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Review: Cynabare Urne “Obsidian Daggers and Cinnabar Skulls” [Helter Skelter / Regain]

With an exciting take on the blackened death metal genre, Finland’s Cynabare Urne hit the mark on their latest release. As raw and aggressive a...

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Review: Carcass “Despicable” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Well, admittedly this is not a difficult review but it is a complicated review, let me explain. Let’s start off by saying the metal scene...

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Review: Evil Incarnate “Depopulation Agenda” [Bestial Burst]

Ready for some evil and angry death metal? Because this is what this album is all about. It’s a really fun piece of simply angry...

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Review: Emperor “Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk” [Candlelight 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...

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Review: Sólstafir “Endless Twilight of Codependent Love” [Season of Mist]

This is a nice trip through emotions and musical styles and moods. Listen as the songs flow and just let all your emotions out. This...

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Review: Amon Amarth “Once Sent from the Golden Hall” [Metal Blade 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...

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Review: Massacre “From Beyond” [Earache 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...

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Review: Fates Warning “Long Day Good Night” [Metal Blade Records]

Fates Warning were quite active last years, especially for Progressive Metal band: in 2013 Darkness In A Different Light was released after a gap of...

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Review: Those Who Bring the Torture “Dark Chapters” [Iron, Blood and Death Corporation]

“Dark Chapters” is the seventh full-length album from the Swedish metalheads Those Who Bring The Torture, and it was released this autumn via Iron, Blood...

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Review: GARGOYL “Gargoyl” [Season of Mist]

This year the young American-Canadian band Gargoyl has released their first self-titled album “Gargoyl” through the iconic label Season of Mist. More than year ago...

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Review: GATECLOSER “From The Wasteland” [Sliptrick records]

Let’s have some adventures in the wasteland. We’ll travel in the company of this very interesting new band and all their stories. From the intro,...

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Review: Corrosion of Conformity “Blind” [Relativity 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...

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Review: Gorguts “From Wisdom to Hate” [Olympic Recordings]

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...

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Review: Autopsy ”Live in Chicago” [Peaceville Records]

Autopsy aren’t a band who require much in the way of introductions. Nonetheless Chris Reifert announces their presence on stage at Reggie’s Rock Club with...

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Review: Brave The Cold “Scarcity” [Mission Two Entertainment]

Brave the Cold produce some high energy metallic chaos on Scarcity. Mixing modern aggression with a classic thrash metal groove, Brave the Cold craft something...

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Review: Motörhead “Ace of Spades” 40th Anniversary Box Set [BMG]

What more can be said about the heavy ass blues punk of Motorhead? It’s a classic sound, fully entwined in the fabric of metal music....

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Review: Dying Fetus “Destroy the Opposition” [Relapse Records]

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...

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Review: HateSphere “Ballet of the Brute” [Scarlet 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...

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Review: Evildead “United $tate$ Of Anarchy” [Steamhammer/SPV]

The history of Evildead is quite similar to the history of Possessed, except the tragic incident, of course: Evildead was also formed in the middle...

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Review: Godsnake “Poison Thorn” [Massacre Records]

I found Godsnake accidentally in some Telegram channel, dedicated heavy music: someone had posted their video from the debut album Poison Thorn with acrimonious words...