September 2009
Reviews » Album Reviews » S
Sons Of Alpha Centauri / Treasure Cat ‘Last Day Of Summer’ CD 2009
29th September 2009

Hot-rockin’ collaborative instrumental shenanigans of the highest calibre from West Virginians – and ex-Karma To Burn folks – Treasure Cat and UK instrumental astronauts Sons Of Alpha Centauri, operating as a joint (no pun intended) entity named Alpha Cat for…
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Tags: 2009, Alpha Cat, Atmospheric, CD, Collaboration, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, Instrumental, Karma To Burn, Last Day Of Summer, Paul Robertson, Post-Rock, Review, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Split, Split CD, Treasure Cat, Underdogma Records
Reviews » Album Reviews » S
Switchblade – S/T – CD 2009
26th September 2009

Wrenching their sounds out of the same dark matter as bands such as Khanate, Earth and Floor, Switchblade present their fifth self-titled album….and……well…..words fail me. This is an absolute, monolithic, shuddering BEAST of a record. At once stately, spacious and…
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Tags: 2009, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Drone, Paul Robertson, Review, Switchblade, Trust No One Recordings
Reviews » Album Reviews » P
Pyramido ‘Sand’ CD 2009
22nd September 2009

Jesus, some bands really don’t make it easy do they? Swedish sludge crew Pyramido give nothing away at first glance. Let’s take the name for a start, with Eyehategod and Bongzilla you pretty much know what you’re getting from the…
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Tags: 2009, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Ollie Stygall, Pyramido, Review, Sand, Sludge, Totalrust Music
Interviews » G-Q
Queen Beast Interview
12th September 2009

They were born from a band called ‘Pile of Dead Woman’, they play ‘ADD-driven, southern, psychedelic, experimental, filth-core’ and think about the end of the world a lot. When I first heard the Queen Beast album I couldn’t figure out…
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Tags: Interview, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Queen Beast
Reviews » Album Reviews » C
Chickenhawk ‘A.Or Not’ CDEP 2009
9th September 2009

When Chickenhawk’s debut album on Sound Devastation landed it was a caustic breath of air whose collision of punk and hardcore mixed with general fuckery took a switchblade to the throat and ran off giggling down a darkened alleyway. Several…
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Tags: 2009, A.Or Not, Brew Records, CDEP, Chickenhawk, Grunge, Heavy Rock, Noise Rock, Ollie Stygall
Reviews » Album Reviews » O
Ocean Chief ‘Den Förste’ LP 2009
7th September 2009

I’m guessing an album containing three tracks isn’t exactly going to be punk rock…and I’m right!!! Ocean Chief come lumbering out of the frozen wastes of Sweden with a sound thicker than whale meat…actually for all I know it may…
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Tags: 2009, Den Förste, Doom, Drone, Electric Earth, Heavy, LP, Ocean Chief, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge
