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Underoath – Erase Me
9/10 Anyone who was worried that an eight year gap between albums may have softened Underoath’s touch can breathe a sigh of relief. Erase Me is definitely more polished than anything from the earlier half […]
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Ministry – Amerikkant
5.5/10 Do you ever look at something and think, “How did you fuck that up?” Whether it’s an Ikea chair, a bowl of KD or a democratic electoral system, some things end up being ruined […]
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Ænimus – The Final Warning
7.5/10 From the experimental days of early black-metal through the rise of death- and grind-metal subgenres, Sweden has always played an important role in the development of different styles and approaches to heavy music. On […]
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Agnesis – In Places We Keep
5/10 In the mystical, magical land of Perth, Australia lives a progressive rock/metal act by the name of Agnesis. For fans of more symphonically charged progressive music, like that of the mighty Opeth, both the […]
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The Blacktones – The Day We Shut Down The Sun
8/10 The funny thing about the type of doomy sludge metal that The Blacktones peddle is that the genre, despite at its core being a retread of the formula Black Sabbath laid out decades ago, […]
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Windhand and Satan’s Satyrs – Split EP
10/10 Windhand and Satan’s Satyrs, two of Virginia’s heaviest outfits, come together on one split to deliver an absolutely crushing hand of heavy music. Released February 16th, 2018 on Relapse Records, the split delivers a […]
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The Slaughter Slits – Ripped, Raped, and Torn Apart
4/10 Let’s just get this out of the way first: The Slaughter Slits have one of the most abhorrent names in all of music. It’s difficult to get past, especially since their debut album’s title, […]
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Satanic – Architecture of Chaos
6/10 It’s not that I don’t enjoy the ideas in Satanic’s latest release Architecture of Chaos. The 15-year-old me loves the unfettered rage – fuck the world, death to all but metal, all that good […]
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Mouthbreather – Pig
7.5/10 “Nasty, brutish and short” was a phrase written by Thomas Hobbes in 1651. Little did Hobbes know, 360 years ago, that he had just written the perfect description of Boston grindcore act Mouthbreather ’s […]
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Agrimonia – Awaken
5/10 Agrimonia is the most recent band I’ve been introduced to that comes from the great country of Sweden. Their fourth release, Awaken, is complete with brutal vocals, solid musicianship, and an overall dark ambience […]