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Crypt Lurker ‘Baneful Magic, Death Worship And Necromancy Rites Archaic’...
This is pretty cool. Lately I seem to be stumbling upon nothing but generic stoner band after generic stoner band, so finding a band that’s fierce, really gloomy and has very little Master of...
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Mountain God ‘Experimentation On The Unwilling’ CS/DD 2013
I love it when a band does something new within a template “innovating” shouldn’t necessarily mean adding a bunch of third-rate screamo into black metal, or making doom that whines exclusively about...
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Men Of Fortune ‘Time Lovingly Bled’ LP 2013
Men Of Fortune – hard to pigeonhole, hard to review. They sort of sound like a lot of things, but don’t sound like a lot of things as well – it’s not riff driven enough for metal, but it’s kinda metal,...
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System Of Venus – S/T – CD/DD 2013
My general litmus test for new music is a C&C Red Alert 2 skirmish. Bay of Pigs map, 5 brutal enemies, and me clicking away frantically (Apocalypse tanks for defense because they’re so well...
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Palefeather – S/T – CD 2014
The unexpected is a great thing. I must admit when I heard Palefeather‘s description (“Pink Floyd with a bit of post rock”) I was basically expecting bog standard post rock with a few noodles, but what...
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Empty Flowers ‘The Air You Found’ CD 2014
From what I can tell, no one really likes remixes (this isn’t going to be a hugely negative review, so stick with me). Ask the average person on the street their opinion and it’ll likely be negative,...
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Plurals ‘Bugenès Melissae’ LP/DD 2014
Long form droney ambient occupies a pretty similar space to things like raw black metal, modern art, brutal death metal, all that kind of stuff. There’s undeniably good stuff and bad stuff, and those...
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CONAN: Caspian Yurisich Questions Guitarist/Vocalist Jon Davis
Much props to Conan frontman Jon Davis for being willing to sit down with me over skype and answer some questions! We’ll skip the introductions (me trying to heckle him over the ashes, him dead batting...
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Ocean Districts ‘Expeditions’ CD/DD & Outwailed ‘Observant’ CD/DD 2014
Every webzine I end up reviewing for (I’m up to about number four- no, I’m not a model employee) I always end up overloaded by post-metal. I guess it’s a genre that’s easy to write up well in the press...
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Dead Fader ‘Scorched’ LP 2014
I’ve got a friend big into electronic music who’s often playing stuff in his car with the aim of getting me into it. Dark and dense drum ‘n’ bass usually, with the idea of “if you like metal, you’ll...
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Owl Oxidant ‘Secret Suburban Sun’ DD 2014
The word escapes me, but you know people who claim to see colour, detect smell etc. when music gets played? I’m not one of them, but I’m quite confident this album has me seeing tie dye everywhere. Owl...
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Monobrow ‘Big Sky, Black Horse’ LP/DD 2014
What makes a good instrumental band – what makes a good instrumental? How does Call Of The Ktulu succeed where Orion somewhat lacks? What did old Pelican do that newer Pelican struggle so badly at? Why...
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Dismal – S/T – CDEP/DD 2014
A lot of the promos- perhaps not the majority, but certainly the main kind of music- that get offered up on The Sleeping Shaman tends towards decent if not amazing Sabbath loving stoner rock. It’s nice...
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Deep Space Destructors ‘III’ CD/DD 2014
I’m forever looking for new space rock in the hope it sounds like Ozric Tentacles… But apparently I’m cursed to be forever finding only Hawkwind clones. This more of an observation than a complaint...
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Kikagaku Moyo ‘Mammatus Clouds’ LP/DD 2014
For me, Japanese psychedelia is one of those genres where my taste is, admittedly, a little undiscerning- if it’s competent I’ll love it, if it’s in the top 10% of the genre, I’ll abuse the shit out of...
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Bild ‘OOBE’ DD 2014
New Swans with a Cult of Luna-ish production and feel to it. That’s the review, let’s all go home! Honestly, if that description excites you then just go and get this thing, but for those who insist on...
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3rd Ear Experience ‘Incredible Good Fortune’ CD/DD 2014
We’ve all had those glory moments with music – it’s why you’re reading this, it’s why I’m writing this – in that hope we find more. That first time you heard Ride The Lightning. That one day when I...
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Conan / Yanomamo & More – Armageddoom II @ Rosemount Hotel, Perth 05/09/2014
A long festival, especially after you’ve gotten up at 4am, worked all day etc. is not always the best of things. Armageddoom, however, was one of the best of things. I didn’t see every band – I had...
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White Hills ‘Glitter Glamour Atrocity’ CD/LP/DD Reissue 2014
Gotta admit, when the press release about White Hills came out with a bunch of talking about the evils of Bush Jr. it was hard not to roll my eyes a little. Not that he was a good president (he was...
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Usnea ‘Random Cosmic Violence’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2014
In the same vein of perhaps Ocean’s Here Where Nothing Grows, Torture Circle, Aldebaran, Buried At Sea, early, less-bad Moss etc., Usnea are a pretty rad throwback to those halcyon days of the mid/late...
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