Review: Suicidal Angels – Years Of Aggression
Sometimes I just want to listen to thrash metal. Typically that’s what one of my favourite European bands, Suicidal Angels, deliver.
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Review: Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
Slipknot burst into the world with a spotless three-album run between 1999 and 2004. Albums four and five, while both have their own substance and virtues, emerged from different parts of the Slipknot psyche.
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Revisiting .5: The Gray Chapter by Slipknot
It’s never been an easy ride for Slipknot. In 2019 their album build-up was scarred by unspeakable tragedy and the band’s internal combustibility. The effects of that might someday make it into the music. It wouldn’t be the first time.
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Revisiting Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) by Slipknot
Slipknot albums typically enjoy the same review cycle. Some reviewers aren’t keen but they average out at seven or eight out of ten before eventually finding their rightful place in the band’s pantheon.
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Revisiting Slipknot by Slipknot
Where to even begin with Slipknot’s self-titled 1999 album?
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Review: Violent Life Violent Death – Sadness Rains
There aren’t many bands around at the moment that excite me more than Violent Life Violent Death.
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Metallica’s St Anger on trial: the prosecution
There are certain rites of passage that every Metallica fan experiences regardless of when they discover the greatest metal band there’s ever been.
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Review: Death Angel – Humanicide
You’ve heard of the Big Four of thrash metal. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax. Four names scratched into history without dispute.
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Review: Employed To Serve – Eternal Forward Motion
Employed To Serve go harder. You know that. I know that. They know that. So it’s no surprise that album number three totally slams.
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Review: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – End Of Suffering
When I read a review of this album that compared Frank Carter to Ed Sheeran’s evil twin brother you could have poached an egg in my piss.
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Review: Otoboke Beaver – Itekoma Hits
There are some wonderful bands in and from Japan. But too many of those who make a mark in the western mainstream conform to the western mainstream’s dying genres, offering nothing of their homeland.
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Review: Chokehold – With This Thread I Hold On
Chokehold’s last full-length album was released in 1995 so it’s fair to say I was a little young to have a grasp of Canadian hardcore last time they put out a record.
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