Unearthly Trance need little in the way of an introduction to the readers of The Sleeping Shaman, or if they do, what the hell have you been doing!?! As this behemoth of Darkened Sludge induced Doom prepare to enter the…
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Imagine, if you can, that legendary metal/hardcore band Botch were in fact a jigsaw. Now imagine that jigsaw tossed in the air by an Um Bongo-crazed toddler and smashed randomly back together. Now, if THAT jigsaw were a band, it…
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It seems I’m having trouble remembering what happened in 2009, all I can assess is there was an onslaught of forgettable albums baring a few exceptions. So I will have to look back and work out what the fuck happened….
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If Old School Death Metal which harks back to the days of Autopsy and early Death gets your blood rushing, then look no further than Norway’s Obliteration who recently returned with their second full length album ‘Nekropsalms’ (read Paul’s review…
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Old-school Death Metal of the highest order here from Norwegian maniacs Obliteration. This is Death Metal from back in the days before there was a clear distinction between the Florida sound and the Stockholm sound, it was ALL just DEATH…
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HEY YOU! Yeah, you with the Melvins t-shirt and the High On Fire LP under your arm…wanna hear somethin’ new and totally killer? Wanna hear some dude cavemanning the fuck out of his drums, while depth-charging bass rampages under dirty,…
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Originally a two piece (which they occasionally revert back to), Trippy Wicked & the Cosmic Children of the Knight, to give them their full title, dish out an intergalatic fusion of Blues, Doom and Stoner, which was given a new…
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Tenacity, determination, bloody mindedness and talent…Domes of Silence have it all by the truckload. Since their debut album “Mescaline” emerged in 2004 on the Shifty Disco label the band, led by the singular vision of frontman Sean Parkin have battled…
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Hailing from the university town of Konstanz in Germany, IRA are clearly deep thinkers and I don’t mean that in a patronising, derogatory fashion. The opening of the biog asks that you called them ‘Rock’, not ‘post-rock’, not ‘prog’, not…
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Set the controls, for the arse of a nun…four grizzled pottery heads with a pulsating predilection for the barbaric beauty of doomed out glue-headed punk and savage burned-out eye socket death metal grindcore warp spasm brain surgery. Yeah, that’s right,…
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