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Having grown up in the vast industrial wasteland known as Detroit, my sister subjected me to multiple albums by bands such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Exodus, I quickly became immersed in the world of heavy metal for life. Even with my love of the tradition styles of metal, I always found myself craving something louder and heavier, thus bringing me to the much more extreme side of this genre of music. With classic bands such as Dismember, Autopsy, and Napalm Death always dominating my stereo system, I felt content to dig as deep as possible into the depths of ghastly heavy metal, and all these years later I still haven’t hit the bottom.
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Sacrocurse – Destroying Chapels
In an ever-changing environment where supposedly "evil" and "anti-Christian" extreme metal bands are trading in their spiked bracers and blood-soaked bullet belts for manbuns...
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Theories – Regression
I don't know what's in the water in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, but that region has been putting out some amazing...
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Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat
Has it really been almost three years since Napalm Death's last offering? It feels like it was just yesterday when I was gorging myself with...
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Rage Nucléaire – Black Storm of Violence
I swear that I am a masochist. The reason I mention this is because I enjoy subjugating myself to the idiocy of others. I...
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Origin – Omnipresent
It is hard to imagine that three years have gone by since the release of Entity, Origin's last onslaught of tech-death brutality. That record proved that...
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Dust Bolt – Awake the Riot
Do you know what's pretty awesome? Bay Area thrash metal. I am talking about the Bay Area thrash that helped create an entire movement...
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Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto
I have been an Aborted fan for the better part of 11 years, since I discovered their immensely influential record Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage...
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Human Cull – Stillborn Nation
Grindcore should be a simple style of heavy metal, right? Focus on short songs, heavily distorted guitars, vocals that are barked, shrieked, or both,...
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Behemoth – The Satanist
To say that The Satanist wouldn't be one of the heavy metal world's most anticipated albums of 2014 would be completely idiotic. Fans far and...
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Hail of Bullets – III: The Rommel Chronicles
Whenever I get word that Hail of Bullets are in writing mode for a brand new album, I can hear the unrelenting chugging of Panzerkampfwagen ((I'm...
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Get ready to unleash your metal power because Wacken Open Air is back with a bang for its 2023 edition! Mark your calendars for...