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Parkway Drive – Reverence
Ewingsdale, New South Wales, finest musical export are at it again. This time around the lads in Parkway Drive have added more than just polish to their brand of arena-shaking metalcore. Reverence is an album that will likely catapult...
- Posted 8 years ago
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9 Foot Super Solider – Cheap Beer and $2 Thongs
9 Foot Super Soldier is set to unleash their debut release on the 3rd of June entitled Cheap Beer And $2 Thongs. ‘9FTSS’ is a self-dubbed ‘Party Violence’ band – think Crossover ‘Party’ Thrash meets the abrupt intensity of Power Violence and you’re...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Espionage – Digital Dystopia
There has been one debut album that I have been long anticipating, and that is this one! Espionage burst onto the scene in 2015 with their self-titled EP before following up with an excellent second EP, Wings of Thunder,...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Artemis Blade – As Above…So Below
Ritualistic drums and ceremonious hymns open strongly with ominous keys. Vocals hit on the second track, brutal death screams contrasting against the singing guitars. Clean vocals come in, not unpleasantly, creating a dramatic, moving edge with music softening before...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Among Them – Coming and Going
As a life-long fan and appreciator of metal, there was a decade of my life when I actually all but tuned out of what was happening in the metal scene. I still regularly spun Death, Deicide, Morbid Angel and...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Hidden Intent – Fear, Prey, Demise
Hidden Intent is a 3 piece thrash band from South Australia. Whilst their neighbours in Victoria often get the most attention there is no doubt that Hidden Intent is more than worthy of being held in the same sort...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Zeolite – Sermon Mortis
Zeolite’s Sermon Mortis is massive in a delightful way I haven’t heard in quite a while. It’s not soaring like an Architects, nor is it big and tuff like Kublai Khan; it’s cavernous, theatrical, and moody. And it’s all...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Portal – ION
Many bands seek to inspire horror in their listeners. Very few achieve this to the degree that Portal has been in their years of creating their truly unique style of music. ION is the name of their most recent...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Deadspace – The Liquid Sky
Deadspace is a metal band from Perth in Australia. Before listening to their new album, “The Liquid Sky”, I had read that they were black metal. Upon hearing their band name I immediately thought of the video game of the...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Thornhill – Butterfly
Sometimes a band bobs up out of seemingly nowhere and catches you unawares. Metal Obsession’s editor flipped this EP recommendation to me on Facebook, and from the moody, percussive opening strains of first track Sunflower, I was hooked. The...
- Posted 8 years ago
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