Album & EP Reviews D 

Doctor Cyclops – Untitled & ‘The Flying Machines Burning’ CDEP’s 2008

1st October 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Classic Rock, Doctor Cyclops, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Retro Rock, Review, Self Released, Untitled

You have to admit, the Italians do retro pretty well and the 70’s do seem to be their halcyon period.

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sons Of Alpha Centauri / Treasure Cat ‘Last Day Of Summer’ CD 2009

29th September 20093rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2009, Alpha Cat, Atmospheric, CD, Collaboration, Doom, Experimental, Heavy, Instrumental, Karma To Burn, Last Day Of Summer, Paul Robertson, Post-Rock, Review, Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Split, Split CD, Treasure Cat, Underdogma Records

Hot-rockin’ collaborative instrumental shenanigans of the highest calibre from West Virginians – and ex-Karma To Burn folks – Treasure Cat

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Switchblade – S/T – CD 2009

26th September 20093rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2009, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Drone, Paul Robertson, Review, Switchblade, Trust No One Recordings

Wrenching their sounds out of the same dark matter as bands such as Khanate, Earth and Floor, Switchblade present their

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Album & EP Reviews P 

Pyramido ‘Sand’ CD 2009

22nd September 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Ollie Stygall, Pyramido, Review, Sand, Sludge, Totalrust Music

Jesus, some bands really don’t make it easy do they? Swedish sludge crew Pyramido give nothing away at first glance.

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Chickenhawk ‘A.Or Not’ CDEP 2009

9th September 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, A.Or Not, Brew Records, CDEP, Chickenhawk, Grunge, Heavy Rock, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review

When Chickenhawk’s debut album on Sound Devastation landed it was a caustic breath of air whose collision of punk and

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Album & EP Reviews O 

Ocean Chief ‘Den Förste’ LP 2009

7th September 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2009, Den Förste, Doom, Drone, Electric Earth, Heavy, LP, Ocean Chief, Ollie Stygall, Review, Sludge

I’m guessing an album containing three tracks isn’t exactly going to be punk rock…and I’m right!!! Ocean Chief come lumbering

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mourning Dawn ‘For The Fallen’ CD 2009

21st August 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, For The Fallen, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Mournful, Mourning Dawn, Review, Totalrust Music

One of the virtues of heavy music being so relatively young a genre is that it can still be bent

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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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