Slomatics, Estron, Head of Crom Records, CROM7 12″ red vinyl (limited edition) (2014) Flush from reviewing their most recent album
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Future Echo Returns: heavy doom with hard iron sludge, atmospherics and psychedelia is a winner
Slomatics, Future Echo Returns, United Kingdom, Black Bow Records, CD (2016) In the liner notes of a past album of theirs, Belfast-based
Continue readingThe Sontaran Experiment (self-titled): immersion into a world of dissolution with no chance of renewal
The Sontaran Experiment, self-titled, United Kingdom, Undergroove, UGCD054 (2008) Sadly whatever ambrosia juice the Time Lords used to drink on
Continue readingRe Un: dark grinding doomy post-black metal with a strong individual style
Conjuro Nuclear, Re Un, Italy, Avantgarde Music, digipak CD AV294 (2016) Curious about what was actually behind this album with the
Continue readingDyodyo Asema: fusion sludge and noise ambient BM soundtrack of implied horror
Gnaw Their Tongues / Alkerdeel, Dyodyo Asema, Belgium, ConSouling Sounds, SOUL0033 (2014) Those of us familiar with the lumbering sludge BM of
Continue readingKofuku: don’t resist the clutch of this depressive sludge doom psychedelia fusion pop / rock debut
Low Flying Hawks, Kofuku, Magnetic Eye Records, CD MER040 (2016) An interesting new presence coming over the horizon of sludge
Continue readingPain Cleanses Every Doubt: immense force and power remove doubt about a new black metal band’s worth
Ultha, Pain Cleanses Every Doubt, Ecocentric Records, CD ER#195 (2015) Ultha is a new black metal band from Germany but at
Continue readingWorldbuilder: cosmic sludge-doom journey through inner space
Zirakzigil, Worldbuilder, Anthem, CD (2015) Starting out as a Tolkien-obsessed psychedelic noise-doom metal band in Portland, Zirakzigil – try saying
Continue readingWound Empire: a blackened sludge doom soundtrack with which to serenade our final days in the Apocalypse
Abstracter, Wound Empire, 7 Degrees Records, 12″ vinyl (2015) Abstracter: what an intriguing name for a band of any description
Continue readingFour Phantoms: sludge as trudge in four parts
Bell Witch, Four Phantoms, Profound Lore Records, PFL140, CD digipak (2015) The four phantoms referenced by US funereal death doom band
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