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Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
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...after breakdown after breakdown after breakdown... Read more ›› |
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Hässlig - Apex Predator
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Do you remember Negativa? What about Délirant? Do you wish there was a noisier and punkier version of that? Read more ›› |
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Depressive Witches - Lost, Forgotten And heartbroken
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These witches don't sound very Lost, Forgotten And Heartbroken to me, let alone depressed, certainly not by going on how much groovy fun they're having on this record. Read more ›› |
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Antichrist Siege Machine - Vengeance Of Eternal Fire
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War metal bands do not care for finesse and innovation. The only thing that truly matters is who screams and plays the loudest. This year, Antichrist Siege Machine attempts to rise to the top like a chimp on a mountain of skulls. Read more ›› |
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Brat - Social Grace
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In an increasingly over saturated and largely uninspired world of grindcore, striking out as distinct isn’t always a matter of how original your sound is. Sometimes it comes down to just how hard you can hit. Read more ›› |
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Kerry King - From Hell I Rise
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Hell awaits. Read more ›› |
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Teramaze - Eli: A Wonderful Fall From Grace
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After 5 albums in a bit over 3 years, Teramaze waited 18 months before releasing their next effort; it’s hardly a long wait, but it might have been just long enough to recalibrate and get back on form. Read more ›› |
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Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Häxan Sabaoth
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As the hellish artwork (inspired by the 1922 movie Häxan) suggests, Unaussprechlichen Kulten perform witchcraft, for that is the only way they could have released one of the densest death metal albums of this year, with a bazillion riffs and solos per minute. Read more ›› |
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Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
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Something wicked this way comes. Read more ›› |
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Demande À La Poussière - Kintsugi
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What does a French post-black band have to do with a romantic drama produced by Tom Cruise and starring Colin Farrell? I honestly don't know. But the music is pretty cool! Read more ›› |
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Vulgaris - Seat Of The Fire
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Producer: So, what style of metal do you guys play? Black, death, sludge, thrash, heavy, post-? Vulgaris: Yes. Read more ›› |
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Blood Stain Child - Cyberia
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The whole ‘releasing a double album/releasing two albums that each focus on a different aspect of a band’s sound’ concept is one that’s had contrasting outcomes across the history of metal. Not every attempt needs to be at the level of Deliverance/Damnation, but Blood Stain Child have rather missed the mark here. Read more ›› |
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Blood Stain Child - Metalia
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The whole ‘releasing a double album/releasing two albums that each focus on a different aspect of a band’s sound’ concept is one that’s had contrasting outcomes across the history of metal. Not every attempt needs to be at the level of Deliverance/Damnation, but Blood Stain Child have rather missed the mark here. Read more ›› |
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Venomous Echoes - Split Formations And Infinite Mania
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With Ben Vanweelden’s Venomous Echoes, I’m somewhat reminded of what we said about Primitive Man when they dropped Scorn back in 2013. That, given the nature of the music, the band name could simply not be more fitting. Read more ›› |
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Ufomammut - Hidden
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Hidden marks 25 years of psychedelic stoner doom from Ufomammut, and they remain as thunderously heavy yet mesmerizingly astral as ever. Read more ›› |
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P.O.D. - Veritas
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So, when are we getting paid? Read more ›› |