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CHATS
Total: 611 articles (latest: November 4, 2009)
Marduk: Unholy Blasphemies
Jucifer: Two's Company...
Jungle Rot: While Awaiting the Horrors
Pestilence: Never Say Die
Mutant: Now Serving Bangers 'n' Thrash
Goatwhore: Pedigree Butchery
The Freezing Fog: Piercing the Polar Mist
Cannibal Corpse: Plenty Left to Mutilate
Obscurity: Swedish Death Metal
Arch Enemy: Die Walküre
EDITORIAL
Total: 14 articles (latest: August 12, 2009)
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Adrian Bromley
Happy Thirteenth, CoC
GIGS
Total: 217 articles (latest: February 14, 2010)
Busking for Blood
The triple apparition of Ramasses that lurks in the Borderline, nestling deep in the grave of the Astoria, raises the question: is there a market niche for buskers in the corridors of Hell? And is it filled? If it isn't, these guys have the afterlife sewn -right- up.
Bloodstock Open Air 2009 The Blood on the Stocks Is Ours
Bloodstock Open Air 2008 Yo Blood, It Ain't So Stock!
Crimson Tears / Hadez / Karmalener / Kopperhed Four-Way Diablo
Nine Inch Nails / Jane's Addiction / Mew Going Down t'Spiral
Anathema / Oblique Rain / Leafblade Sunset of Age Is Still Far Away
RANTS
Total: 43 articles (latest: February 14, 2010)
Best Albums of 2009
It's a tight inter-genre race to the finish line this year; who will win the 2009 CoC Album of the Year award?
Black Metal: A Brief Guide
This is an article intended as a short yet informative guide for people who are generally familiar with metal but are largely unacquainted with black metal.
Doom Metal: The Gentle Art of Making Misery
An analysis of doom metal's history and psychological aspects. Going down?
Jeremy Wagner's Grotesque Blessings #3
All Hail the Nu Flesh
Jeremy Wagner's Grotesque Blessings #2
ALBUMS
Total: 5231 articles (latest: March 7, 2010)
Immolation - Majesty & Decay
So, while _Shadows in the Light_ was certainly captivating in its own right, as an Immolation devotee I longed for the coal-black ambience that had pumped like tar through the veins of their classics -- _Close to a World Below_ especially.
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
It is not that their music is so brilliantly conceived and executed (which it is). It is not even that they separate the art from the artist to let it breathe its own life (which they do). It is that, for me at least, their music touches the very core of my senses.
Dark Fortress - Ylem
You will go a long to finding a group who have managed to cross-breed the vaguely accessible with the downright anti-social with quite the same level of class as Germanic grimsters Dark Fortress.
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Between the Buried and Me have developed a lot from their self-titled debut, which had prominent metalcore influences, all the way to their fifth studio album _The Great Misdirect_, which will have you marveling at its calm beauty and within the same minute, running for shelter from its brutality.
Hyadningar - The Weak Creation
Totalrust is not a label I would associate with black metal, and such a combination is analogous to No Colours releasing power metal -- but if they had to stray from their roster of dirty and slow-as-molasses doom, this is as good a choice as any.
Borknagar - Universal
I was really hoping that after the release of _Origin_ in 2006, Borknagar would release something truly different, yet still in the unique Borknagar style.
Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm
Secrets of the Moon raised the bar ever higher for themselves as their cold, blighted work steadily improved. _Privilegivm_ sees the group playing vanguard, black-inspired metal at a speed that doom fans could easily stomach.
Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
The latest Katatonia full-length, _Night Is the New Day_, is by no means a difficult album to like if you're a Katatonia fan -- especially if you don't mind some Opeth either, which is hardly an unlikely set of circumstances.
0 3 - Revision
5.5 Arsis - Starve for the Devil
4 Ensiferum - From Afar
6.5 Ihsahn - After
5.5 Paganizer - Scandinavian Warmachine
1 Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics 3
6.5 Troll - Neo-Satanic Supremacy
7 Zillah - Substitute for a Catastrophe
7 Aquila - Imperium
9 Arthemesia - a.O.a
6.5 Baliset - A Time for Rust
9 Code - Resplendent Grotesque
8 Count Raven - Mammoms War
9 Deströyer 666 - Defiance
Dio - Evil or Divine: Live in New York City
9 F.K.Ü. - Where Moshers Dwell
8.5 Fen - The Malediction Fields
7.5 For Ruin - Last Light
8 Goatsnake - Flower of Disease
8.5 Insomnium - Across the Dark
DEMOS
Total: 679 articles (latest: February 14, 2010)
Allmacht - In Namelosen Tiefen
Black metal demos all too often follow the same motif; a hermit or like-minded group of frowning weekend Satanists record five songs of badly performed, badly produced generic rip-off of Darkthrone, Burzum or Mayhem. This is not one of those.
2.5 Ill Grande Scisma D'Oriente - Synesthesia
3.5 Anno Domini - Untitled
0.5 The Rectvm Satans - Occult Blood
2 To Mourn the Living - A Forest of Pale, Thin and Haunting Trees
3 Autumn in My Room - L'Automne Dans ma Chambre
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