Daniel Pietersen, Author at The Sleeping Shaman

Review: Cold In Berlin ‘Rituals Of Surrender’

31st December 201923rd January 2020 Daniel Pietersen Cold In Berlin, Doom, Gothic, New Heavy Sounds, Rituals Of Surrender

Cold In Berlin’s previous album, The Comfort Of Loss & Dust, was one of my favourite releases from 2015. Something

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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: Circle ‘Terminal’ 2017

16th September 20193rd October 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2017, Circle, Experimental, Review, Southern Lord, Terminal

The Finnish collective that makes up Circle are one of those bands that have gathered a small dictionary of words

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Harvestman ‘Music For Megaliths’ 2017

18th May 201716th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2017, Daniel Pietersen, Dark, Drone, Folk, Harvestman, Music For Megaliths, Neurot Recordings, Review, Steve Von Till

With Harvestman, Neurosis’ Steve Von Till has been exploring a much less bombastic form of music; arboreal, earthy and yet

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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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Ommadon – S/T – LP/DD 2016

6th May 201611th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, Burning World Records, Daniel Pietersen, Doom, Drone, Dry Cough Records, Heavy, Medusa Crush Recordings, Ommadon, Review

Ommadon break with their numerical nomenclature in this, their sixth full-length album, but it’s no surprise that they continue the

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Wolvserpent ‘Aporia:Kāla:Ananta’ CD/LP/DD 2016

3rd May 201611th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, Ambient, Aporia:Kāla:Ananta, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Doom, Experimental, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Wolvserpent

Idaho duo Wolvserpent have been slowly developing their brand of tar-black doom over a number of years, always standing out

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Primitive Man / Northless – Split LP/DD 2016

9th April 201611th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Doom, Halo Of Flies, Heavy, LP, Northless, Primitive Man, Review, Sludge, Split

If there’s a band out there with a name more appropriate to their music than Primitive Man then I don’t

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Old Man Gloom ‘Mickey Rookey Live At London’ CD/LP 2016

6th April 201611th September 2019 Daniel Pietersen CD, Daniel Pietersen, Doom, Ektro Records, Full Contact Records, Heavy, LP, Mickey Rookey Live At London, Old Man Gloom, Post-Hardcore, Review

Live albums are a curious beast. Stick too closely to the hits and you risk giving the audience a not-quite-as-good

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Hexvessel ‘When We Are Death’ CD/LP/DD 2016

2nd January 20161st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, CD, Century Media, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Experimental, Folk Rock, Hexvessel, LP, Mat McNerney, Psychedelic, Review, When We Are Death

Hexvessel have always been capricious spirits, dwelling in a particularly darkling glade of the psych-folk forest. Yet it is with

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Sunn O))) ‘Kannon’ CD/LP/DD 2015

14th December 20151st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2015, CD, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Drone, Experimental, Heavy, Kannon, LP, Review, Southern Lord, Sunn O)))

Sunn O))) have made a career out of taking their ‘signature’ sound, huge walls of reverberating guitars that punch holes

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