Review: Merlin ‘The Mortal’
Is progress always a good thing? That’s probably not an appropriate question to try and answer in an album review,
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Album & EP Reviews
Review: The Grand Mal ‘The Grand Mal’
Oxfordshire’s The Grand Mal (not to be confused with Bill Whitten’s American rock band Grand Mal) self-titled debut for APF
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Review: Throatsnapper ‘About The Dead’
Throatsnapper’s new record About The Dead released Consouling Sounds came to me labelled dark sludge doom, and while that’s not
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Review: Opium Lord ‘Vore’
Hailing from Birmingham, Opium Lord have recently released their latest LP Vore on Sludgelord Records and it seems suitably off-kilter
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Review: H.P. Lovecraft, Fabio Frizzi & Andrew Leman ‘I Notturni Di Yuggot’
Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Where would heavy music be without him? Where would games, TV, and films be, for that matter?
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Review: Vircator ‘Arcano’
Portugal’s experimental rockers Vircator have been evolving for the last seven years after their initial formation in 2012. The band
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Review: Lord Mantis ‘Universal Death Church’
Yesterday I attempted a career retrospective on Lord Mantis detailing events that helped both fuel and undermine a band that,
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Review: Holy Serpent ‘Endless’
Although it might be risky to admit it on The Sleeping Shaman, I’m something of a dilettante when it comes
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Review: The Deathtrip ‘Demon Solar Totem’
The phrase ‘It’s a small World’ always feels redundant when discussing black metal. It’s a genre practically built on musician-sharing,
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Review: Green Lung ‘Free The Witch’
Green Lung, a five-piece from London, seem to be making a something of a splash among the riff-loving cognoscenti. Their
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Review: Rainbow Grave ‘No You’
How do you criticize misanthropy if everyone in the world actually deserves to be hated? So begs the question when
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