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2008

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The Endless Blockade ‘Primitive’ CD/LP 2008

27th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 20 Buck Spin, 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Grindcore, Hardcore, LP, Noise, Power Violence, Primitive, Review, The Endless Blockade

Ah, the cleansing purity of noise. Like standing in the shower and feeling the shit wash away – itself a

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Album & EP Reviews T 

The Sontaran Experiment – S/T – CD 2008

21st October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Doom, Experimental, Hardcore, Industrial, Paul Catten, Review, The Sontaran Experiment, Undergroove Records

The thing is, Sontarans do love technology, almost as much as they enjoy incessant warfare. Field Marshall Styre would undoubtedly

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Album & EP Reviews F 

Fistula ‘Burdened By Your Existence’ CD 2008

20th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Burdened By Your Existence, CD, Crust, Doom, Fistula, Heavy, Nasty, Plague Island, Review, Sludge

Oh my fucking ears, this is a nuclear migraine. Just when I thought sludge had reached its artistic zenith (or

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Harvey Milk ‘Life…The Best Game In Town’ CD/LP 2008

17th October 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, CD, Doom, Harvey Milk, Hydra Head Records, Life...The Best Game in Town, LP, Noise-Rock, Ollie Stygall, Post-Hardcore, Review, Sludge

Where most bands like to play it safe in today’s climate, occasionally a band will come along that confounds expectations,

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Blood Ceremony – S/T – CD/LP 2008

17th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Blood Ceremony, CD, Doom, Folk Doom, Heavy, LP, Review, Rise Above Records

Coming out of Toronto, Canada, like a screaming naked witch on a flying hickory stick, Blood Ceremony are one of

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Album & EP Reviews D 

Dystopia – ST – CD/LP 2008

15th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Crust, Doom, Dystopia, Hardcore, Life Is Abuse, LP, Nasty, Review, Sludge

Punk’s not dead, it merely crawled into a disused orifice of the dark underbelly of the capitalist economic system and

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hotel Wrecking City Traders ‘Black Yolk’ CD 2008

13th October 20083rd September 2019 Ollie Stygall 2008, Black Yolk, Bro Fidelity Records, CD, Guitar & Drums, Heavy Rock, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, HWCT, Ollie Stygall, Review, Stoner Doom, Two Piece

The name Hotel Wrecking City Traders (or HWCT to make life a lot easier) has been bandied around for a

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Morkobot ‘Morto’ CD/LP 2008

11th October 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Avant-Garde, CD, Doom, Experimental, LP, Morkobot, Morto, Noise-Rock, Review, Supernatural Cat

Lin, Lan and Len have been at the mushrooms again. This is a sonically stout and viciously noxious offering from

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Album & EP Reviews B 

Berserkowitz ‘Gritfarm’ CDEP 2008

18th September 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Berserkowitz, CDEP, Doom, Heavy, Review, Self Released, Sludge

Let’s face it sludge fans, if these lot were from the States there’d be far more of a buzz about

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Album & EP Reviews E 

Ehnahre ‘The Man Closing Up’ CD 2008

15th September 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Atmospheric, CD, Death Doom, Doom, Ehnahre, Jazz Fusion, Post-Rock, Review, Sound Devastation Records, The Man Closing Up

Here we have a new collective from Boston’s musical underbelly (formed from ex-members of Kayo Dot and Forefedglass amongst others)

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Album & EP Reviews C 

Coffins ‘Buried Death’ CD 2008

13th September 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 20 Buck Spin, 2008, Andrew Sloan, Buried Death, CD, Coffins, Death Doom, Doom, Heavy, Review

Oh sweet jesus this is the fucking shit! I have here in my rotting puds the new Coffins CD, a

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