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Author: Tom Hanno

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Review: Burned Up Bled Dry ‘Next Stop… Dead Stop…’

21st May 202621st May 2026 Tom Hanno Burned Up Bled Dry, Grindcore, Hardcore, Power Violence, Prank Records

On one hand, the bursts of high intensity, unbridled fury that await those brave enough to engage with the new

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Review: Axe Dragger ‘Axe Dragger’

19th March 202619th March 2026 Tom Hanno Axe Dragger, Heavy Metal, Ripple Music

There’s a new band coming your way, one that I suppose you could call a super group, as the members

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Review: Pentagram ‘Lightning In A Bottle’

27th January 202527th January 2025 Tom Hanno Doom, Heavy Metal, Heavy Psych Sounds, Pentagram

Heavy Psych Sounds will be releasing the new album from the proto-doom practitioners known as Pentagram on January 30th, 2025!

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Review: Various Artists ‘Aqualung Redux’

17th December 202417th December 2024 Tom Hanno Alain Johannes, Chris Goss, Domkraft, Huntsmen, Jethro Tull, Magnetic Eye Records, Motorpsycho, Osi And The Jupiter, The Sword, The Well, Various Artists

I was born in 1974, so as I was growing up, my parents played a lot of the hard rock

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Review: Escuela Grind ‘Dreams On Algorithms’

25th October 202425th October 2024 Tom Hanno Escuela Grind, Grind, Hardcore, MNRK Heavy

I had been on a Cattle Decapitation bender, when the YouTube algorithm brought up a video of a live show

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Review: Old Horn Tooth ‘Mourning Light’

13th August 202413th August 2024 Tom Hanno Doom, London Doom Collective, Old Horn Tooth

I have loved London’s Old Horn Tooth since they originally hit up my Tom’s Reviews page in order to get

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Review: Zakk Sabbath ‘Doomed Forever Forever Doomed’

27th February 202427th February 2024 Tom Hanno Black Sabbath, Doom, Heavy Metal, Magnetic Eye Records, Zakk Sabbath

I’d like to preface this review by admitting to my feelings on Zakk Wylde; some of you may feel the

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Review: Mr. Bison ‘Echoes From The Universe’

14th February 202414th February 2024 Tom Hanno Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Mr Bison, Prog, Psych

At one time I considered myself to be Norse Pagan, and though I don’t follow that path anymore, I still

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Review: Dopelord ‘Songs For Satan’

5th October 20235th October 2023 Tom Hanno Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom, Dopelord

October 6th, 2023 will bring a brand new album from the stoner doom heavyweights of Dopelord. Their fifth full-length, lovingly

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1782 'Clamor Luciferi'
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Review: 1782 ‘Clamor Luciferi’

5th April 202317th January 2026 Tom Hanno 1782, Heavy Psych Sounds, Stoner Doom

I’ve never been into 1782, but that changed after hearing Clamor Luciferi. Much like the bands that we all love,

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Mean Green 'Mean Green'
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Review: Mean Green ‘Mean Green’

24th March 202317th January 2026 Tom Hanno Independent, Mean Green, Sludge

I was recently introduced to a band named Mean Green when we here at The Shaman premiered the track Crow

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