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Interview: OLD MOON

Emerging from the Pacific Northwest, Old Moon channel grief, isolation, and emotional vulnerability into a sound that blends black metal atmosphere with melodic death metal...

Interview with VIGIL

Hi! What inspired the shift from Onera to Vigil, and how does …And The Void Stared Back album represent this evolution? Onera had run its...

Interview with Julio of SATURNUS

Hi! “The Storm Within” is your fifth album. Can you tell us about the journey and inspiration behind creating this record? The title somehow sums...

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Review: Lacuna Coil “Comalies XX” [Century Media Records]

What a way to celebrate your best album’s anniversary, with a reedition that’s just as great and might even be better in some ways. So...

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Review: Lacrimas Profundere “Memorandum” [Napalm Records]

Lacrimas Profundere’s story isn’t an unfamiliar one; as they were yet one of those bands that ended up exchanging their melodic doom/death metal roots for...

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Review: Oceans of Slumber “Starlight and Ash” [Century Media Records]

What a troubled, mystical and unclassifiable album. But there is definitely something special about its strange moods and melancholy. It’s hard to classify in the...

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Review: Withered “Verloren” [Season of Mist Underground Activists]

This band describe their music as “tortured blackened death metal”, and indeed, this is a great way to describe this eerie, heavy, strange and experimental...

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Review: Bolt Thrower “Those Once Loyal” [Metal Blade Records]

Although I wasn’t listening to Bolt Thrower (or metal for that matter) by the time Those Once Loyal came out yet, I’m rather surprised by the amount...

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Review: Themgoroth “Gate to the Unknown…” [Morbid Noizz Productions]

By the mid-90’s, black metal was all over the globe and while my knowledge of Polish black metal (or Polish metal in general for that...

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Review: JUPITERIAN “Protosapien” [Transcending Obscurity Records]

Brazil’s Jupiterian brings us a very tight sludge album in a neat little package. With only six songs spread across a thirty five minute time...