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Short and to the point 3.
By Aaron Sullivan. Wolvserpent have a new album out. The two piece band consisting of Blake Green (guitar, vocals) and Brittany McConnell (drums, violin) released a one song E.P. entitled...
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Label Spotlight: Unique Leader Records
Unique Leader Records opened up shop on on Bandcamp, and the Isolation Grind blog closed it's doors; let's combine those two things shall we. Isolation Grind was chock-full of well written reviews of...
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Lucifer's Child - The Wiccan
By Andy Osborn. One of my favorite things about the Greek scene is how the bands can so clearly influence each other while still sounding wholly unique. Katavasia, a supergroup of sorts, emerged last...
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Paroxsihzem - Abyss of Excruciating Vexes
By Justin C. I don't usually go out of my way these days to pick up more boundary-pushing blackened death metal. My attitude is, "Well, I've got some Portal albums, so I'm all set here." And yet,...
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King Woman - Doubt
By Matt Hinch. Sometimes albums just slip through your fingers. And sometimes someone else picks the album up and puts in back in your hand. That's what happened with the Doubt EP by King Woman By Matt...
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Dave’s Demo Roundup Vol. IX
By Dave Schalek. A trio, Horns of Domination are an amalgamation of black, death, and doom metal with a rough production. Demo 2015 is their first recorded output and is likely to leave you hungry for...
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Spotlights - Tidals
By Justin C. Husband and wife duo Mario and Sarah Quintero, playing under the name Spotlights, has gotten a decent amount of attention, at least in the metal circles I run in. Reading up on them,...
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Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust
By Justin C. What we're faced with here is Pleiades' Dust, a 33-minute-long metal song/EP about the rise and fall of the House of Wisdom, a library in Baghdad from the 9th through 13th centuries. By...
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Vektor - Terminal Redux
By Nate Garrett. Fans of Vektor have been waiting for Terminal Redux. It’s been five years since the release of the band’s previous effort, Outer Isolation. By that time, Vektor had firmly established...
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Short and to the point 4
By Aaron Sullivan. First up is a band from my local scene, Deathkings. Their second album All That Is Beautiful is one that I have been anticipating for some time. Finally hearing it in full, I was not...
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Entropia - Ufonaut
By Ulla Roschat. Ufonaut is like a swarm of bees on a psychedelic trip, hysterically energetic and intense, a mix of overwhelming, frenzied complexity and a melodic and rhythmic catchiness By Ulla...
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Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh
By Karen A. Mann. If Kyuss, the High Priestess of Stoner Rock, and ZZ Top, the Priest of Texas Boogie, made love at the Temple of the Riff, the resulting magickal aura just might be Wo Fat. Few bands...
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Gevurah - Hallelujah!
MOBILE PREVIEW By Justin C. Cover artwork by Denis Forkas Gevurah, a Canadian black metal duo, put out an EP in 2013, Necheshirion, that I wasn't sure I completely understood. It was music I felt drawn...
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Cough - Still They Pray
By Karen A. Mann. Cough’s music has always strongly evoked that sweet spot between feeling no pain and puking your guts out after drinking a bottle full of codeine-laced cough syrup. You never quite...
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Aztec Gold, Part I
By Andy Osborn. It’s been seven months since I, along with my girlfriend, moved to Mexico City from the Pacific Northwest. The move has been an adventure for sure; filled with tacos, tequila and...
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Phobocosm - Bringer of Drought
By Justin C. If I've learned anything in my brief stint as a metal writer, I've learned that when people describe metal as being "atmospheric," it could mean anything or nothing: maybe it just has some...
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Dave’s Demo Roundup Vol. X
By Dave Schalek. My neck has just about managed to recover from Maryland Deathfest XIV, held a few weeks ago. And, just in time! It’s time for another edition of Dave’s Demo Roundup! This time around,...
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Thrawsunblat - Metachthonia
By Andy Osborn. It's difficult to feel connected with nature while living in the heart of one of the world's biggest cities. The hardest part of my new life in Mexico is coming from a place where both...
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Terra Tenebrosa - The Reverses
By Justin C. I get the impression that for a lot of people, Terra Tenebrosa gets stuck in the "too avant garde/too weird/only if I'm high" category. There are probably a few reasons for that. By Justin...
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Spirit Adrift - Behind - Beyond
By Ulla Roschat. By Ulla RoschatSpirit Adrift is the solo project of Arizona's Take Over and Destroy guitarist and vocalist Nate Garrett. Behind - Beyond is his debut EP consisting of "only" two songs,...
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