Jul
26
2010
Steel Druhm
And Hell Followed With // Proprioception
Rating: 1.5/5.0 – Painfully medio-core
Label: Earache
Websites: myspace.com/andhellfollowedwith
Release Dates: US: Out Now | EU: 26.07.2010
Steel Druhm likes NOT this whole “deathcore thing.” There, I said it! Now, all you deathcore teen weenies can pull your collective jaws off the floor and prepare to dismiss the following review as biased, or perhaps, “reviewed in bad faith,” whatever the fuck that means. However, before you do so, kindly consider that the reason for my dislike of Proprioception, the second album by Michigan’s And Hell Followed With is way more because of how bland and average the material is and less because of its regrettable deathcore style. Sadly, this material isn’t good regardless of the genre.
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Jun
14
2010
Steel Druhm
Circle of Dead Children // Psalms of the Grand Destroyer
Rating: 2.0/5.0 – Who let the pigs out? Who? Who?
Label: Candlelight
Websites: myspace.com/circleofdeadchildren
Release Dates: EU: 07.06.2010 | US: 06.08.2010
Here at Angry Metal Guy Industries™©®, staff is small [by which he means "little people" - Ed.], deadlines are many and mercy is neither asked for nor granted. Therefore, we of the reviewer caste don’t always get to cherry pick bands or genres we love. Because of this ugly truth, sometimes a review must be done for something outside our musical wheelhouse. That is the very dilemma facing yours truly with a review of Psalms of the Grand Destroyer by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s own Circle of Dead Children. Album number four by these purveyors of inhuman deathgrind is sick, twisted, chaotic and brutal for brutality’s sake, but is it good? That is a mighty tricky question. Continue reading
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3 comments | tags: 2.0, 2010, American Metal, Candlelight, Candlelight Records, Carcass, Circle of Dead Children, Deathgrind, Germinate the Reaper Seed, Grind, Midgets, Psalms of the Grand Destroyer, Review, Saint Vitus | posted in 2.0, 2010, American Metal, Candlelight, Death Metal, Reviews