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Intensive Care + The Body 'Was I Good Enough?' Artwork
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Review: Intensive Care + The Body ‘Was I Good Enough?’

8th May 20258th May 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Industrial, Intensive Care, The Body

It’s been roughly a decade since I last wrote about a release from experimental Portland metal duo The Body. Back

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Review: Full Of Hell & Andrew Nolan ‘Scraping The Divine’

15th November 202415th November 2024 Amanda Votta Andrew Nolan, Closed Casket Activities, Experimental, Full Of Hell

Since 2009, Maryland/Pennsylvania based Full Of Hell have been creating some of the most beautifully nightmarish music you’ll hear, both

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Review: Full Of Hell ‘Coagulated Bliss’

3rd May 20243rd May 2024 Will J Closed Casket Activities, Full Of Hell, Grind

Around two-thirds of the way through Full Of Hell’s headline set at Plan B in Malmö last September, vocalist Dylan

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Review: Spiritual Poison ‘Incorporeal’

8th December 20238th December 2023 Reza Mills Ambient, Closed Casket Activities, Soundscapes, Spiritual Poison

From the grindcore brutality of Clinging To The Trees Of A Forest Fire, Death Of Self and Vermin Womb to

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Review: Full Of Hell And Nothing ‘When No Birds Sang’

7th December 20237th December 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Closed Casket Activities, Doom, Drone, Full Of Hell, Noise, Nothing, Shoegaze

‘If we’re doing our job, it will freak you the fuck out in the best way, because you’re staring at

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Full Of Hell & Primitive Man 'Suffocating Hallucination'
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Review: Full Of Hell & Primitive Man ‘Suffocating Hallucination’

2nd March 20232nd March 2023 Simon Brotherton Closed Casket Activities, Full Of Hell, Primitive Man, Sludge

I’d never refer to myself as a massive sludge or noise fan, so you may be wondering why I picked

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Intensive Care: Jamie Grimes Interviews Andrew Nolan Of The Industrial Noise Duo

6th October 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Closed Casket Activities, Industrial, Intensive Care, Iron Lung Records, Noise

Andrew Nolan and Ryan Bloomer are lifers. The pair have been unleashing and developing their own particular form of industrialised

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Video Premiere: Black Helium ‘Up On A Hill’ – New Album ‘The Animals Are Coming’ Drops Friday
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Video Premiere: Black Helium ‘Up On A Hill’ – New Album ‘The Animals Are Coming’ Drops Friday

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Step into a kaleidoscopic fever dream with the premiere of Up On A Hill, the latest mind-warping transmission from London’s

Premiere: The Long Hunt ‘Spine Of Dusk’ – New Album ‘Natural Order’ Drops 18th July
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Premiere: The Long Hunt ‘Spine Of Dusk’ – New Album ‘Natural Order’ Drops 18th July

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Video Premiere: Lower Slaughter ‘Take A Seat’ – New Album ‘Deep Living’ Releases 6th June
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Video Premiere: Lower Slaughter ‘Take A Seat’ – New Album ‘Deep Living’ Releases 6th June

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Premiere: Clamfight – Self-Titled Album Releases This Friday, 16th May
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Premiere: Clamfight – Self-Titled Album Releases This Friday, 16th May

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