The Smashing Skull Sessions

Ad Nihilum – Withering Beauty ( Single)

Article  |  November 21st, 2023
By Pat O'
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Domhain – Nimue

Article  |  October 10th, 2023
By Pat O'
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The Crawling - All Of This For Nothing

Article  |  September 17th, 2023
By Pat O'
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A beautifully bleak and brutal journey through the realms of grief and despair.

OV – 22:23:12:22

Article  |  July 5th, 2023
By Pat O'
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Every track is drenched in melody and magic which erupts and spits out these glorious sonic outbursts, like a volcano that has erupted for the first time in aeons. The sheer power on display here, along with all that impelling force behind it, makes for an EP that must heard to be believed!

Soft Kill - Metta World Peace

Article  |  June 29th, 2023
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Jason Isbell and the 400unit - Weathervanes

Article  |  June 15th, 2023
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There are levels to the game and only the greats perform at their best in all of them. Where the likes of Stephen King and Clive Barker are able to paint a scary realistic horror-scene within a couple of sentences, Isbell needs only a few combinations of words to make you feel you know everything of a person: past, present and future. Perhaps it’s only possible to have a picture painted immediately when somethings are waiting inside of you to resonate? “ I decorate time with words” is how the man describes his way of working.

Predatory Void - Seven Keys to the Discomfort of Being

Article  |  June 1st, 2023
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Ingrina – Ice Flares (Single)

Article  |  May 8th, 2023
By Pat O'
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A Pregnant Light - Capacity For Living

Article  |  May 3rd, 2023
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Arhios – Miscible

Article  |  April 28th, 2023
By Pat O'
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