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Review: Rwake ‘The Return Of Magik’

25th April 202525th April 2025 Sandy Williamson Relapse Records, Rwake, Sludge

Arkansas sludge doom legends Rwake have always been a little different from their more caustic and heavy brothers in the

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Review: Rainbows Are Free ‘Silver And Gold’

11th April 202511th April 2025 Renzo Heavy Rock, Proto-Metal, Rainbows Are Free, Ripple Music

The Unlimited Colours Of The Rainbow… There are countless stoner-doom and heavy-psych bands these days, both classic and emerging, but

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Review: Rainbows Are Free ‘Heavy Petal Music’

3rd April 20253rd April 2025 Renzo Heavy Rock, Rainbows Are Free, Ripple Music

Rainbows Are Free, the stoner-psychedelic band from Norman, Oklahoma, released their first official live album, Heavy Petal Music. Recorded at

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Review: Ritual King ‘The Futureworks Sessions’

2nd April 20252nd April 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues, Heavy Rock, Psych, Ripple Music, Ritual King

It’s strange that in some quarters, people are ‘celebrating’ or ‘remembering’ the 5th anniversary of the Pandemic. Of course, it

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Review: Rise To Thunder ‘Black Reflections’

1st April 20251st April 2025 Matthew Williams Future Noise, Heavy Rock, Instrumental, Psych, Rise To Thunder

I remember the days well of watching Rise To Thunder on various stages across their home city of Stoke-on-Trent, or

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Review: Reekmind ‘Mired In The Reek Of Grief’

14th March 202514th March 2025 Matt Alexander Death Doom, Night Terrors Records, Reekmind

After my last review of some intergalactic tech-death that wooed with its complexity and pristine production, I needed to be

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Review: Rotpit ‘Long Live The Rot’

26th November 202426th November 2024 Matt Alexander Death Metal, Rotpit, War Anthem Records

I have listened and discussed an awful lot of out-there progressive/technical death metal this year and don’t get me wrong,

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Review: Rot Coven ‘Nightmares Devour The Waking World’

6th September 20246th September 2024 Ben Brackin Aesthetic Death, Doom, Industrial, Rot Coven

With a name like Rot Coven and descriptions of ‘colossal sludge riffs’ and ‘psychedelic leads’ I had a pretty good

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Review: Radar Men From The Moon ‘Vomitorium’

21st August 202421st August 2024 Reza Mills Fuzz Club Records, Industrial, Post-Punk, Radar Men From The Moon

It’s been a few years since Radar Men From The Moon‘s Covid-era album, The Bestial Light, was dropped through Fuzz

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Review: Rifflord ’39 Serpent Power’

9th July 20249th July 2024 Matthew Williams Heavy Metal, Rifflord, Ripple Music

The build-up to opening track Serpent Power gives off an air of invincibility and of a band that know that

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Review: REZN ‘Burden’

28th June 202428th June 2024 Ben Brackin Doom, Prog, REZN, Sargent House

I listen to quite a bit of extreme metal, whether it is death, black, doom, sludge, or any of the

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