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Cemetary - Godless Beauty

Death metal
Oct 17, 2023
At a time when the Swedish death metal scene was preparing for the soon to emerge Gothenburg metal, the largely overlooked death metal band Cemetary found themselves on a path from the raw death metal played on their debut to gothic metal, which will be found on their later albums. Godless Beauty is their transition album on this path. It is more melodic and not as raw as the debut, yet it still exhibits the death metal grounds from where they started and which would mostly vanish already with the succeeding album. This is their opus magnum. It is one of the most overlooked death metal albums from that era. And it has been released 30 years ago. We haven't seen any new albums from this band during the last 18 years. But they seem to be back in the studios and early this year they announced a new album. While we certainly cannot expect another Godless Beauty to come, it would be nice to at least see a transition back to where they came from.
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Endorsed by: ScreamingSteelUS, nikarg, Starvynth

Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

Progressive thrash metal
May 11, 2023
Time to sound the alarm!

Happy 30th anniversary, Screams and Whispers.
May 11th, 1993 you have come to see the light of day.
It is so good to still have you around today.
Please stay with us as long as you can.
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Endorsed by: Netzach, RaduP, Yaniv, nikarg, Starvynth, X-Ray Rod, Darkside Momo