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Melted on my Cortex – Boss Keloid
Slow and heavy Wiganers Boss Keloid once again repudiate expectations with new full-length sonic deluge ‘Melted On The Inch’ (read more)
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Gloomy Doomy Scandi Metal Mashup (Monolord, Enisferum, Cardinals Folly)
Guts and Gusto win out whilst Grammar Gets Gutted. (read more)
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Mindkult, No Funeral and Livid (Reviews)
Morbid, Miserable and Doomy as a 1990s first-person Shoot ’em Up. (read more)
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Oozy Bluesy Doom: Sacred (The Obsessed)
Doom metal with passion and refinement – The Obsessed are back after a brief 23-year break (read more)
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The End of Electricity (Domkraft)
Simultaneously doomy and a little dotty, Domkraft freshen the formula with The End of Electricity (read more)
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The riffs still come from my fingers (Tommi Holappa, Greenleaf)
Swedish semantics, Horror Lizards, and the eternal churn of stoner rock bands. Greenleaf speak. (read more)
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Mirroring the Zeitgeist with Doom, Death and Gothic Gloom
Convenience death metal, giant wicker cocks. If politics has gone weird, why shouldn’t music? Review of Gatecreeper and Abysmal Grief albums (read more)
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Peacocks Wandered Aimlessly: Pagan Science (The Well)
Cosmic folk to occult choir – bringing the rock ain’t always easy, but where there’s The Well, there’s a way (read more)
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Blackened Death, Beaten Skins: Akercocke at Manchester Academy
Untramelled aggression, windmill headbanging, expensive drinks. A Sunday night with Akercocke (read more)
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Fires Within Fires (Neurosis)
A perfect if less mindblowing record from post-rock doomfathers Neurosis (read more)
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Killer Cocktail: Incoming Death (Asphyx)
Fusing doom and death, and even a touch of thrash, Asphyx get the balance spot-on (read more)
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Live at Wacken 2015, 26 Years, Louder Than Hell
Stiff necks and bleeding ears at a small village in Schleswig-Holstein. (read more)
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Summer Dies Slowly: August Metal Meltdown
A summer of death, filth, junkie Olympians and the Zika virus needs an appropriate soundtrack. Metal meltdown ahoy. (read more)
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Sludge in the Sparkplugs? (The Company Corvette)
Is Doom, Groove and Stoner metal too rich a mix for this Corvette’s carburettor? Review (read more)
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Technical Brutality for (nearly) a Gravenous Hour (Katalepsy)
Blasting their way to the top of the Death Metal scene, Russia’s Katalepsy release album number two. Review (read more)
Events
Meshuggah European Tour 2016
Extreme tech-metal messiahs Meshuggah announce Winter 2016 European Tour (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Griever
Metalcore newcomers Griever accelerate the gloom at Islington Academy 2. Photos (read more)
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April Metal (Grimner, Miasmal, The Wolves of Avalon)
The nightmare of history menaces the month’s metal releases (read more)
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Experimental Doom, Post Hardcore, and What Sounds Like Dustbin Lids (Birushanah)
Japanese post-hardcore experimental brilliance this may be, but please stop banging those hubcaps. Birushanah reviewed (read more)
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Didgeri-Doom? Traversing the Psych-Prog Youniverse (Ethereal Riffian)
Trippy, doomy, and laden with riffs, Voice of the Universe veers from melodic to hypnotic with alarming ease. Album review (read more)
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Dark, Relentless Glory: Monthly Metal Medley
In the midst of death… Heavy Metal, that most persistent and insidious weed, offers up new releases from Witchcraft, Ghost Witch, Gomorrah and Conan. We review. (read more)
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Damnation 2015 Festival Recap
A review of Damnation 2015 festival. 7th november Leeds University. (read more)
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‘The sea is its own vast universe’ (AHAB talk about The Boats of the Glen Carrig )
We play the music for ourselves and if people like it, that’s OK – Daniel Droste, AHAB (read more)
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Loitered Lens: Hang the Bastard
Thunderous doom and mighty riffage, Hang The Bastard at The Underworld (read more)
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Mighty and Thunderous grooves at Camden Underworld (Hang the Bastard)
The word of Hang The Bastard was both mighty and thunderous (read more)
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Septic September Metal Mania (The Sword, Cattle Decapitation, Ahab)
Album reviews whilst throwing a basket of kittens into an industrial shredder in the name of Hamas and Communism (read more)
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Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….
This is probably Cradle of Filth ‘s best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish). (read more)
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Loitered Lens : Beasts [Beasts]
Beasts soften the discordant minor melodies and double bass drum pedals of doom with catchy guitar riffs and shoegazer style vocals. (read more)
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A bewitching yet ruinous and wretched pastime [The Picturebooks]
Combining classic garage rock, the North European darkness of doom metal and the melancholy exhilaration of riding a custom chopper through the old Route 66 ghost towns of Arizona (read more)
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Manami Mogg’s Metal Medley
This is the proverbial bollocks, with an utter mastery of brutality and method in equal measure. (read more)