Album & EP Reviews H 

Hyadningar ‘The Weak Creation’ CD 2009

20th August 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Atmospheric, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Heavy, Hyadningar, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, The Weak Creation, Totalrust Music

Black Metal can often be a genre that is derided from the outside, I mean how best to prepare myself

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Earthless ‘Live At Roadburn’ CD/LP 2008

14th August 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Earthless, Live At Roadburn, LP, Psychedelic, Review, Roadburn, Space Rock, Stoner, Stoner Jam, Tee Pee Records

I had the very good fortune of seeing San Diego’s lysergic masters of the extended super-jam reality, Earthless, on their

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Elder – S/T – CD/LP 2009

13th August 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, CD, Doom, Electric Earth, Heavy, LP, Meteor City, Review, Stoner, Stoner Doom, Stoner Rock

Riffs. Everywhere. Gigantic thick distorted riffs. Help me mother, the riffs are here, and they want fresh plasma and bone

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sourvein / Blood Island Raiders – Split 7″ 2009

5th August 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, 7", Blood Island Raiders, Calculon Records, Doom, Heavy, Metal, NWOBHM, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge, Sourvein, Split 7"

Well bugger me sideways if Calculon Records haven’t gone and done it again with this release. This heavyweight lump of

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Album & EP Reviews Q 

Queen Beast – S/T – CD 2009

28th July 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Metal, Queen Beast, Review, Self Released, Sludge, Switchblade Records

In an age of plagiarists and clones it is often difficult to find something truly original. Queen Beast are here

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Album & EP Reviews V 

Voivod ‘Infini’ CD 2009

24th July 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, CD, Infini, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Relapse Records, Review, Thrash Metal, Voivod

When guitarist Piggy succumbed to colon cancer in 2005 during the piecing together of the Katorz album it pretty much

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mondo Cada – S/T – CDEP 2009

18th July 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, Calculon Records, CDEP, Classic Rock, Heavy Rock, Mondo Cada, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Punk, Review, Rock n Roll

Writing this review is somewhat akin to writing an obituary as Mondo Cada hung up their guitars before this release

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Clutch ‘Strange Cousins From The West’ CD 2009

9th July 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, CD, Classic Rock, Clutch, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review, Stoner, Stoner Jam, Stoner Rock, Strange Cousins From The West, Weathermaker Music

For close on 20 years now Clutch have been one of the most consistent and thrilling bands around. From their

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Album & EP Reviews Y 

Yawning Sons ‘Ceremony To The Sunset’ CD 2009

3rd July 200911th December 2021 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, CD, Ceremony To The Sunset, Collaboration, Dessert Rock, Experimental, Gary Arce, Lexicon Devil Records, Mario Lalli, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Scott Reeder, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Stoner Rock, Wendy Rae Fowler, Yawning Man, Yawning Sons

Some times collaborative efforts can be spectacularly hit and miss – the Judgement Night soundtrack for example pulled together luminaries

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Ramesses ‘Baptism Of The Walking Dead’ 3″ CDEP 2009

2nd July 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, 3", Adam Stone, Baptism Of The Walking Dead, CDEP, Dark, Doom, Heavy, Ramesses, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Ah…tattooed arms, dirty beards, top grade weed, cult horror films, Egyptology, painfully loud Ashdown amps and the beautiful Dorset countryside

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Gruel – S/T – 2xLP 2009

24th June 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, Crust, Doom, Drone, Feast Of Tentacles, Gruel, Heavy, LP, Nasty, Review

Once upon a time, when the vile Conservative government was in power and I was a young man, crust punk

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