Review: Smokey Mirror ‘Smokey Mirror’
If I didn’t know any better, and just threw on the debut album from Dallas Texas’s Smokey Mirror, it’s reasonable
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Rise Above Records
Review: Blood Ceremony ‘The Old Ways Remain’
After seven long years since their last record, Toronto’s premier occult rockers Blood Ceremony have returned. The Old Ways Remain
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Retro Review: Orange Goblin ‘Coup De Grace’
I know it’s a redundant statement, but time sure seems to move faster the older you get, and it seems
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Review: Friends Of Hell ‘Friends Of Hell’
Have you ever wondered what UK doom legends Witchfinder General might sound like if they merged with early-to-mid-90s Cathedral, with
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Review: Witchskull ‘A Driftwood Cross’
I feel a bit guilty about this review. Why guilty? Because I consider Witchskull’s 2016 debut The Vast Electric Dark
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Review: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell ‘Very Uncertain Times’
I saw Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell live a few years ago in an absolute shithole of a venue. It was
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Review: Cain – S/T
Innovation in artistic expression is often under appreciated, especially in a music industry with sensibilities unaccustomed to dramatic change—the early
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Beastmaker ‘Lusus Naturae’ CD/LP/DD 2016
The Sabbath tree of life extends its familiar branches yet again, and somehow our undying love for the arguable originators
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Blood Ceremony ‘Lord Of Misrule’ CD/LP/DD 2016
Canadian Folk Horror Doomers Blood Ceremony return with their fourth studio album Lord Of Misrule. The linear notes explain the
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Church Of Misery ‘And Then There Were None…’ CD/LP/DD 2016
For the past two decades Tokyo’s Church Of Misery have melded classic Black Sabbath influenced doom with psychedelic rock under
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Beastmaker ‘You Must Sin’ 7″ 2016
Everyone loves a cheeky seven incher or two, right? We know our favourite vinyl-junkie friends at Rise Above certainly do,
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