I like progressive metal. I really do – but the problem with the style is that once one has become familiar with the well known works, it becomes ...
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Widely inspired by Helloween‘s Keeper‘s saga, “Dreamspace” represents a step back from what would become the band’s definitive sound. Still, it is even more decent than the albums ...
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The label Season of Mist this year has decided to re-release the album “The Language of Limbs” of South-African band Constellatia (the independent German label Isolation released it ...
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The band Fairyland has existed for more than twenty years (considering the years under the names Fantasy and Fantasia), but this year the band have released only its ...
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Long before Sentenced embraced their inner gothic, they were yet another death metal band that showed no hint of what they’d end up like in the years ahead. ...
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When you listen to the word brutal death metal, you picture bands like Devourment that move into the scene that depicts dimensions full of guts and gore, putrefaction, ...
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Comments Off on Review: Afterbirth “Four Dimensional Flesh” [Unique Leader Records]
It’s been a while since death metal has risen from the grave again and we’ve been bombed with bands aping Entombed, Dismember, Death and so on; something I’m ...
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Comments Off on Review: Mefitis “Emberdawn” [Chaos Records | Night Rhythms Recordings]
According to Wikipedia, “a rogue planet is a planetary-mass object that orbits a galactic center directly. Such objects have been ejected from the planetary system in which they ...
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Getting old for me it’s not when I can’t do something physically but when I want to complain that everything was better, simpler and clearer in those good ...
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This is some nu metal with a real bite. From beginning to end, this is unrelentingly heavy, with brutal riffs and drumming, loud screams and a tough attitude ...
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Comments Off on Review: MALICIOUS INC. “Red Flag” [Sliptrick records]
Grave Dust came across my radar when seeing a post by the frontman of their fellow death metallers Coffin Rot. Hailing from Portland as well, they create an ...
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The fifth album from Swiss speedsters, Poltergeist, offers up more of the savage riffing that the band has become known for over the years. An anthemic work amongst ...
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The young Polish death metal band Kult Mogił released their second album “Torn Away the Remains of Dasein” on the local label Pagan Records, and this time it ...
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This year two Polish Extreme Metal legends released their new albums. However, everything changes and Polish Death Metal scene too (though some people blame it for stagnation). Some ...
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The Finnish folk band Verikalpa released their second album “Tuoppitanssi” on Scarlet Records this February (the first album was released on Inverse Records). Despite that Verikalpa exists for ...
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There aren’t many bands who would open an album with “Take Your Face For A Shit”. Fortunately Foetal Juice are one of them. To say these UK sewer ...
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“Beyond The Black emerges from their cocoon and reaches the next level with the upcoming album Hørizøns”, they said. “…unequalled, differentiated spectra of symphonic and melodic rock spiced with sonorous ...
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Five years passed since VII: Sturm und Drang and now Lamb Of God are back with new self-titled album. This uncomplicated on the first glance name concisely represent ...
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Shodan have stepped up the plate with their latest album and promptly smashed it over your head. The pulverising Poles are in destructive mood on their sophomore release. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Shodan “Death, Rule Over Us” [Deformeathing Productions]
“Don’t judge a book by its cover”, that is a saying to apply reviewing Blackmoon’s day view album self-titled. I have to confess that when I received this ...
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