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Review: Starer - Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness

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Review: Starer – Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 10th October 2025 The fourth full length from Kentucky black metallers Starer, ‘Ancient Monuments and Modern Sadness’ is the follow up to 2023&#8217…

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November 24, 2025 at 2:29 AM

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2025 Anniversary Series 117: Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method

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2025 Anniversary Series 117: Earth – Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 6th September 2005 If you were familiar with seminal drone act Earth before the early 2000s, you’ll know that their whole thing was earth shaking, teeth …

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November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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I thoroughly enjoy finding a band that you used to love, and haven't listened to in ages so you delve back in and it is just as good as you remember

Anyway, I'm listening to Daylight Dies tonight

November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM

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People who get upset about the word 'Christmas' not appearing on things that are Christmas related are the dumbest humans on earth

You need the word 'Christmas' written on outside of your Christmas tree box because otherwise what? You won't have any idea what it's for? Literal subhuman intelligence

November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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Review: Pedestal for Leviathan - Enter: Vampyric Manifestation

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Review: Pedestal for Leviathan – Enter: Vampyric Manifestation

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st October 2025 Probably one of 2025’s more hyped up releases is the debut full length from Denver’s Pedestal for Leviathan, whose ‘Festerin…

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November 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM

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2025 Anniversary Series 116: Between the Buried and Me - Alaska

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2025 Anniversary Series 116: Between the Buried and Me – Alaska

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 6th September 2005 The third record from progressive metalcore titans Between the Buried and Me was one of those records that, in 2005, really helped re-establ…

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November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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If you didn't know any better, you'd listen to the start of 'Selkies: An Endless Obsession' by Between the Buried and Me and swear it was some Chuck Schuldiner shit

November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM

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⚡ New Review ⚡

Sandy delves into Cathedral’s Society’s Pact With Satan – titanic riffs thunder across psychedelic landscapes of classic doom. Read the full review over at The Sleeping Shaman👇

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Review: Cathedral 'Society's Pact With Satan' - The Sleeping Shaman

Sandy delves into Cathedral’s Society’s Pact With Satan – titanic riffs thunder across psychedelic landscapes of classic doom

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November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM

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Review: Cathedral - Society's Pact With Satan

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Review: Cathedral – Society’s Pact With Satan

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 10th October 2025 Originally published here: When I first heard about a new release from departed British doom legends Cathedral was coming out, I was initially…

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November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM

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Review: Mura - Needle Cathedral

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Review: Můra – Needle Cathedral

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 20th January 2025 The debut from Czechia’s Můra, ‘Doom Invocations and Narcotic Rituals’, came out in 2021 and really put everyone on notice t…

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November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM

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2025 Anniversary Series 115: Scum - Gospels for the Sick

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2025 Anniversary Series 115: Scum – Gospels for the Sick

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 5th September 2005 Supergroups can be somewhat of an adventurous journey depending on their members, style and quality of releases. Some are more than the sum …

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November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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Review: Soulfracture - The Leader of the Exploited

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Review: Soulfracture – The Leader of the Exploited

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 7th November 2025 UK thrashy death metallers Soulfracture have been out of the scene since 2009, but they are back with their new EP ‘The Leader of the Ex…

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November 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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This record was so ahead of its time

November 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM

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2025 Anniversary Series 114: Hypocrisy - Virus

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2025 Anniversary Series 114: Hypocrisy – Virus

Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 5th September 2025 We’ve talked about Hypcorisy before on this series (back two years ago when I gushed about their amazing sophomore effort ‘Oscul…

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November 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Review: Finnr's Cane - Finnr's Cane

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Review: Finnr’s Cane – Finnr’s Cane

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 29th August 2025 Canadian black metal duo Finnr’s Cane have been quietly building a respectable discography of icy, atmospheric black metal records over t…

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November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM

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"everything I touch turns to gold, and then to coal" might be one of David Gold's most perfect lyrics

November 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM

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Review: Nasciturus - Fabulae

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Review: Nasciturus – Fabulae

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 30th April 2025 Now this isn’t something you come across every day; a post metal/sludge band who started in 2011 coming back to life in 2020 to play black…

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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM

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Hit a bit of a wall with the book writing at the moment, piles of notes and lacking structure to fit them all in. Soothing my addled brain with Hypocrisy and Children of Bodom

November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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If you haven't heard this new unearthed Cathedral recording yet, make it a mission because it will make you all misty-eyed for a long long icon of British doom

November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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Just watching an interview with Mikael Akerfeldt and he says he thinks the most overrated Opeth song is 'Blackwater Park'... 'BLACKWATER PARK'?!?! Now, that is a tough self critic...

November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM