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Ancient Ascendant - Echoes and Cinder
Written by Calen Henry. Ancient Ascendant's Echoes and Cinder is a great album. It sounds like Skeletonwitch meets Amon Amarth; ripping sections of blackened thrash mixed with epic melodic death metal...
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Forgotten Gods - Fall of the Dagger
Written by Calen Henry. Forgotten Gods are a relatively new Southern California band that dropped a stellar record last fall. Everyone should hear it. They rule. They play a melodic brand of stoner...
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Diocletian - Gesundrian
Written by Craig Hayes. Artwork by Paolo GirardiThere are two clear choices if you want to attempt to make any sense of all those broken bodies filling up your news-feeds. You can put them all into...
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Muscle and Marrow - The Human Cry
Written by Ulla Roschat. Album art: Dorota JedrusikMuscle and Marrow is Kira Clark (vocals/guitar) and Keith McGraw (drums/samples), a pretty young two-piece Doom band from Portland/OR/USA. They formed...
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Sadgiqacea - False Prism
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Artwork by Fred SadgiqaceaThe debut from Philadelphia, PA sludge-mongers Sadgiqacea contrasts a fat, wet guitar tone with crisp...
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Stop...Demo Time!
Written by Kevin Page. Is it just me or has the last few years brought us more new bands releasing actual DEMOS again, as opposed to jumping right into EP's or full length albums? It feels like another...
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Vemod - Venter på stormene
Guest review by BreadGod from Servile InsurrectionThe Autistic Metalhead blog has changed name to Servile Insurrection. We have featured a number of reviews by the proprietor BreadGod before, here is...
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Mad Max's Wheels of Steel #2
Written by Maxim Björky. Wheels of Steel is back for another go ‘round; this time taking up the thrashier, grimier side of things. I’m going to try to throw a couple of newer things into this cocktail...
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Harangue - By the Strength of the Mighty Atlas
Written by Matt Hinch. Cover art by Jeff Cook / Ink Culture StudiosI'm not going to pretend I don't have a bias towards Toronto metallic hardcore crew Harangue. I've known vocalist Michael Kopko for...
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Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Written by Calen Henry. Artwork by Sean WilliamsFoundations of Burden, Pallbearer’s sophomore album is the perfect follow up to Sorrow and Extinction. In contrast to some other opinions, though, I...
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The Proselyte - Our Vessel's in Need
Written by Justin C. I bought The Proselyte's 2011 album, Sunshine, shortly after it came out, and it's never left the music collection on any of my iDevices. Given the amounts of music I churn...
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Darvulia- L'alliance des venins
Written by Steven LeslieArtwork by Tara C.Anyone even remotely familiar with black metal will know that France has a long and storied history of producing some of the genre’s finest and most revered...
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Big Dumb Skulls presents: Cauldron Black Ram - Stalagmire
Big Dumb Skulls is a blog with a simple but brilliant concept. Guided by the mysterious Council of the Elders of the Skull ("a nine-man cabal nestled in an underground bunker somewhere in Luxembourg"),...
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Big Dumb Skulls presents: Carcariass - Killing Process
Big Dumb Skulls is a blog with a simple but brilliant concept. Guided by the mysterious Council of the Elders of the Skull ("a nine-man cabal nestled in an underground bunker somewhere in Luxembourg"),...
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Majestic Downfall / The Slow Death - Split
Written by Kevin Page. I'll admit to being biased when it comes to splits. I immediately think of "throwaway tracks" and bands just using it as a stopgap until their next full length. So when I heard...
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Blood Red Water - All the Ills of Mankind
Written by Ulla Roschat. Cover art by AliciaDid I mention that I’m a sucker for some really raw, filthy grimy sludge with hard hitting brutal riffs that wallow in low-end frequencies, blessed with a...
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The Flenser Part One: Mamaleek & Wreck and Reference.
Written by Craig Hayes. We’ve all watched an underground record label get off to a great start, only to then take a huge misstep, and buy into the hype surrounding their own success. Soon enough, that...
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The Flenser Part Two: Have A Nice Life, White Suns & Planning For Burial
Written by Craig Hayes. In the first part of this Flenser Records feature, I looked at recent releases from avant-garde black metal band Mamaleek, and harbingers of electronic doom, Wreck and...
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Skogen - I döden
Written by Majbritt Levinsen. Artwork by SamosWhen the full album stream of Skogens new I Döden (In Death) was made available a few months back I immediately proclaimed that this just might be an album...
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EP madness
Written by Kevin Page. Belgian black/death outfit, Possession, stormed out of the hellfire gates last year with their His Best Deceit demo. While not anything overly original, it was well done and...
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