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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...

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Review: Callenish Circle “My Passion // Your Pain” [Metal Blade 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...

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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: Black Sun Brotherhood “God & Beast” [Metal Blast Records]

How about some occult and evil blackened thrash? With some heavy riffs, weird vocals and satanic rituals? There is a definite heaviness and evil atmosphere...

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Review: BleakHeart “Dream Griever” [Sailor Records]

The new project of musician JP Damron BleakHeart, which subsequently became a full-time band (with the members from such bands as Dreadnough or Across Tundras),...

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Review: Consumption “Recursive Definitions of Suppuration” [Iron, Blood and Death Corporation]

The brand new Swedish duet Consumption this September has released their debut album “Recursive Definitions of Suppuration” through the Mexican extreme label Iron, Blood and...

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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: Mors Principium Est “Seven” [AFM Records]

What would you do if there were six men in the band initially but now it’s just only two? Gathering a new line-up? Put the...

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Review: Athon “Athon” [Argonauta Records]

Italy’s Athon impress with a stunning debut of their take on the stoner doom genre. Right out of the gate, you can tell this band...

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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: Draconian “Under A Godless Veil” [Napalm Records]

Get ready for some magic and despair, never-ending melancholy, haunting music, sweet singing and desperate screams, because this is what this album sounds like. Draconian...