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Babylon Whores – King Fear (1999)
The relationship between rock and metal has always been one sided, with metal taking from rock and slowly discarding the influences until any relationship between the two ceased to exist.…
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Oni – Incantation Superstition (2023)
Oni were an Australian band that briefly existed between 1997 and 2003. During that period the band released two short demos and a few splits that featured songs from those…
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Sammath – Grebbeberg (2023)
Dutch black metal legends Sammath return with their latest offering Grebbeberg and unlike most bands that have been releasing music for over 25 years, Sammath still maintain the same passion…
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Hastur Evocation – When Bestial Moans Compose a Sweet Symphony (1996)
Italy's scene of gothic infused extreme metal has given us a few classics over the years but also a large number of bands that would show some potential before disbanding…
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Gorgoroth – Gorgoroth: Climax Analysis
Gorgoroth's second album is often considered to be their magnum opus and one of the greatest Norwegian black metal albums despite coming out significantly later than the other recognized classics…
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HS: Lelahel (Lelahell, Litham, Aash and much more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRk3xf9j-Fo&t=86s&ab_channel=HessianFirm Nick is joined Lelahel who has been one of the major driving forces of Algerian and North African metal since the 90s. Conversations revolve around his unique use of…
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Beatrik – Requiem of December (2005)
Beatrìk are an Italian black metal duo that released a few demos and a pair of albums in the early 2000s before unceremoniously disbanding to form other projects. While the…
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Interview: Robert Sennebäck (Dismember, Unhallow)
While most early Swedish Death metal in the early 90s was very simplistic and featured a lot of hard rock influence, Like an Everflowing Stream was much more technically proficient…
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Noctis – Out of the Shadow of Legend (1998)
With the end of the LLN movement, French black metal saw a shift towards more refined playing and a celebration of French culture from the middle-ages that was entrenched in…
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Mindly Rotten – The Most Exquisite Agonies (2005)
Mindly Rotten are a Colombian brutal death metal and while this has certain connotations, musically this bears non of the trademarks of latin brutal death metal and instead opts for…