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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Face Down Hero – False Evidence Appearing Real
Groovy riffs and hooks and a barrage of drum lines force you to head bang, along with plenty of solos to melt your face as well.
Loincloth – Psalm of the Morbid Whore
…one imagines guitar players, bass players, and drummers learning the complex passages almost as exercises in technique.
Tornado Kid – Hateful 10
Really good grooves and chunky bass and guitar riffs. Just genuinely a fun album.
Bad Karma – Death Has No Calling Card
With this album you’ll get all three of those demos and their cover of Alice Cooper’s “Billion Dollar Babies”.
Squalus – The Great Fish…
Put on your warm sweater. Climb into the fishing boat. Hope you don’t meet the menace.
Purtenance – Paradox of Existence
Purtenance provide a clinic on meat and potatoes death metal.
Occasvs – Nocturnal Majestic Mysteria
Occasvs rises from the abyss to drag you back down with them.
Oraculum – Always Higher
While this release has solid production and decent songs, there is not much here that stands out from the crowd.
Exhumed – Death Revenge
The band delivered on every level that I had expected and seemed to have matured with time.
MI Metal Shows Update: 9.25.17
With this week’s update you can: Score MPN hoodies at at unbelievable price. Pick up the new Mastodon EP. Support a metal show in the Mitten. Take a nap in comfort anywhere. Watch a Wolves In The Throne Room video… AND MUCH MORE \m/
Necrophile – Awakening Those Oppressed
Japan’s Necrophile are what I would call Mosh Pit Enablers (yes there is a support group out there if you suffer from Mosh Pit Syndrome).
Nekrohowl – Epitome of Morbid
Vicious, yes I’ve used the word before, is the only way I can describe the battering of the senses you are about to receive.
Rekoma – Eadem Errata
…a moment of this album scared the piss out of a thirteen year old girl.
Overdose Support – Try Dying
The songs are catchy, heavy, and one cannot help but get energized by them.
Graveslave – Sick/Nasty
How does it sound though? The only answer is like Death Metal.
Horrified – Allure of the Fallen
… if you listen closely enough you can almost feel the rich tapestry of myth and legend that surely surrounds them seeping into you slowly,
Arallu – Six
Arallu brings a unique Middle Eastern twist to the standard black metal fare.
MI Metal Shows Update: 9.19.17
With this week’s update you can: Score MPN hoodies at at unbelievable price. Scoop up the new Belphegor album. Support a metal show in the Mitten. Snag new wireless earbuds. Watch an Animals As Leaders video… AND MUCH MORE \m/
Jupiterian – Terraforming
If Minsk and Portal had a baby in a swamp that was then raised on a desert in outer space, “Terraforming” would be it in sonic presentation.
Daydream XI – The Circus of the Tattered and Torn
Untempered heaviness meets beauty and melody at every turn.
Kaipa – Children of the Sounds
This is truly classic prog at its finest, without a mistake or bad direction, either musically or lyrically.
Neck Of The Woods – The Passenger
Every time you think you are feeling the musical groove, they go in the opposite direction, to coerce both shock and elation at where it leads you.
Expander – Endless Computer
It invades your mind with the concept of a shapeless cosmic entity representing the pinnacle of technological advancement and seeking to take control of all atomic matter in the universe.
Connoisseur – Over The Edge
…the stoner anthems very much speak for themselves as the music kicks as much ass as humanly possible.
