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• Down-tuned strings, irregular drumbeats and body horror lyrics that would make your mother vomit if she caught you singing them in the shower. Yes, it's doom metal – the slowest, grumpiest, most determinedly alternative style of rock in the world. ‘Fire In The Womb’ (disappointingly, not a cover of the Justin Bieber song of the same name) is a single 28-minute jam, which evolves organically through Slint-style diminished chords, unholy baptisms of feedback and an exhilarating noise-drone section with the sonic depth of a Jamaican soundsystem at a frogman’s funeral. Clearly this won’t be for everyone, but it is beautifully recorded, fantastically well played, and – for something so bloody miserable – surprisingly fun to listen to at extreme volume. (Adam Burrows)
www.myspace.com/caricaturesband Copyright Adam Burrows 2011
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THE BIG GIG
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Gary Numan
Mike White muses on the missing link between Kraftwerk and NIN. The same year as ‘Alien’, three years before ‘Blade Runner’, awkward, acne-ridden 21-year-old Gary Webb wrote a song called ‘Are ‘Friends’ Electric?’. It sounded…23.04.2012 READ MORE


‘Fire In The Womb’ (Single, Anticreation Productions)



















































































































































































































