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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 ... Read More... »
Coffinworm 'Great Bringer Of Night' LP 2012
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 ... Read More... »
Pigs 'You Ruin Everything' LP 2012
I feel compelled to start with a resounding ‘thank you’ here. This goes out to Dave Curran, Jim Paradise and Andrew Schneider for basically putting together the kind of album that reminded me of my halcyon days at university, ... Read More... »
Pike 'To Cross The Great Divide' CD/DD 2012
Something smells a bit fishy around here. There must be something in the water. We're gunna need a bigger boat... Sorry, I just need to gut myself of all the awful fish puns that I could possibly slip into ... Read More... »
In these tragic days of the disposable digital download, artists have to come up with increasingly novel ways to get people to pay attention to their physical product. As such we have seen a resurgence in vinyl offerings and ... Read More... »
The name Cortez may not be hugely familiar within the stoner rock scene. I remember the debut EP, “Thunder In A forgotten Town”, released in 2007 on Belgium’s Buzzville Records being a decent if unremarkable release. When guitarist Tony ... Read More... »
Melvins 'Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls And The Bees' Digital EP 2012
What do Melvins records and buses have in common? Wait for one and two show up at the same time. Also they're both massive, they're both slow and would both crush you if you got in their way. The ... Read More... »
Uaral 'Lamentos A Poema Muerto' CD 2007
The act of mixing genres, once regarded as blasphemy, has become really common nowadays. Two styles of music used particularly often in such a fusion of different worlds are folk and metal. One could describe Uaral (to my knowledge ... Read More... »
Saint Vitus 'Lillie: F-65' LP/CD/DD 2012
As heavy metal evolves and its various faces are subverted, rehashed and cross-bred, it is almost inevitable that the originators of its various genres should attempt a return to the frontline as their influence is hailed. The last decade ... Read More... »
Pelican 'Ataraxia/Taraxis' CDEP/12" 2012
This EP from Pelican is a fairly tantalising glimpse of what we might be able to expect from the next album, being as how it only feels really like two ‘proper’ tracks, bookended by two very well put together, ... Read More... »
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Ramesses ‘Take The Curse’ CD 2010
11th April 2010 at 9:01 am
Quake with mortal dread, you puny mortal fuck. Ramesses crush the jugular with this, their second full-length studio album: a potent fifty-four minute ten-track pleasure cruise through some of the most seductive ‘scimitar and fangs’ doom-filth that you will hear…
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Tags: 2010, Adam Stone, CD, Dark, Doom, Heavy, Ramesses, Review, Ritual Productions, Sludge, Take The Curse
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Eyehategod – Manchester 06/04/10
10th April 2010 at 9:16 am
Moho Live, Manchester 06/04/10 The ceiling sweated. It dripped onto the heaving flesh mass below – a living organism made out of a hundred rabid NOLA sludge fans. Eyehategod were playing and the people couldn’t handle the euphoria. Fists pummelled…
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Tags: Adam Stone, Eyehategod, Gig Review, Lee Edwards, Manchester, Moho Live
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Black Shape Of Nexus / Kodiak – Split 12″ 2010
9th April 2010 at 9:21 am
How do you approach 38 minutes of mind bending Doom? Quite simply shut yourself away, roll a fat one and surrender to the complete process of immersing in the music. Listening to the soundscapes on offer here is a delicate…
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Tags: 2010, B.SON, Black Shape Of Nexus, Black Shape Of Nexus/Kodiak, Doom, Drone, Funeral Doom, Kodiak, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 12"
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Jucifer/Show Of Bedlam – Split CD 2009
8th April 2010 at 9:29 am
Two bands fronted by righteous, rawkin’ chicks sharing one wee silver disc here – two-headed sludge rawk behemoth Jucifer bring four new tracks to the table, and avant-doom new kids on the block Show Of Bedlam hit us up with…
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Tags: 2009, Choking Hazard Records, Doom, Heavy, Jucifer, Paul Robertson, Review, Show Of Bedlam, Sludge, Split, Split CD, Stoner Doom, Two Piece
Interviews » A-F
Eyehategod Interview
7th April 2010 at 8:59 am
Through agony and ecstasy EYEHATEGOD have survived, mixing frantic paranoia induced punk with crushing hung-over doom they have grown to be one of the most influential bands in metal. The highly prolific band members spend time in-between numerous bands making…
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Tags: Audio Interview, Drian Nash, Eyehategod, Interview
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Conan ‘Horseback Battle Hammer’ CD/LP 2010
24th March 2010 at 8:45 am
First off – what a fucking brilliant name. Why no band has been called Conan before, apart from some piss-poor South American rock band of the eighties, is a bit of a mystery. It is the ultimate metal name, and…
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Tags: 2010, Adam Stone, Aurora Borealis, CD, Conan, Doom, Drone, Heavy, Horseback Battle Hammer, LP, Throne Records
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Fistula ‘We, The Beast’ CD 2009
7th March 2010 at 8:54 am
Okay, I have a shameful admission to make here, in all the years that Fistula have been around – which is around ten years now, not including the couple of years they spent dead for tax purposes from 2004 -…
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Tags: 2009, CD, Choking Hazard Records, Crust, Fistula, Hardcore, Heavy, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, We The Beast
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Great Falls – Demo 2009
6th March 2010 at 8:54 am
Fuelled by the demise of seminal hardcore act Playing Enemy, Demian Johnston and Shane Mehling went on to do a duo project entitled Hemingway. Recently, the they decided to change the name of that project to Great Falls and have…
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Tags: 2009, Demo, Great Falls, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore, Retro Rock, Review, Self Released
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Dusteroid ‘Tyrannosonor’ CD 2010
22nd February 2010 at 9:03 am
If you were to enter “ultimate stoner rock band name” into Google, there’s a high chance Dusteroid would come out. The very name reeks of fat riffs and a cloud of weed smoke!!!! Pretty much Dusteroid do exactly what it…
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Tags: 2010, CD, Desert Rock, Dusteroid, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Stoner, Stoner Rock, Tyrannosonor
Interviews » A-F
Choking Hazard Records Interview
20th February 2010 at 9:04 am
Since late 2006, Choking Hazard Records have been gaining a firm strangle hold on the unsuspecting underground, starting out life within the punk fraternity, it wasn’t long before this behemoth slowly started to crawl into the darkened dirges of Sludge…
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