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.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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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