Drive My Temple Car Got the fourth album by Queen Elephantine, a distinctive metal band who are situated at the
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On Monstrance (TOUCH TO:88), we hear the inspired team-up of Mika Vainio (from Pan Sonic) with Joachim Nordwall (from Skull
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Wozzeck Act IV RUSSIA OPPOSING MUSIC OPM013 CD (2012) Young Russians (previously known to me only via their interview in
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Staer Staer DISCORPORATE RECORDS DISREC20 CD (2012) Well, I didn’t really know what to expect with this one. Some Pop-Op
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Home Service The latest entry in the Vernon & Burns catalogue sees this Glasgow duo teaming up with Lied Music,
Continue readingThe Feather tipped the Serpent’s Scale: album inspired by vivid and unusual concept
Eagle Twin, The Feather tipped the Serpent’s Scale, US, Southern Lord, CD (2012) Reading the fine print on the gatefold
Continue readingGarten der Unbewusstheit: doom metallers Corrupted at their most elegiac
Corrupted, Garten der Unbewusstheit, Japan, Nostalgia Blackrain, CD cold ashes 002 (2011) This album might be Corrupted at their most elegiac
Continue readingEa (self-titled): new beginning for mystery Russian doom band?
Ea, self-titled, Solitude Productions, CD SP055 (2012) I guess when you’re onto a good thing and milking it for all it’s
Continue readingFlak Planet: an intense journey of avant-garde jazz / industrial / post-metal force and energy
Combat Astronomy, Flak Planet, Zond, zond03CD (2011) Stars Wars it ain’t without George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic company that
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Split for the Coast The eleventh release on the Spectrum Spools label is Soft Coast by No UFO’s, which is
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