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Review: Decembre Noir “The Renaissance Of Hope” [Lifeforce Records]

With an epic feel and spacious atmosphere, Decembre Noir craft a unique sound with their newest release, The Renaissance of Hope. Emotional depth and heavy...

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Review: Awaken “Out Of The Shadows” [Pure Steel Records]

This year the music records Pure Steel has re-issued the double album “Out Of The Shadows” from American progressive metal band Awaken, which they released...

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Review: Soulburn “Noa’s D’ark” [Century Media Records]

After four years of silence the long-awaited album “Noa’s D’ark” from Dutch legends Soulburn is released via Century Media, offering almost an hour of juicy...

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Review: Nahemia “AR-CAOSAJI” [Misanthropic Assault Productions]

The Polish black metal band Nahemia, currently based in England, this year has released their first ever full-length album “Ar-Caosaji” through the independent music label...

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Review: Accuser “Accuser” [Metal Blade Records]

Germans Accuser are very active last decade. I would say that it is the most active period of the band’s 30 years history with the...

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Review: Harlott “Detritus Of The Final Age” [Metal Blade Records]

Seems like November is going to be a fruitful month for Thrash Metal scene – a couple of bands, from young to the famous ones...

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Review: Chimaira “The Impossibility of Reason” [Roadrunner 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...

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Review: Dark Angel “Darkness Descends” [Combat 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)...

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Review: Danzig “Sings Elvis” [Cleopatra, Evilive]

Poor Elvis. Had a piece of shit manager that gambled all his money, got into shitty movies, started doing drugs, got ridiculously fat, started wearing...

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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,...