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Amulet 'Cut The Crap' Cassette EP 2012
"Amulet", noun, from the Latin amuletum; meaning "an object that protects a person from trouble".
Grainy tape cassette recordings and old school heavy metal authenticity: holding hands like brothers in medieval battle since 1964. It's really only recordings like this ... Read More... »
Gnaw Their Tongues 'Per Flagellum Sanguemque Tenebras Veneramus' CD 2011
Lock your doors. Bar your windows. Seal yourself inside your home. Call the police. It won't save you, Gnaw Their Tongues have returned and now nowhere is safe. THIS is the sound of the apocalypse, of impending doom. The ... Read More... »
I sometimes wonder regarding bands that are sadly no more, but clearly were at the absolute pinnacle of their particular pile of hairy guitar slingers, whether people truly realised at the time what they were watching. Now it becomes ... Read More... »
Corrosion Of Conformity – S/T - CD/LP 2012
When COC reunited with the original “Animosity” era line-up of Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean and Reed Mullin, ostensibly to tour that album, it caused no small number of ripples in the metal world. The avid Keenanites bemoaned the absence ... Read More... »
Jucifer 'Nadir' Reissue CD/Digital EP 2011
Whether or not the liner notes that accompany Nadir are just another case of self-mythologising from the nomadic Jucifer front-woman Gazelle Amber Valentine, they paint a charming picture of a young band, destitute of anything but the pleasure of ... Read More... »
The Devil’s Blood 'The Thousandfold Epicentre' CD/LP 2012
It seems to me there is an increasing number of bands grabbing themselves a female singer, throwing some loose witchy occult imagery over themselves and trotting out some fairly mundane doom metal (with a few notable exceptions like the ... Read More... »
Loincloth 'Iron Balls Of Steel' CD/LP 2012
This, my fine feathered friends, is IT. The album of 2012 already. Some EIGHT YEARS after their tantalising Southern Lord 2003 seven-inch and self-released demo, instrumental Fancy Tech-Doom behemoth Loincloth have returned to to crush you, to see you ... Read More... »
Red Fang 'Murder The Mountains' CD/LP/DD 2011
Some bands just need that one song to kick start their career. Unfortunately for a lot of those bands that one great song seems to be all that they’re capable and rock music is littered with the withered corpses ... Read More... »
Spire – Digital EP 2010 & 'Metamorphosis' Digital EP 2011
Spire – Digital EP 2010
Australia – land of beer, Sheilas and blokes in dodgy beachwear. Not the sort of place you imagine people could be pissed off enough to dredge out the sort of totally crestfallen black funeral doom ... Read More... »
Greg(o)rian 'Settlements And Burial Chambers' Digital Album 2011
Presumably named after the monophonic chanting style in turn named after a sixth century pope, Greg(o)rian come creeping out of Essex with the intent to scare and thrill with a blend of ambient doom and possibly tongue-in-cheek paganism.
This album ... Read More... »
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VOLITION + Support – Tomorrow Night @ The Alma Inn, Bolton – FREE ENTRY!
27th January 2012 at 10:50 am
An evening at of Absolute Noise featuring Volition, RSJ, Black Magician, Evisorax, Iron Witch & Jacknife Holiday at The Alma Inn, Bolton tomorrow night (28th Jan 2012), the night of Doom & Destruction kicks off at 7pm and best of…
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Tags: Black Magician, Bolton, Evisorax, Gig, Iron Witch, Jacknife Holiday, News, RSJ, The Alma Inn, Volition
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BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS – Live In Mannheim CD & New Album
27th January 2012 at 10:30 am
Wolfbiker Records have re-released the sold out cassette version of ‘Live In Mannheim’ by Germany’s BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS on an Extended and Remastered Digipak CD, more info on how to purchase is over at the bands website at www.blackshapeofnexus.com….
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Tags: B.SON, Black Shape Of Nexus, Exile On Mainstream Records, Live In Mannheim, Negative Black, New Album Details, News, Wolfbiker Records
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RED FANG: Release New Music Video For ‘Hank Is Dead’
27th January 2012 at 9:57 am
Portland, Oregon’s RED FANG are premiering their new video today on YouTube for “Hank Is Dead”, which is taken from their critically acclaimed release Murder The Mountains. RED FANG worked with director extraordinaire, Whitey McConnaughy on the video which can…
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Tags: Euro Tour 2012, Hank Is Dead, Murder The Mountains, New Video, News, Red Fang, Relapse Records
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MARTYRDÖD: Dark Lords Of Swedish Crust Sign With Southern Lord
27th January 2012 at 9:02 am
Swedish crustpunk horde MARTYRDÖD have officially inked a multi-release deal with Southern Lord Recordings, and are currently barricaded in the infamous Studio Fredman (At The Gates, Amon Amarth, Opeth) recording their debut label LP, Paranoia. After formation in 2001, MARTYRDÖD, have since slammed the crustpunk…
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Tags: Martyrdöd, New Album Details, Paranoia, Southern Lord
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Huata Added To Lineup For Voivod’s Au-delà du Réel at Roadburn 2012
26th January 2012 at 3:00 pm
Roadburn very pleased to announce that Huata will bring their vintage stoner doom ceremony to Voivod‘s curated Au-delà du Réel event at the 2012 Roadburn fest on Friday, April 13th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Hailing from France,…
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Tags: Au-delà du Réel, Huata, News, O13, Roadburn, Roadburn 2012, Roadburn Festival 2012, Tilburg
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Justin K Broadrick Returns As JK Flesh & Announces New Album For April
26th January 2012 at 2:45 pm
Godflesh, Head of David, Napalm Death, Techno Animal, Jesu, Greymachine, Palesketcher – just some of the projects from the insanely prolific Justin K Broadrick, who in his new relationship with 3by3, raises his Techno Animal moniker JK Flesh from the…
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Tags: 3by3, JK Flesh, Justin K Broadrick, New Album Details, News, Roadburn Festival 2012
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WINO & CONNY OCHS: Track From Collaborative Album Premieres Via The Obelisk
26th January 2012 at 10:32 am
Music fans across the globe can get their first listen to some of the anticipated forthcoming collaborative album from WINO & CONNY OCHS. Entitled Heavy Kingdom, the LP is confirmed for North American release via Exile On Mainstream Records on…
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Tags: Audio Stream, Conny Ochs, Euro Tour 2012, Future Noise, Heavy Kingdom, News, Scott "Wino" Weinrich, The Obelisk, The Sleeping Shaman, Wino, Wino & Conny Ochs
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Soggy Bog Podcast 60 – Music Inspired by Michael Moorcock and Robert E. Howard
26th January 2012 at 10:16 am
The latest Soggy Bog Podcast, number 60, is now available for your listening pleasure and this week features music inspired by Michael Moorcock and Robert E. Howard which includes tracks from Hawkwind, Stonehelm, Deep Purple, Conan, Black Pyramid, Manilla Road,…
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Tags: Black Pyramid, Conan, Deep Purple, Hawkwind, Manilla Road, Michael Moorcock, Podcast, Robert E. Howard, Soggy Bog, Soggy Bog 60, Stonehelm, The Gates of Slumber, Uzala
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INVERLOCH: Sign To Relapse Records & Announce Debut Album
25th January 2012 at 9:26 am
Relapse Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of Melbourne, Australia’s doom-dwellers INVERLOCH! Featuring 2/4 of the legendary diSEMBOWELMENT, INVERLOCH (Matthew Skarajew – Guitars, Paul Mazziotta – Drums, Ben James – Vocals, Mark Cullen – Guitars, Tony Bryant –…
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Tags: d.USK, diSEMBOWELMENT, Hellfest 2012, Inverloch, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Roadburn 2012
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CONAN Post Live Video Footage Of New Track ‘Hawk As Weapon’
24th January 2012 at 3:39 pm
Caveman Battle Doomers CONAN have posted a live video for their new track ‘Hawk As Weapon‘ which will feature on their new album due to be released in March/Early April 2012 by Burning World Records, the footage was filmed at…
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Tags: Burial Chamber Promotions, Burning World Records, Conan, Hawk As Weapon, Live Video, New Track, News