Tom McKibbin

Album & EP Reviews B 

Brokaw ‘Interiors’ 10″/CD 2012

21st March 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 10", 2012, Brokaw, CD, Fuzz, Good To Die Records, Interiors, Noise-Rock, Punk, Review, Stuart Dahlquist, Tom McKibbin

Seattle’s Brokaw may be more indebted to the sounds of hardcore punk, funk and 1990’s alternative rock than many of

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Conan ‘Monnos’ CD/LP/DD 2012

13th March 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Burning World Records, CD, Conan, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Drone, Heavy, LP, Monnos, Review, Tom McKibbin

Conan seem to be the band on everyone’s lips at the moment; signed to Burning World Records, an enviable slot

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Wizard’s Beard ‘Four Tired Undertakers’ CD 2012

6th February 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Altsphere Productions, CD, Doom, Four Tired Undertakers, Heavy, Review, Sludge, Tom McKibbin, Wizard's Beard

Leeds sludge-kickers Wizard’s Beard have taken no time at all to release the follow up to last year’s Pure Filth

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Album & EP Reviews J 

Jucifer ‘Nadir’ Reissue CD/Digital EP 2011

19th January 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, Digital Download, Doom, Grindcore Karaoke, Grunge, Jucifer, Nadir, Reissue, Review, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Whether or not the liner notes that accompany Nadir are just another case of self-mythologising from the nomadic Jucifer front-woman

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Earth ‘Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II’ CD/LP 2012

12th January 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2012, Ambient, Americana, Angels of Darkness Demons of Light II, Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Experimental, Instrumental, Review, Southern Lord, Tom McKibbin

Let’s start by stating the obvious: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II is a world away from Earth’s pivotal

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rwake ‘Rest’ CD/LP/DD 2011

9th January 20123rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Heavy, LP, Metal, Relapse Records, Rest, Review, Rwake, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Little Rock, Arkansas’s Rwake rock more than a little; their songs are propelled by a primal force that may well

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Articles 

Tom McKibbin Reflects On The Year That Was 2011

22nd December 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 40 Watt Sun, All Pigs Must Die, Alunah, Article, Atlas Moth, Banda De La Muerte, Bastard Of The Skies, Boris, Cave In, Chelsea Wolfe, Conan, Cultura Tres, Damnation, Dead Existence, Desert Storm, Dopefight, Dopethrone, Earth, Electric Wizard, Five Will Die, Grifter, Gurt, Hank Williams III, Meadows, Orange Goblin, Paul Catten, Pombagira, Premonition 13, Ramesses, Roadburn, Rwake, Serpent Venom, Sigiriya, Slabdragger, Sourvein, Supersonic, Thou, Tom McKibbin, Tree Of Sores, Undersmile, Weedeater, Wiht, Windhand, Wizard's Beard, Wolves In The Throne Room, Yob

It’s kind of preposterous that of all of the dedicated writers here at the Sleeping Shaman that I should be

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Banda De La Muerte – S/T – CD 2010

7th December 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2010, Banda De La Muerte, CD, Hardcore, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

Argentina’s Banda De La Muerte are a testament to the strength of the growing and diverse metal scene in the

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Noothgrush – S/T – Reissue CD/LP 2011

29th November 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, Doom, Fuck Yoga Records, Heavy, LP, Noothgrush, Reissue, Review, Self Titled, Sludge, Tom McKibbin

An interesting one, this; independent label Fuck Yoga have gotten their grubby mits on one of Noothgrush’s very first recordings

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Five Will Die ‘Worth And Soul’ CD 2011

15th November 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, CD, Doom, Five Will Die, Metal, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Tom McKibbin, Worth and Soul

There are few more commanding ways to start an album than by screaming “BOW DOWN!” in the way that Five

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ‘The Ripper At The Heavens Gates Of Dark’ CD/LP 2011

9th November 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, Acid Mothers Temple, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., CD, Drone, Experimental, Jam, LP, Psychedelic, Review, Riot Season, Space Rock, The Ripper At Heaven's Gates Of Dark, Tom McKibbin

There are many uncertainties in life but you can always be sure that Acid Mothers Temple will continue to crank

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