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Horndal - Head Hammer Man
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Horndal, the metal historians dedicated to chronicling the story of the hometown from which they took their name, cover another chapter in the small town’s history, and once more set it to a backdrop of top-tier sludge. Read more ›› |
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Critical Defiance - The Search Won't Fall
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The Search Won't Fall, for critically defiant thrash, anyway. Read more ›› |
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Watchman - Cursed
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How does life continue after the end of all flesh? Read more ›› |
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Doodseskader - Year Two
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Of all the things to be merged with post-metal, I never expected... industrial hip-hop? Read more ›› |
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Dead Head - Shadow Soul
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A marriage of bludgeoning death metal and blistering thrash metal at its finest. Read more ›› |
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Svdestada - Candela
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Released in the middle of the northern hemisphere’s winter, Svdestada’s third album is a potent mix of genres that will set fire to your soul. Read more ›› |
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Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb
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Don't count the hours, enter The Wishing Tomb now and become an emotional wreck. Read more ›› |
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Brodequin - Harbinger Of Woe
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O Zorn! - Vermillion Haze
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“O Zorn!”—a cry of lamentation in the face of catastrophe, uttered by the rabbits of Richard Adams’ classic adventure novel Watership Down. From this, the US sludge band O Zorn! derive their name, and, fitting to the exclamation's meaning, their music mirrors these emotions of desperation. Read more ›› |
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Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
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In sound, it appears fairly streamlined and straightforward. It’s only when one begins peeling back the layers of the onion on paper that the true majesty reveals itself. Read more ›› |
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Durbin - Screaming Steel
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Our pal Rod already had to carry out his obligation to tautology by applying himself to the latest release from The Rods, so now it’s my turn to take on Screaming Steel. I’d just like to point out that I had the idea for the name 14 years before James Durbin did. Read more ›› |
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Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
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Ten studio albums, and Necrophobic keep churning out high-quality, melodic, black/death metal like there’s no tomorrow. A reliably great band still at the top of their game. “Can you hear the songs sung from the deep?” Read more ›› |
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VLTIMAS - EPIC
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Weston Super Maim - See You Tomorrow Baby
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What was that hit movie called again, Everything Everywhere All At Once? There’s a certain strain of math-oriented metal, characterized by the likes of Car Bomb and Frontierer, that feels like the musical realization of that title, and Weston Super Maim follow firmly in those artists’ footsteps. Read more ›› |
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Mastiff - Deprecipice
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‘Short but sweet’ isn’t really applicable to Deprecipice, as there’s little sweet about it, but this is a brief and belligerent rampage of hardcore-infused sludge. Read more ›› |
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Cataclasite - Heavy Lies The Weight Of The World Upon Us
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‘What’s the most obscure band you’ve ever heard?’ is a hard question to answer; anyone who’s been friends with musicians when growing up is doubtless going to have heard plenty of failed bedroom projects that reached the ears of at most 10 people. ‘What’s the most obscure band you’ve heard that’s worth recommending’ is arguably a more intriguing conundrum, and Cataclasite may well be a contender for my answer. Read more ›› |