Archive – November 2008
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Rise To Thunder ‘Slagnoramus’ CD 2008
29th November 2008 at 8:53 am

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 out over the impenetrable…
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Guinea Pig – Demo 2008
25th November 2008 at 9:35 am

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, feedback and sloth-like slowness,…
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Sourvein ‘Imperial Bastard’ CDEP 2008
19th November 2008 at 9:22 am

‘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 with an etching of…
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Celebrity Love Crisis – Demo 2008
14th November 2008 at 12:57 pm

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 head to create an…
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Sonic Lord Interview
12th November 2008 at 9:00 am

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 their trade for around…
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Moloch – S/T – CD 2008
1st November 2008 at 8:52 am

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 twenty five minute four…
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