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Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

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Bitter Resolve ‘Bows And Arrows Against The Lightning’ LP/DD 2011

17th February 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Bitter Resolve, Bows And Arrows Against The Lightning, DD, Digital Download, Doom, Grunge, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Ozium Records, Prog Rock, Review, Stoner, Strangelet Records

“It’s bows and arrows against the lightning, anyhow,” said the artilleryman. “They ‘aven’t seen that fire-beam yet.” The title of

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Take Over & Destroy ‘Rotten Tide’ Digital EP 2012

8th February 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2012, Digital Download, Digital EP, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Punk, Review, Rock n Roll, Rotten Tide, Take Over & Destroy, TOAD

In 2009 I reviewed an album by a band called Queen Beast. This was a savage, unhinged ride into oblivion

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Weed Priest – S/T – CDEP 2011

11th January 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CDEP, Demo, Doom, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, Sludge, Stoner Doom, Weed Priest

With some bands the clue is just in the name. Whether you have ever inhaled or not it should be

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Tusk ‘Set The Dial’ CD/LP/DD 2011

10th January 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Black Tusk, CD, DD, Digital Download, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Punk, Relapse Records, Review, Set The Dial, Sludge, Stoner

It is always a good sign for a reviewer when you start making notes on an album and you can’t

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Gorse ‘Old Certainties’ CD 2011

5th January 20122nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Gorse, Heavy Rock, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Noise-Rock, Old Certainties, Post-Hardcore, Review, Waitstock Productions

As a reviewer you receive music in a variety of ways – from the (sometimes) uninspiring download link to the

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Album & EP Reviews N 

Negative Reaction ‘Frequencies From Montauk’ CD/LP 2011

17th December 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Doom, Frequencies From Montauk, Hardcore, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Negative Reaction, PsycheDOOMelic Records, Review, Sludge, Stoner

It seems that Psychedoomelic Records have a direct line to some of the coolest underground music around and with this

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Album & EP Reviews O 

OBELYSKKH ‘Mount Nysa’ LP 2011

26th November 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Doom, Droehnhaus Records, Kraut Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mount Nysa, Obelyskkh, Review, Sludge, Stoner-Doom-Noise-Psych-Fukking-Raw

Having your debut album produced by the man who has commanded the desk for albums by the likes of Neurosis,

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Black Lanterns – S/T – CD 2011

23rd November 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Blues Rock, CD, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Punk Rock, Review, Self Released, Self Titled, The Black Lanterns

Cementing their first year in existence with the release of a self titled, self produced mini CD, The Black Lanterns

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rising ‘To Solemn Ash’ CD/LP/DD 2011

24th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, DD, Digital Download, Exile On Mainstream Records, Hard Rock, Heavy Rock, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, NWOBHM, Review, Rising, To Solemn Ash

Having landed on Germany’s home of cool alternative rock, Denmark’s The Rising offer the first slab of straight up Metal

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Heartless ‘Hell Is Other People’ CD/LP 2011

20th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, CD, Crust, Grindcore, Hardcore, Heartless, Hell Is Other People, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Punk, Review, Southern Lord

I don’t claim to be an expert on hardcore by any stretch; to me it tends to fall into two

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Proselyte ‘Sunshine’ LP 2011

12th October 20112nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2011, Hardcore, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Stoner, Sunshine, TDB Records, The Proselyte

The creative explosion in musical styles over recent years has had a fairly decent impact on the scene, particularly the

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