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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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Review: i Häxa ‘Part Three’ EP

6th September 20246th September 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Electronic, i Häxa, Neo Folk, Pelagic Records

Personally, this year has passed with a surreal sense of time; on the one hand, it seems like an age

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Review: Rot Coven ‘Nightmares Devour The Waking World’

6th September 20246th September 2024 Ben Brackin Aesthetic Death, Doom, Industrial, Rot Coven

With a name like Rot Coven and descriptions of ‘colossal sludge riffs’ and ‘psychedelic leads’ I had a pretty good

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Review: New Ghost ‘A Dagger In Every Tide’

5th September 20245th September 2024 Lee Beamish Independent, New Ghost, Shoegaze

One of the most interesting bands I came across during my most recent visit to the Portals Festival back in

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Review: Free Ride ‘Acido Y Puto’

5th September 20245th September 2024 Martin Williams Desert Rock, Free Ride, Kozmik ArtIfactz, Small Stone Records, Stoner

I had so many thoughts going through my head as I absorbed Acid Y Puto, the second album from Madrid,

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Hexvessel / Iress / Reliquia / In Crooked Wonderment @ Rebellion, Manchester, 13th August 2024

4th September 20245th September 2024 Matthew Williams Hexvessel, In Crooked Wonderment, Iress, Manchester, Rebellion, Reliquia, Tapestry Promotions

When you get a text from Shaman HQ saying ‘do you want to go and see…’ then it’s always something

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Review: Elephant Tree ‘Handful Of Ten’

4th September 20244th September 2024 Rob Walsh Elephant Tree, Magnetic Eye Records

So much of what we love in this dense primordial soup of stoner rock and doom metal revolves around the

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Review: Ivan The Tolerable Quintet ‘Water Music’

4th September 20244th September 2024 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Ambient, Ivan The Tolerable Quintet, Jazz, Riot Season

The experimental, free-jazz-oriented album Vertigo from Middlesbrough’s eclectic multi-instrumentalist Oli Heffernan, released under the moniker of Ivan The Tolerable Quintet,

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Review: Nails ‘Every Bridge Burning’

3rd September 20243rd September 2024 Will J Grind, Hardcore, Nails, Nuclear Blast Records

It’s been eight years since Nails’ last full-length album, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that a lot will have

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Review: Orme ‘No Serpents, No Saviours’ EP

3rd September 20243rd September 2024 Sandy Williamson Doom, Independent, Orme, Sludge

The self-titled, double album debut from UK sludge/drone/doom trio Orme was pretty well received last year, but when it is

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