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Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

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Review: Yawning Man ‘Pot Head’ EP [Reissue]

20th September 202320th September 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Ripple Music, Yawning Man

Some bands are just destined to pass into mythical status. Many column inches, words and video reels have been committed

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Review: Hexvessel ‘Polar Veil’

14th September 202314th September 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blackgaze, Folk, Hexvessel, Svart Records

Hailing from the dark forest, progressive folk rockers Hexvessel have been on a path which their founder Mat McNerney describes

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Review: Mutoid Man ‘Mutants’

12th September 202312th September 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Metal, Mutoid Man, Punk, Sargent House

Mutoid Man are another band I was late to the party for. I picked up the second album War Moans

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Review: Slomatics ‘Strontium Fields’

5th September 20235th September 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Black Bow Records, Doom, Heavy Rock, Prog, Slomatics

I hear the word Strontium and think of the long-running British comic series Strontium Dogs, a concept based around the

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Review: Spider Kitten ‘A Pound For The Peacebringer’

15th August 202315th August 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Country, Doom, Sludge, Spider Kitten

If anyone out there is a regular reader of my ‘waffle’ (thanks as ever Shaman Lee!) over the years, you’ll

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Steve Von Till @ Fyfe Hall, Bristol, 1st August 2023 – Photo by Mark Hunt Bryden
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Steve Von Till / Innerwoud / Fuck Authority @ Fyfe Hall, Bristol, 1st August 2023

9th August 20239th August 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Bristol, Fuck Authority, Innerwoud, Steve Von Till

Until this evening, in the four and a half years that I have been a single parent I have used

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Review: Moon Coven ‘Sun King’

8th August 20238th August 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Doom, Moon Coven, Ripple Music, Stoner

Another month and another release from the seemingly bottomless well of talent unearthed by Ripple Music as next up is

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Review: Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree ‘Aion’

3rd August 20233rd August 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree, Doom, Magnetic Eye Records, Prog, Psych

As some high-profile bands openly discuss the idea of the album format being dead and pondering only releasing EPs in

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Review: Thunder Horse ‘After The Fall’

18th July 202318th July 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Thunder Horse

By their own admission, Texas-based hard rockers have a sound that is hard to pin down, or at least put

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Review: The Devil’s Trade ‘Vidékek Vannak Idebenn’

7th July 202310th July 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Dark, Folk, Folk Doom, Season Of Mist, The Devil’s Trade

The most striking thing about the dark Hungarian doom/folk band, for me, is Dávid Makó’s voice. Over a traditional musical

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Review: Austin Stambaugh ‘Midwest Supernatural’

4th July 20234th July 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Anti-Corporate Music, Austin Stambaugh, Country, Folk

Steve Earle’s quote about standing on Bob Dylan’s coffee table and declaring Townes Van Zandt to be the greatest songwriter

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