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Album Review: Smote –‘Songs From The Free House’: A striking return for the drone rock/ dark folk adventurer.

Daniel Foggin, landscape gardener, guitarist, psych folk expressionist and drone rock interpreter works relentlessly. His creative portal Smote is now five albums into its journey with the venerable Rocket Recordings,…

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live review: paradise lost, messa, high parasite. new century hall, manchester. 09/10/2025

With the autumnal evenings elongating at a rapid rate now I made my way across the Pennines for an evening of Gothic inspired Doom Metal courtesy of one of West…

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Album Review: Rún’s exhilarating self-titled debut – an alchemic forging of psychedelic doom and dark folk.

The darker hues of metal, folk and other musics enticingly converge on the self-titled album from new Irish trio Rún, released by those perennial psych-rock discoverers at Rocket Recordings. A…

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News: Empty Nesters tackles an existential crisis on hardcore punk scorcher ‘Shangri-Nah’

Look, we get it—just being alive can be exhausting sometimes. Eric Liao gets it too, in a way you probably weren’t expecting if you’ve heard his previous work as Empty…

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bloodstock announce a new addition to their arsenal, bloodstock’s winter gathering

ANNOUNCING…. BLOODSTOCK’S WINTER GATHERING!! Be part of BLOODSTOCK history!! Will you be one of the very first to bear witness to BLOODSTOCK’S WINTER GATHERING this December?! This brand new, one-day…

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Album Review: The Body & Dis Fig – ‘Orchards of a Futile Heaven’: One extraordinary partnership delivers an experimental doom statement piece.

For seminal Portland doom metal duo The Body, co-working with other musicians has long been part of their modus, ensuring their music never stands still. Alongside the influential releases carrying…

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Track/Video : Heavy doom protagonists The Body & Dis Fig preview new collaborative album with the explosive ‘Dissent, Shame’.

‘Collabs’ – are they anything more than product placement these days? Well in some worlds driven less by the algorithm, collaboration still has a meaning and a purpose. Step forward…

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Gallery & Set Lists: Sepultura / Sacred Reich / Crowbar – The Academy, Dublin 03.11.2022

Sepultura / Sacred Reich / Crowbar at last got to bring the Quadra tour to Dublin’s The Academy Crowbar, Gallery & Set List. High Rate ExtinctionConqueringI Feel the Burning SunBleeding…

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Meet: Supersonic festival director Lisa Meyer ahead of July’s must-catch happening.

Festivals are back and that’s important. Every festival, from gargantuan to the esoteric, has a community around it, they have become part of our folklore, part of our cultural clock,…

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News: HOUR OF 13 reveal first track from long-awaited new album on SHADOW KINGDOM

Today, doom legends Hour of 13 reveal the brand-new track ‘His Majesty of the Wood’. The track is the first to be revealed from the band’s long-awaited fourth album, Black Magick Rites, set for international release…

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