Review: Opium Lord – Vore
Bands from Birmingham and the surrounding areas have at their disposal the great promotional privilege of touting themselves as originating from the home of heavy metal.
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Review: Tool – Fear Inoculum
There’s something about Tool that sets them apart. Maybe it’s creativity. Maybe it’s mystery. Maybe it’s aloofness, or production, or sheer musical proficiency.
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Review: SeeYouSpaceCowboy – The Correlation Between Entrance And Exit Wounds
There aren’t a lot of bands riding the hype train as effectively as SeeYouSpaceCowboy in 2019. Their first record of the year was a collection of odds and sods that happened to fucking slap.
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Review: Renounced – Beauty Is A Destructive Angel
Some record labels become synonymous with quality. They build a back catalogue so strong that, when they put something new out, you trust that it will hit the spot. Think Roadrunner Records in the 1990s.
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Playlist: TD0919
For our ninth Spotify playlist of 2019 we’re simply smashing together a bunch of bangers old and new.
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Playlist: TD0819
For our eighth Spotify playlist of 2019 we’ve delved into the heyday of the Big Four for a 1980s thrashageddon.
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The Decayist 025: Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Weaving a narrative through an album is a surefire way to at least make it noteworthy. Most bands are shite at it. Some are better.
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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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Slipknot Podcast: You Can’t Kill Me Season 1
The inaugural season of our Slipknot podcast is now available wherever you eat ya podcasts.
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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 All Hope Is Gone by Slipknot
Most bands, no matter who they are, end up putting out a record somewhere along the line that doesn’t quite hit the mark. When it comes to Slipknot, that record is All Hope Is Gone.
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