Dean Brown

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Iskra – Ruins album review

By Dean Brown Published

Superior blackened crust from anarchic enclaves of Canada? Yep, it's the new album from Iskra, reviewed here...

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SubRosa – For This We Fought The Battle Of The Ages album review

By Dean Brown Published

Soulful doom crew SubRosa make a bid for freedom with new album. Read our review here

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Zirakzigil – Worldbuilder album review

By Dean Brown Published

Portland progressive sludge crew Zirakzigil wield too many tools on new album

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Monolithe – Zeta Reticuli album review

By Dean Brown Published

Super-heavy doom crew Monolithe manage to take flight on new album. Read our review here...

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Howls Of Ebb – Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows album review

By Dean Brown Published

Weird, wonderful transgressions from Howls Of Ebb's new album

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Caïna – Christ Clad In White Phosphorus album review

By Dean Brown Published

North England’s ever-morphing BM outfit Caïna turns up the terror on new album

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Withered – Grief Relic album review

By Dean Brown Published

Ever-shifting extreme metal mongrels Withered keep the intensity intact with latest LP

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Ghold – PYR album review

By Dean Brown Published

London’s expansive doom crew Ghold tinker with their DNA on new album

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Mirrors For Psychic Warfare: Mirrors For Psychic Warfare

By Dean Brown Published

Neurosis and Corrections House members dial up the unease

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Schammasch
Schammasch: Triangle

By Dean Brown Published

Swiss mystics reach a new post-metal apex

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Irkallian Oracle
Irkallian Oracle: Apollyon

By Dean Brown Published

Surreptitious Swedes summon up opposing, arcane forces

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How Cobalt kept the extreme alive in their seven years away

By Dean Brown Published

Cobalt’s deviant, devastating take on black metal resulted in a landmark album, Gin, and a journey to the brink of self-destruction. Seven years later, they’re back and battle-scarred

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Cobalt: Slow Forever

By Dean Brown Published

Colorado iconoclasts enflame the synapses again

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Graves At Sea: The Curse That Is

By Dean Brown Published

Long-awaited sludge debut gives way to a sinking feeling

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Wolvserpent: APORIA:KĀLA:ANANTA

By Dean Brown Published

Earthy explorations from Idaho’s atmospheric two-piece

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Church Of Misery: And Then There Were None

By Dean Brown Published

Serial killer-obsessed Sabbath-worshippers bring in fresh blood

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Orthodox: Axis

By Dean Brown Published

Sevilla-based psychonauts put a new spin on doom

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Nachtlieder: The Female Of The Species

By Dean Brown Published

One-woman black metal project with plenty of bite

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Black Tusk: Pillars Of Ash

By Dean Brown Published

Celebrating a fallen brother’s last holler

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Un: The Tomb Of All Things

By Dean Brown Published

Funeral doom forged from a brush with death

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Vastum: Hole Below

By Dean Brown Published

Death metallers take a primitive route to the pineal gland

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Portrait, live in Dublin

By Dean Brown Published

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Support: Rabid Bitch Of The North, Stereo Nasty, Sentinel

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Redemption Festival 2014

By Dean Brown Published

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Primordial head two days of exultant extremity

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Krokodil: For Those About To Krok

By Dean Brown Published

Despite being a young name in the metal world, Krokodil have landed a Mastodon tour and may even have a Slipknot member within their ranks. Hammer investigates...

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