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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Svederna – Svedjeland
They take a tried and true recipe, and then create a perfect dish from it. No need for garnish or fancy sauces, the main dish is perfect as is.
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AbominaBlood – Abomination Continues
Band - AbominaBlood Album - Abomination Continues Country of Origin - Argentina Genre - Black/Death Metal Release Date - January 1, 2018 Label - Cyclopean Eye Productions Author - Hayduke There’s something about South American extreme metal, something filthy and...
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Inexorum – An Interview with Carl Skildum
An interview with Carl Skildum regarding his recent Inexorum release.
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Immortal Guardian – Age of Revolution
There aren’t enough hours in the day to give everything a full album listen, so something has to grab me to keep me switching to the next, and it is certainly rare for power metal to do that for me. That alone is recommendation, as Age of Revolution has had double digits full album listens.
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Demonstealer – The Last Reptilian Warrior
The effect of the whole is quite cohesive, especially considering how many musicians contribute, a testament to the songwriting ability of Demonstealer.
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Lifelost – Dialogues From Beyond
The riffs are dissonant ear worms that savagely burrow through your brain with the menace of Herbert’s Sandworms. They don’t so much sit in the back of your subconscious as tear through it to make it their nest.
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Imperialist – Cipher
…it is an excellent first step into the wide galaxy of black metal and certainly a project worthy of your attention.
read moreHessian – Mercenary Retrograde
old-school without sacrificing originality and artistry
read moreAeolian – Silent Witness
production is lush and powerful, the playing flawless throughout, and the songs are as melodic and dynamic as they are fast and pummeling.
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Crosby Morgan – Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah
These songs are dreamy architecture; they are misty, moving pictures
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Forn – Rites of Despair
From start to finish, I want to sit with my eyes closed, in a dark room while the music pervades every fiber of my being. I would walk away a changed man I would wager.
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Satan – Cruel Magic
Not only does the quintet maintain their vintage tightly-picked, highly-harmonized riffing style, but they also subtly include elements of black metal (lots of octaves and rigorous tremolo picking), as well as the bluesy licks, retro tones, and standard tuning of late ‘70s Pentagram, Budgie, or Judas Priest.
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Cultural Warfare – Warmageddon
a fantastic sense of melody, and a consistent infusion of that most precious and rarefied intangible — soul.
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Devil’s Teeth – Suki Yaki Hot!
vintage, nostalgia loaded perfection as they bring out the best in what surf punk once was.
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Iron Void – Excaliber
doom style gets mixed with the storytelling ability of power metal.
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Solium Fatalis – Genetically Engineered
good with a villainous mind and a brooding darkness.
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Krisiun – Scourge of the Enthroned
type of album that needs no explanation to the purist, it just needs to be played over and over until you are exhausted
read moreCauldron – New Gods
lethargic tempos, chiming arpeggios, resonant power chords
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Dead Register – Captive
explores fistfuls of varying genres, from dreamy shoegaze, to a more post-gothic sound, to a slightly refined atmospheric metal
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Monte Pittman – Between the Space
Those who dig their metal straight-forward and groovy should find plenty to enjoy
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Alms – Act One
The slow dirge, and the feelings of your inevitable end
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156/Silence – Undercover Scumbag
for the masses of angry, pissed-off people of the world.
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Spacetrucker – Smooth Orbit
Sabbath-inspired doom riffs with abandon; but they also intersperse enough groove to make their songs as danceable as they are headbang-friendly.
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Paragnosis – Clarity In Three (Redux)
atmospheric and esoteric, seemingly floating through a series of complex metal riffs, dissonant jazz chords, and subtle lead-guitar melodies laid atop a straightforward-yet-effective rhythmic foundation.
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