REVIEW: BETRAYING THE MARTYRS – “Rapture”
With metalcore becoming one of the best examples of a metal subgenre gradually morphing into an increasingly crowded room year on year with the sheer number of bands crafting their…
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Jack Toresen
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Jack is Metal Wani's thrash head, with a 1982 Bay Area metal mentality planted in the brain of a 90s baby. One to never pass up the opportunity to listen to Slayer or Exodus, he spends most of his free time standing at the edge of the mosh pit as one should always do.
FESTIVAL REVIEW: DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2019 Live at Donington Park, UK – Day 3 (Sunday)
Festivals sometimes have a bizarre knack for feeling like you’ve been there for longer than you actually have while at the same time it’s already the final day of music…
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2019 Live at Donington Park, UK – Day 1 (Friday)
And with the arrival of June marks the beginning of the festival season in the UK for another year, which means that the first major event on the itinerary is…
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2019 Live at Donington Park, UK – Day 2 (Saturday)
With Def Leppard’s Friday night headline performance now behind everyone in attendance at Download 2019, it was now time for the second day of music to kick off. The prospect…
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REVIEW: ORIGIN – “Abiogenesis – A Coming Into Existence”
Throughout the numerous stylistic and musically creative changes that metal and heavy music, in general, has experienced over the course of the past 20 years, many groups have existed predominantly…
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REVIEW: WHILE SHE SLEEPS – “So What?”
2017’s ‘You Are We’ marked new territory for the British metalcore quintet While She Sleeps, based off the popularity of single “Silence Speaks” featuring Bring Me the Horizon frontman Oliver…
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REVIEW: FLOTSAM & JETSAM – “The End Of Chaos”
Throughout thrash metal’s almost 40 years of history beginning in the early 1980s, many bands have passed through the genre’s doors enjoying varying amounts of success. Some broke through the…
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REVIEW: BORN OF OSIRIS – “The Simulation”
The beginning of 2019 marks the release of a new record from American prog-metal/djent frontrunners Born of Osiris entitled ‘The Simulation’. With the group’s previous full-length studio album ‘Soul Sphere’…
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REVIEW: ARCHITECTS – “Holy Hell”
Even in a modern musical climate where big album releases justifiably or unjustifiably get receive significant hype, the prospect of a new record from UK metalcore giants Architects is legitimately…
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REVIEW: TERRORIZER – “Caustic Attack”
Lots of bands have come and gone through the musically vicious echelons of extreme metal over the course of the genre’s long, varied and complex history, but few acts have…
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