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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Neurosis & Jarboe – Neurosis & Jarboe Reissue
Man is too often unprepared to stomach the realities of a woman’s honest feelings and experiences; he lacks the viscera.
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Theories – Vessel
punishing and strangely familiar; like sitting down for your fifth or sixth tattoo
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Pacifist – Greyscale Dreams
the best hardcore comes from Asia
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Slasher Dave – Slasher Dave’s Frights
somebody needs to give me a bunch of money to throw year-round Halloween parties and we’ll give Slasher Dave a residency performance slot
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Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance
Sounds exactly like what you hope a band called Tomb Mold sounds like
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Immortal Bird – Thrive on Neglect
Spoiler alert: this album is shockingly good and I loved it
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Recorrupter Interview at Mac’s Bar – 7/25/19
Back on July 25th, we made the short trip over to Mac's Bar in Lansing to interview the rising extreme metal band Recorrupter. The quintet gave us a great interview and then tore the venue apart with their incendiary live set. Find both below in addition to a bonus...
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1000 Yard Stare – Benthic
Take note sludge fans. With Benthic, 1000 Yard Stare join the pantheon of the greats of the genre.
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Grogus – Goat Temple Video Premiere
Today, it is my distinct pleasure to present to you the video for the single Goat Temple by the band Grogus.
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Wednesday 13: Invades and Infects
Music is known to encompass the mind and connect to the audience, and here to enhance it further is the band Wednesday 13. By igniting the audience’s imagination, Wednesday 13, like a painter, has used music as the canvas for the stories being portrayed both on stage...
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Birdflesh – Extreme Graveyard Tornado
The album is a ripper, chock full of riffs and blast, thundering bass, manic yells, screams, and bile, a pinch of humor, and some well placed samples.
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Warcrab – Damned In Endless Night
Where Scars of Aeons was dark and heavy, with a groove that took you by the hand to lead you to the abyss, Damned In Endless Night instead pushing you forward and scourges you ever deeper down.
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Drink Their Blood – Face Of Opprobrium
Face Of Opprobrium is a challenging album that asks a lot of the listener. Accepting the challenge is not in vain though, as the payoff is exceptional.
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A CONVERSATION WITH METAL LEGEND JOHN ARCH
this new album is another outstanding, progressive, and dynamic record from you and Jim Matheos
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Amon Amarth – Berserker
12 blistering, galloping, uproarious, riff-laden odes to Viking vengeance
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Ashen Chalice – Ljubiš li i dalje istinski?
Listening to Ljubiš li i dalje istinski? is not pleasant, but it feels so very necessary. The emotions are palpable. My arm hair stands on end. I feel like weeping. I feel like destroying. I feel like walking into the woods and never coming out.
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Panzerfaust – The Suns of Perdition I: War, Horrid War
In the final analysis, this album is nearly thirty two minutes of near perfection. Maybe the word ‘near’ is not necessary in that last sentence.
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East of the Wall – NP- Complete
you are thrown between metal, melodic, thrash, to transient, ambient and back to metal all within moments of one another
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Hazard – Hazard EP
a late ‘70’s rock throwback, but with the modern knowledge of all the bands that came after.
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H.C. Slim – Sings
H.C. Slim is the dusty crossroad where music lovers from all over can stop to take a rest and just peacefully listen to the short simplicities of a man roaming alone
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Interview with Brian Tatler of Diamond Head
We spoke to Brian over the phone about new members, new music, and what it takes to keep rocking for four decades.
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Deceased – Ghostly White
A captivating sense of melody binds all the disparate riffs, tempos, meter changes, and moody atmospheres together.
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Amon Amarth – The Pursuit of Vikings: Live At Summer Breeze
a near-perfect overview of their storied career
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Temple of Perdition – Homage to the Dead
Band - Temple of Perdition Album - Homage to the Dead Country of Origin - USA/Finland Genre - Black Metal Release Date - May 13, 2019 Label - Vision of God Records Author - Ivan Gossage (Chief Administrator, Order ov the Black Arts) From the arid expanses of...
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