Hardcore

Album & EP Reviews G 

Guinea Pig – Demo 2008

25th November 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, Demo, Doom, Guinea Pig, Hardcore, Heavy, Review, Sludge

And here we are friends of the Shaman, having watched the metal genre known as Sludge expand beyond the Dirty

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Album & EP Reviews S 

Sourvein ‘Imperial Bastard’ CDEP 2008

19th November 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, Candlelight Records, CDEP, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Imperial Bastard, Review, Sludge, Sourvein

‘Splice the main brace!’ I believe that’s a nautical reference. Maybe that should be ‘splice the membrane’. These hirsute Southern

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Album & EP Reviews M 

Moloch – S/T – CD 2008

1st November 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone 2008, Adam Stone, CD, Choking Hazard Records, Doom, Hardcore, Moloch, Review, Sludge

Moloch sound like an industrial accident. A very slow one…and a very painful one. Probably involving a lathe. And a

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Album & EP Reviews T 

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 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 D 

Disfear ‘Live The Storm’ CD 2008

26th August 20083rd September 2019 Andrew Sloan 2008, Andrew Sloan, At The Gates, CD, Crust, D-Beat, Death Crust, Disfear, Entombed, Hardcore, Live The Storm, Relapse Records, Review, Thomas Lindberg, Ulfe Cederlund

What does the term Punk Rock mean these days? It’s a genre so watered down by lightweight, pop star-aspiring posturing,

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Articles 

Roots Of Sludge

16th August 20083rd September 2019 Adam Stone Adam Stone, Amebix, Article, Black Sabbath, Burning Witch, Charger, Crust, Discharge, Doom, EyeHateGod, Godflesh, Grief, Hardcore, Iron Monkey, Melvins, Metal, Napalm Death, Neurosis, Punk, Roots Of Sludge, Sludge, Weedeater

Sludge is a thick mud or sediment, greasy, foul and noxious. Sounds good already. But when it comes to music,

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rwake ‘Voices Of Omens’ CD 2007

1st February 200714th September 2019 Lewis Hunter 2007, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, Lewis Hunter, Relapse Records, Review, Rwake, Sludge, Voices of Omens

In my opinion, Rwake were on the right track with their previous release, ‘If You Walk Before You Crawl, You

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Album & EP Reviews R 

Rwake ‘If You Walk Before You Crawl, You Crawl Before You Die’ CD 2004

28th January 20076th September 2019 Lewis Hunter 2004, At A Loss Recordings, CD, Doom, Hardcore, Heavy, If You Walk Before You Crawl You Crawl Before You Die, Lewis Hunter, Review, Rwake, Sludge

It seems that Rwake is only getting better with time. This is their third full-length LP, and what an experience

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Album & EP Reviews E 

EyeHateGod ‘Preaching The End-Time Message’ CD 2005

4th January 200614th September 2019 Lee Edwards 2005, CD, Crust, Doom, Emetic Records, EyeHateGod, Hardcore, Heavy, Lee Edwards, Nasty, Preaching The End-Time Message, Review, Sludge

‘Preaching The End-Time Message’ is a Sludge fuelled compilation from those Southern wasters Eyehategod, which features alternative takes, rare &

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