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Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

Void Cruiser 'Call Of The Void'
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Review: Void Cruiser ‘Call Of The Void’

3rd February 20233rd February 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Alternative, Argonauta Records, Grunge, Void Cruiser

As someone who grew up in the ‘nineties ’90s, reading the promo statement from Helsinki five-piece Void Cruiser citing influences

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Ahab 'The Coral Tombs'
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Review: Ahab ‘The Coral Tombs’

17th January 202317th January 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ahab, Doom, Napalm Records

Herman Melville’s epic classic Moby Dick is an often terrifying story that takes the backdrop of the nineteenth-century Nantucket whaling

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Mos Generator 'Time//Wounds'
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Review: Mos Generator ‘Time//Wounds’

26th December 202227th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Mos Generator, Music Abuse Records, Pale Wizard Records

Readers of this fine website will doubtless be familiar with the extensive output of veteran Tony Reed, producer, studio owner,

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Clutch @ The Great Hall, Exeter, 15th Nov 2022 - Photo by Mark Pierce
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Clutch / Green Lung / Tigercub @ The Great Hall, Exeter, 15th November & O2 Academy, Bristol, 13th December 2022

20th December 202220th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden 02 Academy, Bristol, Clutch, Exeter, Green Lung, The Great Hall, Tigercub

Back in 2019 I became a single parent, I say this not as a poor woe-is-me opener, but as a

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Mark Hunt Bryden - 2022
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Top Ten Of 2022: Mark Hunt-Bryden

12th December 202212th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Author & Punisher, Battalions, Benjamin Tod, Cave In, Cult Of Luna, Final Light, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Sleestak, The Hellacopters, Top Ten 2022, Wo Fat

What a year. Whilst I may not have played Sweden or Canada, I changed career after fifteen years in quite

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Lull ‘That Space Somewhere’
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Review: Lull ‘That Space Somewhere’

7th December 202218th January 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Cold Spring Records, Lull, Mick Harris, Soundscapes

Mick Harris, the man generally credited as the drummer who popularised the blastbeat, the only member of Napalm Death to

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Grava ‘Weight Of A God’
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Review: Grava ‘Weight Of A God’

1st December 20221st February 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Aesthetic Death, Doom, Grava, Sludge

Personally, I have always found some connection with unpleasant, slow, grinding heavy music. There is something extremely cathartic when you

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Throwing Bricks 'The Burden'
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Review: Throwing Bricks ‘The Burden’

29th November 20223rd January 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Black Metal, Post-Hardcore, Tartarus Records, Throwing Bricks

I have talked about genre definitions and pigeonholes before, the invention of which seems mainly to aid music journalists to

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Anima Morte 'Serpents In The Fields Of Sleep'
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Review: Anima Morte ‘Serpents In The Fields Of Sleep’

18th November 202226th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Anima Morte, Cadabra Records, Cinematic, Prog

This music reviewing gig is an easy lark right? A bit of background about the band, briefly talk through the

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The Grand Mal 'II'
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Review: The Grand Mal ‘II’

2nd November 202210th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Heavy Rock, The Grand Mal

Oxford’s most restless sons, Ryan (guitars) and Elliot Cole (drums) of both Desert Storm and Wall, return to their collaboration

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Ggu:ll 'Ex Est'
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Review: Ggu:ll ‘Ex Est’

26th October 202213th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blackened Doom, Consouling Sounds, Ggu:ll

Dutch blackened doom outfit Ggu:ll are a deliciously gruesome prospect. Having formed in 2009, they have brought their themes of

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