• New Music Friday

    This Friday, the world of misery laid out but with two different yet both exceptional approaches to it. The bone breaking, terrifying sludge doom of Cattle Hammer – Dark Thoughts With Lights Out and the soul searing, tortured catharsis of Acceptance – Crucifixion Of Orchids

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    Today back a couple of years to one of those rare arrivals for me at Ave Noctum Shadow Knell – Shadow Knell (Relapse 2024)

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today we peel back the scab on the wounds caused by battle and search for the true cost with Glaive Wielder / Altar Of Moss – Battlements

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we take a walk into the frightening underbelly of cults, drugs and places you should never go with Saint Omen – Mysteries Of Rebirth

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today we follow a desperate rescue attempt by a band of heroes, te free a city from its skeletal lord. But does the city want to be rescued? Ask master storyteller in music Skuggkonungen – Ett Skelet Styr Staden

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we enter the emotionally raw, heartbreaking world of Spanish melodic doom band Hela – A Reign To Conquer and then pass through the portals of madness and witness the debut full length from Dusk Lurker – Celestial Fantasies In The Mind Of A Lunatic

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    One of my forays into the unfamiliar seas of prog today with Lonely Robot – The Big Dream (Inside Out Music 2017)

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  • Mausoleum Monday

    Today a journey from a distant land, setting foot upon ancient soil, we follow the soul searching Elyvilon – The Shrouded Isle

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  • New Music Friday

    Today we celebrate the impending return of the UK’s finest purveyors of filthy, raging booze addled black metal punk with Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks and explore the excellent debut from Brazil of Castrivenian – Reborn From The Ashes

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  • Way Back Wednesday

    A strange and disturbing encounter with a Reverend who encourages you to “Tap the conduit…”. I give you the strange, dark humour (?) of By Fire & Sword – Glory (No Remorse 2023)

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