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Howling Giant And Sergeant Thunderhoof Team Up, Create Majestic Musical Interpretation Of A Painting By Sara-Jane Swettenham For Latest Ripple Music Experiment Turned to Stone Chapter II

There is so much that is right with this two-song split by Howling Giant and Sergeant Thunderhoof. Firstly, can you say epic??? A forty-minute runtime between two bands supplying a song each. Do the math. Secondly, I know of Howling Giant already and they rule. Thirdly, I did not know [...]

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Jaye Jayle Explores Synthetic Soundscapes On Moody Prisyn

Jaye Jayle creates the kind of music that is tantamount to current times. It’s bleak and downtrodden and with Prisyn, pretty quirky and strange….so yeah, pretty much 2020 to a T. On the newest full-length, multi-instrumentalist Evan Patterson teams with Chelsea Wolfe’s Ben Chisholm to concoct the most unique Jaye [...]

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Onslaught Ready THE Thrash Album Of 2020 With Generation Antichrist

I’ll call it here: Generation Antichrist is the best modern Thrash record of 2020. And this is coming from a lifelong Testament fan who realizes that those Bay Area thrashers dropped a new one in April. But I digress.

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Dee Snider Unleashes Incendiary Live Collection With For The Love Of Metal Live

In an age where there ain’t nobody going to a concert anytime soon (In the States at least), it’s refreshing to live vicariously through past performances especially when it comes from such a legendary artist like the almighty Dee Snider. Two years after the former Twisted Sister vocalist’s furious return [...]

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Zyclops Channel Post-Metal Greats On Majestic Inheritance of Ash

Big, bold, and bodacious (Apologies, coming down from a recent Bill & Ted’s… kick), Zyclops’ new monstrous opus (Instead of “magnum” opus, get it?) is just the kind of epic 2020 needs. Like a mythical beast, Inheritance Of Ash is mysterious and majestic while also dense and delightful and definitely [...]

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Stonebirds Give Progressive Sludge And Doom A Makeover On Colossal Collapse And Fail

Have you ever wanted to go back in time and recapture the feeling of when you first hear an album that you just know will be groundbreaking. Something, like, say Mastodon’s Remission? The first time you hear the sonic onslaught of “March of the Fire Ants” or that huge riffage [...]

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