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Review: Clamfight ‘Clamfight’

13th May 202514th May 2025 Matthew Williams Clamfight, Doom, Independent, Metal, Sludge

You are welcomed into the fourth album from New Jersey/Philadelphia band Clamfight, with a gentle and calming introduction, a beat

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Review: Conan ‘Violence Dimension’

13th May 202513th May 2025 David J McLaren Conan, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds, Sludge

What could make a new Conan album an even more attractive proposition? Is it a) the inclusion of an exclusive

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Review: Cowards ‘God Hates Cowards’

13th March 202513th March 2025 Domenico 'Mimmo' Caccamo Bloody Sound, Cowards, Noise-Rock

The slow, dark, heavy and at times shoegaze musical storm that pervades the nine tracks of God Hates Cowards, the

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Review: Cassels ‘Tracked In Mud’

5th March 20255th March 2025 Lee Edwards Cassels, Human Worth, Noise-Rock, Post-Hardcore

Cassels originally hailed from Oxford (home to one of the country’s top universities, a grumpy detective who goes by the

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Review: Celestial Scourge ‘Observers Of The Inevitable’

20th February 202520th February 2025 Matt Alexander Celestial Scourge, Death Metal, Time To Kill Records

I have a tricky relationship with tech death, on one hand, I love all the bands that preceded the genre,

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Review: Crippled Black Phoenix ‘The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature’ + ‘Horrific Honorifics Number Two(2)’

6th December 20246th December 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Alternative, Crippled Black Phoenix, Prog, Season Of Mist

In the twenty years since former Iron Monkey drummer Justin Greaves founded the dark rock band Crippled Black Phoenix, encouraged

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Review: Codespeaker ‘Scavenger’

8th November 20248th November 2024 Lee Beamish Codespeaker, Post-Metal, Ripcord Records

In a world gone mad and at a time when what we need most is some unified clarity to calm

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Review: Conny Ochs ‘Troubadour’

6th November 20246th November 2024 Reza Mills Conny Ochs, Country, Exile On Mainstream Records, Folk

In May I attended Exile on Mainstream‘s 25th Anniversary celebrations in Leipzig, Germany where I got to meet at long

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Review: Cortez ‘Thieves And Charlatans’

30th October 202430th October 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Cortez, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music

Having spent a lot of time this year dallying around with post-metal, dreamy, ethereal music and some serious bludgeon, my

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Review: Contrition ‘Pariahs’ EP

29th October 202429th October 2024 Reza Mills Contrition, Death Metal, Disorder Recordings

From one of my favourite labels, the Indianapolis, Indiana based Disorder Recordings comes Pariahs, the brand new EP from Contrition.

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Review: Chat Pile ‘Cool World’

16th October 202416th October 2024 Lee Beamish Chat Pile, Noise-Rock, The Flenser

Hailing from Oklahoma in the US, Chat Pile seem to be on a mission. A voyage into the darkness within

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