Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
Review by Dream Taster

8.5

Intensity. Beauty. Death. Solace.

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Sound Of Metal [film/documentary]
Review by ScreamingSteelUS

8.0

This is a movie. Yes, we do have film reviews on Metal Storm.

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Herzel - Le Dernier Rempart
Review by nikarg

 

You may not speak French but doesn't this cover of a torn down wall and the shadow of a warrior standing behind it give you a hint of what Le Dernier Rempart is about?

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d's Pee At State's End!
Review by RaduP

 

The first time I listened to this album, it was 6 in the morning, I had just arrived by train to a desolate pandemic stricken town. My workplace only opened at 7, so I walked, with this album blasting in my headphones, as the light was creeping in, and you could see a couple of cars and pedestrians filling the massive landscape. I arrived at work exactly as the album was ending, and the place was desolate too. I knew then and there, that this album wrote itself on me.

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Bodom After Midnight - Paint The Sky With Blood [EP]
Review by ScreamingSteelUS

 

Alexi Laiho's recording career lasted the better part of three decades - an impressive span, but only half of what it should have been. This EP, for 14 short minutes, allows us a chance to remember Alexi at his best and also lament what never was.

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Dirge - Vanishing Point [Compilation]
Review by musclassia

 

Vanishing Point isn't a comeback from Dirge, merely a reminder of why they're missed.

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Decline Of The I - Johannes
Review by musclassia

8.6

I spent a lot of time pondering the intricacies of post-black metal in my review of Kevel's Mutatis Mutandis last year. Of the three possible definitions I put forward then, Decline Of The I's Johannes falls squarely into the third category, and what a great and unique fusion of post-metal and black metal it is.

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Lake Of Tears - Ominous
Review by nikarg

 

The only constant is change.

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