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Ignispace – Rise Beyond
6/10 I can never keep a smile off my face when I hear the familiar high vocals, epic lyrics, and swift guitars of power metal. That being said, it often falls short of reaching its […]
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Nervcast – Locked and Loaded
4/10 Do you like Metallica? Like, really, really like Metallica? Because these fellas sure seem to. Nervcast is a Toronto, ON thrash metal band, here with their 2017 debut EP Locked and Loaded. The band […]
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Light Among Shadows – Under the Waves
5/10 The beauty of metal often lies in the endless ways you can mold your music. One band could be playing a more brutal breed of metal, while others, like Light Among Shadows, rely on […]
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Aexylium – Tales From This Land
9/10 Aexylium is a folk–metal band that sprang from Varese, Italy in 2014. They play in the bardic-Celtic, tradition of folk music to be precise. The group consists of eight members who produce an authentic, […]
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Sairen – Neige Nuit
10/10 Sairen is my new favourite musical discovery. His music impressed me before I even started to listen to it. Any Frenchman described as “a music composer who draws influence from classical compositions and blurs […]
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Wolvhammer – The Monuments of Ash & Bone
8/10 The Monuments of Ash & Bone is the fourth full-length release from American black metal band Wolvhammer. The latest in a long line of releases, including several splits and EPs from the band, The […]
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Amorphis – Queen of Time
8/10 Helsinki, Finland- a place of beauty and grace and all things fucking metal and weird (or at least weird to my basic Canadian ass). A great many iconic names in the death-folk/melodeath communities have […]
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A Coup De Grace – Tyrannicide
7/10 Emerging from Green Bay, Wisconsin, A Coup De Grace plays odes to multiple waves of deathcore from the first wave of melodic power-running to the latest form of ultra-aggressive tendencies. Their latest EP, Tyrannicide, […]
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YOB – Our Raw Heart
9/10 YOB is love. They’re also one big walking contradiction. How else can you describe a band that can write ten-minute doom epics about their frontman’s life-threatening medical crisis and somehow make them feel uplifting? […]
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Ghostblood – Honey, I Raised the Dead
7/10 Often times, metal albums lose themselves in their image. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a good image, especially when it links to the occult, but sometimes the music loses its importance […]