March 21 2008 at 02:48:27 AM
Subliminal Genocide jars loose convenient repressions from aesthetics lectures: Is creativity truly part and parcel to art? Is repetitive creation aesthetic yield or commercial duplication? Chin scratchers the lot of them, and Xasthur’s latest—and last three for that matter—are salient point and fact for any pipe smoking, tweed wearing semiotician worth their salt.
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March 21 2008 at 02:45:18 AM
The return.
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March 21 2008 at 02:38:58 AM
Glorior Belli’s Infestuus provides the “star power” for Wolfe, a three-man outfit that mopes through seven long tracks of painfully incessant melancholy
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March 21 2008 at 02:33:51 AM
I'm convinced that only Europeans and the embittered still enjoy Heavy Metal.
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March 21 2008 at 02:10:52 AM
Contrary to this record’s title, Throneum has been around for six years, wreaking havoc with taut and genuinely aggressive Death Metal that benefits greatly from a refreshing enthusiasm and devotion to the genre’s war chest.
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March 21 2008 at 01:52:44 AM
Recorded in 2004, mastered in 2006 and repackaged by the excellent Paradigms label, Throne of Katarsis works further to blur the line between Folk and Black Metal by moving effortlessly from electric to classical acoustic guitar, resubmitting the same riffs in interesting and provocative ways.
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March 21 2008 at 01:38:48 AM
East meets West in a recording short on ideas and long on time.
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March 21 2008 at 01:22:39 AM
Despite the efforts of some to convince Americans that Sweden is not populated entirely by the offspring of Jonas Persson, the country's musical export, with the ritual-suicide of Dissection front-man Jon Nodveidt not yet sponged from memory, continues to power such grisly mythology.
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March 21 2008 at 01:18:35 AM
These Swedes get together and make it right
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March 21 2008 at 01:14:47 AM
The three dents that make up England’s Moss donate two sprawling tracks that are positively dance floor friendly compared to their full length,
Chthonic Rites.
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