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Album Review: SATAN Cruel Magic
If you are a fan of heavy metal music, it’s certainly a great time to be alive. We are in…
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Album Review: CLUTCH Book of Bad Decisions
I recall easing into the stoner rock scene and giving Clutch a shot years ago. While their tone and style…
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CD Review: DEICIDE Overtures of Blasphemy
Deicide continues down the strong and brutal path of catchy riffs, crushing grooves and spewing unholy bile on their latest offering.
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Album Review: INFERNAL COIL Within A World Forgotten
Within A World Forgotten is a dizzy, dark spell of violence conjured from the depths.
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Album Review: SKYHARBOR Sunshine Dust
With a four-year gap between records, two lineup changes and an entire rerecording, it was fair for anticipation of Skyharbor's long-awaited third album to be tempered by a reasonable dose of skepticism. Thankfully, Sunshine Dust hits the mark far more often than it misses,
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Album Review: PIG DESTROYER Head Cage
“I am going to sing for you. A little off key, perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak. I will dance over your dirty corpse."
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Album Review: BACKWOODS PAYBACK Future Slum
Backwoods Payback are the kings of grungy stoner rock. Join us in this maddening libation!
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Album Review: THOU Magus
BEHIND THE MASK, ANOTHER MASK. BEHIND THE MASK, ANOTHER MASK. BEHIND THE MASK, ANOTHER MASK.
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Quick Review: NAILS OF IMPOSITION Surpassing Carbon Decay
This is all done while breaking into portions of more structured death metal that joins the brutal tapestries of frozen carcasses.
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Album Review: CRAWL Rituals
Crawl is death metal for people that don’t want frilly bullshit.
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Album Review: JESUS PIECE Only Self
There's a good reason for the buzz around Jesus Piece. This is some seriously crushing hardcore.
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Album Review: SAILS OF SERENITY The Crossing
Whether it be the iconic imagery and storytelling on Pink Floyd's The Wall or the interstellar plot of Mastodon's Crack…
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Album Review: OMNIUM GATHERUM The Burning Cold
Finnish melodeath veterans Omnium Gatherum have been churning out consistently good albums for nearly two decades. How does their latest effort The Burning Cold measure up?
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Album Review: ANCESTORS Suspended in Reflections
Suspended in Reflections is more of a singular experience than a collection of songs, and its ability to bond heavy and light personas seamlessly and imaginatively (with plenty of essential gradations beneath and around those surfaces) is remarkable.
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Album Review: PRIMITIVE MAN & UNEARTHLY TRANCE Split
A split for the ages, this might get loud.
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DVD Review: MUSHROOMHEAD Volume III
Mushroomhead could arguably be one of metal’s most underappreciated bands. Formed in the 1990’s, the Ohio-based nine-piece group has always…
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Album Review: BLACK TUSK T.C.B.T.
Savannah sludgesters Black Tusk deliver the goods on T.C.B.T. with memorable riffs and an appealing combination of sludge and punk.
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Album Review: TIME, THE VALUATOR How Fleeting, How Fragile
Somewhere amidst the rise of metalcore and post-hardcore, the notion of meshing pop music elements with metal emerged. Heavy instrumentals…
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Album Review: PARIUS The Eldritch Realm
While some of my favorite albums excel because of their superb creativity and unmatched innovation, the most pleasing and significant…
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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: RADIANT KNIFE Science Fiction
Each piece on Science Fiction is adequately appealing (to varying degrees), yet the overarching experience feels too repetitious, familiar, and uninspired by the end.
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Album Review: ZEVIOUS Lowlands
Lowlands is a mostly enjoyable instrumental venture that consistently skates the line between spirited and gloomy ruin.
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Quick Review: INEFFABLE DEMISE Beyond the Marrow Gates
This brutal death album leaves little room for any groove or slam, and is all business in the rolling ball of membrane waiting to burst its abscessed contents in well-timed and meaningful slams