Album Reviews
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At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself
At the Gates find themselves in an interesting position in the current metal climate. From their start in cult-classic Swedish death metal band Grotesque all the way to their genre-defining Slaughter of the Soul in 1995, they were a band that...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
Norwegian icons and black metal touchstones, Immortal, issue a ninth album via a musical partnership very few would have anticipated a few years ago. Olve Eikemo (Abbath) is gone, as almost everyone who reads this review will know. Reidar...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Sadistik Forest – Morbid Majesties
Another metal band from Finland who delivers a dose of old school death metal with a distinctive resonation and patriotism with the country which they hail from. A plethora of metal bands from Finland, over the last 25 years...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Dead City Ruins – Never Say Die
If there were a competition for who best carries the flame of beat driven, blues inspired, Black Sabbath style riff’n’roll… Dead City Ruins certainly have earned a spot on the podium. One may argue that Wolfmother have the commercial...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Five Finger Death Punch – And Justice For None
It’s strange to think Five Finger Death Punch’s debut album The Way of The Fist came out only just over 10 years ago. I remember first seeing them at a small club show, just after their second album ‘War Is...
- Posted 7 years ago
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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 7 years ago
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Marduk – Viktoria
Three years after their last album, Marduk finally produced album number fourteen this year and I can sum it up in one word – Meh. It’s not bad, it’s just not great. The sound is definitely Marduk, but it...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Ghost – Prequelle
For the anointed, whatever is written hence force will not make a damn difference to the affirmative decision to stream/ purchase the new album from Ghost, Prequelle. For the naysayer, the same applies but in reverse. For everyone else,...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit
In one of the most intriguing projects to emerge from genre-blending experimentation, one-man creative force Miguel Gagneux has brought together the sonic otherworldliness of black metal and the dark resonance of gospel/spiritual in a musical hybrid that is fraught...
- Posted 7 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 7 years ago
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