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June 2009

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Yellowtooth Interview

27th June 2009

Yellowtooth

I first became aware of the sludge behemoth that is Yellowtooth when main man and also the founder of Orchestrated Misery Records Peter got in touch to tell me about his new band in the latter half of 2008. OK,…
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Gruel – S/T – 2xLP 2009

24th June 2009

Gruel - S/T - 2xLP 2009

Once upon a time, when the vile Conservative government was in power and I was a young man, crust punk ruled the underbelly of the underground. Anarchy, sold out by the commercialism of punk and inspired by the fiery rhetoric…
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Gorse ‘The Slumber of Artemis’ CDEP 2009

23rd June 2009

Gorse

Calculon Records have an uncanny knack of finding some pretty sweet bands to release. To date the label have released product by bands such as Charger, Black Eye Riot, Sourvein, Church of Misery, Lazarus Blackstar, Blood Island Raiders…etc. Despite this…
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Black Pyramid – S/T – CD/LP 2009

20th June 2009

Black Pyramid - S/T - CD/LP 09

Every once in a while an album lands that is so drenched in power and passion that it almost seems to stop time for its duration. The Black Pyramid 7″ released last year on Electric Earth Records was a huge…
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Thou / Gruel / Moloch – Bradford 19/06/09

16th June 2009

Moloch

1in12 Club, Bradford 19/06/09 Dig this crazy shit you dirty beatniks…a dope-laced Trans-Pennine road trip to the heart of the North’s most infamous nest of anarcho-crust in order to witness three little doombands of differing brilliance but equal heaviness. Yay!…
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Yellowtooth – S/T – CDEP 2008

10th June 2009

No Artwork

Yellowtooth come growling and gurning out of Michigan City, Indiana, ripping out down-tuned metal-doom with a real spicy Southern flavour (although they’re kind of from the Mid-West). Surly Hoosiers Henry on guitar, Ed on drums and Peter on bass and…
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Catapult The Smoke ‘Unearthed’ CD 2009

2nd June 2009

Catapult The Smoke

The blackened tendrils of the Vinum Sabbathi have snaked their way around an unwitting world over the last 40 years and it seems that the vines grow strong with the Fruit of the Doom in Sweden where the legacy of…
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