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November 2008

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Rise To Thunder ‘Slagnoramus’ CD 2008

29th November 2008

Rise To Thunder

Psychedelic Warlords Rise To Thunder ride across a deep purple sky the colour of an inflamed bell end, on great winged lizard steeds, with rasping tongues and eyes of jade flame, high above the blackened ruin of the Potteries and…
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Guinea Pig – Demo 2008

25th November 2008

Guinea Pig - Demo 2008

And here we are friends of the Shaman, having watched the metal genre known as Sludge expand beyond the Dirty South, beyond the British Midlands and out onto the dirty seething globe. Spreading its grease within the confines of groove,…
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Sourvein ‘Imperial Bastard’ CDEP 2008

19th November 2008

Sourvein

‘Splice the main brace!’ I believe that’s a nautical reference. Maybe that should be ‘splice the membrane’. These hirsute Southern bad boys have been kicking around since the early nineties, and this is their latest offering, a four track ep…
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Celebrity Love Crisis – Demo 2008

14th November 2008

Celebrity Love Crisis - Demo 2008

I’m a big fan of album packaging. Growing up in the 80′s before the CD boom vinyl packaging was part of the thrill of buying an album. I’m so chuffed to see a band turning the CD format on its…
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Sonic Lord Interview

12th November 2008

Sonic Lord

Sonic Lord are a 4 piece hailing from Birmingham, England and deli ever a lethal dose of Stoner induced Doom and its hard to believe that although still relatively unknown in the greater scheme of things have actually been plying…
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Moloch – S/T – CD 2008

1st November 2008

Moloch - S/T - CD 2008

Moloch sound like an industrial accident. A very slow one…and a very painful one. Probably involving a lathe. And a pair of testicles. Genre: pessimist sludge (pessimisludge?) with a shit stain of Hardcore. Recorded in April of this year, this…
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