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Ennead - Frozen Eyes

Ennead – Frozen Eyes Review

By Angry Metal Guy On May 16, 2012 · 3 Comments · In 2012, 4.0, Groove Metal, Heavy Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Unsigned Bands
It is, as you all know, difficult to keep up with the number of unsigned bands that we get music from. But, usually as a matter of luck, I occasionally decide that I have time to check something out (or I’m just avoiding my work). Fortunately, I followed the link to a Bandcamp (that’s usually a thing that gets me to click unsigned bands) for some itsy-bitsy, teeny, teeny, teeny-tiny Swedish metalcore-influenced prog-metallers Ennead who are writing music better than a lot of signed acts that I get these days when they can’t even grow facial hair. Sometimes I follow links and am unimpressed and turn the shit off, saving the band face. In this case, however, Ennead snuck up on me and surprised—and impressed—the hell out of me.
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Moonloop - Deeply from the Earth

Moonloop – Deeply from the Earth Review

By Happy Metal Guy On May 15, 2012 · 3 Comments · In 3.0, Listenable Records, Uncategorized
Happy Metal Guy is insane.
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Steel Assassin – WWII: Metal of Honor Review

By Steel Druhm On May 14, 2012 · 4 Comments · In 2012, 4.0, American Metal, Heavy Metal, High Roller Records, Reviews, Uncategorized
Steel Assassin is a mighty obscure act by anyone's reckoning. They were knocking around all throughout the 80s and 90s but could never get a proper album released. Then, quite out of the blue, they released War of the Eight Saints in 2007 and totally blew me away with their ballsy, aggressive take on American power metal and NWOBHM. It was one of the best albums of that year, but didn't bring them as much attention as it deserved.
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Havok – Point of No Return EP Review

By Steel Druhm On May 13, 2012 · 6 Comments · In 3.5, Candlelight, Reviews, Thrash, Uncategorized
Hey, Havok is back! I know everybody thinks we review far too much retro thrash (or was it Mexican murder ballads?), but Havok is at the top of the movement and excels at what they do.
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Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata

Top Songs of 2012 Nominations as of May 12th, 2012

By Angry Metal Guy On May 12, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Blog Posts
I have selected today—totally arbitrarily—to update you all on what I see as the tracks in the running for the best songs of 2012. Why today? Well, 'cause I'm looking at the list and I thought it would be a good post topic. So, here we are at this very point. If there are multiple songs from a single artists, it's 'cause I can't decide which of these is better—but the final list will not contain more than one song from any artist.
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Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Pinata

Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Piñata Review

By Angry Metal Guy On May 11, 2012 · 6 Comments · In 2012, 5.0, Avante Garde, Candlelight, Groove Metal, Swedish Metal
Mixing the meathead with the egghead. Also opera. Mandatory purchase.
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HeXen – Being and Nothingness Review

By Steel Druhm On May 10, 2012 · 8 Comments · In 2.0, 2012, American Metal, Progressive Metal, Pulverised Records, Reviews, Thrash
By my extensive calculations and careful application of Steel Druhm's Theory of Genre Longevity (Pat. Pending), retro thrash is in the fourteenth minute of its fame window.
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Furyon

Furyon – Gravitas Review

By Happy Metal Guy On May 9, 2012 · 1 Comment · In 2012, 3.0, English Metal, Frontiers Records, Heavy Metal, Reviews
Furyon sounds rather huggable and bad for asthma-prone people, but this rising UK band have concocted a decent debut full-length album here, which will make those asthma-prone people catch their fleeting breaths.
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Angry Metal Guy Speaks: On Kickstarter Remaking the Music Industry

By Angry Metal Guy On May 8, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Blog Posts
I’m a big fan of Kickstarter. I think that the idea of Kickstarter is truly fantastic; crowd-sourcing capital to avoid the big money parties that have traditionally exploited creators in the name of profit. Particularly in the era of increasingly bad things happening to record labels (and being perpetrated by them), due to their inability [...]
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Blood Mortized – The Key to a Black Heart Review

By Steel Druhm On May 7, 2012 · 10 Comments · In 2012, 4.5, Death Metal, FDA Rekotz, Reviews, Swedish Metal
Just in time to wash away the bitter taste of Six Feet Under, comes this ridiculously sick death metal masterstroke by Blood Mortized. Taking the vicious old school Swedish death sound from their Bestial EP and improving on it in every way, The Key to a Black Heart is exactly what you want from the style and death metal in general.
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