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CHATS
Total: 589 articles (latest: April 27, 2008)
Deicide: Death Walking Terror
After the well received _The Stench of Redemption_ and with their new album _Till Death Do Us Part_ coming out, CoC spoke to Deicide drummer Steve Asheim.
Shatter Messiah: Not All Who Wander Are Lost
If every musician the world over had even half the barefaced passion for their craft that Shatter Messiah's Curran Murphy possesses, the state of the music industry would be distinctly rosier on all fronts.
Brain Drill: Means to an End
You can't plan for this shit. You really can't. It's mere hours after I've put the finishing touches to my interview with one of California's fastest rising stars -- at least as far as hyperspeed, über-technical death metal is concerned -- when the headline pops up on my RSS feed: "Brain Drill calls it quits".
Angelcorpse: How to Philosophise With a Hammergod
Reuniting a year ago after six years of silence, late '90s death metal luminaries Angelcorpse have been mistaken for fascists, trumpeted as successors to the vaunted throne of Morbid Angel and typographically misrepresented in their time. So in the run-up to the release of 2007's _Of Lucifer and Lightning_, the band's three founding members took the opportunity to set every record straight.
1349: Mental Mercury
Marduk: Echoes of Decimation
Every Time I Die: Slip It In
Exodus: Killing on Adrenaline
Despised Icon: All Hail the New Flesh
Endstille: Wrath From Above
Sarpanitum: Harbinger of Impious Hordes
Vintersorg: An Extension of Theories
Behemoth: Lords of the Left Hand
C-187: Bring the Noise
GIGS
Total: 201 articles (latest: May 11, 2008)
Pedigree Butchery
Vader, Septic Flesh and Devian join forces at London's Underworld.
Drawing Circles With the Shortest Straw
If there's one good thing about a band as good as Textures getting the short end of the stick like they did tonight, it's that the faithful -- those who hang around even after our supposed headliners have finished -- get all the more attention.
Despised Icon / Misery Index / Beneath the Massacre / Annotations of an Autopsy Bent Backwards and Broken
Marduk / Vreid A Doomsday Celebration
W.A.S.P. / House of Games An Evening with W.A.S.P.
Megadeth / In This Moment / The Confession Nothing If Not Consistent
Katatonia / Process of Guilt Conquering the Distance
EDITORIAL
Total: 11 articles (latest: August 12, 2007)
The Ageless 'Zine Carries On
Going From Strength to Strength
Not Yet CoC's Eleventh Hour
RANTS
Total: 31 articles (latest: May 11, 2008)
Desert Demons - Part IV
Part IV examines the scene in Israel -- metal up your tahat!
Indy Intel Report - Irminsul and Stonecreep
CoC talks to some of the best independent bands around. In this edition, we interview Irminsul and Stonecreep.
Is Black Metal Coming of Age?
The case of the French decadents and the Ukrainian romantics: Deathspell Omega and Drudkh. Akin to the laws of natural selection, there comes a pivotal point in the course of a musical genre's chronicle where it is confronted with two choices: it can either evolve and persist, or wither and die.
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?
Best Albums of 2007
Indy Intel Report - Myotonia, The Thinking Principle and The Grief
Indy Intel Report - Ironwood, Isolation and Kevorkian
ALBUMS
Total: 4501 articles (latest: May 11, 2008)
Ihsahn - angL
_angL_ marks a noticeable refining on all fronts. The opening lick of "Misanthrope" bears more than a subtle tang of _IX Equilibrium_'s gloriously unhinged onslaught -- the markedly beefier production helping Ihsahn's emulous ideas hit home with greater dexterity than they've been able to do for yonks.
Nucleus Torn - Knell
This second full-length album by Switzerland's Nucleus Torn (who also have a couple of EPs to their name) does a fine job of building on the promise of its predecessor _Nihil_, growing into an altogether more cohesive effort.
Dimension Zero - He Who Shall Not Bleed
_He Who Shall Not Bleed_ wastes no time showing that the bar has stayed high in terms of aggression and speed for the band, which continues to leave their connection to In Flames via guitarist Jesper Strömblad as a minor detail.
Soilent Green - The Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction
When "Lovesick"'s bluegrass-tinged acoustic guitar lines handily weave their way into one of the most charged and affecting riffs you'll ever come across in your life, there's little room left for debating that _The Inevitable Collapse..._ is easily Soilent's most personal effort to date, if not their most devastatingly effective.
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Make no mistake, it may have been some nine years in the making, but _The Formation of Damnation_ is as explosive as a crate of C4, and in no time at all it rubbishes any suggestion that time away has caused its creators to develop ring rust.
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
If nightfall still finds you soaking your bedside pillow in tears at the thought of Lord Worm's untimely exodus out of Cryptopsy, a word of free advice: stick to the over-the-top brutalizing of _Once Was Not_ and imagine that it was the band's last hoorah. Because if any one piece of music is guaranteed to send you hurtling into an unrecoverable depression, it's _The Unspoken King_.
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
For those of you hiding out with bin Laden, this effort reunites the Cavalera brothers of early Sepultura fame, Max and Igor. It might have taken a decade to mend some old wounds, but _Inflikted_ is the ensuing result.
Runemagick - Dawn of the End
Runemagick's tenth full-length consists of a disarmingly simple, yet devastatingly effective motif of old-school death metal along the lines of Celtic Frost, Treblinka / Tiamat and early Entombed slowed down to a doom metal crawl.
6 Annotations of an Autopsy - Before the Throne of Infection
6 AX - Glare of Autumn
8 Circle II Circle - Delusions of Grandeur
8 Dark Suns - Grave Human Genuine
7 fragment. - monolith
6 Martriden - The Unsettling Dark
6.5 Mass Extinction - Creation's Undoing
7.5 Ministry - Cover Up
6 Noekk - The Minstrel's Curse
7 Stigma - When Midnight Strikes!
8 Underjordiska - Dystert Vilse
5 13 Winters - Where the Souls Wander
4 Aiton - Akhetaten
5 Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie
8.5 Death Angel - Killing Season
8 Deinonychus - War Machines
5 Ebonmortis - Reconstruction by Force
7.5 Ezurate - An Ending to Revelations
7 Heorot - Ragnarok
6.5 IIIrd Sovereign - Destined to Suffer
DEMOS
Total: 608 articles (latest: April 27, 2008)
Ninth Kingdom - The Dawning
With recording equipment becoming cheaper and cheaper, one would imagine a greater volume of quality releases coming from out of the self-released underground. Better -sounding- releases, yes, but it's none less rare these days to stumble across a ready-for-prime time band on the back of a demo than it was back in the tape trading days. Ninth Kingdom, however, is one of those bands.
2 Natassievila - Iter Lethalis
3 Phantazo - Demo I
1 Regurgitorso - Embrace the Lathe
3 Black Raven - The Day of the Raven
4 Hammer - No Way Out
NEWS
Total: 171 articles (latest: April 25, 2007)
Lord Worm Out of Cryptopsy (Again)
New Nile Album Due in July
Obituary Sign With Candlelight Records
New Mayhem Material Available for Download
Solitude Aeturnus Singer to Replace Messiah in Candlemass
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