This is, by some distance, the strangest album I’ve ever listened to. For those unexposed to the Italian duo’s minimalist arrangement, allow me to fill you in: a gigantic man wearing black shorts and a Mexican wrestling-mask stands and thunders…
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Tilburg, The Netherlands 14/04/2011 So here I am….I finally made it to Roadburn! Flying into Amsterdam the day before it all kicked off, the sense of excitement was palpable. Who would I get to see? Who would surprise me? Who…
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You know the feeling, the “man, I’ve had enough doomy fuzz metal for the time-being” feeling. I was beginning to lose a little bit of faith in the genre – after all, it’s certainly possible to hear album after album…
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Islington Mill, Salford 02/04/11 You may remember my recent review of Earth’s latest record, ‘Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1′, and how massively unimpressed I was with it. Factor in the fact that Islington Mill is one of my…
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Serpent Venom have been touting their formidable version of seventies rock mixed with St.Vitus style doom for a while now and they are just getting better and better at it. The last time they played with Devil and Age of…
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Yeah, I’ll admit I was hesitant entering into this album. Four tracks of stoner, psych instrumental rocking doesn’t immediately reach out and grab my old punk rock heart but you know what? I trust Small Stone by now not to…
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The Star & Garter, Manchester 22/03/11 Bit of a strange pairing really, if you ask me – twitchy, techy, twiddly bass/drums duo Beehoover teaming up with Toronto’s finest heavy-ass space cadets Sons of Otis to level as much of Europe…
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Two giants lock horns on this new split release by Head of Crom Records. Conan and Slomatics are a formidable force in their own right let alone allowing for the conurbation of bands on one split. The reputation of both…
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The self-titled 2006 debut album from The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble gets a well-deserved re-release from the ever-wonderful Denovali Records, including a vinyl pressing this time – good news for all of you vinyl fetishists out there! Fusing cinematic ambitions with…
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Many, many times we hear the old cliché about a bands difficult second album. Let’s put that old adage to bed right now. After 2009′s master class in dark brooding metallic hardcore, namely Feral Ward’s Untold Wait we have here…
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