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Supersonic Festival 2011
Custard Factory, Birmingham 21st-23rd October 2011 Friday: I arrived at the charmingly subterranean cure for happiness that is Birmingham New Street station at 6pm and after paying 30 pence for a piss...
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Desertfest 2012 – Camden, London 6th, 7th & 8th April 2012
Desertfest 2012 is bringing the finest bands from around the world and putting them in the greatest city in the World. Camden will be the host to the an amazing line up of Stoner, Doom, Psych, Sludge...
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Pete Green Takes A Look Back At 2011
In the fertile vineyards of heaviness, 2011 has been a good year and good, filthy rock music really is in its element right now. With greater press recognition, sold-out festivals, ever active...
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Tom McKibbin Reflects On The Year That Was 2011
It’s kind of preposterous that of all of the dedicated writers here at the Sleeping Shaman that I should be one of the ones to attempt to round up the year in heavy music on its behalf. For starters, I...
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SONIC TITANS: UK Compilation Download Now Available, Limited CD Available...
SONIC TITANS is a compilation of hard rock from some of the UK finest hard rockin’ bands. SONIC TITANS takes you on a journey through an eclectic mix of hard rock styles including heavy blues, a slice...
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SAINT VITUS: UK Tour Kicks Off In Less Than 3 Weeks; Tickets Still Available
Doom Legends SAINT VITUS will be hitting the UK in less than 3 weeks in support of their new album ‘Lillie F-65’ which is out now on Seasons Of Mist, if you missed Saul’s review of this monstrous...
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Saint Vitus / Acid King / SardoniS / Slabdragger @ Academy 3, Manchester...
Academy 3 sits atop the larger Academy 2 like a little hat on a fat bloke’s head. I’ve seen shed loads of truly great bands there over the years but tonight it was the turn of the punky-godfathers of...
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Slabdragger / Meadows – Split 12” 2012
Tired, unshaven, hungover and with my ears a-bleeding, I surveyed the ground at my feet at Roadburn Festival, Tilburg, April 2012. A host of flyers met my gaze: some soggy, some torn, some fresh and...
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SLOMATICS Set To Release New Album ‘A Hocht’ Via Head Of Crom & Burning World
The new SLOMATICS album, entitled ‘A Hocht’ is set to see the light of day in the months ahead, the recording has been mastered by James Plotkin (of course) and it’s a superb psychedelic super-heavy...
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SLABDRAGGER / MEADOWS Split 12” Now On Sale Via Head Of Crom Records
After a few delays along the way, it’s finally on sale! From the label that bought you the mighty CONAN; HEAD OF CROM RECORDS (Conan/Slomatics/Black Sun) presents CROM4: a limited edition (only 300...
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Soggy Bog 93 – Order Of The Owl Special + New Tracks From Witchcraft, War...
A better late than never post for the latest Soggy Bog Podcast and this week, number 93, features new tracks from Order Of The Owl, Witchcraft, War Iron, The Wandering Midget, Slomatics, Moloch, Trees,...
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Todd Robinson’s Top 15 Albums Of 2012
So here we are at the end of another year, the time of year in which an onslaught of ‘best of’ lists are flung around the interweb with great abandon, so, not being one to disappoint, presented here in...
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SLABDRAGGER & MEADOWS Split 12″ Now Available To Stream & Download Via Head...
Last year’s phenomenal split 12″ between Croydon’s super-duper-stoner-fuck-ups SLABDRAGGER and rural Suffolk’s sludge-core-dandies MEADOWS is now available as a digital download from the Head Of Crom...
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Gig Alert: SLABDRAGGER / GURT / WIZARD’S BEARD / NOMAD To Destroy Gullivers,...
The next Submerge Promotions gig is once again upon us and this Saturday, 6th July, they’ll play host to Psyche Sludgers SLABDRAGGER with support from GURT, WIZARD’S BEARD and NOMAD. This heavy night...
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PALEHORSE, WAR IRON, SLABDRAGGER & NECRO DEATHMORT Confirmed For Winter...
When Planets Collide have announced the first 4 bands for next years Winter Warmer Weekender 2014 with some of the filthiest music around which takes place at Brixton Windmill on the 8th-9th February...
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Desertfest London 2014: Bands Confirmed For The Quietus Stage Featuring...
Desertfest London 2014 in association with the music portal The Quietus have teamed up for 2014’s festivities to deliver an incredible line up of heavy, dark, brooding and downright filthy music to...
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Submerge Kick Off 2014 With A Fist Full Of Gigs; FOADFEST, All Dayer w/...
Manchester’s Submerge Promotions have got a very busy first half of 2014 coming up with a plethora of gigs planned which includes the 2 day FOAD FEST at Sound Control with Orange Goblin headlining, at...
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When Planets Collide ‘Winter Warmer Weekender’ Draws Near; PALEHORSE & NECRO...
Next weekend, 8th-9th February, sees the return of the When Planets Collide ‘Winter Warmer Weekender’ back for its second year, this time round they have gone for a much heavier affair! Once again...
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IRON WITCH Kick Off UK Tour With SLABDRAGGER Next Week!
Following their appearance together on the Electric Amphetamine stage at Damnation Festival 2013, Scouse sludge lords IRON WITCH are teaming up with crushing Croydon trio SLABDRAGGER for a five date UK...
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DesertFest London 2014 – Day 2 Review By Pete Green
“The worst thing about DesertFest Saturdays is that everyone comes in here and does the worst hangover shits on earth. These toilets fucking stink.” Josh Retallick, Black Heart Manager 26/04/14 Well...
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