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CHATS
Total: 611 articles (latest: November 4, 2009)
Marduk: Unholy Blasphemies
It's a rare thing these days to meet a musician whose belief in their art is both thoroughly convincing and devoid of any Spinal Tap-esque comedy value; rarer still when said virtuoso's tenure spans eleven albums with absolutely no sign of slowing down any time soon.
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
Cryptopsy: A Venom Well Designed
EDITORIAL
Total: 14 articles (latest: August 12, 2009)
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Adrian Bromley
Happy Thirteenth, CoC
GIGS
Total: 216 articles (latest: September 26, 2009)
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: 42 articles (latest: October 24, 2009)
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: 5194 articles (latest: January 27, 2010)
Sólstafir - Köld
If there is a recent album one can draw parallels with Sólstafir's _Köld_, that would be _Vertebrae_ -- but less psychedelic and much more rocking.
Hearse - Single Ticket to Paradise
Hearse are plying their wares again; and so they continue to bring us that highly unique brand of death 'n' roll that is somewhat similar to, but still quite different from related acts such as Convulse and later-era Carcass.
The Red Chord - Fed Through the Teeth Machine
When it comes to heavy metal, four years can be as good as a lifetime. Take The Red Chord for example; just a few years after their acclaimed debut, everyone and their neighbour's pet Chihuahua appear to be plying an equally visceral trade -- deathcore, as the kids call it.
Funeral Mist - Maranatha
Filthy, orthodox, unapologetic black metal only a mother could love... noisy, chaotic, but with a very definite spirit and direction.
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
The brainchild of Alexander von Meilenwald (of Nagelfar fame) as their battery, the Ruins of Beverast are a definite leap in a far opposite direction than Nagelfar. Melancholic yet oppressive, haunting and melodic yet chaotic and frenzied.
Root - The Temple in the Underworld
For all intents and purposes, this is Root's _Blood Fire Death_: a stepping stone between the primitive blackened thrash of their salad days and the epic grandiosity of their later work, drawing in new listeners without alienating the self-consciously "kvlt as fukk" crowd.
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
The Gates of Slumber are one of those sleeping giants quietly going about their business of doom as usual without piquing too much interest outside of a very small niche. This album thrust them into the limelight and woke up a population of metal fans who had found what they'd been looking for without ever knowing they were missing it in the first place.
Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus
_Attera Totus Sanctus_ -- now there was a black metal record worth more than its weight in gold. Having kept us in limbo for the better part of four years, the Swedish kvlt collective return; problem is that their latest collection is often as limp as the Matt Zane skinflick they cameoed in recently.
The Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
I snapped my neck into a permanent state of injury to the turbo-charged terrorism of Strapping Young Lad. I marvelled at Townsend's songwriting versatility on Ocean Machine, studied with intrigue the dynamics of the admittedly self-indulgent Infinity. Most recently, I adored every one of _Ki_'s understated nuances. But this simply takes the piss.
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
In 2005, Candlemass, still under Marcolin's direction, released an eponymous album which abandoned the idiosyncratic material last seen on _From the 13th Sun_ and verified a restitution of their classically epic technique; thankfully, they haven't since wavered in this approach.
7 Cerebrum - Spectral Extravagance
Green Carnation - Alive and Well... in Krakow
5 Grimlord - Dolce Vita Sath-anas
Morphia - One Last Embrace
6 Pressure Points - Remorses to Remember
7.5 The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab - The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab
5 Amorphead - Psychotic
8.5 Root - Zjeveni
8 Russian Circles - Geneva
7 As You Drown - Reflection
8 Believer - Gabriel
7 Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast for Vultures
Carpathian Forest - We’re Going to Hollywood for This Live Perversion
Folkearth - Songs of Yore / Fatherland
8 God Dethroned - Passiondale
3.5 Lita Ford - Wicked Wonderland
8 Winds of Plague - The Great Stone War
6 Worstenemy - Under Ashes of Wicked
6.5 Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal
7 Hatebreed - Hatebreed
DEMOS
Total: 677 articles (latest: October 24, 2009)
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
2 Heresic Synopsis - Le Peuple du Vide
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