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Author: Jay Hampshire

Amenra ‘Alive’
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Amenra ‘Alive’ CD/LP 2016

5th May 201611th September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2016, Acoustic, Alive, Ambient, Amenra, CD, Consouling Sounds, Dark, Jay Hampshire, LP, Review

A spiritual successor to their 2009 Afterlife EP, Alive sees Belgium’s mysterious purveyors of post-doom/sludge Amenra once more bare their

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Sumac 'What One Becomes'
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Sumac ‘What One Becomes’ CD/LP/DD 2016

4th April 201611th September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2016, CD, Digital, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, Jay Hampshire, LP, Post-Rock, Review, Sumac, Thrill Jockey Records, What One Becomes

Promotional snippets for Sumac’s latest full-length What One Becomes summarise the records’ tone and content more succinctly than should be

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Conny Ochs 'Future Fables'
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Conny Ochs ‘Future Fables’ CD/LP 2016

8th March 20161st November 2019 Jay Hampshire Acoustic, Blues, Conny Ochs, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk, Future Fables, Review

There’s a tendency for many to underestimate those artists who choose to ‘strip back’ as lacking complexity. Conny Ochs’ latest

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Beehoover 'Primitive Powers'
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Beehoover ‘Primitive Powers’ CD/LP/DD 2016

17th February 20161st November 2019 Jay Hampshire 2016, Beehoover, CD, Digital, Experimental, Jay Hampshire, LP, Noise-Rock, Primitive Powers, Prog Rock, Review, Unundeux

German duo Beehoover manage to tread the line between ‘immediately inaccessible’ and ‘wilfully alienating’ so well that they render the

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Crippled Black Phoenix 'New Dark Age Tour EP'
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Crippled Black Phoenix ‘New Dark Age Tour EP’ CD/LP/DD 2015

24th January 20161st November 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, CD, Classic Rock, Crippled Black Phoenix, Digital, Jay Hampshire, Justin Greaves, LP, New Dark Age Tour EP, Post-Rock, Prog Rock, Review, Seasons Of Mist

Justin Greaves will be a familiar name for many, as sticksman for both sludge legends Iron Monkey and Doom icons

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Slomatics ‘Flooding The Weir’
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Slomatics ‘Flooding The Weir’ & ‘Kalceanna’ DD Reissue 2015

23rd November 20154th November 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, Black Bow Records, Digital, Doom, Flooding The Weir, Heavy, Jay Hampshire, Kalceanna, Reissue, Review, Slomatics, Sludge

Some things in life are just inherently ‘right’. Like cold pizza the morning after a booze session, or that blissful

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Kowloon Walled City ‘Grievances’ CD/LP/DD 2015

30th September 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Gilead Media, Grievances, Heavy, Jay Hampshire, Kowloon Walled City, LP, Neurot Recordings, Post-Rock, Review

Chicago’s Kowloon Walled City have been plying their sludge tinged, post metal trade since 2007, but three albums and a

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Dead Existence ‘Endless Misery’ LP/CS/DD 2015

19th August 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, Black Bow Records, Cassette, Dead Existence, Digital, Doom, Endless Misery, Heavy, Jay Hampshire, LP, Review, Sludge

London’s Dead Existence were a staple of the UK sludge / doom scene since their inception way back in the

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Limb ‘Terminal’ CD/LP/DD 2015

9th August 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Jay Hampshire, Limb, LP, New Heavy Sounds, Review, Stoner, Terminal

There’s a wave breaking over the heavy music scene. It’s rolling in tar-thick and slowly, smelling distinctly of bourbon, reefer

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Review
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KEN mode ‘Success’ CD/LP/DD 2015

11th July 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, CD, Digital, Experimental, Jay Hampshire, KEN mode, LP, Noise-Rock, Post-Punk, Review, Season Of Mist, Success

Manitoban misfits KEN mode have always defied what is expected of them. The word ‘unique’ is bandied about in relation

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Bad Guys ‘Bad Guynaecology’ LP/CD/DD 2015

7th June 20153rd September 2019 Jay Hampshire 2015, Bad Guynaecology, Bad Guys, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, Jay Hampshire, LP, Metal, Noise-Rock, Review, Riot Season

Labels are convenient. They help us recover lost items, take the right medication and stop that twat Gary from finance

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