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Review: Terrifying Parasites “Human Disease” (Demo)

Terrifying Parasites is a new name on death metal scene, and this April German musicians have released their first 3-track demo record “Human Disease” by...

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Review: Aleah “Aleah” [Svart Records]

No one wants to start a review with the words ‘posthumous release’ – incredibly sadly that is the case with this self-titled farewell album from...

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Review: Serene Dark “Enantiodromia”

The term ‘symphonic death metal’ usually triggers an association with Italian orchestral masters Fleshgod Apocalypse or possibly even the Greek black/death/goth crossover of Septicflesh. It...

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Review: Dawn of Ashes “The Antinomian” [Artoffact Records]

Wikipedia, the go-to source of all crowd-based knowledge, makes mistakes: this is a given fact, not an assumption. To prove this, we need look no...

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Review: Powerwolf “Best Of The Blessed’ [Napalm Records]

Seems like the time has come for Powerwolf to release “The Best Of” compilation, Best Of The Blessed in their case (of course it should...

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Review: Twilight Kingdom “The Guardian”

I like progressive metal. I really do – but the problem with the style is that once one has become familiar with the well known...

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Classic Review: Stratovarius “Dreamspace” [T&T Records]

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...

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Review: CONSTELLATIA “The Language of Limbs” [Season of Mist]

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...

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Review: FAIRYLAND “Osyrhianta” [Massacre Records]

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...

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Classic Review: Sentenced “Shadows of the Past” [Thrash Records]

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...

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Review: Afterbirth “Four Dimensional Flesh” [Unique Leader Records]

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...

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Review: Mefitis “Emberdawn” [Chaos Records | Night Rhythms Recordings]

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...

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Review: Chugun “Rogue Planet”

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...

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Review: IA “initIAtion”

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...

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Review: MALICIOUS INC. “Red Flag” [Sliptrick records]

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...

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Review: Grave Dust “The Pale Hand” [Children of the Abyss / Crypt of the Wizard]

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,...

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Review: POLTERGEIST “Feather Of Truth” [Massacre Records]

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...

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Review: KULT MOGIŁ “Torn Away the Remains of Dasein” [Pagan Records]

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...

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Review: Pandrador “Ov Rituals, Ov Ancestors, Ov Destiny”

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...

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Review: VERIKALPA “Tuoppitanssi” [Scarlet Records]

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...