ROADBURN 2016: Tickets On Sale 2nd Oct, Official Artist BECKY CLOONAN...
Tickets Mark the date in your diaries – Walter & co can now confirm that Roadburn Festival 2016 tickets will go on sale on October 2, 2015. Three-day (Thursday – Saturday) and four-day...
View ArticleDamnation Festival 2015 – Review By Dan Hunt
I hadn’t been planning on going to Damnation Festival this year but a triple whammy of spare ticket, spare car-seat and spare hotel room is a powerful cocktail, and a hard one to refuse. So It is with...
View ArticleRoadburn Festival 2016 – Day 3 Review By Guido Segers
On the third day of Roadburn, the weary feeling of the day before still lingers on many sleepy faces when the festival opens up. It’s a 24/7 thing to be at Roadburn and why would you sleep if you can...
View ArticleRoadburn Festival 2016 – Afterburner Review By Guido Segers
It’s been a blast, this Roadburn, but it always hurts to see people go home and the Het Patronaat packing up. You want to somehow tell the workers that there’s a bit more of the festival left and maybe...
View ArticleAmenra ‘Alive’ CD/LP 2016
A spiritual successor to their 2009 Afterlife EP, Alive sees Belgium’s mysterious purveyors of post-doom/sludge Amenra once more bare their collective soul by paring things back to the bare bones....
View ArticleRoadburn Festival 2017 – Day 2 Review By Guido Segers
After a good night’s rest and a hearty breakfast it’s time to head down to Tilburg again for the next instalment of Roadburn 2017. As most people know, there’s an excellent side-program at the...
View ArticleAMENRA Release New Video For The Track ‘Razoreater’; New Split 10″ Incoming...
Belgium post-metal/sludge outfit AMENRA has just released a new music video for the acoustic version of their track Razoreater, which was directed by Nathalie Teirlinck of independent production...
View ArticleAmenra / Madensuyu – Split 10″ 2014
Combining three of the best things to have ever come out of Belgium – post-metal aficionados Amenra, indie-pop/rock duo Madensuyu and artist Berlinde de Bruyckere, who provided the stunning artwork for...
View ArticleROADBURN 2016: Tickets On Sale 2nd Oct, Official Artist BECKY CLOONAN...
Tickets Mark the date in your diaries – Walter & co can now confirm that Roadburn Festival 2016 tickets will go on sale on October 2, 2015. Three-day (Thursday – Saturday) and four-day...
View ArticleDamnation Festival 2015 – Review By Daniel Pietersen
I hadn’t been planning on going to Damnation Festival this year but a triple whammy of spare ticket, spare car-seat and spare hotel room is a powerful cocktail, and a hard one to refuse. So It is with...
View ArticleRoadburn Festival 2016 – Day 3 Review By Guido Segers
On the third day of Roadburn, the weary feeling of the day before still lingers on many sleepy faces when the festival opens up. It’s a 24/7 thing to be at Roadburn and why would you sleep if you can...
View ArticleRoadburn Festival 2016 – Afterburner Review By Guido Segers
It’s been a blast, this Roadburn, but it always hurts to see people go home and the Het Patronaat packing up. You want to somehow tell the workers that there’s a bit more of the festival left and...
View ArticleAmenra ‘Alive’ CD/LP 2016
A spiritual successor to their 2009 Afterlife EP, Alive sees Belgium’s mysterious purveyors of post-doom/sludge Amenra once more bare their collective soul by paring things back to the bare bones....
View ArticleRoadburn Festival 2017 – Day 2 Review By Guido Segers
After a good night’s rest and a hearty breakfast it’s time to head down to Tilburg again for the next instalment of Roadburn 2017. As most people know, there’s an excellent side-program at the...
View ArticleReview: Amenra ‘De Doorn’
Few bands in our genre garner the level of excitement that an Amenra release creates. The combination of their emotive hardcore background, blackened and tortured aesthetic and exceptionally intense...
View ArticleReview: Various Artists ‘Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol. III’
Time and circumstance have meant that it has been a long time since the last entry in the My Proud Mountain/Neurot Recordings Songs Of Townes Van Zandt series, having first delivered with Scott Kelly,...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Marissa Nadler ‘Sad Cinderella’– Taken From ‘Songs Of Townes...
At Shaman HQ we have a long-standing history with the singer songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Since its inception back in 2012, it’s been quite an emotional voyage to see the impact this outstanding...
View ArticleArcTanGent Festival 2024 – Thursday
The Mendip Hills, where Fernhill Farm is located, are ancient geological limestone formations. Created by sedimentation during the carboniferous period, they have been shaped since by rain, wind and...
View ArticleDesertfest New York 2024 – Friday
The time to fly into New York City for Desertfest from Asheville had finally arrived. After a relatively short flight, the empty landscape beneath me gave way to larger and larger cities until I flew...
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