Muhammed Suiçmez locks his lonesome self up in a studio, with his guitar, mic and a computer and records one of the most unique and influential metal works ...
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Comments Off on Review: Necrophagist “Onset of Putrefaction” [Noise Solution Records]
Archives by: Annable Courts
Annable Courts
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I like my metal the way I like my chocolate: dark and bitter. But I also like vanilla pudding, so my awesome mystique is forever tainted and unpure.
Annable Courts Posts
This is the defining moment Decapitated have been developing for all these years, each one of the previous albums laying the groundwork for a most daunting and towering ...
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Comments Off on Review: Decapitated “Organic Hallucinosis” [Earache Records]
Brutal death metal legends Suffocation take their act to a somewhat avant-garde area of their sound as they voluntarily switch up from stark atonality to a rounder melodic ...
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Comments Off on Review: Suffocation “Souls to Deny” [Relapse Records]
Nile hit the scene some time during the mid 90’s, releasing their debut full length here in 1998, making them part of the second wave of American death ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nile “Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka” [Relapse Records]
It would be terribly tempting to dismiss this album as being the meandering prog-ish jams from a few metalheads in Sweden that remotely switch from clean to distorted, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Opeth “Blackwater Park” [Music for Nations]
Before I attempt to describe this music with as much detail as possible, I would encourage any curious listener out there to think of acquiring a teddy bear ...
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Comments Off on Review: Portal “Outre'” [Profound Lore Records]
Nevermore may not be for everyone but what they do offer here is a brand of crossover metal with a wealth of influences pulling the tracks in multiple ...
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Comments Off on Review: Nevermore “Dead Heart in a Dead World” [Century Media Records]
The guitarist from 80’s prog metal band ‘Watchtower’ gets together with Cannibal Corpse’s Alex Webster on bass and the drummer for tech prog act ‘Behold the Arctopus’ to ...
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Comments Off on Review: Blotted Science “The Machinations of Dementia” [Eclectic Electric]
Hate Eternal don’t exactly play music that could be described as welcoming. This sounds like what be going on at the center of the Earth, at its molten ...
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Comments Off on Review: Hate Eternal “I, Monarch” [Earache Records]
Few albums are actually as essential to a genre as they implicitly claim. Most seminal records help push the boundaries of their time and reveal uncharted territory for ...
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Comments Off on Review: Candlemass “Epicus Doomicus Metallicus” [Black Dragon Records]
I’m a little sorry for that review title, it’s a bit of a bitch move admittedly, but hear me out on this. Originally groove/nu-metal band Chimaira’s metamorphosis is ...
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Comments Off on Review: Chimaira “The Impossibility of Reason” [Roadrunner Records]
Dark Angel are one of the lesser known yet recognized influential bands among death metallers like Cannibal Corpse (Alex Webster mentioning them as a direct influence) and it’s apparent ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dark Angel “Darkness Descends” [Combat Records]
So there’s this band called Emperor. And on this album, they play a brand of music that could well be described as “imperial sounding” black metal and as ...
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Comments Off on Review: Emperor “Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk” [Candlelight Records]
Amon Amarth are difficult to label with just one term. There’s a definite element of death metal in the music, yet simply calling them “death metal” would be ...
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Comments Off on Review: Amon Amarth “Once Sent from the Golden Hall” [Metal Blade Records]
Massacre prove brutal death metal was an achievable sound way back in 1991, albeit brutal death in its archaic form with no blast beats and drums still very ...
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Comments Off on Review: Massacre “From Beyond” [Earache Records]
The cool thing about the 90’s was bands didn’t have to all sound the same, as the metal influences brewed over the past 80’s decade offered a wide ...
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Comments Off on Review: Corrosion of Conformity “Blind” [Relativity Records]
Gorguts return after the natural disaster that was ‘Obscura’. As if that album hadn’t already created enough cosmic damage to our solar system, they’re back with an album ...
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Comments Off on Review: Gorguts “From Wisdom to Hate” [Olympic Recordings]
This delves right into the meat of it: scornful deathgrind with fat power chord grooves, high-energy tremolo picking over blasts, riddled with technical riffing often of the experimental variety. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Dying Fetus “Destroy the Opposition” [Relapse Records]
Hatesphere are one of these Nordic bands that contributed to what could be considered the second wave of Euro melodic death metal after the first wave from the ...
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Comments Off on Review: HateSphere “Ballet of the Brute” [Scarlet Records]
All aboard the bandwagon. The year is 2003, and everybody wants a piece of the trending melodeath sensation. In places like North America bands were mixing only elements ...
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Comments Off on Review: Callenish Circle “My Passion // Your Pain” [Metal Blade Records]
