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Leng Tch’e – Razorgrind Review

Back during my peak grindcore consumption, I fondly remember the now veteran Belgian grinders Leng Tch’e creating an impact with their deathly, groove-laced modern grind combo. The self-described...

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Septicflesh – Codex Omega Review

Something evil stirs beneath the Akropolis1. Runes begin glowing red in the deep tunnels beneath the temple. Animals scatter in panic as drums rise from the depths. Vendors in Anafiotika pray to their...

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Der Weg einer Freiheit – Finisterre Review

Expectations can be a real sonuvabitch for a music critic, and while I typically approach albums with a tempered outlook, my whirlwind relationship with Germany’s Der Weg einer Freiheit’s music made it...

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Cannabis Corpse – Left Hand Pass Review

Comprised of a line-up featuring a combined membership of various high profile bands, including Iron Reagan, Gatecreeper, Municipal Waste, and Six Feet Under, perpetual pun machine Cannabis Corpse have...

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Archspire – Relentless Mutation Review

The Lucid Collective may have made Archspire‘s career, but Relentless Mutation is the album that will make their legacy. Three years ago, Archspire‘s second record dropped, followed by the mandible of...

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Altarage – Endinghent Review

Altarage‘s debut turned quite a few tar-covered heads, each new adherent drawn in by its tendrils of sticky ooze, a concoction of lo-fi hideousness that languished in the bogs somewhere between Portal...

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Ne Obliviscaris – Urn Review

Ne Obliviscaris have proven one of the more controversial bands that I’ve reviewed during my incarceration tenure at AngryMetalGuy.com. My review of Citadel split the crowd with AMG Himself, an...

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Impureza – La Caída De Tonatiuh Review

Metal is like a sponge: capable of sucking up any foreign juices. Classical music? We’ve seen that thousands of times since before In The Nightside Eclipse. Country? Not too common, but there’s a...

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Auðn – Farvegir Fyrndar Review

There’s something about Iceland that’s producing quite a number of impressive black metal bands. From Zhrine through to Solstafir, the vast amount of atmospheric, trance-inducing black metal coming...

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Cloak – To Venomous Depths Review

I like myself a good homage, but Atlanta, Georgia upstarts Cloak are a bit of a weird one. Admittedly, I’m being presumptuous by calling them an homage act but, man, does their debut album ever recall...

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Sinistro – Sangue Cássia Review

Two years ago, both Grymm and myself were fairly impressed by Portuguese doom outfit Sinistro’s sophomore album, Semente. The band laid down an ambient, unobtrusive foundation for Patricia Andrade’s...

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Shining – X – Varg utan flock Review

Shining is remarkably long-lived if one considers mainman Niklas Kvarforth’s admonitions that everyone should commit suicide. Twenty years into Shining’s career, Varg utan flock (Wolf without [a] Pack)...

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Vulture Industries – Stranger Times [Things You Might Have Missed 2017]

Twenty-seventeen seems to be the year for writing pieces on some of my favorite bands of all time. But, unlike Amenra‘s horribly-depressing Mass VI, Vulture Industries‘ Stranger Times is a touch more...

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Hooded Menace – Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed Review

Furthering what is sure to be the metallic trend of 2018, Lasse Pyykkö has seen fit to bestow upon us another nexus of death-doom via that sinister shroud, Hooded Menace. Fifth album, Ossuarium...

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Philip H Anselmo & The Illegals – Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue Review

I try not to expect much from you people, but I think it’s safe to assume that one or two of you just may have heard of one Philip H. Anselmo, and this being the case you may (the ‘may’ is silent) have...

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Erdve – Vaitojimas Review

If your home country only has a whopping 172 bands documented on The Metal Archives, with roughly half of them split up or otherwise disbanded, there’s a decent chance that relatively few people have...

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Deathwhite – For a Black Tomorrow Review

Lest you’ve been living under a rock, you know Wintersun has spent the past few years hectoring long-suffering fans into paying for their personal recording studio and spa-works, cynically holding back...

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Drudkh – They Often See Dreams About the Spring Review

I don’t know how it happened, but there is no denying that atmospheric black metal has become relatively fucking huge. Stemming from a genre once staunchly rooted in its own obscurity, the freak...

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Nightmarer – Cacophony of Terror Review

A non-metal listening friend of mine recently posited a question that I’ve been pondering over the past week: “Are there any metal bands that aren’t heavy?” For a moment I was puzzled because he wasn’t...

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Glorior Belli – The Apostates Review

France: the last bastion of sophistication. Even its black metal has a sophisticated propulsion, its lyrical themes of the up-turned nose, deep in thought variety searing through deeply-challenging...

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