Suffering so you don't have to!
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We’re back with Green Carnation. It feels like yesterday when Part I came out, and now we’re ready for A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis. I’d like to say this is the longest part of the album, but no. The music, the promo, the emotions—everything is going to be long. But fear not, because I’m going to review this in the same heretical length you’ve grown used to.
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There’s next to no Power or Folk Metal that can get past me without making me roll my eyes. The whole niche is so overdone, bland, and safe at this point—a dinosaur that refuses to evolve. But if there’s one band that can save the day, it’s Myrath. The band has been putting bangers out back to back for years now. Wilderness of Mirrors has some big shoes to fill, but if there’s one band that can restore my faith in this rotten subgenre, it’s this one. Let’s go.
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I keep exploring things I would normally pass on. Everyone else at MER Industries is busy with life, so it’s time for me to try the old school Hard Rock and Heavy Metal ride that Who on Earth is planning to deliver with It Takes the Village. I wonder: to do what? Raise a child? Maybe I’m missing something, but I’ll dive in and find out.
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When I think of 20 Buck Spin—kind of an expensive spin, honestly—I think of old school, rancid, and dirty Death Metal dragged up from the sewers. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Leila Abdul-Rauf has been part of this label forever. Andros Insidium is not the kind of stuff we tend to review around here, but hey, we can always try to break free from our own preconceptions, right? So, forget all the distortion and the edgy riffing for once, because today we’re diving into Dark Ambience.
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It’s been a while since we’ve had decent Black Metal emerge from the pit. Enter Doedsvangr with Within The Flesh, an album sporting one of those cover arts that makes you take this whole thing way too seriously. I’ve been let down before, so my defenses are high. I can’t be hurt again. Either way, that discussion is for my shrink. In the meantime, let’s wonder just how Norwegian this thing can possibly get.
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I felt like bullying someone today, so I picked Bragging Rights – A Comedy Divine because I know he can take it. This is how I justify abuse, of course. At MER, we’re very familiar with the almost obsessive way this project churns out records. I do wonder if the title is ripping off Dante, but I’ll give it a pass for once. We have to check out those cymbals anyway.
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Arroganz comes in with an album titled Death Doom Punks, which is such an edgy combination of words that I honestly thought I was reviewing Metalcore again for a moment. But no, this isn’t some poser melodrama. It’s something genuinely serious—as in Death Metal serious. But of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The band will need more than just throwing a few heavy riffs and hippo sounds my way to convince me it’s legit. I’m cranky today if you can’t tell.
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Here we go again in an attempt to capture the spirit of extreme Metal and its lyrical… creativity. Let’s see how it goes!
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Spain isn’t particularly known for its Doom Metal. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, but it does mean that Solnegre‘s Anthems For The Grand Collapse arrives with little pre-existing noise around it, which honestly feels more like a gift than a curse. I’m approaching this thing with no preconceptions or prejudices, just expecting to get trashed in all the right ways. However, Death/Doom can be so derivative at times that there’s still some level of worry lurking in my dark heart. Let’s see if that concern was justified.
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