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What’s In A Name? Tombstones In Their Eyes, Looking For A Light

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Everything happens in cycles, yeah? Music especially is this glorious living organism that goes through changes, reboots styles, and then goes somewhere new and even more exciting. Right now, there seems to be a resurgence of a lot of the sub-genres that made the ’90’s stand out with Grunge/Alternative and Nu-Metal making another go at trending in the now. Looking For A Light, the latest offering from Los Angeles’ Tombstones In The Eyes, dwells in the former category and focuses most of its’ energy toward that Jesus Jones, Lush, shoegaze aesthetic to give listeners something fresh yet familiar.

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Untitled Metal Column: Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined

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My experience with the legendary Cannibal Corpse is owning/enjoying the only album (so far) by Serpentine Dominion, the supergroup that features CC vocalist George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher (Along with Shannon Lucas of The Black Dahlia Murder and Killswitch Engage’s Adam D) and that’s it. So stating that I’m a Cannibal Corpse noob is a vast understatement, okay? As a lifelong Metalhead, though, I respect the hell out of the legacy and, while I can’t recite “Devoured By Vermin” from memory, I sure as shit appreciate their continued existence especially when it comes to their latest, Violence Unimagined.

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One Hundred Thousand Celebrate A Year Of New Punchy Prog With Collected ZODIAC Full-Length

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Concept albums done right kick some serious ass. And One Hundred Thousand’s ZODIAC does just that as it explores traits of the signs presented within each track throughout the twelve songs here. The culmination of a year long journey that wrapped in February of 2021, One Hundred Thousand released one new ZODIAC track each month leading to the collection that you’ll soon have in your hands that’s a massive combination of Heavy Prog and Hard Rock sure to appeal to fans of Meshuggah, Devin Townsend (In all his solo iterations), Alice In Chains, and Sevendust.

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Smyčka Delve Into Kafka On Mesmerizing and Majestic Post-Metal Epic Fated

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It’s never a good thing when looking over a draft for an upcoming review and see that there are no less than four different kinds of intros in various stages of done-ness. Meaning that an album is SO GOOD that we can’t decide how to approach it. Do we wanna be supah serious? Do we want to be all witty and insightful? Do we want to suck up because what’s within is just THAT GOOD? Or do we want to do what we did here and do some sort of combination of it all to stress the fact that what you’re about to read about (And hopefully listen to) is fucking important while still keepin’ it loose.

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The Lion’s Daughter Traverse Different Facets Of Heavy on Weird And Wonderful Skin Show

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The Lion’s Daughter is releasing an album in 2021 that has got to be one of the easy stand out’s as of late. It’s kind of Hardcore and kind of Black Metal (Think Satyricon). It’s also a lot ’80’s and a lot synth-heavy. It’s actually a lot of all around Heavy in general. Skin Show, the third album from the St. Louis-based trio, is weird and wonderful with a melding of sounds that shouldn’t work but emphatically do in a grand and mesmerizing fashion on an album that creates an atmosphere…scratch that, a whole new world…that’s a huge heaping helping of cerebral Metal.

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Genghis Tron Expel Preconceived Notions, Forge New Path With The Electro-Tinged Euphoria Of Dream Weapon

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It’s hard to wrap one’s head around Genghis Tron. Are they Metal? Are they Doom? Are they Electro? Are they “Cybergrind”? With Dream Weapon, their first full-length in 13 years, Genghis Tron is throwing every preconceived notion you may have had about the band out the window with a fresh line up and an even fresher sound.

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Wheel Produce Polyrhythmic Perfection With A Progressive Punch On Resident Human

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Around these parts, we like to throw the word “Epic” out there quite a bit. Mostly because it’s the best descriptor when trying to accurately express how massive something sounds. And after hearing only the first song off Wheel’s upcoming magnum opus, Resident Human, we’re afraid that that term is going to get overused once again. Sorry?

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Dvne Produce Prolific Prog On Raucous Sophomore Shredder Etemen Ænka

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Etemen Ænka, the latest slab of awesome from Dvne (Pronounced “Dune”) is like the perfect Prog pinnacle when At The Drive-In’s more raucous moments collide with Mastodon’s refined riffage. And as far as second records go, Etemen Ænka is undeniably a triumph from the first blast straight through to the last gasp.

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Greenleaf Channel Homme And Hermano On Hella Rawkin’ Echoes From A Mass

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As a massive fan, I try to limit how often I throw out comparisons to Kyuss (And, to a lesser extent, Queens of the Stone Age) but with Greenleaf, it’s kinda hard not to as it’s rightly deserved. “Good God I Better Run Away” in particular is like this ferocious forging of Kyuss’ Desert-soaked fuzz and Hermano’s honed wall of sound with Josh Homme’s velveteen voice as is opener “Tides” which has guitarist Tommi Holappa rippin’ it up like Homme used to during his early days. And now that that’s out of the way let’s get to the rest of Echoes From A Mass, shall we?

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Untitled Metal Column: Pupil Slicer, Mirrors

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Pupil Slicer make the kind of heavy that compelled us to resurrect “Untitled Metal Column” for the first time in over a year. We don’t use this column for any reason and only clean the mothballs off when it’s something really deserving like this London-based trio that is rightly being hailed as one of the next big things in Metal. Fer chrissakes, their name alone warrants attention to see if the music matches the moniker (Spoiler alert: It does!).

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