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  • Enabler – La Fin Absolue Du Monde

    Enabler are beautifully crusty, melodically noisy and delicately brutal. For all the appearance of grime and fuzz, there’s just the perfect hint of thoughtful song writing underneath, like the bad guy with a heart of gold from that movie...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Bateman – SMUT

    Dig your music abrasive, heavy, sweaty and with a generous side of depravity? Well you’re in luck because Melbourne’s Bateman tick all these boxes and more. Sounding like the drunken love child between Gay Paris and Every Time I...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Love Cream – First Taste

    I’m not usually one to shit on the dreams and art of others (publicly). But the fine lads at Metal Obsession gave me an offer to scribble uninformed shit, and so here I am, letting the boring songs and...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Cryptic Abyss – Into the Abyss

    I had the pleasure of playing alongside Cryptic Abyss at a function called Splinter recently. Having seen their live show, and given that on that particular night they were clearly the standouts amongst the bands I’d seen, I was...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Norse – Pest

    Goulburn NSW-based metallers Norse are relative unknowns on the grander Australian stage, however their latest independently released offering: Pest ought to shake the underground right up to any foundations that it helps support.  This is one ferocious, at times...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • The Black Dahlia Murder – Fool ‘Em All

    I have heard it said before, that bands are better heard and not seen, as documentaries can do a band a great disservice. With a particular sound comes a specific image to the mind of a listener, and there...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Crimsonfire – Arise To Chaos

    Okay, I’m going to open this review by saying much of what follows may come across as harsh, but if you’re going to review music then it should be honest and upfront, shouldn’t it? Everything mentioned in this review...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Adamus Exul – Arsenic Idols

    Melbourne’s filthy black metal outfit Adamus Exul are back with ‘Arsenic Idols’, their follow up to the 2011 effort ‘Death, Paint a Vision’. The album was released on the Italian label Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum translating roughly to Eternity...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Dr. Colossus – IV

    A famous Simpsons quote immediately springs to mind upon the first listen to Dr. Colossus’ IV – EP: “I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it*, and what’s...

    • Posted 12 years ago

  • Amelus – Amelus (Demo)

    When it comes to bands, first impressions matter and a good demo is a significant part of making that first impression. Now, let’s get something straight here, I love metal and being able to support the local scene by...

    • Posted 12 years ago
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