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Sleepbomb 'The Sleeping Dead' Artwork
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Review: Sleepbomb ‘The Sleeping Dead’

28th January 202528th January 2025 Reza Mills Consouling Sounds, Doom, Doomgaze, Drone, Koolarrow Records, Sleepbomb

Compiling an end of year top ten is nigh on impossible as was proven by the fact that Sleepbomb‘s last

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Review: Dark Sky Burial ‘Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum’

6th February 20246th February 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Consouling Sounds, Dark Sky Burial, Electronic, Extrinsic Recordings, Shane Embury

Two things remain constant about Shane Embury’s prolific and experimental ambient electronic project Dark Sky Burial; firstly each release is

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Modder 'The Great Liberation Through Hearing' Artwork
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Review: Modder ‘The Great Liberation Through Hearing’

24th November 202324th November 2023 Lee Beamish Consouling Sounds, Doom, Lay Bare Recordings, Modder, Psych, Sludge

One thing that always strikes me whenever I try and think of bands from Belgium is that I have only

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Review: Sleepbomb ‘The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari’

21st November 202327th January 2025 Reza Mills Consouling Sounds, Doom, Drone, Koolarrow Records, Post-Rock, Sleepbomb

Sleepbomb is a San Francisco outfit comprised of Charles Hernandez – guitars, Tim Gotch – bass/synths, Claire Hamard – vocals/keys,

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Premiere: Modder ‘Doom Denker’ – From New Album ‘The Great Liberation Through Hearing’

19th October 202319th October 2023 Lee Edwards Consouling Sounds, Doom, Lay Bare Recordings, Modder, Psych, Sludge

Belgium’s sludge, doom and heavy psych deviants Modder have been making a bit of a name for themselves in and

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Loud As Giants 'Empty Homes'
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Review: Loud As Giants ‘Empty Homes’

3rd May 20233rd May 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Ambient, Consouling Sounds, Dirk Serries, Justin K Broadrick, Loud As Giants

‘Homes fascinate me; the rooms we dwell in and spend our existences in, I can’t quite compute it nor articulate

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Ggu:ll 'Ex Est'
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Review: Ggu:ll ‘Ex Est’

26th October 202213th December 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blackened Doom, Consouling Sounds, Ggu:ll

Dutch blackened doom outfit Ggu:ll are a deliciously gruesome prospect. Having formed in 2009, they have brought their themes of

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Jarboe 'Skin Blood Women Roses' Reissue
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Review: Jarboe ‘Skin Blood Women Roses’ Reissue

3rd May 20223rd June 2022 Reza Mills Consouling Sounds, Experimental, Jarboe

According to her Wikipedia page, Jarboe La Salle Devereaux was born in Mississippi, raised in New Orleans and Atlanta, and

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Mother ‘Interlude I’ EP
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Review: Mother ‘Interlude I’ EP

16th December 20218th February 2022 Richard Murray Black Metal, Consouling Sounds, Mother, Post-Metal

Mother are a post-black metal band from Oostende, Belgium who started in 2017. Aside from that nugget of information, they’re

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Modder 'Modder'
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Review: Modder ‘Modder’

1st December 202111th January 2022 Emil Damgaard Andersen Consouling Sounds, Doom, Lay Bare Recordings, Modder, Sludge

Although they’re completely new to the doom/sludge scene, Modder from Belgium sound like they’ve spent years finetuning and perfecting their

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Dead Neanderthals 'Rat Licker'
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Review: Dead Neanderthals ‘Rat Licker’ EP

2nd April 20216th May 2021 Reza Mills Burning World Records, Consouling Sounds, Dead Neanderthals, EveryDayHate, God Unknown Records, Jazz, Moving Furniture Records, Noise, Rat Licker, Restraining Order, Saw-Whet Distro, Sentencia Records, Utech Records

As Twin Sister‘s S/T debut made number one in my Shaman Top Ten of 2020, it made sense for me

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

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