Tag: 2015

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Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep

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 I’m going to try so much and not say the words “Linkin Park” in this because this album reviewed me so goddamn much of them. “The Mindsweep” isn’t exactly your typical metal band if your going for heaviness. Now if you know who Enter Shikari is then you know exactly what I’m talking about, but if you haven’t then you probably saw “Linkin Park” (I failed you, I’m not sorry) and either thought “Oh fuck”, “oh yes!”, or just simply “oh”. Well in my case since I was going in relatively blind about this band so it was just “oh”. … Continue reading Enter Shikari – The Mindsweep

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Dehuman – Graveyard of Eden

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 I’m gonna plop down some metal math in the form of equation on your asses. Old-school death metal + modern sound and feel + thrash + brutal 90s death metal + red-hot aggression = ??? Well the answer, my students, is Dehuman’s upcoming album “Graveyard of Eden”. This album is for those of you that I always hear saying, “They need to bring back 90’s death metal, man! It’s the shit!” You know who you are. But this album isn’t just that – it’s this collaboration of all these things that made death metal into what it was and what … Continue reading Dehuman – Graveyard of Eden

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Harrow – Fallow Fields

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 I’m gonna be straight up with you – I saw black and folk metal in the description for Harrow’s “Fallow Fields” and just hopped right on it. I love me some black metal. I love me some folk metal. And I love black/folk metal when it’s put together and done right. Now before I say anything else, both genres definitely were in “Fallow Fields” but there was more black metal than folk metal. The folk metal came in only acoustic parts of these 8+ minute songs even though I enjoyed them a lot, but I was really hoping for a more well … Continue reading Harrow – Fallow Fields

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Graveyard After Graveyard – Hellhound On My Tail

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 Supergroups. First thing that comes to mind? Myself, I have two bands that pop up at once: Hellyeah and Killer Be Killed. Now those two I’m just using as examples to put images and expectations in your heads for what Graveyard After Graveyard are like. Well take all those images and expectations and throw them out the fucking window. Now picture this: a trio of people who want to revolutionize and change all the rules that black/thrash/death metal revivalists have been doing it, but making their music intense from second one and making it live, breathe, and surge with power. I … Continue reading Graveyard After Graveyard – Hellhound On My Tail

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Comaniac – Return to the Wasteland

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 Thrash metal. That sums up what Comaniac’s debut album “Return to the Wasteland” is because that’s simply what it is. This Swiss-born thrash metal has that traditional fast paced everything that is signature to true thrash metal everywhere, but Comaniac has given a little bit of . . . aggression (I think that’d be the correct word) that I will admit has been done infinite times before now. However, for whatever reason Comaniac has managed to bring a fresh feel to it that, I’ve no idea why, felt like I haven’t heard done properly in a very long time. It … Continue reading Comaniac – Return to the Wasteland

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Heaving Earth – Denouncing the Holy Throne

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 This is so far the best blasphemous death metal album of this year that I’ve heard yet! Now I know it’s only been 22 days but just bare with me. “Denouncing the Holy Throne” by its name alone sounds like a brutal piece of death metal that is definitely blasphemous, and it’s true. But Heaving Earth have created the same sound of death metal but it has a different technicality to it that puts an amazing spin on the album which made this so much more better than other death metal albums much like this one where the band is … Continue reading Heaving Earth – Denouncing the Holy Throne

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Despondent – Awakening the Elder Gods

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 Holy. Fucking. Shit. I should’ve known what I was getting myself into when I simply just saw the band logo which I had a hard time reading. Now before I go any farther, I am normally not a fan of brutal death metal because it’s just too much for me personally in terms of brutality. I’m not saying it’s bad; it’s just not exactly my cup of death metal. But Despondent’s upcoming EP “Awakening the Elder Gods” may just very well be my favorite album of this subgenre. I’m not totally sure why. Maybe it’s because (I’m not saying it … Continue reading Despondent – Awakening the Elder Gods

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The Finite Beings – A Life to Come

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 I am personally not exactly the guy to go to for Christian metal/rock albums since not really a lot of them come across my path and when they do they are sadly sometimes not really noteworthy in my eyes. But the opposite is true for The Finite Beings’ latest album “A Life to Come” which has a great sound to it that can really hypnotize rock and metal listeners alike because this album has the fluid rhythm of a good rock album, and the proper amount of spice for us flexible metal listeners to be able to jam to real … Continue reading The Finite Beings – A Life to Come

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Putrid Offal – Mature Necropsy

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 Who knew that goregrind was a thing? Not me, obviously. But Putrid Offal’s upcoming album “Mature Necropsy” is an album that is by far the defining album of a genre and in this case that is goregrind. This album is like a super death punch to the face that then proceeds to slowly peel away your skin and then light you on fire because that’s how this album rolls and it gives a whole zero fucks. None of these songs are really considered long by any standards and that’s awesome because that puts all the brutality and hardcore that the … Continue reading Putrid Offal – Mature Necropsy

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Lord Dying – Poisoned Altars

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 Second album. Second goddamn album. I did not believe it at first when I saw that this was only Lord Dying’s second release because it sounds like they’ve been doing this for a long time with how fucking good “Poisoned Altars” is. When I first saw that cover I thought that this was either going to be a terrible album or an absolute beast, and thankfully it was the latter this time around. The riffs in all these songs made them some of the most catchy and awesome sounding death metal that I’ve heard in a while. This might cross over into … Continue reading Lord Dying – Poisoned Altars