurt, Gurt / Dopefight Split, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Self Released, Sludge
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Announcing The Electric, Full Band-Six Organs Of Admittance Experience; New Album ‘Ascent’ Out August 20th On Drag City
16th May 2012 at 3:44 pm
Six Organs of Admittance as an electric entity is not without precedent. Ben Chasny regularly performs with a full, electric band, often cascades an electric guitar solo in the middle of an acoustic jam, and has recorded entire sides of…
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Tags: Ascent, Ben Chasny, Drag City, New Album Details, News, Six Organs Of Admittance, The Electric Full Band-Six Organs Of Admittance Experience, Waswasa
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The Obelisk Now Streaming STONEBURNER’s “Marriage”
16th May 2012 at 2:52 pm
Heavy riff lifters The Obelisk have just premiered a brand-new track off of STONEBURNER’s upcoming Seventh Rule debut. Sickness Shall Pass drops next week, and features the seven-minute long progressive sludge crusher that the site’s H.P. Taskmaster calls “a killer…
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Tags: Audio Stream, Marriage, New Album Details, News, Seventh Rule Recordings, Sickness Will Pass, Stoneburner, The Obelisk
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OXBOW: ‘The Luxury Of Empire’ Film By Mariexxme Is Now On Sale Exclusively In The UK By Future Noise
16th May 2012 at 12:42 pm
This DVD filmed on OXBOW’s European tour of 2009 and which coincided with their 20th anniversary follows the seminal band as they tour alone for the first time in many years and is available exclusively in the UK via Future…
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Coffinworm ‘Great Bringer Of Night’ LP 2012
16th May 2012 at 10:04 am
There are few bands that’ll take you to as vile a place as America’s sludge specialists Coffinworm. Formed back in 2007, it’s easy to imagine that their plan was simply to decimate the ears of doomsters by making the most…
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A389 Recordings Unleashes MMXII Digital Mixtape/Sampler
15th May 2012 at 12:22 pm
Baltimore’s A389 Recordings have just posted their 2012 label sampler online via a streaming / downloadable digital mixtape. Clocking in at 52 tracks (and well over two hours of music) the digital mixtape showcases a plethora of new and unreleased…
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shEver & Botanist: OUT NOW Via TotalRust Music
15th May 2012 at 11:41 am
TOTALRUST MUSIC are pleased to announce the new albums of shEver (female Doom/Death from Switzerland) and Botanist (mysterious San Francisco act) are OUT NOW & Available. The official release date for both albums is May 25th, but the CD’s have…
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Tags: Audio Stream, Botanist, Botanist III, Doom In Blood & Allies, New Album Details, News, Now Available, shEver, Totalrust Music
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BARONESS Share ‘Take My Bones Away’ Via Facebook; First Round Of European Tour Dates Announced
15th May 2012 at 11:15 am
BARONESS are giving fans an early listen to music from the eagerly anticipated new album, Yellow & Green, which will be released on July 17 via Relapse Records, with new song, “Take My Bones Away” posted today on the band’s…
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Tags: Audio Stream, Baroness, New Album Details, Relapse Records, Take My Bones Away, Yellow & Green