Review: The Gates Of Slumber ‘The Gates Of Slumber’
I’ve got this overpowering memory of the one and only time I witnessed the extreme doom power of Indiana’s finest
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Svart Records
Review: Pekka Laine ‘Pekka Laine & The Enchanted In Slumberland’
As a fan of surf inflected artists such as Man Or Astro-Man?, Agent Orange and East Bay Ray (Dead Kennedys),
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Review: Kati Rán ‘SÁLA’
In the nine years since the release of her debut album LYS, multi-instrumentalist Kati Rán has been busy embracing the
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Review: Henrik Palm ‘Nerd Icon’
You may be familiar with Henrik Palm from the time he spent with Ghost, the much-hyped band and not one
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Review: The Lunar Effect ‘Sounds Of Green And Blue’
It’s not easy being a Shaman scribe. As well as the challenging entrance exams, robust scribe CPD requirements and having
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Through The Lens: JAAW / [slab] @ The White Hotel, Salford, 20th September 2023
One of these days I’ll finally catch up on the backlog of photos I need to sort through after a
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Review: Virta ‘Horros’
Some bands are a revelation. You can’t quite put your finger on just what it is exactly, but they manage
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Review: Maggot Heart ‘Hunger’
Since I started writing for The Sleeping Shaman back in 2019 (how time flies!), I have covered many artists, some
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Review: Hexvessel ‘Polar Veil’
Hailing from the dark forest, progressive folk rockers Hexvessel have been on a path which their founder Mat McNerney describes
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Review: The Coffinshakers ‘Graves, Release Your Dead’
Since forming in 1995, Sweden’s The Coffinshakers are not exactly what you’d call the most prolific of bands seeing as
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Review: Black Magic Six ‘Black Cloud Descending’
Let’s pretend for a second that Dick Dale is on a soul-searching vision quest in the middle of Death Valley.
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