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White Mantis – Fukkin’ Demo

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 As I enter into the third straight day of listening to new thrash metal, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are plenty of good thrash metal bands out there. Some are fast. Some are raw. Some are both. White Mantis is both. Their debut album, “Fukkin’ Demo”, is, as you might’ve guessed from the album’s cover art, here to only punch faces and leave your sorry ass in the dust to wonder what the fuck just happened. Now I’m not sure if this is an actual demo as it sounds like it’s gone through the studio and been through tuning and … Continue reading White Mantis – Fukkin’ Demo

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Desolate Pathway – Valley of the King

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 Never once has it ever crossed my mind to imagine what would happened if you were to mix quality doom metal with very well done folk/epic metal, but Desolate Pathway’s debut “Valley of the King” shows exactly what that would sound like and it is epic to say in the absolute least! The slower pace of these doom guitars along with the epic metal theme of a great prince going on a long, perilous journey to reclaim his throne with each of the 8 tracks telling of the trials and the difficulties that he went through in order to reach … Continue reading Desolate Pathway – Valley of the King

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Isenmor – Land of the Setting Sun

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 The cover alone is what gave me confidence that this as a folk metal album was definitely going to be something special, and thankfully it was. Isenmor’s debut album “Land of the Setting Sun” is such that every folk metal fan everywhere should find several things to like out of this 5-track album. These songs chant along to tales of glorious battle, the drink of the gods (that would be mead), sorrow, and marvelous adventure across the seas. You know, ancient people stuff. All the songs off of “Land of the Setting Sun” are absolutely beautiful and the melodies that are … Continue reading Isenmor – Land of the Setting Sun

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Winterfire – The Beckoning Silence

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 Melodic metal always takes me back to Disturbed just because they’re my favorite melodic metal band and I listen to them on a daily basis, so they’re always fresh in my brain. But Winterfire’s debut album “The Beckoning Silence” is an album with lengthy tracks (3-7 minutes long) that impresses with each track as you continue into the album that might be the new Disturbed for some people, not for me however even though this is a very solid album. All 11 tracks have a cool, flowing sound to them that is very smooth and dynamic at once which is … Continue reading Winterfire – The Beckoning Silence

Atmospheric, Black, Metal1 Comment

Feign – Lost to Eternity

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 I cannot begin to explain how much I love one man bands. These are the guys who are the essence of the term “if you want to do something right, do it yourself”. And this guy who made Feign just adds more to my faith in people like him who are determined to make awesome metal, and “Lost to Eternity” is so much more than what I had expected. The whole album has that atmospheric feel to it (shocker) while also being raw and intensely black metal with the doom metal element of long songs with one running over 9 … Continue reading Feign – Lost to Eternity

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Give Albums a Chance

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I recently had a very interesting discussion with a fellow metal head that I feel like it applies all too well and happens a lot more than we may realize. It happens everywhere. It happened in the 80s. It happened last year. What happened you ask? People who hear an up-and-coming band’s debut album or whatever albums they have out, and then have the balls to say that “they should only make this kind of music from now on”, that’s what. It may not seem as big of a problem as you may realize, you may have even done this … Continue reading Give Albums a Chance

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Plain (self-titled)

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 Despite the band/album name making you have an idea of what the music will be like straight from the get-go, Plain’s self-titled debut album has a solid sound to it that many hard rock and metal fans can enjoy as I have. While I don’t think Plain brings anything totally new and mind blowing to the table, they do modify that feel we all know when we hear a good hard rock song/album but it’s different so that it’s not just that copy and paste music that is dreadfully overused today. This album has plenty of riffs to through at … Continue reading Plain (self-titled)

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No Man’s Throne – Revealed in Ruin

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 Usually when you see an album cover like that the first thought you have isn’t normally “that looks like a good thrash metal album!”, but more of a “what the hell is this?” But as you might have guessed by now, that first one is true because this debut album from No Man’s Throne is nothing to scoff at when it comes down to good thrash metal. “Revealed In Ruin” is a very well done album by a band that clearly knows what kind of sound they want and how to do it expertly. This entire album is fast, loud, … Continue reading No Man’s Throne – Revealed in Ruin

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Vasomortus – Instrument Torture of Pyramid

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 Brutal death metal is something that not a lot of bands can make sound good and make it something that it can be heard by just normal metal fans like myself. Vasomortus’ debut album “Instrument Torture of Pyramid” is a brutal (obviously) album that really cranks up the death metal as their genre is wont to do, but they refine their’s in a way that while I still couldn’t understand shit of what was being said, I still found the brutality of it to be amazing and wondrous at once. Down to the cover art this album is a deadly … Continue reading Vasomortus – Instrument Torture of Pyramid

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Cognitive (self-titled)

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 I think that just by looking at the cover art that we can all agree that this is some intense death metal. Cognitive’s self-titled debut album really shows that this band has a goal: to make the best death metal that they can while emphasizing the “death” as much as possible. And so far with this album, they’re doing pretty damn good. This album straight from the get-go comes out at you with all guns blazing, kicking names, and making your goddamn ears bleed. Each song off of this is hardcore and intense in every sort of way when it … Continue reading Cognitive (self-titled)