SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL – “Grizzly” (Review)
For those who have made our nests in a particular family of subgenres, some pros and cons come with the territory. The pros are that we keep our fingers on…
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Saif Shaikh
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"Engineer, Doctor, Guitarist, Writer"
BORN OF OSIRIS – “Through Shadown” (Review)
Watching the progress of some bands sure do make you feel old, a grizzled veteran of the genre. Born of Osiris is one of those bands. I got into them…
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MALEVOLENCE – “Where Only The Truth Is Spoken” (Review)
Metalcore gets a bad rap. Modern metalcore doubly so. Accusations of over-produced gimmicky Instagram-flavor-of-the-week artists chasing the latest trend on TikTok quickly spread into the genre, for every one great…
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CRYPTOPSY – “An Insatiable Violence” (Review)
Fans of niche metal genres are fickle beasts. They can be champions of your art, touting it to anyone who would hear, screaming praise from the mountaintop, until you release…
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FALLUJAH – “Xenotaph” (Review)
As a reviewer, I feel a nostalgic sense of accomplishment and contentment when I realize that I have been doing this for long enough to review multiple records of a…
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VILDHJARTA – “Dar Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar” (Review)
The Swedes in Vildhjarta (Wildheart) are back four years after their last record, to serenade us with a new sprawling journey with Dar Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Granar (Where the…
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RETROMORPHOSIS – “Psalmus Mortis” (Review)
There are only a handful of times that a band comes along and revolutionizes a genre, or standardizes it such that scores of future bands continue to imitate their techniques…
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OBSCURA – “A Sonication” (Review)
Technical death metal is a fickle beast. It attracts the most creative, the most talented, and the most achieved musicians from various parts of the globe, and mashes them together…
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HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY – “Scorched Earth” (Review)
Another year, another revolution of our tiny planet around the sun, another attempt to pigeonhole Vienna’s Harakiri For The Sky into a single genre. Even a combination of genres would…
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FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY – “The Nothing That Is” (Review)
It’s your resident deathcore nerd with another nitpicky review of one of the most consistent bands in the scene, Fit For An Autopsy. I last offered up a review for…
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