Review: Take Offense ‘T.O.tality’
Despite being a thrash metal fan for forty, yes, forty years, I had only vaguely heard of Chula Vista, California’s
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Review: Mastiff ‘Deprecipice’
Somewhere in a parallel universe, I’m sure that Mastiff are headlining huge shows across the globe as they have always
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Review: High On Fire ‘Cometh The Storm’
A lot has happened since we last heard from High On Fire. In 2018, the band released the Grammy wining
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Review: Lord Dying ‘Clandestine Transcendence’
Portland, Oregon’s Lord Dying have been in my periphery for a good few years now and seeing their latest MNRK
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Review: Escuela Grind ‘DDEEAATTHHMMEETTAALL’
The third and final piece in the Escuela Grind tribute EPs, following 2020’s PPOOWWEERRVVIIOOLLEENNCCEE and GGRRIINNDDCCOORREE (I absolutely love this,
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Review: High On Fire ‘The Art Of Self Defense’ [Reissue]
Way back in the summer of 2000, the much-fabled CMJ music festival came to Seattle. A music industry showcase, and
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Review: Somnuri ‘Desiderium’
While New York’s Somnuri are described as a ‘progressive sludge’ or ‘post-sludge’ band, a term I would prefer to use
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Review: Escuela Grind ‘Memory Theater’
In my mind, once you hear or see their name it becomes instantly familiar. It’s very attention grabbing for someone
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Review: Crowbar ‘Zero And Below’
Crowbar really need no introduction, New Orleans based sluggers, sludge icons captained by ‘the riff lord’ Kirk Windstein who has
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Review: Pike vs The Automaton
In the canon of heavy music, metal, stoner, doom, or any riff-based sub-genre, any conversation about guitar player influence, at
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