Author: James Bullock

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Review: Håndgemeng ‘Ultraritual’

15th March 202315th March 2023 James Bullock Doom, Håndgemeng, Ripple Music, Stoner

From the triumphant opening guitar riff on the first track of Håndgemeng’s Ultraritural, it is clear that this is not

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Review: Majesties ‘Vast Reaches Unclaimed’

9th March 20239th March 2023 James Bullock 20 Buck Spin, Death Metal, Majesties

As a fairly focussed old school death metal fan, the Swedish melodic death metal scene is a genre that I

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Review: Bruxa Maria ‘Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray’

17th February 202317th February 2023 James Bullock Bruxa Maria, Noise-Rock, Riot Season

I saw Bruxa Maria at one fine Desertfest London in 2017. It was teeth rattling, to the point I had

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Review: Dead Soul Alliance ‘Spiralling To Lunacy’

15th February 202321st March 2023 James Bullock Cryptorium9, Dead Soul Alliance, Death Metal

Following 2021’s very well received Behind The Scenes, Dead Soul Alliance have produced another ferocious, cerebral old school death metal

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Review: Dead Sea Apes / The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol ‘Pantheon Of Fuckery’

6th February 202316th March 2023 James Bullock Cardinal Fuzz Records, Dead Sea Apes, Drone, Feeding Tube Records, Krautrock, Psych, The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol

To get the main point covered: this is a really nice spacey, psychy split, with a slightly odd album title.

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Review: Gosudar/Malignant Altar – Split EP

21st December 20226th February 2023 James Bullock Death Metal, Gosudar, Malignant Altar, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Rotted Life Records

The guttural, sludgy death metal of Texas’s Malignant Altar meeting the gloomy majesty of Moscow’s Gosudar seems like a meeting

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Review: High Command ‘Eclipse Of The Dual Moons’

30th November 20223rd January 2023 James Bullock Crossover, High Command, Southern Lord, Thrash Metal

This is what Boudicca would have had on her mixtape. Of the many permutations of metal, thrash (and it’s all sub-variants

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Review: Dead Voices On Air ‘Abrader Redux’

1st November 202212th December 2022 James Bullock Cold Spring Records, Dead Voices, Experimental

This is a record made up of grinding industrial loops and textures. It’s both sound art and industrial ambient music.

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Review: Keiji Haino & SUMAC ‘Into this juvenile apocalypse our golden blood to pour let us never’

17th October 202217th December 2022 James Bullock Experimental, Keiji Haino, Sumac, Thrill Jockey Records

Like all good ideas, it’s surprising that the combination of free music monolith Kenji Haino and experimental heavyweights SUMAC hadn’t

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Review: Oren Ambarchi ‘Shebang’

4th October 20229th December 2022 James Bullock Drag City, Experimental, Oren Ambarchi

Oren Ambarchi is an extraordinary musician. He has metal credentials through his work with experimental droners Sun O))) and Boris,

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Review: Angmodnes ‘The Weight Of Eternity’

27th September 20229th December 2022 James Bullock Angmodnes, Black Lion Records, Funeral Doom

Funeral doom often runs the risk of becoming a choice between shades of very dark grey. However, Angmodnes, comprised of

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