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Poland isn’t a country that I usually think of whenever old school death metal comes to mind, but it wouldn’t take long before a variety of bands would ...
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Comments Off on Review: Cryptic Tales “Anathema” [Carnage Records]
While it’s good to hear more from Oceans and their Hell is Where the Heart Is project, the full album version is certainly interesting, but does not always ...
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Let’s continue the reviews of gothic metal reeditions! This new release of Type O Negative’s last album isn’t as good as Lacuna Coil’s new version of Comalies, and ...
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Last summer was really important period for a new black metal band Leiþa from German Bavaria. On 24th of June small German label Noisebringer Records (also responsible for ...
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It’s hard to imagine that this is the same band that caused havoc with I.N.R.I. some years prior. Now functioning as a much more dynamic band, Sarcofago unleashes everything that ...
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Here is a tortured EP influenced by nu-metal and extreme metal, that shows some potential but doesn’t go all the way yet. There are many different ideas and ...
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Comments Off on Review: Oceans “Hell Is Where the Heart Is Vol. I: Love and Her Embrace” [Nuclear Blast]
There are good times for Century Media and Swedish melodic death/black legends Unanimated, after re-releasing all their LPs, Unanimated finally granted the pleas of many fans in releasing ...
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While I’m certainly not a huge technical thrash metal fan to begin with, certain albums remain wonderful to me and as far as I’m concerned, you can’t get ...
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Comments Off on Review: Coroner “Punishment for Decadence” [Noise Records]
Cemetary are one of those weird bands to me; not because of their stylistic changes (since those weren’t uncommon in the 90s to begin with), but more because ...
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Thanks to that decent piece of artwork that brings to mind nostalgia and romanticism, you’d think that Etherial Winds were yet another forgotten band that released one solid ...
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Comments Off on Review: Etherial Winds “Find the Way… Together” [Cyber Music]
Prolific multi-instrumentalist Austin Krueger returns in the guise of his one-man metal act Suicide Forest with a 9th release in 5 years all the way from Tucson, Arizona. ...
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Let’s explore these melancholic and atmospheric ballads by a cold, sad day of winter. For this is the best way to describe the overall feel of the album. ...
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Comments Off on Review: Harakiri For The Sky “Mære” [AOP Records]
Let’s talk about your new album. I’ve seen that some of the songs have been released on your Youtube channel, but not every one of them. Has the ...
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Atmospheric black metal suits my temperament well. And not just one small niche of the genre, but across all its many variations: whether the atmosphere generated is that ...
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Comments Off on Review: And Now The Owls Are Smiling “Dirges” [Clobber Records]
Is it grindcore? Is it brutal/black/death metal? Is it empathetic or a cry for help? Either way, the Swedish one-man project comes at us full-pelt in a darkened ...
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Comments Off on Review: SKAM “The Sound of Disease” [Petrichor]
Coffins kick off this split LP with a whirlwind of demonic riffs laden with enough bass to make you feel the claustrophobia of being buried alive. The drumming ...
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At the end of last year Austrian gothic/heavy metal one-man project of Marko Köfler Adder’s Fork independently has released their latest EP “The Fatalist”. This is a smooth ...
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Although Dance of December Souls will forever be the emotional monolith that defined Katatonia’s early sound, there were in fact two other minor releases that weren’t too far ...
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Comments Off on Review: Katatonia “Jhva Elohim Meth… The Revival” [VIC Records]
After the confusing, yet ambitious Funeral Service demo, Mental Home had dropped their thrash-like nature and become melodic doom/death metal band instead. Sounds about fair, right? It’s just ...
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