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Album Review: MOTÖRHEAD – Clean Your Clock (Live in Munich 2015)
MOTÖRHEAD! LEMMY KILMISTER! The two names that forged a unique sound and thrust it upon the music world – the…
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Album Review: BLUES PILLS – Lady In Gold
Written by Gareth Franklin There seems to be a bit of a recurring theme with my reviews recently. No, I…
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Album Review: MESHIAAK – Alliance of Thieves
Alliance of Thieves demonstrates that top-tier musicianship is only one asset of a supergroup. Meshiaak also exhibits strong writing abilities…
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Album Review: STEVEN TYLER – We’re All Somebody From Somewhere
Back in 2009, Steven Tyler was quoted in Classic Rock magazine, "I don't know what I'm doing yet, but it's…
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Album Review: CANE HILL – Smile
One definition of the world “subtle” is “delicately complex and understated.” Cane Hill‘s debut album, Smile, is the exact opposite…
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Album Review: PERIPHERY – Periphery III: Select Difficulty
Periphery have always been an odd band. A jumbled mix of djent, metalcore, prog rock, technical metal, and a dash…
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Album Review: DESPISED ICON – Beast
Over time, heavy music has mutated into an often confusing mass of more and more specialized sub-genres. Death metal, industrial,…
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Album Review: BLACK CROWN INITIATE – Selves We Cannot Forgive
Black Crown Initiate‘s newest offering, Selves We Cannot Forgive, is a challenging record. Much like fellow tech-death heavyweights Fallujah, they…
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Album Review: DUNSMUIR – Dunsmuir
Dunsmuir certainly have an interesting pedigree. The brainchild of vocalist Neil Fallon (Clutch), he rounded up some impressive talent to…
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Album Review: MAVERICK – Big Red
Written by Garreth Franklin I’ve seen Maverick live twice, so I’m immediately going to start this review with a recommendation…
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Album Review: HEART – Beautiful Broken
Written by Garreth Franklin If, like me, your knowledge of Heart is limited to “Alone” and “Barracuda,” then prepare to…
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Album Review: CHEVELLE – The North Corridor
It’s very unlikely at this point that anyone doesn’t know Chevelle, the hard rock trio out of Chicago. For the…
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Album Review: DIRECT HIT! – Wasted Mind
In fact, that's why Direct Hit! are such a breath of fresh air in the punk scene. Not because the…
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Album Review: WHITECHAPEL – Mark of the Blade
Not only do Whitechapel commit even more heavily to more traditional metal, they do so with an ear for more…
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Album Review: DRAGONFORCE – Killer Elite
I never realised Dragonforce hadn’t released a Greatest Hits album before now. I mean, they’ve been around for years, so…
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Album Review: DARE – Sacred Ground
As soon as you see the words ‘played with Thin Lizzy’ alongside anybody’s name, you can be fairly certain that…
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Album Review: COMBICHRIST – This Is Where Death Begins
Combichrist may not have been around for as long as most of their industrial peers, having only formed a short…
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Album Review: NAILS – You Will Never Be One of Us
Nails are one of those bands that a lot of people hear about - and a lot of band members…
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Album Review: GOJIRA – Magma
Gojira's monolithic sixth full-length, Magma, highlights the band's continuing evolution.
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Album Review: I SEE STARS – Treehouse
I See Stars have been creating a strange blend of metalcore and electronica - not quite dubstep, but a close…