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FROSTED UNDERGROWTH - Unchained
With Frosted Undergrowth the German label Folter Records has a new promising band in its roster who cannot take down a one-man...
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AGNOSTIC FRONT - Echoes In Eternity
The NYHC OG's, Agnostic Front are back! Cocked, loaded and ready drop payloads of true fucking Hardcore on your heads in the way...
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THRON - Vurias
Boom, that was quite a surprise when the promo flew into my mailbox. Clandestine and in absolute silence German Thron are back...
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OBSCURA - A Sonication
A Sonication is a nice example of the sound created by this outfit. There are many complex segments and technical passages to be...
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HAIMAD - When Night Rode Across The North
The Golden Age of Melodic Black Metal - a storied era when some of the genre's greatest music was being created: Dissection,...
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SURGICAL STRIKE - 24/7 Hate
It might have been the partial conceptual resemblance to Toxik's flawed masterwork Think This, but when I first caught sight of...
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HOODED MENACE - Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration
Masterminded by Veteran Finnish DM'er, Harri Kuokkanen, and realized over an affinity for horror films, the renowned Hooded...
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MORS PRINCIPIUM EST - Darkness Invisible
This new album features a very melodic style that is perhaps the culmination of their past and is quite powerful with its...
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DESTRUCTION RITUAL - Providence
You know what bands I miss? Antaeus and Aosoth. Yes, the French black metal bands fronted by MkM, which came to prominence in the...
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CRUENTATION - Damned Fallen Angels
I have often said that US black metal is a varied, if scattershot phenomenon, mainly because throughout the years American black...
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DEVASTATOR - Conjurers Of Cruelty
If it's true that the purest form of thrash metal (thus excluding all the more ambitious modern masterworks I hold deep in my...
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DARK ANGEL - Extinction Level Event
Ah… uh… oh my God… how the hell to begin? Should I start with the obvious that this album is no new "Darkness Descends", no "Time...
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RIFFORIA - Axeorcism
In a scene saturated with a plethora of up-and-coming acts, young thrash bands need to immediately step up their game, in order...
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ALMOST DEAD - Destruction Is All We Know
So, a couple of years ago, after having spotted an Almost Dead show close to me, supporting none less than Atheist, and...
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DISSIMULATOR - Lower Form Resistance
In the world there are some things one can always find room for, and killer tech-death/thrash bands with sci-fi/technology themes...
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