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Ramlord / Sea of Bones – Split
By Craig Hayes. Back in 2013, I wrote a review here at Metal Bandcamp praising stenchcore trio Ramlord’s second album, Crippled Minds, Sundered Wisdom. That review remains one of my favourite...
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Sahg - Memento Mori
By Hera Vidal. Most people take their mortality for granted, and don’t really think about death or the way they and their loved ones will go. For those who are completely self-aware about their...
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Dark Descent Spotlight: Blood Incantation, Nox Formulae, and Ghoulgotha
By Craig Hayes. Colorado-based label Dark Descent celebrated its 7th anniversary recently, and while there are plenty of other great underground metal labels around, it’s rare to find one By Craig...
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Wretch - Wretch
By Karen A. Mann. When Jason McCash of Indianapolis doom legends Gates of Slumber died a few years ago, his bandmate and longtime friend Karl Simon knew that he had to create new music to both honor...
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Alcest - Kodama
By Justin C. When I first heard a new Alcest album was coming, I was unreservedly excited. Of course, one of my first questions was how the new album would compare to Shelter. Would Alcest continue in...
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From the Graveyard Shift - Hip-hop for Metal Fans
By Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Greetings and salutations, friends. It is I, your most humble Professor, returned from the sleepless land inhabited by those so blessed (or cursed, depending on where...
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Fuath - I
By Hera Vidal. There have been moments when you inherently don’t believe that a musician has more music in him than what he is currently making, so when they announce that there is a new project in...
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Hexxus - Tunguska
By Ulla Roschat. In the year 1908 in the Siberian taiga near the Stony Tunguska River a huge explosion destroyed a vast area of forest land. The cause for the explosion which is known as The Tunguska...
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Gatecreeper - Sonoran Depravation
By Craig Hayes. Now that Bolt Thrower has been officially laid to rest, I guess it’s only a matter of time before every death metal whippersnapper wielding a few warmongering riffs is going to be...
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Closet Witch / Euth - Split
MOBILE PREVIEW By Matt Hinch. I can't recall just how I got turned on to Closet Witch but I have a thing with Witch/Wizard bands so I had to check out the Iowa band's split with Euth. Now usually said...
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The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
By Andy Osborn. After starting high school and having spent the last few years absorbing my dad’s 70s and 80s punk collection, I was looking for something new; music with more than a couple power...
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Wormrot - Voices
By Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Greetings and salutations, friends. Your esteemed Professor returns today to discuss the return of Singaporean grind bastards Wormrot, whose new release Voices is...
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Black Table - Obelisk
By Justin C. It's funny how memory works: I liked Black Table’s EP, Sentinel quite a bit, but due to no fault of the band, they eventually drifted into the “black metal” portion of my brain. But...
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Our Place of Worship is Silence - The Embodiment of Hate
By Craig Hayes. A band’s pedigree is no guarantee of success. I mean, there are a lot of ‘supergroups’ who’ve only ever released garbage, and plenty of musicians from underground bands have joined...
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Neurosis - Fires Within Fires
By Aaron Sullivan. The legendary Neurosis have returned with their 11th album entitled Fires Within Fires. It’s been four years since their last release, and as with each release, they are always...
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Fistula - Longing for Infection
By Craig Hayes. Back in the early 90s, I worked in a medical laboratory where every imaginable sample that can be scrapped or siphoned off a human being ended up for testing. My job wasn’t on the...
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Planes Mistaken for Stars - Mercy & Prey
By Justin C. Sometime in the early 2000s, I was seduced by a deal from rock/punk/indie label Deep Elm Music. Give them $30, and they'd send you 30 CDs, but the catch was that you couldn't choose which...
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Seputus - Man Does Not Give
By Craig Hayes. US trio Seputus features ¾ of the lineup of technical death metal band Pyrrhon. But where Pyrrhon specialise in frenetic sound experiments, Seputus hammers home a musical message that’s...
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Order of the Owl - We Are Here to Collect Our Crown
By Karen A. Mann. More than four years after the release of their debut, Atlanta psychedelic sludge monsters Order of the Owl are back with a powerful follow-up that finally delivers on their initial...
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Virvum - Illuminance
By Calen Henry. Necrophagist’s Epitaph is one of my favourite metal albums and absolutely my favourite tech death album. To me it’s the perfect mix of over-the-top neoclassical solos layered over...
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