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Album Review: ENTRAILS Rise of the Reaper
There’s still excitement to be had by flogging a dead horse. As long as you use a heavier flogger.
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Album Review: SONATA ARCTICA Talviyö
Sonata Arctica is able to pour a limitless amount of melody into their melodic metal. But is that always a good thing?
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Album Review: HAMMERFALL Dominion
What balls Hammerfall have left are being firmly held to the wall on Dominion.
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Album Review: ENTOMBED - Clandestine Live
You all know – or should know – Clandestine. Here it is played live in celebration of its 25th birthday.
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Album Review: VICTIMS The Horse and Sparrow Theory
Victims' seventh album offers up excellent D-beat crust-core with a difference to accompany our inevitable demise.
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Album Review: SOLITUDE Reach For the Sky
Reach for the Sky is only the band’s second full-length of their 20+ year history, but we're pleased to announce it's quite good.
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MARTYRDOD's Top 10 Guitar Melodies
Metal Injection’s head babysitter, Rob Pasbani and I both agree that Sweden’s Martyrdöd is a little-known band. His metric has…
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Album Review: LORD DYING Mysterium Tremendum
Sweet goddamn Lord Dying has made an astronomical leap forward in the four years since Poisoned Altars!
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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.