Posted on May 8, 2013 |
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The new release from Magister Templi, “Lucifer Leviathan Logos“, captured a real classic doom and occult style metal that I was curious about how the release came together. It is a high quality release displaying all that is great about this particular style of music. Thank...
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Posted on January 18, 2013 |
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A doom metal band that spends weeks crafting and honing its first few songs ready for gigging and recording is one thing, but if they’re the real deal they’ll then spend another six months crafting and honing their bass tone before a single soul gets...
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Posted on October 26, 2012 |
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Dorset stoner four piece Electric Wizard close the main stage at this edition of the Damnation Festival and anyone who choose to watch these over fellow headliners Pig Destroyer will be seeing one of the finest stoner / doom bands in the scene at the...
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Posted on October 17, 2012 |
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With their origins way back in 1975, Pagan Altar actually predate the NWOBHM movement, but are nonetheless one of many bands to benefit from a renewed interest in that particular era of heavy metal. Having only released one full-length first time around, the band originally...
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Posted on October 1, 2012 |
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Co-authored by Berns von Bernington Our arrival was anticipated a day before the actual Wacken Open Air 2012 festivities were to begin. For an extra 10 Euro, we received nothing more than a bracelet of admittance and the joys of ill equipped outhouses under a...
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Posted on September 23, 2012 |
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Few titles could be as apt for a Doom Metal record as Sons of Otis’s “Seismic”. The long, slow and hard approach that characterises both the genre and the science of plate tectonics is reflected in the history of the Toronto-based outfit who have been...
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Posted on September 4, 2012 |
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After the demise of Brooklyn-based doom/sludge/black metal outfit Unearthly Trance some of its former members bounce back with a new band, called Serpentine Path. Aided by Tim Bagshaw of Ramesses and Electric Wizard fame they recorded the band’s selftitled debut album. Let’s see whether it...
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Posted on July 4, 2012 |
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Irish pagan metal masters Primordial will return to UK soil for an exclusive appearance at Damnation Festival. They will be joined at the three-stage metal behemoth in Leeds by the much anticipated return of Bossk and Dutch tech purveyors Textures. The latest additions bolster a...
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Posted on July 3, 2012 |
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Hailing from Hampshire in southern England, Witchsorrow have been painted as the latest in a long line of great British purveyors of the dark art of doom metal since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2010. Deeply oppressive and unrelentingly bleak, the record...
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Posted on June 14, 2012 |
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Every band needs to start somewhere. Have a venue where music lovers can lend an ear to the newest offering, especially in a city sputtering with talented hopefuls. Las Vegas, USA is not always the first city you think of when it comes to great...
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Posted on June 6, 2012 |
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There’s been something of a stirring in the musical underground in France of late. Not a month seems to pass by without another delicious slice of Gallic metal being offered up for our delectation. I don’t know what President M. Hollande is putting in the...
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Posted on May 24, 2012 |
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”Witchcult Today” is a vinyl re-release of Electric Wizard‘s 2007 album. This album and their latest, “Black Masses” will both get the wax treatment on May 22nd. Electric Wizard are a fascinating band-they play a slow, but heavy as fuck style of stoner doom that...
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Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Since my review of Lord Mantis earlier this year I have been getting into doom/sludge metal more and more. I have managed to sample some excellent stuff from bands like Acid Witch and Electric Wizard to Grand Magus, which has broadened my music taste from...
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Posted on April 19, 2012 |
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With their self-titled debut, Royal Talons unleash a slow, heavy and sustained metal assault. The band – which includes members of Skeleton Of God and Turambar – is influenced by the likes of Electric Wizard (think “Dopethrone”), Earth and Black Sabbath. Call it doom, call...
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Posted on March 6, 2012 |
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glassjaw to perform “Worship & Tribute” in full exclusively at Sonisphere! Exactly ten years to the date after its original release, Long Island hardcore innovators glassjaw will perform their landmark “Worship & Tribute” album in its entirety exclusively at Sonisphere. Formed in 1993, glassjaw took...
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Posted on February 5, 2012 |
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Two of UK metal’s rising stars, Elimination and Triaxis, have teamed up for the ‘End Of Days’ tour. Sponsored by Ed Stone, the tour sees the duo visit Wales, London, the North East and South of England, as well as the Midlands throughout March. Elimination...
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Posted on January 25, 2012 |
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It would appear that the Devil is back in fashion. I’m not entirely sure he actually went out of fashion but there has undoubtedly been something of a renaissance in occult rock and metal- the brilliant, theatrical misanthropy of Ghost, the dark, organic metal of...
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Posted on November 19, 2011 |
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Castles, the Belgian rock trio, are proud to announce their happy union with London-based label EyesofSound, and the forthcoming release of their debut album "You, The Organ Grinder".
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Posted on June 29, 2011 |
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Dorset. Not the English county that you would traditionally associate with the dark side but, thanks to the doom metal furrows that have been ploughed by Electric Wizard over the years, there is a sense that perhaps there is a darker, more menacing underbelly to...
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Posted on March 8, 2011 |
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High Voltage Announce New Acts -John Lee’s Barclay James Harvest, Skin, Rival Sons, Amplifier, Von Hertzen Brothers, Neurosis, Electric Wizard, Evile,Grand Magus, Ravens Creed, Primitai, Attica Rage, Black Spiders, Gentlemens Pistols, Furyon
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