Album Reviews
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Behemoth – Messe Noire
Behemoth. A name that will have you momentarily bow your head down as a sign and gesture of respect for quite possibly one of the greatest metal bands in the world. For many years now, the Polish black metal...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Black Stone Cherry – Family Tree
Ok this isn’t going to be easy… Black Stone Cherry are accomplished musicians performing admirably across the cuts on Family Tree. From the vids I have seen on YouTube and comments from the band’s members I found in interviews...
- Posted 7 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 7 years ago
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Judas Priest – Firepower
48 years and 18 albums into their career and the juggernaut that is Judas Priest is still going strong but has not been without its setbacks. The recent departure of guitar player Glen Tipton due to Parkinson’s disease was...
- Posted 7 years ago
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Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath
At the moment I live in Japan. One of my favourite things to do here is to climb the beautiful, forest covered mountains. Every time I begin another journey though I do so with some degree of fear, as...
- Posted 7 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 7 years ago
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Modern Day Babylon – Coma
If you love progressive heavy music, and more specifically djenty progressive and instrumental music, there is a veritable smorgasbord of fabulous releases from excellent bands coming out at regular intervals (pun intended) across the course of any given year....
- Posted 7 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 7 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 7 years ago
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The Dali Thundering Concept – Savages
This was one of those albums where I had to stop for a beat or two, ingest and get my head around it a little more, before I set proverbial pen to paper to review it. There is just...
- Posted 7 years ago
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