Annable Courts 28 articles

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.

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Review: Nailbomb “Point Blank” [Roadrunner Records]

Max Cavalera and Alex Newport trade vocals and influences on an album that sounds somewhere between new Sepultura/early Soulfly and mid-period Godflesh. It’s basically a...

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Review: Morbid Angel “Formulas Fatal To The Flesh” [Earache Records]

Give everyone their due: this here is definitely intense. At least at first, before the initial effect and hopeful expectations wear off and the facade...

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Review: Sacramentum “Far Away from the Sun” [Adipocere Records]

On their first full length Sacramentum make an offering to the metal world in the form of melodic extreme metal somewhere between the sorrowful drama...

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Review: Immortal “At the Heart of Winter” [Osmose Productions]

At the turn of the millennium, Immortal releases this quintessential black metal classic, often considered the band’s most eminent record along with the later ‘Sons...

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Review: Atheist “Piece of Time” [Active Records]

Way back during the earliest days of death metal, bands were looking for ways to produce the most extreme brand of music that would foreshadow...

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Review: Crimson Glory “Crimson Glory” [Par Records]

Way back in 1986 during the early stages of metal, Florida was not known yet as the world capital of death metal but there was...

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Review: Decapitated “The Negation” [Earache Records]

Volume 3 of prime Decapitated continues to further polish the diamond that is this brand of high-octane fury from the Polish death metal savants. The...

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Review: Cattle Decapitation “Monolith of Inhumanity” [Metal Blade Records]

Wonderfoul music (yes, “wonder-foul”) Great albums often have an ability to use fairly ordinary sounding patterns which instead of coming across as stereotypical feel utterly...