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Relapse Records

Incantation 'Unholy Deification' Artwork
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Review: Incantation ‘Unholy Deification’

8th September 20238th September 2023 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Incantation, Relapse Records

It takes a lot these days for a band with a legend status to it retain its position amongst the

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Dorthia Cottrell 'Death Folk Country'
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Review: Dorthia Cottrell ‘Death Folk Country’

17th April 202317th April 2023 Lee Beamish Country, Dorthia Cottrell, Folk, Relapse Records, Windhand

It’s not very often that an album title perfectly describes its content, to the point where three little words can

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Poison Ruïn 'Härvest'
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Review: Poison Ruïn ‘Härvest’

5th April 20235th April 2023 Reza Mills Death Rock, Poison Ruïn, Post-Punk, Relapse Records

Poison Ruïn are a Philadelphia quartet comprised of Mac Kennedy – vocals/guitar, Nao Demand – guitar, Allen Chapman – drums

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Obituary 'Dying Of Everything'
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Review: Obituary ‘Dying Of Everything’

3rd January 20238th March 2023 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Obituary, Relapse Records

Obituary. Godfathers of death metal. A band who have stubbornly refused to change an iconic sound for thirty plus years

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-(16)- 'Into Dust'
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Review: -(16)- ‘Into Dust’

23rd December 20226th February 2023 Harry Holmes 16, Metal, Relapse Records, Sludge

The band -(16)- have never quite landed squarely in my field of interest, on the face of it, they are

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Hoaxed 'Two Shadows'
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Review: Hoaxed ‘Two Shadows’

21st December 20226th February 2023 El Jefe Doom Rock, Hoaxed, Relapse Records

So in this day and time, the world has been hit with a plethora of duos. Some are good and

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Exhumed 'To The Dead'
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Review: Exhumed ‘To The Dead’

28th November 202229th December 2022 Sandy Williamson Death Metal, Exhumed, Relapse Records

You’d think after 32 years that Exhumed would have run out of steam, or macabre shit to write about. But

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Bastard Noise & Merzbow 'Retribution By All Other Creatures'
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Review: Bastard Noise & Merzbow ‘Retribution By All Other Creatures’

14th September 20229th December 2022 Jamie Grimes Bastard Noise, Merzbow, Noise, Power Electronics, Relapse Records

Two absolute fucking titans of the underground meet to create an album together. Neither Bastard Noise nor Merzbow should need

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Boris 'Heavy Rocks 2022'
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Review: Boris ‘Heavy Rocks 2022’

15th August 202223rd September 2022 Sandy Williamson Boris, Heavy Rock, Relapse Records

The simple idea that Heavy Rocks is so true and so potent that Japanese legends BORIS (and this is the

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Zombi 'Zombi & Friends, Volume 1'
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Review: Zombi ‘Zombi & Friends, Volume 1’

13th June 202215th July 2022 Rob Walsh Pinkish Black, Pop, Relapse Records, Rock, The Sword, Trans Am, Zombi

It was the summer of 2007 that I saw Zombi open for Isis at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles.

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Cave In 'Heavy Pendulum'
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Review: Cave In ‘Heavy Pendulum’

31st May 20226th July 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden Cave In, Heavy Rock, Post-Rock, Relapse Records

If I’m honest it took me a long time to ‘get’ Cave In. I have been enough of a student

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