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The Cult – Hidden City
Hidden City is the first truly new album to emerge from long-running band The Cult since their 2012 release Choice of Weapon. If you...
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Bury Tomorrow – Earthbound
Going into this album, I was worried. The inclusion of the phrase “Hardcore mentality for a metalcore generation” in its press release had hairs...
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Blood Red Saints – Speedway
Making their debut with this album, Blood Red Saints take their name from a 1920s racing team. This does a nice job of setting up their throwback...
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Heart of a Coward – Deliverance
Returning with their third album, the metalcore quintet of Heart of a Coward go for a semi-conceptual style on Deliverance, with two pairs of...
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Dark Hound – Oceans
Dark Hound are all about straightforward heavy metal. Very clearly influenced by the likes of Megadeth in terms of song construction, and Judas Priest and Iron Maiden in their guitar solos,...
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Tesseract – Oddysey
When you have a community as tightly-knit as the nerdy seven-stringed wunderkinds of djent, fans are bound to be a bit overzealous towards the...
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Crowned in Earth – Metempsychosis
Progessive rock seems like an unfitting label to slap on to bands who cannot seem to get past the Pink Floyd/Genesis era. Maybe call...
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Amplifier – Mystoria
Back when I saw Amplifier for the first time, it was at the opening year of math-rock/post-rock/experimental/whatever festival Arctangent. In a festival made for...
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Corrupt Moral Altar – Mechanical Tides
The UK hardcore scene is seriously stepping up its game right now. Formerly thriving off its own self-sufficient success, tons of great UKHC bands...
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Morgue Orgy – The Last Man on Earth
Morgue Orgy hail from Birmingham, England, the truest birthplace of metal... Not that that title has really lived up to much in the past...
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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...