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Review: Blazar ‘Fatal Cosmic Wound’

3rd April 20243rd April 2024 Sandy Williamson Blazar, Carbonized Records, Funeral Doom, Sludge

Fatal Cosmic Wound is the debut full-length from Barcelona’s Blazar, a sludgy funeral doom outfit who take their name from

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Bodyrot 'Fleshworks'
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Review: Bodyrot ‘Fleshworks’ EP

12th July 202215th August 2022 Jamie Grimes Bodyrot, Carbonized Records, Grindcore, Grindfather Productions

Fancy a smack in the mouth? Well metaphorically, Bodyrot are here to provide that to you with the kind of

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Funeral Chant ‘Dawn Of Annihilation’
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Review: Funeral Chant ‘Dawn Of Annihilation’

3rd November 202115th December 2021 Jamie Grimes Black Metal, Carbonized Records, Funeral Chant, Thrash Metal

Funeral Chant’s Dawn Of Annihilation has many of the hallmarks of a particular niche in the death/black metal underground which,

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Steel Bearing Hand 'Slay In Hell'
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Review: Steel Bearing Hand ‘Slay In Hell’

31st March 20216th May 2021 Matt Alexander Carbonized Records, Death Metal, Slay In Hell, Steel Bearing Hand

Today I get to bring this absolute chainsaw massacre of a record from Texas (see what I did there…!), death/trash

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Socioclast 'Socioclast'
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Review: Socioclast ‘Socioclast’

26th February 202126th March 2021 Jamie Grimes Carbonized Records, Socioclast

Is there anything you’ve never heard before from a grindcore band on Socioclast‘s debut album? Certainly not? Does it matter?

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Funeral Leech ‘Death Meditation’
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Review: Funeral Leech ‘Death Meditation’

15th April 202024th February 2021 Matt Alexander Carbonized Records, Death Doom, Death Meditation, Funeral Leech

As the darkness swallows the light and envelops the world, you open your eyes to the monolithic nothingness that has

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