Review: Nightstalker ‘Return From The Point Of No Return’
Nightstalker are a band who don’t seem to get the praise or recognition that they thoroughly deserve. For a band
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Heavy Rock
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Review: Howling Giant ‘Howling Giant’ EP [10th Anniversary Reissue]
My first entry point to Nashville heavy psych three-piece Howling Giant was (somewhat predictably for those who have read my
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Slomosa & Psychlona @ Rebellion, Manchester, 3rd February 2025
With a queue of people outside the venue and snaking down into Manchester‘s Bugle Street, Rebellion and Tapestry Promotions, had
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Review: Warlung ‘The Poison Touch’
Houston Texas’s Warlung returns with the follow-up to 2022’s Vultures Paradise, which I enjoyed quite a bit, although, if I’m
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Review: Dunes ‘Land Of The Blind’
Holding my hands up here, I knew nothing of hard-rocking Newcastle-based three-piece Dunes until the announcement that they had signed
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Review: Godzillionaire ‘Diminishing Returns’
Right off the bat I’m going to say this, if there’s one band who you should be firmly pointing your
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Review: Shotgun Sawyer ‘Shotgun Sawyer’
Auburn, California might not be the first place that springs to mind when you think of the blues, but three-piece
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Various Artists ‘Brown Acid The Nineteenth Trip’
At this point, stoner rockers, doom-metal mavens, garage rock collectors, heavy psych-heads and proto-metal worshipers around the globe can practically
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Review: Various Artists ‘The Very Best Of Jethro Tull Redux’
Internal David-monologue, approx. 1994: Everything must be heavier than everything else! Metallica are for girls (NB I was sexist as
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Review: Sons Of Ghidorah ‘Hallowmas’
When I see a comment in a press release that states that they’ve ‘been compared favourably to bands such as
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Sergeant Thunderhoof: An Interview With Vocalist Dan Filtcroft
It may be two years since the release of Sergeant Thunderhoof‘s last album, the critically acclaimed This Sceptred Viel, which
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