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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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Melt 'All The Joy, All The Pain' EP
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Review: Melt ‘All The Joy, All The Pain’ EP

28th July 20219th September 2021 Lee Beamish Alternative, Melt, Rock

It’s been just over a year since dark alternative band Melt unleashed their second album, The Secret Teaching Of Sorrow

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Chelsea Wolfe ‘Abyss’ CD/LP/DD 2015

11th August 20153rd September 2019 Angela Davey 2015, Abyss, Alternative, Angela Davey, CD, Chelsea Wolfe, Dark, Digital, Folk, LP, Review, Rock, Sargent House

For months now Chelsea Wolfe has been teasing fans one track at a time about what to expect on her

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Year Of The Goat ‘The Unspeakable’ CD/LP/DD 2015

22nd July 20152nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2015, Atmospheric, CD, Digital, Guido Segers, Heavy Rock, LP, Napalm Records, Review, Rock, The Unspeakable, Year Of The Goat

Officially, the year of the goat starts in 2016, but with the new release from these Swedes, they hope to

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Spider Kitten ‘Toker’ DD 2015

4th April 20152nd September 2019 Mark Hunt-Bryden 2015, Children Of The Revolution, Digital, Doom, Folk, Longhaired Redneck, Mark Hunt-Bryden, Review, Rock, Self Released, Simple Man, Sludge, Spider Kitten, Toker

After signing to Undergroove last year Spider Kitten were supposedly set on recording a concept album. However, before they stepped

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Melvins ‘Hold It In’ CD/DD 2014

10th December 20143rd September 2019 Chris Moore (the) Melvins, 2014, CD, Chris Moore, Digital, Hold It In, Ipecac Recordings, Melvins, Noise-Rock, Pop Rock, Review, Rock

No one can deny that the Melvins are prolific, and newest offering Hold It In is in fact the 24th

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Cardinal Wyrm ‘Black Hole Gods’ DD 2014

1st November 20143rd September 2019 Gareth Gordon 2014, Black Hole Gods, Cardinal Wyrm, Digital, Doom, Gareth Gordon, Metal, Rock, Self Released, Svart Records

Cardinal Wyrm are a doom band based in Oakland, California. The current line up consists of Pranjal Tiwali on drum

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Jess And The Ancient Ones ‘Castaneda’ 10″ 2014

28th October 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 10", 2014, Blues, Castaneda, Jess And The Ancient Ones, Occult, Review, Rock, Sandy Williamson, Svart Records

Jess And The Ancient Ones are one of these bands that you just get, or you don’t. The whole female-fronted

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Earth ‘Primitive And Deadly’ CD/LP/DD 2014

5th September 20143rd September 2019 Tom McKibbin 2014, Brett Netson, CD, Digital, Doom, Drone, Dylan Carlson, Earth, Experimental, LP, Mark Lanegan, Primitive And Deadly, Rabia Shaheen Qazi, Rock, Southern Lord, Tom McKibbin

Earth’s post-reformation output has been widely praised; while the band laid dormant between the mid-nineties and mid-2000s, the likes of

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Grass On The Sun – S/T – DD 2014

27th August 20143rd September 2019 Jeremy Moore 2014, Alternative, Digital, Grass On The Sun, Jeremy Moore, Review, Rock, Self Released, Self Titled, Shoegaze

The Reid brothers would be proud. Massa, Italy’s up and coming drug-induced duo, Grass On The Sun, tread the Jesus

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Nevermind Me ‘Winter’ CD/DD 2014

3rd August 20142nd September 2019 Will Beattie 2014, Alternative, Ambient, CD, Digital, Nevermind Me, Review, Rock, Self Released, Shoegaze, Will Beattie, Winter

Nevermind Me play shoegaze. Nevermind Me play dreampop. Nevermind Me play… black metal. Generic cross-pollination is commonplace nowadays, and it

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