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Made Of Teeth
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Video Premiere: Made Of Teeth ‘What’s The Time’ – New Album ‘Sociopathogen’ Drops 24th June

13th June 202213th June 2022 Lee Edwards APF Records, Made Of Teeth, Noise-Rock, Punk, Sludge

As noiseniks Made Of Teeth, whose members are a veritable who’s who from the Welsh ‘heavy’ music scene, prepare to

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Zombi 'Zombi & Friends, Volume 1'
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Review: Zombi ‘Zombi & Friends, Volume 1’

13th June 202213th June 2022 Rob Walsh Pinkish Black, Pop, Relapse Records, Rock, The Sword, Trans Am, Zombi

It was the summer of 2007 that I saw Zombi open for Isis at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles.

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Ataraxy 'The Last Mirror'
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Review: Ataraxy ‘The Last Mirror’

13th June 202213th June 2022 Sandy Williamson Ataraxy, Dark Descent Records, Death Doom, Me Saco Un Ojo Records

I’ve followed Spanish underground legend death metallers Ataraxy for a number of years now, since I heard their Revelations Of

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Nebula @ HPS Fest SF 2022 - Photo by Tyler Johnston
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Through The Lens Of Tyler Johnston – Heavy Psych Sounds Fest San Francisco 2022

10th June 202210th June 2022 Tyler Johnston Bongzilla, Danava, Dead Meadow, Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Psych Sounds Fest, Hot Lunch, Nebula, The Atomic Bitchwax

The Shaman’s resident live music photographer Tyler Johnston took a trip to this year’s Heavy Psych Sounds Fest in San

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Sergeant Thunderhoof @ The Royal Oak - Photo by Mark Hunt-Bryden
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Sergeant Thunderhoof ‘The Sceptred Veil’ Album Launch @ The Royal Oak, Bath, 3rd June 2022

10th June 202210th June 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Pale Wizard Records, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Stoner

Having relocated to Devon long enough ago to almost be repatriated as a local (but not long enough to give

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Gozer 'An Endless Static'
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Review: Gozer ‘An Endless Static’

10th June 202210th June 2022 Lee Edwards Gozer, Post-Metal, Trepanation Recordings

Atmospheric sludge just does this thing to me where my heart can flourish, my thoughts melt into oblivion, and I

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Aptera 'You Can't Burn What Still Burns'
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Review: Aptera ‘You Can’t Burn What Still Burns’

9th June 20229th June 2022 Goro Riffs Aptera, Metal, Ripple Music

Hailing from Brazil, Italy, Belgium, and the US, but rising from the sea in Berlin, Aptera delivers a classic sound,

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Mournful Congregation 'The Exuviae Of Gods - Part I'
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Review: Mournful Congregation ‘The Exuviae Of Gods – Part I’

9th June 20229th June 2022 Martin Williams 20 Buck Spin, Funeral Doom, Mournful Congregation

I am in no way what one would consider a funeral doom aficionado. Whilst I’m familiar with most of the

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Lord Elephant
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Premiere: Lord Elephant ‘Stellar Cloud’ – Taken From Debut Album ‘Cosmic Awakening’

8th June 20229th June 2022 Lee Edwards Heavy Psych Sounds, Lord Elephant, Psych, Stoner

Today The Shaman is proud to introduce you, our faithful readers, to the instrumental heavy blues, psych, and stoner rawk

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Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol III
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Review: Various Artists ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III’

8th June 202216th June 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Amenra, Cave In, Country, Folk, Marissa Nadler, My Proud Mountain, Neurot Recordings, Townes Van Zandt, Various Artists

Time and circumstance have meant that it has been a long time since the last entry in the My Proud

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Above & Below 'Suffer Decay Alone'
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Review: Above & Below ‘Suffer Decay Alone’

8th June 20228th June 2022 Reza Mills Above And Below, Disorder Recordings, Industrial

Having reviewed Plaguewielder‘s excellent third album Covenant Death last year, I was intrigued to see where main man Bryce Seditz

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Premiere: Cachemira ‘Ambos Mundos’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow via Heavy Psych Sounds
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Premiere: Cachemira ‘Ambos Mundos’ – New Album Drops Tomorrow via Heavy Psych Sounds

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If ‘70s trippy and fuzzed-out rock ‘n’ roll gets your blood pumping, then it’s time to sit up and take

Premiere: Existence Dysphoria ‘Sculpted Into Nothing’ – Taken From New Album ‘Minus Negative’
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Premiere: Existence Dysphoria ‘Sculpted Into Nothing’ – Taken From New Album ‘Minus Negative’

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Video Premiere: Marissa Nadler ‘Sad Cinderella’ – Taken From ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III’
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Video Premiere: Marissa Nadler ‘Sad Cinderella’ – Taken From ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III’

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Premiere: Hush ‘I Am Without Heaven And A Law Unto Myself’ – New Album Drops 24th June
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Premiere: Hush ‘I Am Without Heaven And A Law Unto Myself’ – New Album Drops 24th June

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