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CHATS
Total: 630 articles (latest: May 6, 2012)
Scott Kelly: The Searcher
Neurosis. Before the mid-'90s, that single word might not have sent tremors through the extreme music audience, but it sure as shit should now. The band has chewed up barriers like Popeye chews up spinach, each swallow making them stronger and more ferocious.
Avichi: The Devil's Triad
Judd Madden: Fathoms Below
Wolves in the Throne Room: In the Aftermath
Altar of Plagues: Moving Forward
Liturgy: Scattered Like Landmines
Black Tusk: Swamp Things
Aerial Ruin: Death From Above
Miasmal: Living Forever
Falkenbach: ...Where His Ravens Fly...
Weedeater: Accidents Will Happen
EDITORIAL
Total: 15 articles (latest: December 13, 2010)
Weathering the Wicked
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Adrian Bromley
GIGS
Total: 223 articles (latest: November 1, 2011)
The Devin Townsend Project / The Ocean / Rome Apart Ziltoid Invasion, Good Vibrations
Ulver / Virus / Zweizz The Wolves Appear on Stage
Rotting Christ / Melechesh / Abigail Williams / Lecherous Nocturne / The Ziggurat The Gates of Sumeria
Agalloch / Worm Ouroboros / Vindensang / Aeriel Ruin The Gods in Ruins
Finntroll / Ensiferum / Barren Earth / Rotten Sound Finnish Pride Parade
RANTS
Total: 51 articles (latest: March 4, 2012)
Withstanding the March of Time: 1991
The best albums of 2011 have been elected. Now it's time to go back in time for a look at the very best 1991 had to offer, and their present day relevance.
Best Albums of 2011
Statistical trends are unearthed while two bands fight to leave the lower steps of the podium and grab their first CoC Album of the Year award.
Polarized
The Lesser Six
Withstanding the March of Time
ALBUMS
Total: 5625 articles (latest: May 6, 2012)
Meshuggah - Koloss
Meshuggah could have carved no better name into this massive monstrosity. _Koloss_ drops with the force of a thousand stone-skinned giants sporting jackhammers for legs and nuclear warhead-lined knuckles.
Liberteer - Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees
What to make of Matt Widener's Liberteer, whose Relapse debut might best be described as epic grind? There's space cleared for groove. Non-metal instruments emerge more than occasionally. And, to be sure, this thing is grind as fuck.
The Meads of Asphodel - The Murder of Jesus the Jew
Many a black metal horde has peddled blasphemies from snow-crusted crags and poorly ventilated basements, but few have achieved so eloquent (and, again, bizarre) a manifesto as _The Murder of Jesus the Jew_.
Blood Stain Child - Epsilon
Melodic. Female-fronted. Electro-pop. Metalcore. From Japan. Doll-faced, pink-haired robo-babe on the cover. Obvious male screamo backing vokills. Nothing on that list rests comfortably next to regular pastimes like pig destroying, goatwhoring, or cattle decapitating. Except, you know, it kinda does.
Savage Messiah - Plague of Conscience
While _Insurrection Rising_ was a raw and ferocious serving of pure thrash, _Plague of Conscience_ is a more melodic and vocal album with a more measured delivery that successfully keeps the bar high and proud for retro-thrash.
Iron Maiden - En Vivo!
There are many things this live album/DVD intends to do. Most importantly, the record intends to package an experience much in the same way concert films did in the past.
Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
amazing name aside, Timeghoul was an unsigned Midwestern American death metal band who existed, professionally, for the great expanse of two years. The only reason why I am stressing the oddity of Timeghoul's history is the band could have been in the same arena as Atheist, Pestilence or Autopsy. Fate, however, is a fickle and cruel mistress.
Hands of Despair - Hereafter
The Opeth influence is readily apparent, and not in some lickspittle genre-aping mimicry. Côté wields formidable songwriting chops, and his talent for blending numerous complementary ideas into forms both moving and vicious makes for engaging musical statements of truly Opethian length.
Goatwhore - Blood for the Master
_Blood for the Master_ lasts for thirty-four minutes and it is heavily loaded with chugging riffs and pounding drums. This is a band that doesn't need lengthy tracks or scattered interludes to make its point.
Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
Explosions in the Sky vs. Gorgoroth. Why not? Red Sparowes vs. Leviathan? Bingo.
Sleep - Dopesmoker
The 2012 edition of _Dopesmoker_ is almost indistinguishable from its 2003 version. Usually, any album not bootstrapped with new material is never worth the time of day. _Dopesmoker_ is different, as its age and legacy is more than enough to warrant a reissue nine, fifteen and a hundred years from now.
7 16 - Deep Cuts From Dark Clouds
5 Cynic - The Portal Tapes
7 Derelict - Perpetuation
7.5 Hellvetron - Death Scrolls of Seven Hells and Its Infernal Majesties
7 Impiety - Ravage and Conquer
7.5 Narrows - Painted
6 Pelican - Ataraxia / Taraxis
7 Pestilential Shadows - Depths
5 Uaigneas - Buì
6.5 Worm Oroborous - Come the Thaw
9 Aenygmist - Creation Born of Trauma
2 Beneath the Massacre - Incongruous
8 Black Sheep Wall - No Matter Where It Ends
7.5 Deschain - Sea of Trees, Forest of Gallows
7 Dimesland - Creepmoon
7 Encoffination - O' Hell, Shine in Thy Whited Sepulchres
6.5 Job for a Cowboy - Demonocracy
8 Judd Madden - Doomgroove
8.5 King Giant - Dismal Hollow
7 MAKE - Trephine
DEMOS
Total: 695 articles (latest: May 6, 2012)
Secrets of the Sky - Sunrise / Winter
Secrets of the Sky have crafted a keyboard-enhanced death march that treads the muddy (bloody) terrain between doomy old-school tones of terror and an Isis-style climb toward their higher selves.
4.5 Jupiter's Wake - Temporal Slide
4 Chromes - And Here My Disgust Begins
3.5 Lion Splicer - Slicer
4 Solothus - Ritual of the Horned Skull
4 Logistic Slaughter - Demo 2011
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