Year of the Flood’s debut EP, “A Utopian View” was a vicious slice of brutal, scything riffs and throat shredding vocal insanity that impressed me on every level. No sooner have the final notes of that putrid noise decayed and we’re hit with a…
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OUCH. Nails are NOT screwin’ around here. ‘Unsilent Death’ is some seriously nasty grinding FILTH and no mistake. At slightly less than fourteen minutes long, it’s certainly the SHORTEST violent clubbing you’ll ever get, but it’s one of the most VIOLENT. Think ‘Fifteen Counts…
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On the south coast of Blighty there is a stink brewing, a wretched slow-motion decay ready to rot your innards with it’s putrid down-tuned stoner riffage, it goes by the name of Funeral Hag. I hooked up with the throat of the band Monty,…
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So this latest offering from Norwegians Honcho landed and I prepared myself for yet another ride through some run-of-the-mill Scandinavian stoner rock. You know the type of thing; Big Muff pedals cranking out a bunch of faceless fuzzy riffs, Sabbath/Fu Manchu rip off beats…blah…
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The three horsemen of the great unveiling known as the apocalypse emerge from the depths of the abyss for the fifth time to unleash another dire proclamation of doom upon mankind, and, well, it ain’t pretty. Unearthly Trance are emphatically NOT a band to…
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The tall, skeletal and immaculately dressed visage of the Vodou loa Baron Samedi leers out from the front cover of this, the third album from Ur-Doom duo Pombagira, leaning over what may be the figure of Maman Brigitte, his otherworldly wife. Their presence here,…
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!! Cleveland, Ohio shitkickers Red Giant are here to do BUSINESS. RAWKIN’ is their business, and their business is RAWKIN’. Make no mistake my friends, Red Giant know EXACTLY how to rock and they do NOT let up. With 12 tracks totalling over an…
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In much the same way as you can throw a stone nowadays and hit a band riding along on the coat tails of some or other genre fad, be it stoner, doom, drone, sludge, emo or whatever, if you crack open enough rocks you…
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For a start Astrovan have a big beardy tattooed singer called Deezer and a guitarist called Big Zeke. That alone makes them extremely cool!!! Unfortunately their bio does make a point to mention that they opened for Nickelback and Papa Roach in their hometown…
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