Mantar - The Spell album review

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Three new slabs of hateful blackened doom from Hamburg’s four-legged faith-fisters, climaxing with a guest appearance from Bölzer frontman Okoi Jones on the glacial ooze of the title track itself. Seriously heavy.

Dom Lawson
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Dom Lawson began his inauspicious career as a music journalist in 1999. He wrote for Kerrang! for seven years, before moving to Metal Hammer and Prog Magazine in 2007. His primary interests are heavy metal, progressive rock, coffee, snooker and despair. He is politically homeless and has an excellent beard.