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Author: Francisco Javier

Slowenya ‘Exhaler/Be Empowering’ EP
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Review: Slowenya ‘Exhaler/Be Empowering’ EP

17th November 202124th December 2021 Francisco Javier Doom, Karhuvaltio Records, Shoegaze, Slowenya

With the eruption and subsequent abundance of doom bands pursuing an even lower-end tone, Slowenya have arrived on the scene

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NŪR ‘Negative Transfer’ EP
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Review: NŪR ‘Negative Transfer’ EP

1st November 202115th December 2021 Francisco Javier NŪR, Post-Metal, Suicide Records

Weighing in at a mere fourteen minutes this three-track EP from NŪR is a bone crushing episode of relentless atmospheric

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Shores Of Null ‘Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)’
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Review: Shores Of Null ‘Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying)’

14th December 202015th January 2021 Francisco Javier Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying), Doom, Shores Of Null, Spikerot Records

I will admit to approaching Beyond The Shores with a degree of scepticism, purely because of the recent overuse of

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Upcdownc 'Score'
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Review: Upcdownc ‘Score’

2nd October 20203rd November 2020 Francisco Javier Post-Rock, Score, Trepanation Recordings, Upcdownc

Instrumental post rock… instrumental post metal… instrumental sludge… It’s really hard to define Upcdownc as they have traversed almost every

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Foot 'The Balance Of Nature Shifted'
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Review: Foot ‘The Balance Of Nature Shifted’

20th August 202024th September 2020 Francisco Javier Cooper Feast Records, Foot, Stoner, The Balance Of Nature Shifted

Australia are certainly pumping out some exciting riff driven hard rock bands these days, from the noisy driving Hotel Wrecking

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Skepticism 'Alloy'
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Review: Skepticism ‘Alloy’ Reissue

25th May 202023rd June 2020 Francisco Javier Alloy, Funeral Doom, Reissue, Skepticism, Svart Records

Some bands are the absolute purveyors of their respective genre – some to the point where they inevitably become part

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Vaisseau ‘Horrors Waiting In Line’
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Review: Vaisseau ‘Horrors Waiting In Line’

4th March 20209th April 2020 Francisco Javier Electronic, Horrors Waiting In Line, Synth, Totem Cat Records, Vaisseau

The resurgence of the 1980s in its multiple forms brings with it a plethora of ideas that were either amazing

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Adversvm ‘Dysangelion’
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Review: Adversvm ‘Dysangelion’

10th December 201920th January 2020 Francisco Javier Adversvm, Dysangelion, Funeral Doom, Moribund Records

The doom genre is currently as dense as the riffage and guitars that often prescribes the scene but there are

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Video Premiere: Imbernon & Mikel Vega ‘Nosommar’ – Taken From ‘Eolian Dawn’, Releases 20th May
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Video Premiere: Imbernon & Mikel Vega ‘Nosommar’ – Taken From ‘Eolian Dawn’, Releases 20th May

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