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Author: Paul Robertson

Voivod 'Post Society'
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Voivod ‘Post Society’ CD/DD 2016

5th April 201611th September 2019 Paul Robertson 2016, CD, Century Media, Digital, Experimental, Metal, Paul Robertson, Post Society, Prog Rock, Review, Thrash Metal, Voivod

This may come as almost as big a shock as anything received at the Morgoth Science Hospital when you consider

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Shroud Eater ‘Face The Master’ CS/DD 2015

16th June 20153rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2015, Cassette, Digital, Face The Master, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Primitive Violence, Review, Shroud Eater, Sludge

After six years of existence the continual non-veneration of Shroud Eater is a source of some confusion and consternation for

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Lord Dying ‘Poisoned Altars’ CD/LP/DL 2015

24th May 20153rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy, Lord Dying, LP, Metal, Paul Robertson, Poisoned Altars, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge

I was very taken with Lord Dying‘s 2013 debut album, Summon The Faithless, a scathing, seething mix of High On

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Garden Of Worm ‘Idle Stones’ CD/LP/DD 2015

4th April 20153rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2015, CD, Digital, Doom, Experimental, Garden Of Worm, Heavy Rock, Idle Stones, LP, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Svart Records

Doom metal, by its very nature and definition, moves slowly – that’s a given – but when you have a

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Bellringer ‘Wait’ 2014 DD

29th January 20153rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Bellringer, Corey Cottrell, Craig Nichols, Digital, Experimental, Heavy Rock, Mark Deutrom, Paul Robertson, Review, Self Released, Wait

Diiiiiiing-DONG! Texas shitkickers Bellringer totally deliver the goods on this here debut EP, saying what they need to say succinctly

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Paul Robertson’s 2014 In The Rear View

29th December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014 Year Review, Article, Chrome, Dama/Libra, Dead Rider, Earth, Kayo Dot, Khthoniik Cerviiks, King Buzzo, Mantar, Morbus Chron, Paul Robertson, Prong, Stargazer, Thantifaxath, Voyag3r, Yob

Bit of a funny one for me, this year. Feels a bit like it’s been neither here nor there, for

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Ghast ‘Dread Doom Ruin’ CD/DD 2014

26th December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Atmospheric, Black Metal, CD, Digital, Doom, Dread Doom Ruin, Ghast, Paul Robertson, Review, Todestrieb Records

Crawling from their fetid nest in darkest Swansea, outlying the blighted Monmouthshire landscape claimed by Machen and Howard as home

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Wild Rocket ‘Geomagnetic Hallucinations’ LP/DD 2014

23rd December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Digital, Geomagnetic Hallucinations, Heavy Rock, LP, Paul Robertson, Psychedelic, Review, Self Released, Space Rock, Wild Rocket

Dropping out of warp drive just long enough to beam out an urgent transmission, Dublin astro’nauts Wild Rocket set the

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Godflesh @ Sound Control, Manchester 12/12/2014
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Godflesh / Khost @ Sound Control, Manchester 12/12/2014

22nd December 201413th September 2019 Paul Robertson Godflesh, Khost, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Paul Robertson, Sound Control

Call me crazy, but if I was a band made up of two geezers and a laptop I probably wouldn’t

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Goatess @ Kraak, Manchester 16/11/2014
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Goatess / Iron Void / Monolith Cult / Arke @ Kraak, Manchester 16/11/2014

4th December 201413th September 2019 Paul Robertson Arke, Goatess, Iron Void, Kraak, Lee Edwards, Live Review, Manchester, Monolith Cult, Paul Robertson

It only seemed like ten minutes since I’d last seen Goatess but they’d impressed me so much, both recorded and

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Ævangelist ‘Writhes In The Murk’ CD/LP/DD 2014

1st December 20143rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2014, Ævangelist, Atmospheric, Black Metal, CD, Death Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Digital, Experimental, LP, Paul Robertson, Review, Writhes In The Murk

Ne’er has an album title been quite so apt, as the industrial-flecked black death metal of Ævangelist writhes, twists and

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