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Peth 'Merchant Of Death'
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Review: Peth ‘Merchant Of Death’

3rd June 20223rd June 2022 Martin Williams Electric Valley Records, PETH, Proto-Metal, The Cosmic Peddler

As someone who’s spent roughly forty of his fifty-one (I can’t fucking believe I just wrote that) years in the

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Brown Acid - The Fourteenth Trip
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Review: Various Artist ‘Brown Acid – The Fourteenth Trip’

29th April 20223rd June 2022 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

It’s that time of the year again. Every stoner & weedian’s favorite holiday. 4/20. This also means another installment of

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Saturna & Electric Monolith 'Turned To Stone Chapter 4: Higher Selves'
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Review: Saturna & Electric Monolith ‘Turned To Stone Chapter 4: Higher Selves’

13th April 202226th May 2022 Liam Blanc Heavy Rock, Proto-Metal, Ripple Music, Stoner, Turned To Stone

Sometimes I wonder where the time goes. It seems crazy that nearly a whole year has passed since the third

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Obsidian Sea 'Pathos'
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Review: Obsidian Sea ‘Pathos’

1st February 202228th March 2022 Maxx Heavy Rock, Obsidian Sea, Proto-Metal, Ripple Music

Obsidian Sea are back with album number four titled Pathos to be released February 4th, 2022 by Ripple Music. One

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Tenebra - Photo by Davide Savaidis
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Video Premiere: Tenebra ‘Primitive Man’ From Their ‘What We Do Is Sacred’ EP That’s Out Now

17th January 20222nd March 2022 Lee Edwards New Heavy Sounds, Proto-Metal, Tenebra

Italy’s heavy rock and proto-metallers Tenebra unleashed their three track EP What We Do Is Sacred back in November last

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Various Artists ‘Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip’
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Review: Various Artists ‘Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip’

9th November 202115th December 2021 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Proto-Metal, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

The RidingEasy Records Brown Acid series have proven to be one of the best, and most anticipated releases of the

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Deathchant ‘Waste’
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Review: Deathchant ‘Waste’

2nd July 20216th August 2021 Martin Williams Deathchant, Heavy Rock, Proto-Metal, RidingEasy Records

I had an idea that Waste, the second full length release by Los Angeles’s Deathchant on RidingEasy Records, was going

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Randy Holden ‘Population II’
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Review: Randy Holden ‘Population II’

27th February 202020th March 2020 Reza Mills Doom, Population II, Proto-Metal, Randy Holden, RidingEasy Records

Listening to this album solidly for the past few months it surprises me that I could have been so absentminded

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Grave Bathers ‘Feathered Serpent'
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Review: Grave Bathers ‘Feathered Serpent/Death Hand’

24th February 202020th March 2020 Fossil Death Hand, Feathered Serpent, Grave Bathers, Proto-Metal, Seeing Red Records

As if to justify their already-badass name, North Philly psych-doom quintet Grave Bathers have acquired an actual funeral parlour as

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70s Proto-Metal Collage
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Reza’s Bakers Dozen – Early 70s Proto-Metal

6th February 202022nd May 2020 Reza Mills Atomic Rooster, Bang, Highway Robbery, Iron Claw, James Gang, Jerusalem, Leaf Hound, Night Sun, November, Pentagram, Proto-Metal, Shiver, Sir Lord Baltimore, The Flying Hat Band

Being a fan of Stoner/Doom and seeing as The Sleeping Shaman features a lot of bands who play that style,

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Sweat Lodge ‘Talismana’ CD/LP/DD 2015

22nd September 20152nd September 2019 Pete Green 2015, CD, Digital, Heavy Rock, LP, Pete Green, Proto-Metal, Review, Ripple Music, Stoner, Sweat Lodge, Talismana

To be honest, when I first heard the name Sweat Lodge, my initial reaction was: “Ewwww, really?!” I mean yeah,

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