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FAT BASTARD – Junk Yard Fest
Fat Bastard 2018 Belgian band’s second offering brings about an array of raw delights for body and soul. If you think it’s difficult to be furious about affairs of the heart because they make one...
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ORPHAN SKIN DISEASES – Dreamy Reflections
Logic Il Logic 2018 Artificial rage and pretentious anguish from Appenninian ensemble who seem to misplace their leanings but are still able to locate their wings. Debut albums don’t have to be...
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APE SHIFTER – II
Brainstorm 2019 Second sonic transmogrification of German group whose idea of conformism lies in finding the right rules to bend. The best way to elicit a blank stare from six-stringer Jeff Aug and...
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LEGION – Rising
Rock Company 2019 Higher and higher, British heavyweights hit the mark to find the sky’s the limit. One of a multitude of metal units with the same name, this ensemble have occupied colorful end of a...
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DER BLUTHARSCH – Wish I Weren’t Here
WKN 2019 Austrian ensemble embrace immaculate concentration to will their dark desires into existence. This record comes with a warning, requiring an altered state of mind from the listener eager to...
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TANK – Re-Ignition
Deadline 2019 Heavy metal stalwarts glance at their glorious past to shine what wasn’t really patinated. It’s always a little bit pointless to be recording your old songs anew to reflect a personnel...
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THOR – Hammer Of Justice
Deadline 2019 Charting his way back to the future, heavyweight avenger ups the gavel game. Perhaps, Jon Mikl has spread his sonic palette too thin by following up on 2018’s with an offering that’s...
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PESACH CHAIM – Jewish Heavy Metal Music
Philip H. Dolinsky 2016 A wing, a prayer and flying guitars. With a little help from above, orthodox man gives heft to his hopes. Group homes and abuse, homelessness and mental hospitals: there was a...
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ELECTRIC FUNERAL – The Wild Performance
Vandisk 1991 / Sommor 2019 Swiss ensemble whose sound was so raw the listener may have indigestion issues – back in 1970 and nowadays – yet no proto-metal regrets whatsoever. When it came to heavy...
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LUCIFER WAS – Underground And Beyond
Record Heaven 1997 / Sommor 2019 Stalwarts of Norwegian heavy stage get resurrected and bring evil from the past. While it was in the late ’90s that Scandinavia became infamous for its metal scene,...
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THE DRIFTWOOD SIGN – Broken Times
The Driftwood Sign 2019 Capping off their first decade, Swedish foursome serve up debut album and pitch riffs into social relevance. When former members of popular local collectives threw in their lot...
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THOR – Rising
Deadline 2020 Valhalla can wait, as the heavenly noisemaker roams the earth and roars for kicks. It must be perceived as a challenge this artist loves so much: while many of his coevals slow down and...
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FROM HELL – Rats & Ravens
Scourge 2020 American metal mainstays fly through the night on the dark wings of devilish creatures. “Hell ain’t a bad place to be”: singer Aleister Sinn can wholeheartedly agree with this statement,...
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EPHEMERAL – VII
Ephemeral 201 Death metal debutants deliver concise report on cardinal sins. While it would be simple to assume “VII” is this Thessaloniki trio’s seventh offering, their first record’s titular numeral...
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HANOVER FIST – HF III
Hanover Fist 2020 North Carolinian merchants of metal come back with a vengeance to stomp on a shaky ground. It took this collective four first years of their existence, which started in 1996, to...
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BROKENRAIL – Beautiful Chaos
Cleopatra 2020 American heavyweights try to find method to the current madness and end up with more questions than answers. A decade on since their debut record was out, this Alabaman bunch bring on...
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VELOCIHAMSTER – Balls To The Wall
Born Free, Then Caged Music 2021 Lapping up this endeavor’s initial success, American player elevates his game to a new layer of melodic delights. That’s not easy to steer a lap steel guitar into an...
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SKOLD – Dies Irae
Cleopatra 2021 No more riding shotgun, Swedish multi-instrumentalist takes charge and does a demon dance on emotional ruins. Marking his fifty-fifth anniversary and the twenty-fifth anniversary of his...
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DEREV – Leap Of Faith
Derev 2021 Canadian heavy prog engineers bring forth the first fruit of their lockdown efforts for all to savor. “Derev” means “leaf” in Armenian, the language which Armando Bablanian and Michel...
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THOR – Alliance
Deadline 2021 Canadian heavyweight laces his team’s clangor with musical flavors from lesser mortals and restores his might with a lot of gusto. Lately, Thor’s hammer seemed to have been losing its...
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