March 23 2008 at 10:02:09 AM
Despite Seldon Hunt's involvement, Oz's Whitehorse manages to shirk boring pretension or unpalatable post-rock tropes and offer two discs of Doom Metal the likes of which no one's heard since Winter walked the earth with concrete feet.
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March 23 2008 at 09:57:51 AM
The posthumous compiling of Vomit's only recordings, first laid down on tape between 1986-87, disinters one of the rarest and most foul voices in Death Metal.
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March 23 2008 at 09:52:47 AM
Victimizer’s latest Thrash-attacking, B-movie ejaculation
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March 23 2008 at 09:47:35 AM
Perhaps the only USBM act truly deserving of their legendary and genre defining status
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March 23 2008 at 09:41:17 AM
From Copenhagen, where bloody, Molotov soaked clashes between the polity and civilian street armies count as weekend recreation, comes Nuclear Death Terror, with no nobler conditions for mayhem.
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March 23 2008 at 09:33:22 AM
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." And so it goes… The addition of vocalist Mortuus, née Arioch, has allowed Sweden's Marduk to do something it had not done since '99's
Panzer Division Marduk: record a decent album.
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March 23 2008 at 09:30:57 AM
Go, Jim Dandy! Go, Jim Dandy! Harvey Milk went and did a novel thing: right before they sunk their own goddamned ship they recorded an album for no one so much as themselves, fattened on Southern boogie and unrepentant paeans to prick-hugging '70s stage stalkers.
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March 23 2008 at 09:28:05 AM
I couldn't see the road. Streetlights were snuffed; traffic lights swung in the wind, their yellow caution illuminating nothing so much. Rain, heavy rain—and hail—fell from the sky. We had run out of beer and had headed out for more, a map and destination scribbled in felt pen on a flyer. A case of beer and countless nitrous oxide balloons later, three skinny, acne-pocked dorks took the stage.
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March 23 2008 at 09:25:23 AM
A re-release of demo and live recordings by this group, billed as PA's first full-fledged death metal band, whose members later went on to Blood Storm and Immolation.
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March 23 2008 at 09:19:48 AM
For the last couple of years, Greg Anderson's Southern Lord has made a concerted, if not amusing effort to assemble a "formidable" stable of Black Metal acts—Orcustus, Tangorodrim and Urgehal among them. The predictable addition of France's Glorior Belli caught few by surprise, as greater bands—Watain and Deathspell Omega—eluded Southern Lord's monopoly of mediocrity. Without coincidence, Glorior Belli assumed shameless Watain aping on its first full-length,
O' Laudate Dominus.
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