Ben Chipman
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Ben lives in Kansas, plays bass in a prog-metal band and writes about metal for this site. That just about sums it up for him.
Reviews
Tiamat – The Scarred People
Is it just me, or are the Swedes slipping? It seems like the old guard of death metal have, one by one, shifted away...
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Enslaved – RIITIIR
Enslaved’s last full-length album, 2010’s Axioma Ethica Odini, was a strong but flawed record – the strength being the sheer power of certain passages,...
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Solace and Stable – The Systematic Erosion of Integrity
I wonder if Between The Buried And Me are aware that they’re progressive metalcore’s Helen of Troy, and that Colors was the album that...
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Marasmus – Mountains of Dead
Alright, no more horsing around with Scandinavian dudes with unpronounceable names. Time to rep my city and talk about some Kansas City artists. I’ve...
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Threshold – March Of Progress
Okay, where the hell have I been? When Metal Blast headmaster J pitched the new Threshold album at me for review, hyping it as...
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Swallow the Sun – Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
I gotta clear up two things before we get this started: 1) Swallow the Sun’s new album, Emerald Forest and the Blackbird, was originally...
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Arktika – Symmetry
This review’s going to be a little more personal. Last year I discovered by chance a fantastic album by a band from Germany. The...
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Cloudkicker – Fade
When Cloudkicker everyman Ben Sharp released The Discovery in 2008, he created the blueprint for his sound for the next two years. He further...
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Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine
Nachtmystium might be my favorite American black metal band, based purely on the strength of Instinct: Decay and Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 alone....
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Baroness – Yellow & Green
What’s with metal bands easing up on the heavy lately? First Opeth put out Heritage, where they dropped the death metal (and, if the...
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The Dark Side of Business: An Interview with Scott Ian Lewis of Carnifex
Scott Ian Lewis on the dangerous state of live music, comics, and Necromanteum
“The songs you love, but not played well” – An Interview with Devin Townsend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RPb_jsnY2I
Get Ready for Wacken 2023
Get ready to unleash your metal power because Wacken Open Air is back with a bang for its 2023 edition! Mark your calendars for...