When Electric Red came under my radar in early 2009 with a three track demo, “Ion” claiming to have recorded it themselves and to only have been a going concern as a band for 6 months I thought they were…
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Do you remember when you first heard the track ‘Mammoth’ by Pelican? You know, the first track on their first EP? The track that was so aptly named, because when you listened to it you could clearly imagine a herd…
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Hailing from Germany, this Teutonic duo of Ingmar Petersen (bass and vocals) and Claus-Peter Hamisch (drums and vocals) deal in far out experimental drum and bass and by that I don’t mean the repetitive washing machine on a spin cycle…
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So, with a name like All Time High and coming from the Small Stone stable I was expecting a bunch of pot-bellied, heavily bearded backwoods throwbacks raping the shit out of a bunch of Big Muff pedals and extolling the…
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When the first recorded efforts from Cult Of Whores and Dogs landed last year it was a vicious and uncompromising slice of industrial hardcore meets thrash that showed a lot of promise under its grimy production. Back then the whole…
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From their humble origins way back in 1993 in San Francisco, Acid King have, over the course of three albums and numerous splits and EPs, grown into one of the lumbering leading lights of the stoner doom scene, not just…
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Reissues can often provide a sober pause to reflect on an album that may have been unnecessarily gushed over or scorned upon its release and gives a potentially fresh audience another chance to rediscover a back catalogue gem from a…
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Small Stone Recordings are a bit like a good and trusted friend for the most part; you know you can rely on them to deliver some quality kick ass rock and roll that have you shaking your bootie and chugging…
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Wilfully nasty sludge from genuine Spaniards, as opposed to strange Japanese men who sing in spanish, here on the unpleasantly-named Lords Of Bukkake’s sophomore release, and their first for Israeli label of repute Totalrust Music – a label that knows…
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Solace must have wondered if this album would ever see the light of day. It’s been 7 years since their last full length offering “13″ with only a handful of split releases and EPs to remind us they still exist….
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