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EP Review: PHOBOPHILIC - Undimensioned Identities
North Dakota death-obsessed whippersnappers pay homage to old-school art form.
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Album Review: LOWRIDER Refractions
Anyone with an ear to the European heavy underground knows the name Lowrider. The hype language for the Swedish quartet’s…
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Album Review: KILTER Axiom
It’s surprising that jazz and metal haven’t come together more often. Both genres are rejected by the mainstream, value outside-the-box…
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Album Review: REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER Ascension
Regarde Les Hommes Tomber once again prove that they are at the forefront of French black metal!
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Album Review: ESCUELA GRIND Indoctrination
Escuela Grind takes listeners to a particular institution of learning on their debut full-length
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Album Review: HEXVESSEL Kindred
Kindred isn’t quite as inviting as All Tree, but it's precisely because of its enhanced challenge and atypical direction that it’s so gratifying and enduring.
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Album Review: DIRT WOMAN The Glass Cliff
What do you expect from a band called Dirt Woman? Probably not this. Five songs, three of them thirteen-plus minutes,…
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Album Review: HUBRIS Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis accomplishes all it sets out to in terms of transmitting the complex arcs and affections of its subject matter.
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Album Review: HUMAN IMPACT Human Impact
It only took Chris Spencer and Jim Coleman three decades to twist noise rock into a new form
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Album Review: SIGHTLESS PIT Grave Of A Dog
Lee Buford of The Body, Kristin Hayter of Lingua Ignota, and Dylan Walker of Full of Hell are no strangers…
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Album Review: INTRONAUT Fluid Existential Inversions
Even within progressive metal, bands sometimes stagnate. It seems like a paradox; the very definition of “progressive” implies forward-thinking and…
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Album Review: OZZY OSBOURNE Ordinary Man
With over 50 years of hard rock debauchery under his belt, Ozzy Osbourne really doesn’t have anything to prove to…
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Album Review: THE AMITY AFFLICTION Everyone Loves You...Once You Leave Them
The Amity Affliction might be the luckiest band in metal history. When they debuted in 2008 with Severed Ties, their…
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Album Review: RASPBERRY BULBS Before the Age of Mirrors
Is it black metal or is it "gutter sniping, lo-fi punk of a desperately unbalanced and astringent order"?
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Album Review: DEMONS & WIZARDS III
After almost 15 years, Blind Guardian's Hansi Kursch and Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer have collaborated on another Demons & Wizards album, III.
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Tech-Death Tuesday: Early Review Of BENEATH THE MASSACRE’s Explosive Comeback Album, Fearmonger
After really looking at things, I know it is just an unfortunate coincidence I have never had a chance to…
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Album Review: FAUSTIAN PACT Outojen Tornien Varjoissa
In the long lineage of art inspired by one of the most important characters in literary history, Faustian Pact are something completely new entirely. While Faust rejected servitude and morality, Faustian Pact make art akin to the works of Thoreau and reject the modern world. They instead choose to celebrate the sword and seasons
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Quick Review: SKUMSTRIKE Execution Void
Filth. It's the perfect summation of this hellacious EP from Montreal's Skumstrike. Prepare for the crustiest of Necro 'N' Chill…
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Album Review: DIABULUS IN MUSICA Euphonic Entropy
Euphonic Entropy builds upon everything that makes Diabulus in Musica an extraordinary act.
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Album Review: KVELERTAK Splid
Ten years ago, a little-known Norwegian band released their debut album to an unsuspecting metal underground. Adorned by the beautiful…
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Album Review: GODSTICKS Inescapable
Given its steady composure, openness, and graceful diversity, Inescapable is almost inarguably Godsticks’ best effort thus far.
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Album Review: SEPULTURA Quadra
Sepultura have always had a secret weapon and his name is Andreas Kisser. The guitarist has never been the frontman…