Archive – May 2015
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Roadburn Festival 2015 Audio Streams – Bast, Bongripper, Primitive Man, The Golden Grass & More
26th May 2015 at 7:54 pm

Walter & Co pride themselves on the attention to detail at Roadburn – from the bands they pick, to the artists that exhibit, the curators that they invite and everything in between. This attention to detail extends to the audio recordings that they make…
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Lucifer ‘Lucifer I’ CD/LP/DD 2015
26th May 2015 at 7:48 pm

Once there was The Oath. Then it ended and Johanna Sadonis formed Lucifer. Never dropping the pace to a slower one, within a year she comes out with a debut album, which is simply titled Lucifer I. Though the band may not have the…
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Brume ‘Donkey’ CD/DD 2015
26th May 2015 at 7:39 pm

I don’t trust that donkey one bit. She’s got a donkey’s head (‘natch), human boobies, scale-y lizard skin, an exhausted dragon for a tail, a bearded Neptune-type dude for a backside, an elephant’s trunk for one arm, a swollen pot belly and a rather…
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PALLBEARER UK Tour With BAST Kicks Off At Temples Festival Next Sunday!
24th May 2015 at 3:06 pm

PALLBEARER are in full swing of their vast world tour, taking in dates in Australia, Japan, the US, and Europe. As of next week, they shall play four dates in four days across the UK, beginning at Temples Festival. They are headlining all club…
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Desert Storm ‘Omniscient’ CD/DD 2015
24th May 2015 at 1:29 pm

Tough and gruff Oxford rockers Desert Storm have been kicking up a, er storm in recent times having supported hard hitting instrumental stoner band Karma To Burn, Nashville Pussy and ripped up London’s annual DesertFest, (rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sleep along the…
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Lord Dying ‘Poisoned Altars’ CD/LP/DL 2015
24th May 2015 at 1:26 pm

I was very taken with Lord Dying‘s 2013 debut album, Summon The Faithless, a scathing, seething mix of High On Fire riffola, hoarse, phlegmy Matt Pike-esque vocals and Crowbar heft and chug with occasional death metal and tech flourishes that sat very firmly in…
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Iced Out ‘Man’s Ruin’ CDEP/DD 2015
16th May 2015 at 10:41 am

It is with a tear in my eye that I begin to pen this review. Witch Hunter Records, the one-man label and brainchild of Chris Kaye from Nottingham UK, has finally been put to bed after five solid years and forty harrowing and relentlessly…
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Undersmile ‘Anhedonia’ CD/LP/DD 2015
15th May 2015 at 6:46 pm

Undersmile are one of the UK’s brightest hopes in the doom scene. Having bulldozed everyone with their stunning debut, Narwhal, the band are now unleashing their 70+ minute opus Anhedonia, to an eager public. Anhedonia is proving to be a much more experimental force…
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Lasers From Atlantis – S/T – CS/DD Reissue 2015
14th May 2015 at 7:15 pm

Lasers From Atlantis comprise of two synthesiser players (playing more than two synthesisers) Volkan Kiziltug and Aubrey Jackson Blake, drummer Pat Oddi, and guitarist and vocalist Theo Carnegy Tan. They are no more – or at least, not currently active – having called it…
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Legion Of Andromeda ‘Iron Scorn’ LP/DD 2015
13th May 2015 at 7:04 pm

So I got into this Japanese band called Legion Of Andromeda. That’s not a seventies space opera name. They really mean it: it’s about the entire constellation, heading towards us to devour us like the maggots we are, and they just so happen to…
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