A Album & EP Reviews 

Aluna ‘Fall To Earth’ CDEP 2008

15th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, Aluna, Alunah, Catacomb Records, CDEP, Doom, Fall To Earth, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Space Rock

If the only musical legacy the West Midlands ever left us was Black Sabbath they’d be doing pretty well in

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sonic Lord ‘Trawling Through Sludge’ 7″ 2008

12th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, 7", Catacomb Records, Doom, Ollie Stygall, Psychedelic, Review, Sludge, Sonic Lord, Stoner Doom, Trawling Through Sludge

I take it you’re all familiar with Black Sabbath. Just take a moment to reflect and think back to some

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lair Of The Minotaur ‘War Metal Battle Masters’ CD 2008

11th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Brutal, CD, Heavy, Lair Of The Minotaur, Metal, Review, Southern Lord, War Metal Battle Masters

They’re back, everyone’s favourite mythological beast slaying, old-school death metal worshipping purveyors of brutal metal barbarianism. And it’s a desolate

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Analysis Of Bison Kills ‘Vantage’ CD 2008

9th August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Analysis Of Bison Kills, Atmospheric, CD, Post-Rock, Review, Sound Devastation Records, Vantage

Analysis Of Bison Kills formed in 2001 and have released two demos plus this new four track ep/mini-album, which clocks

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Album & EP Reviews T 

This Will Destroy You – S/T – CD 2008

8th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Ambient, Andrew Sloan, CD, Heavy, Magic Bullet Records, Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock, Review, This Will Destroy You

They play elegiac post-rock, deeply cinematic in its presentation, they veer towards the more ambient end of the spectrum and

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rachmanite – S/T – CDEP 2008

7th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Doom, Guitar & Drums, Heavy, Instrumental, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Rachmanite, Review, Self Released, Two Piece

I have to admit on paper when I first heard about this band I was pretty wary. A two piece

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Misty Morning ‘Martian Pope’ CDEP 2008

7th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Doom, Martian Pope, Misty Morning, Ollie Stygall, Review, Self Released, Stoner Doom, Stoner Rock

Ok quiz time, how many Italian rock bands can you name? Paul Chain, Death SS, Rawpower, Negazione, Ufomammut, El Thule,

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Gentlemans Pistols – S/T – CD/LP 2007

5th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2007, Blues Rock, CD, Classic Rock, Gentlemans Pistols, Heavy Rock, LP, Ollie Stygall, Review, Rise Above Records

Whoa there, hold the phone have I missed something??? I seem to have fallen asleep and woken up in 1973

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Album & EP Reviews V 

V/A ‘The Sound Of The Catacombs’ CD 2008

5th August 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, Abdullah, Aluna, Alunah, Catacomb Records, CD, Compilation, Dirtyred, Doom, El Topo, Godsize, Grifter, I Am Colossus, Mos Generator, Obiat, Ollie Stygall, Outburst, Psychedelic, Review, Sludge, Sonic Lord, Spacecharge, Stoner Rock, Suns Of Thunder, V/A, Various Artists

This is the first release on Midlands based label Catacomb Records, a label run by lovers of stoner/doom/sludge/psychedelia who between

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Album & EP Reviews U 

Unearthly Trance ‘Electrocution’ CD/LP 2008

4th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Electrocution, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Unearthly Trance

This is the fourth album from New York’s bleak occultists and its apparent from the off that the band have

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Album & EP Reviews W 

Witch ‘Paralyzed’ CD/LP 2008

4th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, CD, Doom, Fuzz, LP, Paralyzed, Review, Stoner Doom, Tee Pee Records, Witch

Anyone who has happened upon this band’s first album will remember THAT riff on ‘Seer’, and what a way to

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