March 2009
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Unearthly Trance / Ramesses – Split 10″ 2009
28th March 2009

Raise your fucking fist aloft and make the Devil sign, you down-trodden dog – show your love for the dark metal sludge of Beelzebub and his stinking screaming minions – this is your only salvation – blaze up a broad…
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Tags: 10", 2009, Adam Stone, Blackened Doom, Doom, Future Noise, Heavy, Ramesses, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 10", Unearthly Trance
Reviews » Album Reviews » S
Sons Of Otis ‘Exiled’ CD 2009
25th March 2009

Fucking wow. My cerebral cortex is melting in a cranial orgasm of riff-based space sludge. Stoners everywhere – buy this. Toronto based trio Sons Of Otis have been jamming around since 1992, and in that time have put out a…
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Tags: 2009, Adam Stone, CD, Doom, Drone, Exiled, Experimental, Fuzz, Heavy, Psychedelic, Review, Small Stone Recordings, Sons Of Otis, Space Rock, Stoner Jam
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Locrian ‘Drenched Lands’ CD 2009
24th March 2009

Dark dark noise that emanates slowly and rises like a black fog from the decaying anus of the mummified corpse of your cheating ex-lover. Locrian are among a growing scene of artists (Oakeater, Wolves in the Throne Room, Velnias and…
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Tags: 2009, Adam Stone, Ambient, At War With False Noise, CD, Dark, Drone, Experimental, Industrial, Locrian, Noise, Review
Interviews » G-Q
Iron Hearse Interview
11th March 2009

I first heard Iron Hearse about 3 years ago and was very impressed with their no nonsense, heads down doom and roll sound. Since then they’ve been through various ups and downs but keep plugging away with steely determination. I…
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Tags: Interview, Iron Hearse, Ollie Stygall
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Trap Them ‘Seizures In Barren Praise’ CD/LP 2008
10th March 2009

Jesus-fuck-Mary-and-Joseph…this is fucking dirty, dirty grind, punk, metal! Take Nasum’s high velocity head spinning grind, that very same grind that breathed new life into the whole genre and made it seriously bloody exciting again after it’s mid-nineties stint in the…
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Tags: 2008, Andrew Sloan, CD, Death Crust, Deathwish Inc, Grind, Hardcore, LP, Review, Seizures In Barren Praise, Trap Them
Reviews » Album Reviews » D
Diagonal – S/T – CD/LP 2008
9th March 2009

It was the first time you took LSD, during your second year at university at some art course party in a cramped little terrace house. All you remember of your trip was the heavily patterned carpet snaking up your leg…
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Tags: 2008, Ambient, Andrew Sloan, CD, Experimental, LP, Prog, Psychedelic, Review, Rise Above Records, Space Rock, Stoner
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Evisorax ‘Enclave’ CDEP 2008
8th March 2009

Is it just me or does anyone else break out in an anxious sweat when the subject of modern day death/grind core is vomited up? It’s an irritation that gets right under my skin, and when I agreed to review…
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Tags: 2008, Andrew Sloan, Anticulture Records, Brutal, CDEP, Death Grind, Enclave, Evisorax, Grind, Review
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Queen Elephantine ‘Kailash’ CD 2008
7th March 2009

Stoner droner mystics Queen Elephantine, the oft travelling Lords of (sonic) Lethargy, have produced yet another striking opus of snaking whirring trip rock (that isn’t actually ‘rock’) that hums and glides through your addled brain like the dawning realisation that…
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Tags: 2008, Adam Stone, Ambient, Avant-garde, Concrete Lo Fi Records, Download, Drone, Experimental, Kailash, Queen Elephantine, Review
