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SONIC TITANS: UK Compilation Download Now Available, Limited CD Available Next Month

17th May 2012

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SONIC TITANS is a compilation of hard rock from some of the UK finest hard rockin’ bands. SONIC TITANS takes you on a journey through an eclectic mix of hard rock styles including heavy blues, a slice of doom, with…
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Soggy Bog 76 – Featuring Entire Pike Album + New Alaskan, Royal Thunder, Black Moth & More

17th May 2012

Soggy Bog

The latest Soggy Bog Podcast, number 76 is now available and this week features the entire Pike album ‘To Cross the Great Divide’, Pete’s review for which you can read here, there’s also new tracks by Black Moth, Sun Preachers,…
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Dopefight / GURT – Split 7″/DD 2012

17th May 2012

Dopefight / GURT - Split 7"/DD 2012

My fellow tube train passengers are not impressed. It’s 8.30am on a wet, windy Monday morning and we’re temporarily stuck between stations on London’s busiest underground network. A range of moods meet my glance about the carriage. There’s the “I’m…
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Announcing The Electric, Full Band-Six Organs Of Admittance Experience; New Album ‘Ascent’ Out August 20th On Drag City

16th May 2012

The Electric, Full Band-Six Organs Of Admittance Experience

Six Organs of Admittance as an electric entity is not without precedent. Ben Chasny regularly performs with a full, electric band, often cascades an electric guitar solo in the middle of an acoustic jam, and has recorded entire sides of…
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The Obelisk Now Streaming STONEBURNER’s “Marriage”

16th May 2012

Stoneburner

Heavy riff lifters The Obelisk have just premiered a brand-new track off of STONEBURNER’s upcoming Seventh Rule debut. Sickness Shall Pass drops next week, and features the seven-minute long progressive sludge crusher that the site’s H.P. Taskmaster calls “a killer…
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OXBOW: ‘The Luxury Of Empire’ Film By Mariexxme Is Now On Sale Exclusively In The UK By Future Noise

16th May 2012

Oxbow ‘The Luxury of Empire’ DVD By Mariexxme

This DVD filmed on OXBOW’s European tour of 2009 and which coincided with their 20th anniversary follows the seminal band as they tour alone for the first time in many years and is available exclusively in the UK via Future…
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Coffinworm ‘Great Bringer Of Night’ LP 2012

16th May 2012

Coffinworm

There are few bands that’ll take you to as vile a place as America’s sludge specialists Coffinworm. Formed back in 2007, it’s easy to imagine that their plan was simply to decimate the ears of doomsters by making the most…
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A389 Recordings Unleashes MMXII Digital Mixtape/Sampler

15th May 2012

A389 Recordings

Baltimore’s A389 Recordings have just posted their 2012 label sampler online via a streaming / downloadable digital mixtape. Clocking in at 52 tracks (and well over two hours of music) the digital mixtape showcases a plethora of new and unreleased…
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shEver & Botanist: OUT NOW Via TotalRust Music

15th May 2012

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TOTALRUST MUSIC are pleased to announce the new albums of shEver (female Doom/Death from Switzerland) and Botanist (mysterious San Francisco act) are OUT NOW & Available. The official release date for both albums is May 25th, but the CD’s have…
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BARONESS Share ‘Take My Bones Away’ Via Facebook; First Round Of European Tour Dates Announced

15th May 2012

Baroness - Photo by Jimmy Hubbard

BARONESS are giving fans an early listen to music from the eagerly anticipated new album, Yellow & Green, which will be released on July 17 via Relapse Records, with new song, “Take My Bones Away” posted today on the band’s…
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