Album & EP Reviews H 

Hot Graves ‘Desecration Time’ 7″

23rd July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, 7", D-Beat, Death Crust, Desecration Time, Greyhaze Records, Hot Graves, Paul Robertson, Review, Thrash Metal

Hot Graves have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and they’re aaaaaaaall outta bubblegum. Totally ripping, raw old-school

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Backwoods Payback ‘Momantha’ CD 2011

22nd July 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, Backwoods Payback, CD, Heavy Rock, Momantha, Ollie Stygall, Review, Small Stone Records, Southern Rock

Backwoods Payback! The name conjures images of some kind of Deliverance style, hillbilly redneck revenge killing…all plaid shirts, mountains of

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A Album & EP Reviews 

Abysmal Darkening ‘No Light Behind…’ CD 2011

21st July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Abysmal Darkening, Atmospheric, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, No Light Behind, Paul Robertson, Review, Totalrust Music

Loathe as I am to use the description, I really cannot think of a better example of ‘Blackened Doom’ than

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Highgate ‘Black Frost Fallout’ CD 2011

18th July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Black Frost Fallout, Blackened Doom, CD, Doom, Funeral Doom, Highgate, Paul Robertson, Review, Sludge, Totalrust Music

Kentucky blackened sludge behemoths Highgate give us this ‘tying up the loose ends’ compilation of demo, live and unreleased tracks

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Suffering Luna – S/T – LP 2011

17th July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, Hardcore, LP, Noise, Paul Robertson, Power Violence, Psychedelic, Review, Suffering Luna, To Live A Lie Records

In the words of the Sun City Girls – who would know – ‘this is a bad dream’. An utterly

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Album & EP Reviews U 

US Christmas ‘The Valley Path’ CD 2011

15th July 20113rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2011, Adam Stone, CD, Neurot Recordings, Post-Rock, Psych Rock, Review, The Valley Path, US Christmas, USX

These crazy hillbillies have been at the Fly Agaric again. USX first came to my attention via the gorgeous Hawkwind

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Album & EP Reviews K 

Khuda ‘Iecava’ CD 2011

14th July 20113rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2011, Atmospheric, CD, Field Records, Guitar & Drums, Iecava, Instrumental, Khuda, Post-Rock, Review, Tom McKibbin, Two Piece

Leeds’ Khuda are an instrumental post-rock duo that create brooding, angular music with some heavy rock overtones but for the

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mark D. ‘The Value Of Decay’ CD 2011

13th July 20113rd September 2019 Paul Robertson 2011, CD, Experimental, Mark D, Mark Deutrom, Noise-Rock, Paul Robertson, Post-Hardcore, Review, Southern Lord, The Value Of Decay

In case you haven’t figured it out Mark D is Mark Deutrom, ex-Melvins bassist and producer and ‘The Value Of

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Album & EP Reviews L 

Lo-Pan ‘Salvador’ CD 2011

12th July 20113rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2011, CD, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, Lo-Pan, Ollie Stygall, Review, Salvador, Small Stone Records, Southern Rock

Adapt or die that is very much the key to the continued existence of any musical subset and that is

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sigiriya ‘Return To Earth’ CD/LP 2011

11th July 20113rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2011, Acrimony, Adam Stone, CD, Church Within Records, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, LP, Return To Earth, Review, Sigiriya, Stoner Doom

This is the sound of a young man’s hair growing past his shoulders and spilling onto his greasy denim jerkin.

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Album & EP Reviews E 

End Of Level Boss ‘Eklectric’ CD 2011

10th July 20112nd September 2019 Pete Green 2011, CD, Eklectric, End Of Level Boss, Exile On Mainstream Records, Heavy Rock, Pete Green, Prog Rock, Review

In recent years, EOLB have gathered the kind of respect most underground bands would give up a grandma to have

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