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Review: Mr Bison / Spacetrucker ‘Turned To Stone Chapter 1: Enter Galactic Wasteland’

2nd January 202013th January 2020 Liam Blanc Enter Galactic Wasteland, Grunge, Mr Bison, Ripple Music, Spacetrucker, Stoner Rock, Turned To Stone

Ripple Music clearly know a good thing when they hear it. Their excellent vinyl-only split LP series Second Coming Of

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Review: Sons Of Alpha Centauri ‘Continuum’ & ‘Buried Dreams’

19th December 201914th January 2020 Mark Hunt-Bryden Buried Dreams, Continuum, H42 Records, Industrial, James Plotkin, Justin K Broadrick, Post-Rock, Sons Of Alpha Centauri

Describing a band as a ‘best kept secret’ is a touch patronising. However when I get taxed to recommend music

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Review: Sunn O))) ‘Pyroclasts’

25th November 201911th December 2019 Daniel Pietersen Doom, Drone, Pyroclasts, Southern Lord, Sunn O)))

My ears always prick up when I hear of a new Sunn O))) recording emerging into the light. Sadly, they

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Review: Saint Karloff ‘Interstellar Voodoo’

30th October 201914th November 2019 Liam Blanc Doom, Interstellar Voodoo, Majestic Mountain Records, Psych, Saint Karloff

Saint Karloff, a trio from Oslo, have been very busy of late. Their excellent debut album All Heed The Black

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Space Witch ‘Arcanum’ 2017

17th May 20173rd September 2019 John Reppion 2017, Arcanum, Doom, Heavy, HeviSike Records, John Reppion, Psychedelic, Review, Space Witch

Just under three years ago Stoke on Trent’s Space Witch released their Self-Titled debut LP consisting of two thirty-plus minute

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Steve Moore ‘The Mind’s Eye’ (OST) 2016

11th May 20173rd September 2019 John Reppion 2016, Electronic, John Reppion, OST, Relapse Records, Review, Soundscapes, Soundtrack, Steve Moore, The Mind’s Eye

NYC based musician Steve Moore is best known to many for his work with Anthony E. Paterra as Zombi. Taking

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Slomatics ‘Future Echo Returns’ 2016

17th April 20177th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Black Bow Records, Doom, Future Echo Returns, Heavy, Pete Green, Review, Slomatics, Sludge

Gone are the days when I ask “What is Heavy?” and you reply “Black Sabbath”. I mean sure, it’s not

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Sourvein ‘Aquatic Occult’ CD/LP/DD 2016

23rd May 20167th September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2016, Aquatic Occult, Doom, Heavy, Jeremy Moore, Metal Blade Records, Review, Sludge, Sourvein, T-Roy, Troy “T-Roy” Medlin

Cape Fear River, NC natives Sourvein shouldn’t need an introduction, having pioneered an American southern doom scene with enough history

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Se Delan ‘Drifter’ CD/LP/DD 2016

19th May 20167th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, Alternative, Belinda Kordic, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Drifter, Gothic, Justin Greaves, Kscope, LP, Post-Punk, Review, Se Delan

So, you’ve laid waste to countless ears with Iron Monkey, had an in-one-door-out-the-next tenure in Electric Wizard and then basically

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Sonic Wolves ‘He Said’ 7″/DD 2016

13th May 201611th September 2019 Jon Weatherill 2016, 7", Digital, Doom, He Said, Jon Weatherill, Psych, Review, Sonic Wolves, Stoner, Taxi Driver Records

The sun-drenched vineyards and sleepy villages of Northern Italy’s Piedmont region are hardly renowned for producing quality heavy music, but

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Spell ‘For None And All’ CD/LP/DD 2016

21st April 201611th September 2019 Pete Green 2016, Bad Omen Records, CD, Digital, For None And All, Heavy Rock, LP, NWOBHM, Pete Green, Prog Rock, Review, Spell

Spell is certainly an apt moniker for this relatively new power trio from Vancouver, BC. The first time I encountered

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