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Author: Dave Bowes

Boris 'NO'
Album & EP Reviews B Z 

Review: Boris ‘NO’, ‘Phenomenons Drive’ & Z.O.A Collaboration ‘Refrain’

3rd July 202021st August 2020 Dave Bowes Boris, Dog Knight Productions, Doom, Drone, Independent, No, Phenomenons Drive, Refrain, Z.O.A.

It’s not the first time in Boris’ long and impressive history that fans have been treated to a bumper serving

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Acid Mothers Temple Feat: Geoff Leigh ‘Chosen Star Child’s Confession’
A Album & EP Reviews 

Review: Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Feat: Geoff Leigh ‘Chosen Star Child’s Confession’

19th May 202017th June 2020 Dave Bowes Acid Mothers Temple, Chosen Star Child’s Confession, Experimental, Geoff Leigh, Psych, Riot Season

For a band, who by their very nature, have never had a concrete line-up, instead operating as an amorphous collective

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BlackLab 'Abyss'
Album & EP Reviews B 

Review: BlackLab ‘Abyss’

18th May 202017th June 2020 Dave Bowes Abyss, BlackLab, Doom, New Heavy Sounds, Sludge

Although BlackLab, Osaka’s ‘dark witch doom’ duo (their words, not mine) made quite the impression with Under The Strawberry Moon

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Gnaw Their Tongues ‘I Speak The Truth, Yet With Every Word Uttered, Thousands Die’
Album & EP Reviews G 

Review: Gnaw Their Tongues ‘I Speak The Truth, Yet With Every Word Uttered, Thousands Die’

11th May 20209th June 2020 Dave Bowes Consouling Sounds, Experimental, Gnaw Their Tongues, I Speak The Truth Yet With Every Word Uttered Thousands Die, Maurice De Jong, Noise

There’s a little part of the brain that wonders if now is the right time for Gnaw Their Tongues. It’s

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Total Fucking Destruction ‘…to be alive at the end of the world’
Album & EP Reviews T 

Review: Total Fucking Destruction ‘…to be alive at the end of the world’

21st April 202022nd May 2020 Dave Bowes …to be alive at the end of the world, Grindcore, Total Fucking Destruction, Translation Loss Records

With more splits to their name than a yoga influencer’s Instagram and a general recording history that would put the

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BlackLab
A-F Interviews 

BlackLab Interview With Yuko & Chia

17th April 202022nd May 2020 Dave Bowes Abyss, BlackLab, Doom, New Heavy Sounds

When you hear the phrase ‘dark witch doom’, it’s hard to shake off thoughts of Hammer Horror clichés and the

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Helen Money ‘Atomic’
Album & EP Reviews H 

Review: Helen Money ‘Atomic’

30th March 20201st May 2020 Dave Bowes Experimental, Helen Money, Instrumental, Thrill Jockey Records

The use of classical instrumentation within metal is no longer what it used to be. Once, it was either the

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Human Impact
G-Q Interviews 

Human Impact – An Interview With Chris Spencer & Jim Coleman

16th March 202022nd May 2020 Dave Bowes Chris Spencer, Human Impact, Ipecac Recordings, Jim Coleman

Born from the wreckage of some of New York finest, noisiest acts, namely Unsane and Cop Shoot Cop, and featuring

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Psalm Zero ‘Sparta’
Album & EP Reviews P 

Review: Psalm Zero ‘Sparta’

5th March 20209th April 2020 Dave Bowes Last Things Records, Metal, Psalm Zero, Sparta

While Psalm Zero may have been a collaboration between Andrew Hock and ExLife’s Charlie Looker on paper, it had always

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Cycle ‘Cosmic Clouds’
Album & EP Reviews C 

Review: Cycle ‘Cosmic Clouds’

3rd March 20209th April 2020 Dave Bowes Cosmic Clouds, Cycle, Heavy Rock, Psych, Rise Above Relics

Rise Above’s Relics series has been around for a respectable amount of time, repressing the kind of records that collectors

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Megalith Levitation ‘Acid Doom Rites’
Album & EP Reviews M 

Review: Megalith Levitation ‘Acid Doom Rites’

25th February 202020th March 2020 Dave Bowes Acid Doom Rites, Addicted Label, Doom, Hymns Of Apocalypse, Megalith Levitation

That band name. That album title. They say so much, promise so much hulking slo-mo cosmic shenanigans that the Great

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