Suffering so you don't have to!
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Wolves in the Throne Room had the disgraceful luck of releasing a genre-defining album early in their career. Yes, we’re talking about Two Hunters. Ever since that peak, the band has truly struggled to capture my attention. So, Estuary has a titanic task ahead of it: break the pattern or give us even more of the same stuff we’ve been getting for the last 20 years. I have zero faith, guys. Just saying.
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It’s time for some SHRED!!! Void Sector Zero is nothing but a supergroup, featuring members of Necrophagist, Obscura, and Revocation and many more bands. There’s no way this album is going to be a walk in the park. Chances are, you’ll never be able to learn these songs, let alone sing along. The real question is whether these guys are going to blow us out of the water or completely bore us with an excessive onslaught of notes on Dead Space Enigma. I’m nervous!
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II’m always a bit skeptical of one-man projects, unless they’re Dan Swanö. It’s like a race car with no brakes. However, this is a Post-Metal project, which makes me believe. I want to get my heart broken listening to this stuff. I want Torii to surprise me, because with an album named Despaire, the least I can expect is to relive those moments of loss, right?
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Today, we’re going to try to answer the question: Can a metal album be ruined entirely by its lyrics? Also, I know many of you voted for Unatoned, but this is significantly worse. Machine Head‘s Catharsis was clearly a product of its time, full of excesses and moments that feel like an old Facebook post from someone trying really hard to virtue-signal. Having said that, the music itself didn’t make me puke right away. But don’t worry, stay with me.
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I didn’t want to cover Metallica again so soon, but the people on Instagram have spoken, and apparently they want to put me through this ordeal. It’s easy to say that Lulu is the worst album our humble genre has offered to the sad world. Metallica and Lou Reed wanted to do something together. It was supposed to be different, audacious, fearless. What we got instead was fear deep in our hearts and generational trauma. So let’s start.
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In the depth of my ignorance, I didn’t know that Spirit Possession was a big deal. So I’m here to correct that mistake. The band delivers this harsh Black Metal that, despite being stuck to some traditions, has lots of nuances. It makes sense to think that Cathedral Speech could be more than just a decent album, but we’ve gotta go through this ordeal and see if we’re made for it.
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I’m starting a new section, one where we forget about greatness and jump straight into the horror. Not everything is awesome in our Metalsphere, and it’s time for me to warn future generations about albums like Metallica‘s St. Anger, the bad album par excellence. Not many albums are this iconic and this atrocious. So where the hell do I even start?
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You might wonder why I’m even bothering to review Cursum Perficio so late. Well, the reason I’m late is because I’m kind of an Anthrax hater. I don’t see the big deal about the band. Testament is much better. Anyway, that doesn’t mean I won’t make an effort to be fair. After all, their last album got good reviews—I couldn’t even finish it, though. Let’s go.
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I know I’m ridiculously early with this review, but when a promo says Haxprocess is a mix of Opeth (the good albums) and Blood Incantation, that made me excited. Either because it was going to be awesome or utterly disappointing. Both would be interesting. So does Endlessly Flowing Cascades of Grief—this isn’t a band name, but a sentence—deliver? Let’s find out.
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It’s not often that I review a split. In a way, I’ve never understood their purpose aside from splitting the bill. Anyway, Replicant cemented itself as one of the best Death Metal bands out there with Infinite Mortality, and Elitist I just got to know, so it’s been an interesting contrast, to say the least, with Indomitable Hostility. Okay, let’s cut to the chase—is this split worth the little cash you have left?
