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New Merch Alert: White/Black Baseball T-Shirts Featuring Artwork By Mroc71

10th August 202310th August 2023 Lee Edwards Merch, Shaman Shop, T-Shirts

It’s been a few months so we at The Shaman thought it was time to drop some new merchandise. After

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Review: High On Fire ‘The Art Of Self Defense’ [Reissue]

10th August 202311th August 2023 Martin Williams Doom, High On Fire, Metal, MNRK Heavy

Way back in the summer of 2000, the much-fabled CMJ music festival came to Seattle. A music industry showcase, and

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Featured Streams 

Premiere: KIND ‘Close Encounters’ – New Album Releases This Friday, 11th July, via Ripple Music

9th August 20239th August 2023 Lee Edwards Grunge, Heavy Rock, KIND, Ripple Music

Boston, MA based heavy rockers KIND are gearing up to release their new album Close Encounters, their third long-player (hence

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Featured Live Reviews 

Steve Von Till / Innerwoud / Fuck Authority @ Fyfe Hall, Bristol, 1st August 2023

9th August 20239th August 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Bristol, Fuck Authority, Innerwoud, Steve Von Till

Until this evening, in the four and a half years that I have been a single parent I have used

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Review: Bigstrut ‘Bigstrut’

9th August 202329th September 2023 Reza Mills Bigstrut, Malevolent Sound, Noise-Rock, Sludge

Noise rock is as big now as it has ever been, possibly more so than in its late ‘80s/early to

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Review: Moon Coven ‘Sun King’

8th August 20238th August 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Doom, Moon Coven, Ripple Music

Another month and another release from the seemingly bottomless well of talent unearthed by Ripple Music as next up is

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Review: Black Sabbath ‘Paranoid’ (Quadio)

8th August 20238th August 2023 David J McLaren Black Sabbath, Doom, Metal, Quadio, Rhino Records

I’m lucky enough to remember precisely where and when I first heard what I would later understand to be Heavy

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Review: Darsombra ‘Dumesday Book’

7th August 20238th August 2023 Reza Mills Darsombra, Pnictogen Records, Prog, Psych

Formed in 2005, Darsombra are Baltimore duo Brian Daniloski (guitar, bass, vocals and sound design) and Ann Everton (synth, vocals,

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Review: The Jesus And Mary Chain ‘Sunset 666’

7th August 20237th August 2023 Martin Williams Alternative, Fuzz Club Records, Post-Punk, The Jesus And Mary Chain

While I wouldn’t necessarily describe myself as a massive fan of UK post-punk, I listened to, and liked quite a

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Review: Bastard Noise ‘Incineration Prayer/Self Righteous Suicide’

4th August 20234th August 2023 George Green Armageddon Label, Bastard Noise, Noise, Power Electronics

There are some forms of art that I have a special category for, I call this category: ‘I’m not sure

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Review: Astral Magic ‘Experiences In Hyperspace’

4th August 20234th August 2023 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Astral Magic, Aumega Project, Kraut, Space Rock

Finnish experimental bass player, keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist Santtu Laakso, aka Astral Magic, and at times DJ Astro, has been around

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