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Sólstafir – Berdreyminn Review
Eleanor Roosevelt once said “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” What do I mean by this? Bands, they’re...
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Carach Angren – Dance and Laugh Amongst the Rotten Review
The Master of the Macabre once asserted that for something to have exquisite beauty, it needed a proportion of strangeness. Dutch symphonic black metal band Carach Angren, have been chasing that...
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Drought Year – Nothing More Than Worthless Review
It’s mostly G-rated, when it’s not violent, sick and twisted. That speaks to the accessibility of what you can expect from Drought Year‘s sophomore release – Nothing More Than Worthless. Following on...
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Broken Hope – Mutilated and Assimilated Review
June’s been a magnet for death metal abundance and similarly overdrawn credit cards… The month kicked off with Suffocation‘s …of the Dark Light, only days later we learned the hard and fast lesson that...
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Shade Empire – Poetry of the Ill-minded Review
From Judas’ selling out the Son of God for a mere 30 pieces of silver, to Julius Caesar meeting his sticky end at the hands of several disgruntled Roman senators, and his own nephew, Brutus. History is...
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Nostoc –Ævum Review
Written By: Master of Muppets Firsts. Life’s full of ’em. Some are wonderful, such as the proverbial first kiss, or the first time you heard (or wrote about!) heavy metal. Some are horrible, such as...
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Gravdal – Kadaverin Review
We all have that/those musician(s) that prompts us to dig up every single project(s) they’ve ever been involved in. Call it fanboy/girl-ism or call it stalking… the name-tag’s not important… I went...
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Angel Vivaldi – Synapse Review
Written By: Swordborn Angel Vivaldi and I have had our brushes in the past, but despite his considerable back catalog, I’ve never found myself with the racing heart and flushed cheeks that many other...
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Keldian – Darkness and Light Review
Written By: Swordborn Norwegian super-duo studio project Keldian has the dubious honor of being one of my favorite sources of music. And like so many of my “favorites,” they’re only power metal in an...
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Eternal Flight – Retrofuture Review
Written By: Swordborn Eternal Flight is a more varied creature than most that have been crawling around in the prog/power underground for the last 20 years. Whether as itself or as Dream Child, Eternal...
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1476 – Our Season Draws Near Review
Known for its short summers and long, drawn out winters, New England is not the worst starting point for a winter-themed album. Fueled by isolation and frigid temperatures, 1476 hail from the infamous...
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Longhouse – II: Vanishing Review
I respect a person for taking an interest in their heritage, for exploring their indigenous ways and ultimately for passing those ideals on to their children. It’s worth remembering that the past...
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White Ward – Futility Report Review
As a fan of the website, a small part of me wishes that DeviantArt had a section dedicated to unorthodox musical talent. Somewhere where “deviants” can let their creative juices flow, sonically...
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Madam X’s Least Disliked Five(ish) of 2017
And with a mighty cold flourish, twenty-seventeen makes her exit! While it’s not been a bad year by any means, it has been a more demanding year than I expected, with fewer opportunity for music...
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Me and That Man – Songs of Love and Death [Things You Might Have Missed 2017]
You can disagree if you like, but since forming back in 1991, Behemoth have arguably become one of the biggest names in blackend death metal. Whether that’s because of ongoing and very public court...
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Ataraxy – Where All Hope Fades Review
Prior to this month, these Spaniards weren’t even the slightest blip on my radar. That changed when Dark Descent furnished the Angry Metal Promo Pool with Where All Hope Fades – Ataraxy‘s latest album....
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