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ArcTanGent Festival 2024 – Saturday

13th September 202413th September 2024 Tim C ArcTanGent Festival, Briqueville, KEN mode, Love Sex Machine, Mogwai, Pijn, Silver Moth, Slift, Torpor

Fernhill Farm is set in a landscape that has hosted assemblies for time immemorial. In nearby Cheddar Gorge archaeologists have

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ArcTanGent Festival 2024 – Friday

13th September 202413th September 2024 Tim C ArcTanGent Festival, Blackshape, Blood Command, Fange, Frail Body, Glassing, Night Verses, Shy Low, Year Of No Light

Down the road from Fernhill Farm stands the village of Compton Martin, the birthplace of Wulfric of Haselbury. Wulfric was

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Review: Spirit Mother ‘Trails’

13th September 202413th September 2024 Lee Beamish Desert Rock, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Spirit Mother

A couple of years back I had the privilege of reviewing one of the Live In The Mojave Desert, for

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Review: Mari Boine ‘Alva’

13th September 202413th September 2024 Will J By Norse Music, Electronic, Folk, Mari Boine

Ever since her first release in 1985, Mari Boine has been one of the most prominent forces in the Sámi

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ArcTanGent Festival 2024 – Thursday

11th September 202411th September 2024 Tim C Amenra, ArcTanGent Festival, Baroness, Conan, Explosions In The Sky, Hundred Year Old Man, Julie Christmas, Pleiades, Red Fang, Wyatt E

The Mendip Hills, where Fernhill Farm is located, are ancient geological limestone formations. Created by sedimentation during the carboniferous period,

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Review: 40 Watt Sun ‘Little Weight’

11th September 202411th September 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden 40 Watt Sun, Doom, Fisher’s Folly

It is sometimes hard to marry the idea that Patrick Walker, singer, guitarist, songwriter and now singular creative mind behind

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Review: Kurokuma ‘Of Amber And Sand’

11th September 202411th September 2024 Sandy Williamson Doom, Independent, Kurokuma, Sludge

A decade after Sheffield’s Kurokuma first appeared in the ever productive UK underground, their second full-length record Of Amber And

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ArcTanGent Festival 2024 – Wednesday

10th September 202410th September 2024 Tim C And So I Watch You From Afar, ArcTanGent Festival, Bossk, Cobra The Impaler, Curse These Metal Hands, Din Of Celestial Birds, Hidden Mothers, LLNN, Psychonaut

First established in 2013, ArcTanGent Festival is celebrating its tenth birthday this year and has pulled out all the stops

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Review: Upupayāma ‘Mount Elephant’

10th September 202410th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Folk, Fuzz Club Records, Psych, Upupayāma

I’ve known Alessio Ferrari, the musical mastermind and multi-instrumentalist behind the captivating psych, acid and folk rock project Upupayāma, for

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Review: Habak ‘Insania’ [Reissue]

10th September 202410th September 2024 Nessie Spencer Crust, Habak, Hardcore, Persistent Vision Records

When the Shaman-In-Chief tasked me to review the re-edition of Habak’s debut effort Insania, I thought it would be an

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Author & Punisher / KEN mode / El Moono @ The Bread Shed, Manchester, 14th August 2024

6th September 20246th September 2024 Matthew Williams Author & Punisher, Doom, El Moono, Industrial, KEN mode, Manchester, Post-Metal, The Bread Shed

The last time I entered through the doors of the wonderfully named The Bread Shed, was to see one of

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