2008

Album & EP Reviews O 

Oaks ‘bravo!’ CD 2008

12th February 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, bravo!, CD, Grunge, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Oaks, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review, Self Released

Holy Buzz!!! I’m finding myself increasingly amazed nowadays how many frankly amazing bands are out there operating without any kind

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Grimpen Mire ‘Death On The Moor’ CDEP 2008

2nd February 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CDEP, Crust, Death On The Moor, Doom, Grimpen Mire, Heavy, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Shaman fact 1: Grimpen Mire was the fictional death bog featured in Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel ‘Hound Of The

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Beehoover ‘Heavy Zooo’ CD 2008

30th January 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, Bass & Drums, Beehoover, CD, Doom, Exile On Mainstream Records, Experimental, Heavy Zooo, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Prog Rock, Review, Two Piece

Ah you just have to love those crazy Germans!!! It’s often been said that the Germans don’t have a sense

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Album & EP Reviews T 

Taint ‘Secrets And Lies’ CD/LP 2008

28th January 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2008, CD, Heavy, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Noise-Rock, Review, Rise Above Records, Secrets And Lies, Taint

Some albums come out of Left-field and leave you breathless. For me Taint’s debut ‘The Ruin Of Nova Roma’ was

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Deville ‘Come Heavy Sleep’ CD 2008

27th January 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, Buzzville Records, CD, Come Heavy Sleep, Deville, Fuzz, Grunge, Heavy Rock, Ollie Stygall, Review

Some albums don’t offer themselves up that easily. Some of them are just completely unfathomable whereas some, such as this

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Album & EP Reviews S 

SerpentCult ‘Weight Of Light’ CD/LP 2008

22nd January 20092nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2008, CD, LP, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rise Above Records, SerpentCult, Sludge, Stoner Doom, Weight Of Light

Doom or Sludge? The band favour Doom where as most reviewers put them under Sludge. Whatever genre you put them

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Electric Red ‘Ion’ CDEP 2008

16th January 20093rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CDEP, Electric Red, Heavy, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review, Self Released

The note I got with this release from Belfast based unit claims they’ve only been around for about six months

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Album & EP Reviews G 

Grails ‘Take Refuge in Clean Living’ CD & ‘Doomsdayer’s Holiday’ CD 2008

12th January 20093rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Ambient, Andrew Sloan, CD, Doomsdayer's Holiday, Drone, Experimental, Grails, Important Records, Post-Rock, Review, Temporary Residence Limited

2008 saw Grails release two records, the first an ep (‘Take Refuge in Clean Living’) and then their third album

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Mills Of God ‘Call Of The Eastern Moon’ CD/LP 2008

10th January 20093rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Call Of The Eastern Moon, CD, Crust, Doom, LP, Mills Of God, Modus Operandi Records, Review, Sludge

Krautdoom herbmongers Mills Of God are three men who love their heavy riffs like William Burroughs loved junk and not

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A Album & EP Reviews 

A Storm of Light ‘And We Wept The Black Ocean Within’ CD 2008

30th December 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, A Storm Of Light, And We Wept The Black Ocean Within, Andrew Sloan, CD, Josh Graham, Neurot Recordings, Post-Rock, Review

And here we have a band formed by Josh Graham (also Neurosis’s Visual Director and ex-Red Sparowes member) that explores

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Capricorns ‘River, Bear Your Bones’ CD 2008

29th December 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Capricorns, CD, Doom, Instrumental, Iron Monkey, Orange Goblin, Review, Rise Above Records, River Bear Your Bones, Stoner Doom

Hands up who thought ‘Ruder Forms Survive’ was one of the better releases of 2005? Well, I got my arm

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