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Tag: rock music

12/06/2013 nausika

A View that won’t Change: hard-rocking melodic proposition with mood music and ambient surprises

Vaquez, A View that won’t Change, self-released CD (2012) The work of one man, Andrew Phillips, but sounding much like

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01/03/2013 nausika

Vienna (by Crebain): black metal version of pretentious pop classic

Crebain, Vienna, self-released single (2012) Curious that one-man West Coast USBM act Crebain has just one proper full-length recording to

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29/12/2012 Ed Pinsent

Castles in your Heart

Here’s a highlight from February 2012, Age Of Energy (NORTHERN SPY NSCD020) by Chicago Underground Duo – a glorious CD

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06/12/2012 nausika

Windhand: in danger of becoming a Sabbath clone, and a tired one at that

Windhand, self-titled, Forcefield Records, CDGRIMM25 (2012) A sure sign that Windhand traffick in no-nonsense straight-ahead retro doom metal is the

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11/11/2012 nausika

Dream Seeds: too bland, poppy and smooth for very dark subject matter

Extra Life, Dream Seeds, Northern Spy Records, NSCD 022 (2012) That album cover has that curious and creepy look that

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04/11/2012 nausika

Garten 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

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30/09/2012 nausika

Zond: free-form noise rock / punk that defies easy pigeon-holing categorisation

Zond, self-titled, R.I.P. Society Records, CD RIP012 (2010) Not quite a noise band nor a rock band, not quite free-form

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01/09/2012 nausika

Dusk Dawn / Follow You Beloved: immersive darkwave ambient mood pieces of temporal borderlands and sinister obsessive love

Aelter, Dusk Dawn / Follow You Beloved, Crucial Blast, 2xCD (2011) A repackaging of two recordings that were originally self-released

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20/08/2012 nausika

Doom in Bloom: more bloom, less doom needed here

The Botanist, Doom in Bloom, Israel, 2xCD Total Rust Music, TRUST025 (2012) After the first two albums, reviewed in an

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05/08/2012 nausika

Drought: mighty black metal / post-rock fusion packed tightly into mini-album EP format

Deathspell Omega, Drought, Season of Mist CD SOM810 (2012) Another mighty missive from Deathspell Omega in the form of an

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