Review: Void ‘Live – 1982’
Maryland might perhaps be familiar to The Shaman regulars for its doom scene and bands such as Internal Void, Revelation,
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Hardcore
Review: Rocky & The Sweden ‘Punks Pot Head’
Despite considering myself to be knowledgeable about both punk rock, as well as Japanese music and culture in general, I
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Review: Converge ‘Love Is Not Enough’
When you are entrusted to review the new record by one of hardcore and extreme music’s most venerated and celebrated
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Review: Locusts ‘Lapsus Ab Inferno’ EP
In my escapades as a writer for The Sleeping Shaman, occasionally I will be asked if I can do a
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Review: Pupil Slicer ‘Fleshwork’
Back in May of 2023, I had my eyes well and truly opened to a band that, at the time,
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Review: Nuclear Dudes ‘Skeletal Blasphemy’
Now, here we have an interesting project. Nuclear Dudes is the Covid-born, brainchild of Jon Weisnewski, the multi-instrumentalist behind not
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Review: Negative Blast ‘Destroy Myself For Fun’
San Diego’s Negative Blast formed during Covid and have brought us a wealth of releases including 2020’s The First Four
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Review: Mastiff ‘For All The Dead Dreams’ EP
Yorkshire sludge/doom/hardcore monsters Mastiff have been bulldozing their way across these grim shores for over a decade now, and hot
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Review: Staticlone ‘Better Living Through Static Vision’
Punks Not Dead… Philadelphia has a strong punk and hardcore tradition, though the genre is associated with bands like Bad
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Review: Elan ‘Elan Vs Elan’
Once again, emanating forth from the riff mines of Salford’s APF Records are yet more disturbingly brutal noises brought to
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Review: Dead Pioneers ‘PO$T AMERICAN’
At a time of turmoil across America with the Mango Mussolini and his gang of starry eyed, slack jawed, yokels
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