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October 2011

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Tickets Now On Sale For Orange Goblin In Manchester

31st October 2011

Orange Goblin - Tour 2012

Future Noise will be once again playing host to the Mighty Orange Goblin when they hit the Sound Control, Manchester on Wednesday 11th April 2012, they’ll be dragging with them very special guests Grifter and opening the night will be…
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CORROSION OF CONFORMITY Signs To Candlelight Records

31st October 2011

Corrosion of Conformity

Candlelight Records today proudly announces the worldwide signing of Corrosion Of Conformity. Since early this year, the band — featuring the esteemed Animosity line-up of vocalist/bassist Mike Dean, guitarist Woody Weatherman, and drummer/vocalist Reed Mullin — has been working with…
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Leather Nun America ‘Kult Occult’ CD 2011

31st October 2011

Leather Nun America

If you were to look up the phrase ‘All Killer, No Filler’ in, say Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase And Fable or some such, it’s a fairly safe bet that you would simply find a large picture of the front cover…
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Dixie Witch ‘Let It Roll’ CD/DD 2011

30th October 2011

Dixie Witch

Twelve years and four albums into their career and five years since the last album, “Smoke And Mirrors” it’s very much business as usual for Dixie Witch. Even the departure of founding guitarist Clayton Mills in 2009 and subsequent replacement…
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Supersonic Festival 2011

29th October 2011

Custard Factory, Birmingham 21st-23rd October 2011 Friday: I arrived at the charmingly subterranean cure for happiness that is Birmingham New Street station at 6pm and after paying 30 pence for a piss I got in a taxi and checked in…
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Space Witch To Support Saviours Next Tuesday In Stoke

29th October 2011

Saviours / Space Witch - 01/11/2011

Oakland’s loudest and most infamous stoner – metal warriors have just released their latest masterpiece (Death’s Procession) and are ready to embark on their very first headlining tour across the pond and on Tuesday 1st November they’ll be hitting Harry’s…
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Mike Patton ‘The Solitude Of Prime Numbers’ OST CD 2011

29th October 2011

Mike Patton

Reviewing the soundtrack to a film that you’ve not seen presents a number of problems to the objective writer. Film scores need to be approached in a different way to ‘normal’ pieces of music because they are created to evoke…
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Pombagira To Support Monarch This Saturday In London

28th October 2011

2011-10-29_Monarch

After a devastating performance at Supersonic Festival last weekend, I am most pleased to hear that they will be playing at The Unicorn in Camden this Saturday, the 19th October 2011. Not only that but Pombagira will be supporting them…
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Roadburn Confirm Pelican, Church Of Misery, Ancestors + More For 2012!

28th October 2011

Roadburn 2012 - Pelican

Roadburn are excited to announce that seminal instru-metal pioneers Pelican have been added to the lineup of Roadburn 2012. Pelican last played Roadburn in the Green Room back in 2007, and will now appear on our main stage as part…
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White Darkness ‘Tokage’ CD/LP/DD 2011

28th October 2011

White Darkness

Dread. Unease. The Ain Soph Aur trickling down into creation. The white hot oblivion of forcible unconsciousness. The inescapable fear of nightmare. All of these things come to mind whilst contemplating the music and chiaroscuro name of White Darkness. Mining…
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