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Cryptopsy ‘None So Vile’
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Retro Review: Cryptopsy ‘None So Vile’

8th August 202223rd September 2022 Simon Brotherton Century Media, Death Metal, Displeased Records, Grindcore, Wrong Again Records

I’m the first one to hark back to those glory days of the early 90s, where Morbid Angel, Obituary, and

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Imperial Triumphant ‘Spirit Of Ecstasy’
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Review: Imperial Triumphant ‘Spirit Of Ecstasy’

26th July 202228th August 2022 Richard Murray Century Media, Imperial Triumphant, Jazz, Technical Metal

Imperial Triumphant have been blurring the lines of contemporary black metal graced with the decadent and depraved glory of the

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Wiegedood 'There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road'
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Review: Wiegedood ‘There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road’

18th January 20222nd March 2022 Will J Black Metal, Century Media, Wiegedood

If there’s one thing that has defined Wiegedood‘s music up to this point it is a simple word: intensity. Few

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Wolves In The Throne Room 'Primordial Arcana'
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Review: Wolves In The Throne Room ‘Primordial Arcana’

17th August 202124th September 2021 Will J Black Metal, Century Media, Relapse Records, Wolves In The Throne Room

In the summer of 2014, shortly after the release of the band’s fifth full-length album Celestite, the talk amongst fans

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At The Gates ‘The Nightmare Of Being’
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Review: At The Gates ‘The Nightmare Of Being’

13th July 20219th September 2021 Mark Hunt-Bryden At The Gates, Century Media, Death Metal

Emerging from Gothenburg in the early nineties, At The Gates released several albums that laid the foundations for the undeniable

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Voivod 'Post Society'
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Voivod ‘Post Society’ CD/DD 2016

5th April 201611th September 2019 Paul Robertson 2016, CD, Century Media, Digital, Experimental, Metal, Paul Robertson, Post Society, Prog Rock, Review, Thrash Metal, Voivod

This may come as almost as big a shock as anything received at the Morgoth Science Hospital when you consider

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Hexvessel 'When We Are Death'
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Hexvessel ‘When We Are Death’ CD/LP/DD 2016

2nd January 20161st November 2019 Daniel Pietersen 2016, CD, Century Media, Daniel Pietersen, Digital, Experimental, Folk Rock, Hexvessel, LP, Mat McNerney, Psychedelic, Review, When We Are Death

Hexvessel have always been capricious spirits, dwelling in a particularly darkling glade of the psych-folk forest. Yet it is with

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The Shrine 'Rare Breed'
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The Shrine ‘Rare Breed’ CD/LP/DD 2015

11th November 20154th November 2019 Pete Green 2015, CD, Century Media, Digital, Fuzz, Heavy Rock, LP, Pete Green, Punk, Rare Breed, Review, The Shrine

I remember the very first time I saw The Shrine and I instantly knew they had it, whatever “it” is.

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Album & EP Reviews H 

Hang The Bastard ‘Sex In The Seventh Circle’ CD/LP/DD 2014

29th October 20142nd September 2019 Guido Segers 2014, CD, Century Media, Digital, Guido Segers, Hang The Bastard, Heavy, LP, Post-Hardcore, Review, Sex In The Seventh Circle, Sludge

“We are called Hang The Bastard I have no delusions of grandeur.” That’s what vocalist Tomas Hubbard told me in

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EYEHATEGOD Announce Australian Tour + Roadburn 2015 Appearances; Band To Level Housecore Horror Film Fest This Weekend Before US Takeover

23rd October 2014 Lee Edwards Australian Tour 2015, Century Media, EyeHateGod, Housecore Horror Film Festival, Housecore Records, News, Roadburn, US Tour 2014

New Orleans rulers of the riff, EYEHATEGOD, will return to Australia for a short but riotous run of live devastation

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Amulet ‘The First’ CD/LP/DD 2014

28th September 20143rd September 2019 Alex Varley 2014, Alex Varley, Amulet, CD, Century Media, Digital, LP, Metal, NWOBHM, Review, The First

Since the arrival of their none more denim Cut The Crap demo in late 2011, London’s Amulet have made quite

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