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Album Review: CULT LEADER A Patient Man
Everything, from the acrid, biting vocals to the pummeling, dissonant fretwork is emblematic of hardcore punk's best traits. When A Patient Man clicks, which it does the vast majority of the time, it's genuinely without fault.
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Album Review: ANAAL NATHRAKH A New Kind of Horror
Listening to A New Kind of Horror is like mainlining adrenaline for 33 minutes straight. It's one of metal's best bands performing at the absolute top of their game and a flawless culmination of everything they have been working for for nearly two decades. This is extreme metal at its apex.
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Album Review: SKYHARBOR Sunshine Dust
With a four-year gap between records, two lineup changes and an entire rerecording, it was fair for anticipation of Skyharbor's long-awaited third album to be tempered by a reasonable dose of skepticism. Thankfully, Sunshine Dust hits the mark far more often than it misses,
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Album Review: PIG DESTROYER Head Cage
“I am going to sing for you. A little off key, perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak. I will dance over your dirty corpse."
#TBT
Throwback Thursday: TRANSCENDING BIZARRE?'s The Serpent's Manifolds is One of Black Metal's Overlooked Oddities
Welcome back to Throwback Thursday! This is the place where we get to indulge in nostalgia and wax poetic about…
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Album Review: CHTHE'ILIST Passage into the Xexanotth
Passage into the Xexanotth is an unearthly descent into a primordial hellscape and should utterly annihilate any notion that Chthe'ilist’s 2016 debut was a fluke.
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Album Review: TOMB MOLD Manor of Infinite Forms
Manor of Infinite Forms’s take on death metal is as alien and downright putrid as its indescribable album art suggests and pushes death metal’s conventions into genuinely exciting new directions.
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Album Review: ROTTEN SOUND Suffer to Abuse
Rotten Sound's latest release trades length for superb consistency and is one of 2018's surprise grindcore hits.
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Album Review: SERUM DREG Lustful Vengeance
Serum Dreg's crusty debut is a lively and entertaining throwback to black metal's heyday that should be an easy sell for fans of the genre.
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Album Review: OMIT Medusa Truth, Part 2
The four-year wait for Omit's third record was entirely worth it. This is a soaring, melancholic funeral doom record that has plenty to offer for genre newcomers and veterans alike.
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Album Review: NONE Life Has Gone On Long Enough
NONE does many things right but a few egregious creative decisions and glaring inconsistencies kill much of the duo's potential.
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Album Review: ALTARS OF GRIEF Iris
This is a near-classic landmark release for both doom metal and the metal scene at large and an absolute, unconditional must-listen. It truly does not get much better than this.
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Album Review: KNELT ROTE Alterity
Knelt Rote's latest is one of the most staggeringly intense records in recent memory. Alterity has potential to become a modern classic.
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Album Review: TENGGER CAVALRYCian Bi
A bit of filler aside, Tengger Cavalry's latest is a wonderfully inventive breath of fresh air. Folk metal enthusiasts will find much to enjoy.
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Album Review: ERDVE Vaitojimas
Erdve's debut record is not without its flaws but there’s nonetheless more good than bad here.
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Album Review: PORTAL ION
Even though ION is one of Portal's lesser manifestations of auditory horror, it's still an easy recommendation for extreme metal fanatics.
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Album Review: DAWN RAY'D The Unlawful Assembly
Average songwriting notwithstanding, Dawn Ray'd's debut is an unbelievably harrowing and emotional black metal journey unlike anything else released this year.
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Album Review: TOOTHGRINDER Phantom Amour
It's a bit inconsistent, but Phantom Amour's high points prove that Toothgrinder has the potential to become one of the scene's most exciting bands in the near future.
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Album Review: NE OBLIVISCARIS Urn
Ne Obliviscaris' latest record doesn't quite boast the fiery, spirited edge that initially made the band one of metal's most exciting new acts. Urn is a certainly enjoyable, albeit largely forgettable, record.
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Album Review: HOWLS OF EBB / KHTHONIIK CERVIIKS Split
What exactly do you…Do you see?
Demons.
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BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME's Colors 10 Years Later: Still One of Metal's Crowning Gems
Between the Buried and Me's massive 2007 record took the metal scene by storm. Ten years later, the album is still one of the most wildly entertaining metal gauntlets in the genre's history.