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Review: Distillator “Summoning the Malicious” [Empire Records]

Raging out from the Netherlands comes the thrash act Distillator, a speed-focused project that took formation back in 2013. They’ve dropped two full-lengths and a...

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Classic review: Running Wild “Victim of States Power” [Noise Records]

Whether they are singing about the occult or pirates, these German metallers have been kicking asses with their music since the outset. Even when the...

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Review: Banisher “Degrees of Isolation” [Selfmadegod Records]

If punishing Polish death metal of the kind that Decapitated have been executing with such remorseless elan for almost a quarter of a century stokes...

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Review: Azanigin “Rise of the Adversary”

When there is no more room in the depths of hell, Azanigin walks the earth! What a hell of an album we have here folks,...

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Review: Membaris “Misanthrosophie” [World Terror Committee]

Detaching from humanity has been one of the primal trademarks when we talk about black metal, sonically, and aesthetically. Whether displaying horrendous corpse painting, using...

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Classic review: Fates Warning “The Spectre Within” [Metal Blade Records]

There’s something rather fascinating about the progression Fates Warning made early on in their career. Each year marked a huge step forward for the band...

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Classic review: King Diamond “Fatal Portrait” [Roadrunner Records]

To start, I don’t think King Diamond needs an introduction; many of the reviews previously posted have done so. I will go directly to business;...

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Review: Thundermother “Heat Wave” [AFM Records]

In far 1975 The Runaways, unwittingly, have proved to the world that girls can also rock ‘n’ roll. In 2020 Sweden all-female band Thundermother ambitiously...

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Review: Needful Things “Deception” [Give Praise records]

Needful Things is one of those bands where an introduction is difficult to formulate. We’re at a level of underground that’s simultaneously entertaining yet devoid...

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Review: INTOXICATED “Walled” [Seeing Red Records]

Releasing three demos in the early 90’s, one recorded and produced by Chuck Schuldiner himself, Florida-based thrashers Intoxicated have awoken with a brand new EP...

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Review: Conan/Deadsmoke (split) ”Doom Sessions Vol.1” [Heavy Psych Sounds Records]

There’s no disguising this one is there? Doom Sessions Vol.1 very much does what it says on the tin. But this is not just doom…...

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Review: RED CAIN “Kindred: Act I” [Sliptrick records]

The young Canadian band Red Cain has released its debut album “Kindred: Act I” in 2019, but after one year it is re-released worldwide by...

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Classic review: Death “Individual Thought Patterns” [Relativity Records]

By the time Individual Thought Patterns came out, Chuck Schuldiner had already distanced himself from the horror themed sounds that characterized his early records. By...

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Review: ĀTER “Vullighied” [Sliptrick records]

For the first time in its 23 years history the Belgian black metal band Āter has released its first material ever, the EP “Vullighied”. This...

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Septicflesh: “Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX” (live DVD) [Season Of Mist]

Unlike other bands, Septicflesh don’t release their albums quite often, one in three years at an average. Their last album Codex Omega was released in...

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Classic review: Metal Church “Blessing in Disguise” [Elektra Records]

While the first two Metal Church albums were solid slabs of American heavy/power metal, Blessing in Disguise would define the next chapter of this band;...

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Review: PUTRID “Antichrist Above” [Godz Ov War Productions]

Many moons ago an emerging movement was taking the world by storm, a movement that formed deep in the bowels of the earth; mostly fed...

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Review: Destruction “Born To Thrash” [Nuclear Blast]

A year ago Teutonic Thrash Metal legends Destruction released their 16th album Born To Perish. This year the band quite unexpectedly releases a live album...

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Review: ABYSMAL DAWN “Phylogenesis” [Season of Mist]

After six years of hibernation from the death metal scene, the American band Abysmal Dawn returns with their latest codex called “Phylogenesis”. Being this their...

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Classic review: Gorgoroth “Under the Sign of Hell” [Malicious Records]

The Norwegian black metal scene has been covered with a certain obscure robe full of controversy due to the happenings (during the ’90s, church burnings,...