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REVIEW: IN MOURNING
In Mourning - Weight of Oceans (2012) IN MOURNING Album: The Weight Of Oceans Released: April 18th 2012 Label: Spinfarm Records Website: www.inmourning.net Score: 5/9 Hammers I was really prepared to...
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REVIEW: PHALGERON
PHALGERON – Cosmic Cataclysms (2012) PHALGERON Album: Cosmic Cataclysms Released: September 2012 Label: none Website: www.phalgeron.com Score: 8/9 Hammers Long ago (~3years), and far far away (1/4 mile...
View Articleeditor’s pick: KALMAH – Seventh Swamphony
KALMAH Album: Seventh Swamphony Released: June 14th, 2013 Label: Spinefarm Website: Official Score: 8/9 Hammers Well, some months have past without me contributing a written piece to the site and now...
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EINSTEIN’S DREAMS
If ever there was a book that could be classified as prog metal, this is it. Set in Bern, Switzerland, in the year 1905, Physicist Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams explores the literal consequences of...
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DRAGONWOOD
A deep-seated regret I have in life is missing the boat on Magic: The Gathering. Unlike most D&D players, who seem to have an automatic knowledge of MTG, I have not yet learned how to play this...
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TREASURE ISLAND
This particular review exists because of my insatiable lust for all things BLACK SAILS. If you’re unfamiliar, that is perfectly forgivable as it airs Saturday nights on the obscure STARZ network with a...
View ArticleSVARTBY – Elemental Tales
SVARTBY is a Swedo-Russian outfit hailing from Saint Petersberg, where, apparently, they have wild imaginations… How long did you stare at that album cover? A little right-click “set as desktop...
View ArticleCRYOSTORM – Destroyer of Ardor
A pleasant surprise hit our inbox last week as CRYOSTORM sent the sophomore release from their Exeter UK-based melodic death metal outfit. It’s an EP called Destroyer of Ardor, which came out last...
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The end of an era: ANACHRONAEON – Everyday Chronicles
In late 2007, around the time that my fiend Damon Wang and I were getting Hollywood Metal off the ground (back then a radio show on 99.3 FM, a short range local station in Hollywood, CA) I happened...
View ArticleOMNIUM GATHERUM – The Burning Cold
Catching up on OMNIUM GATHERUM this week. The Burning Cold is the band’s 8th full length album and a continuation of a tradition of high quality content. As far as I can tell from 9000 kilometers away,...
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