Album & EP Reviews C 

Church Of Misery ‘Houses Of The Unholy’ CD/LP 2009

10th April 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, CD, Church Of Misery, COM, Doom, Heavy, Houses Of The Unholy, LP, Psych Rock, Review, Rise Above Records, Stoner Doom

This little disc of pure heavy rock heaven should be played at no less than 50 wattage output, and you

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Aidan Baker + Tim Hecker ‘Fantasma Parastasie’ CD 2008

3rd April 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Aidan Baker, Alien8 Recordings, Ambient, Andrew Sloan, CD, Collaboration, Drone, Electronic, Experimental, Fantasma Parastasie, Nadja, Noise, Review, Tim Hecker

Here is a collaborative endeavour from drone specialist Aidan Baker (better known as one half of duo Nadja) and experimental

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Gathiens ‘Nesh’ CD 2009

1st April 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2009, Ambient, Andrew Sloan, CD, Gathiens, Heavy, Murkhouse Recordings, Nesh, Post-Rock, Review, Shoegaze

Well let’s get that first hurdle over with, Gathiens are post-metal! It’s a term that once inspired excitement and anticipation

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Album & EP Reviews U 

Unearthly Trance / Ramesses – Split 10″ 2009

28th March 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 10", 2009, Adam Stone, Blackened Doom, Doom, Future Noise, Heavy, Ramesses, Review, Sludge, Split, Split 10", Unearthly Trance

Raise your fucking fist aloft and make the Devil sign, you down-trodden dog – show your love for the dark

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sons Of Otis ‘Exiled’ CD 2009

25th March 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, CD, Doom, Drone, Exiled, Experimental, Fuzz, Heavy, Psychedelic, Review, Small Stone Records, Sons Of Otis, Space Rock, Stoner Jam

Fucking wow. My cerebral cortex is melting in a cranial orgasm of riff-based space sludge. Stoners everywhere – buy this.

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Locrian ‘Drenched Lands’ CD 2009

24th March 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2009, Adam Stone, Ambient, At War With False Noise, CD, Dark, Drone, Experimental, Industrial, Locrian, Noise, Review

Dark dark noise that emanates slowly and rises like a black fog from the decaying anus of the mummified corpse

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Trap Them ‘Seizures In Barren Praise’ CD/LP 2008

10th March 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, CD, Death Crust, Deathwish Inc, Grindcore, Hardcore, LP, Review, Seizures In Barren Praise, Trap Them

Jesus-fuck-Mary-and-Joseph…this is fucking dirty, dirty grind, punk, metal! Take Nasum’s high velocity head spinning grind, that very same grind that

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Diagonal – S/T – CD/LP 2008

9th March 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Ambient, Andrew Sloan, CD, Experimental, LP, Prog Rock, Psychedelic, Review, Rise Above Records, Space Rock, Stoner

It was the first time you took LSD, during your second year at university at some art course party in

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Evisorax ‘Enclave’ CDEP 2008

8th March 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Anticulture Records, Brutal, CDEP, Death Grind, Enclave, Evisorax, Grindcore, Review

Is it just me or does anyone else break out in an anxious sweat when the subject of modern day

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Album & EP Reviews Q 

Queen Elephantine ‘Kailash’ CD 2008

7th March 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Ambient, Avant-Garde, Concrete Lo Fi Records, Download, Drone, Experimental, Kailash, Queen Elephantine, Review

Stoner droner mystics Queen Elephantine, the oft travelling Lords of (sonic) Lethargy, have produced yet another striking opus of snaking

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rise Of The Simians ‘The Cursed Law Of Thelema’ CDEP 2009

22nd February 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2009, CDEP, Doom, Heavy, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rise of the Simians, Self Released, Sludge, The Cursed Law Of Thelema

I was always taught that using a cliché showed a lack of original thought and an example of an over

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