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Buried 'Oculus Rot'
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Review: Buried ‘Oculus Rot’

5th March 20217th April 2021 Fossil Brutal Mind, Buried, Death Metal, Oculus Rot

Architecturally, an ‘oculus’ is the opening on top of a dome – not something you’d especially want rotting. It’s also

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Cirith Ungol ‘Forever Black’
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Review: Cirith Ungol ‘Forever Black’

11th June 20208th July 2020 Fossil Cirith Ungol, Forever Black, Heavy Metal, Metal Blade Records

Who in their wildest dreams would have predicted such a distinguished return from the Ventura metal giants? This is their

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Grave Bathers ‘Feathered Serpent'
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Review: Grave Bathers ‘Feathered Serpent/Death Hand’

24th February 202020th March 2020 Fossil Death Hand, Feathered Serpent, Grave Bathers, Proto-Metal, Seeing Red Records

As if to justify their already-badass name, North Philly psych-doom quintet Grave Bathers have acquired an actual funeral parlour as

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Canyon Of The Skull ‘Sins Of The Past’
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Review: Canyon Of The Skull ‘Sins Of The Past’

6th December 201912th December 2019 Fossil Blackened Doom, Canyon Of The Skull, Self Released, Sins Of The Past

From the band name, track lengths (two tracks…60 minute release…) and the starry desertscape on the cover art, an unwary

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Cloud Rat ‘Pollinator’
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Review: Cloud Rat ‘Pollinator’

22nd October 201929th October 2019 Fossil Artoffact Records, Cloud Rat, Grindcore, Pollinator, Review

The words ‘savage’ and ‘brutal’ are so over-used when referring to grind (and all its variants) that, however much they

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