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Album Review: OOZING WOUND High Anxiety
The world is going to hell in a gasoline-soaked wicker handbasket. But the dudes in Oozing Wound have got your back with a fucking killer record.
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Album Review: ROTTING CHRIST The Heretics (with Full Album Stream)
Rotting Christ keeps railing against religion on their thirteenth album.
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YERÛŠELEM The Sublime
Listen as members of Blut Aus Nord indulge their industrial metal and dystopian soundscape fantasies.
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Album Review: MASTIFF Plague
Two albums in and Mastiff is still “a miserable band from a miserable town."
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Album Review: BEATEN TO DEATH Agronomicon
Even when Beaten to Death appears to veer away from what makes them a standalone proposition, they still present as a novel outfit. Their blueprint is as exclusive and Agronomicon is the band at its most grindcore.
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Album Review: GRAF ORLOCK Examination of Violent Cinema, Vol. 1
Examination of Violent Cinema, Vol. 1 is set to be another incendiary feather in the cap of the world’s premiere cine-grind band.
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Album Review: VALDRIN Two Carrion Talismans
With time comes experience and growth, and Valdrin has certainly taken advantage of time passed, lessons learned and exhibited growth on Two Carrion Talismans.
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Album Review: BOSSE-DE-NAGE Further Still
While the Deafheaven comparison can be justified, Further Still emerges more like a crusty punk rocker hell bent on grinding it out like latter day Brutal Truth sporting ball hugging jeans made mostly out of patches of the super stars of Scandinavian d-beat.
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Album Review: HORSEWHIP Horsewhip
The new creative outlet for four dudes who paid their dues long ago and remain members of extreme music’s corner of the universe for no other reason than their love of the game.
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Album Review: SINSAENUM Repulsion for Humanity
Current and past members of Dragonforce, Slipknot, Seth, Loudblast, Chimaira, Dååth, Mayhem and Aborym walk into a bar…
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Album Review: HALCYON WAY Bloody But Unbowed
Halcyon Way will hardly ever been heralded as iconoclastic saviours of prog/power majesty, but there has been enough individuation established here to warrant a forward push onto a wider world. This is a band trying to make a difference.
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Triple EP Review: THOU The House Primordial, Inconsolable, & Rhea Sylvia
Thou's three newest EPs flesh the various aspects that encompass their impending full-length album.
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Album Review: MADBALL For the Cause
It’s comforting to know that the old guard can throw down as hard as, if not harder than, today’s young bucks.
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Album Review: WITCH MOUNTAIN Witch Mountain
When former Witch Mountain vocalist, Uta Plotkin announced her departure from the band back in 2014, the belief was that the Portland veterans were in for a long hiatus. They apparently forgot about the horseshoes wedged in their collective arse cracks.
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We Talk To The Anonymous Person That's Calling Out Artists Plagiarizing Others In Heavy Metal Artwork
Sad But True – Plagiarism in Heavy Metal Art has quickly become one of my regular stops while browsing around…
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Album Review: WOLVHAMMER - The Monuments of Ash & Bone
The elements which brought Wolvhammer to where they are today remain. A broader scope and sense of adventure has opened up new possibilities.
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Album Review: GHASTLY Death Velour
This Tampere, Finland-based trio work the fine line between old-school death metal and mordant doom like the Wallenda family.
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Album Review: REPLICANT Negative Life
This New Jersey band's debut is much more than a complex piece of rigidly structured virtuosity.
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Album Review: GRAVEHILL The Unchaste, The Profane & The Wicked
Recently, a New York Times’ tech reporter wrote a piece about spending a couple of months deliberately ignoring the digital news,…
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Album Review: EARTHLESS Black Heaven
Previous to Black Heaven, Earthless had its niche and was painted into a comfortable corner. This new album sees a heroic breaking of convention’s chains.
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Album Review: DRUDKH Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the Spring)
There’s something grander and expansive happening here. But how much opportunity and potential has been quashed by the band's isolationist stance?
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Album Review: THE ATLAS MOTH Coma Noir
Coma Noir: a stunning example of musical growth, marked progression and fine wine maturity.
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Album Review: AGRIMONIA Awaken
Agrimonia has been pushing their brand of outside art form further away from the center of the circle pit for a decade and, on their new album, nothing is truly off the table.