Author: Mark Hunt-Bryden

Album & EP Reviews B 

Black Shape Of Nexus / Kodiak – Split 12″ 2010

9th April 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2010, B.SON, Black Shape Of Nexus, Black Shape Of Nexus/Kodiak, Doom, Drone, Funeral Doom, Kodiak, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 12"

How do you approach 38 minutes of mind bending Doom? Quite simply shut yourself away, roll a fat one and

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Great Falls – Demo 2009

6th March 20102nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Demo, Great Falls, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Noise-Rock, Post-Hardcore, Retro Rock, Review, Self Released

Fuelled by the demise of seminal hardcore act Playing Enemy, Demian Johnston and Shane Mehling went on to do a

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Album & EP Reviews I 

IRA ‘Visions Of A Landscape’ CD 2009

10th December 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Ambient, CD, Golden Antenna Records, Heavy, IRA, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, Visions Of A Landscape

Hailing from the university town of Konstanz in Germany, IRA are clearly deep thinkers and I don’t mean that in

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Airpeople ‘The Golden City’ CD 2009

12th November 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Airpeople, Atmospheric, Avant-Garde, CD, Experimental, Golden Antenna Records, Instrumental, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, The Golden City

In all fairness the bio accompanying this release put me off slightly as it comes off more than a little

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G-Q Interviews 

Queen Beast Interview

12th September 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden Interview, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Queen Beast

They were born from a band called ‘Pile of Dead Woman’, they play ‘ADD-driven, southern, psychedelic, experimental, filth-core’ and think

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mourning Dawn ‘For The Fallen’ CD 2009

21st August 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, For The Fallen, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mournful, Mourning Dawn, Review, Totalrust Music

One of the virtues of heavy music being so relatively young a genre is that it can still be bent

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hyadningar ‘The Weak Creation’ CD 2009

20th August 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Atmospheric, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Heavy, Hyadningar, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, The Weak Creation, Totalrust Music

Black Metal can often be a genre that is derided from the outside, I mean how best to prepare myself

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Album & EP Reviews Q 

Queen Beast – S/T – CD 2009

28th July 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Queen Beast, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Switchblade Records

In an age of plagiarists and clones it is often difficult to find something truly original. Queen Beast are here

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Album & EP Reviews Y 

Yawning Sons ‘Ceremony To The Sunset’ CD 2009

3rd July 200911th December 2021 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, CD, Ceremony To The Sunset, Collaboration, Dessert Rock, Experimental, Gary Arce, Lexicon Devil Records, Mario Lalli, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Scott Reeder, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Stoner Rock, Wendy Rae Fowler, Yawning Man, Yawning Sons

Some times collaborative efforts can be spectacularly hit and miss – the Judgement Night soundtrack for example pulled together luminaries

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Kongh ‘Shadows of The Shapeless’ CD 2009

15th May 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Atmospheric, CD, Doom, Heavy, Kongh, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Post-Rock, Review, Shadows of The Shapeless, Stoner Doom, Trust No One Recordings

Just the name Kongh evokes an imagine of some kind of primitive or mythical beast, even on the back of

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Khuda ‘Ahura Mazdah’ CDEP 2008

1st May 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2008, Ahura Mazdah, Atmospheric, CDEP, Guitar & Drums, Heavy, Instrumental, Khuda, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Norrland Recordings, Post-Rock, Review, Self Released, Two Piece

Anyone keeping an eye on these hallowed webpages will have seen that an interview was conducted with this Leeds based

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