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    Olde-Temple

    Olde combine an intensity with pure fury for their third album Temple. Their first release The Gates of Dawn established them as a band akin to Clutch albeit more slowed down and more intense. I, their second album, saw the band wrenching more towards their own sound and succeeding with grittier vocals and instrumentation. Olde is Ryan Aubin on drums, Greg Dawson and Chris Hughes on guitars, Doug McLarty on vocals, and Cory McCallum on bass. Doug wails with the passion of a drunken barbarian searching for his next prey on opening track “Subterfuge”. Greg and Chris’s guitars compliment Corey and Ryan instruments to doomed perfection. A legitimately harmonious section…

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    Brume-Rooster

    Brume are a Psychedelic Doom band from San Fransisco who’ve been embarking upon bringing their bleak message to anyone dark enough to endear listening. Their first album Donkey laid the blueprint design of the monster they were crafting. While Rooster lets the monster smash anything in its path. Rooster starts with “Grit and Pearls”. Like dense storm clouds rolling onto an unexpected city it consumes everything Susie’s vocals and bass are drenched with pain. The glacial pace of Jamie’s guitar constantly collapsing. The festering drums of Jordan are almost attempting to keep everything contained until the halfway point comes and what sounds like a war between riffs and percussion takes…