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Mumakil – Behold The Failure

Posted by: mx on: July 15, 2009

I think this is the first grindcore album that I ever listened to. Hmm Six Feet Under don’t count right? How to explain the genre? It’s something that I listen to when something’s really wrong, or I just feel like I wanna hear something ultimately badass. 27 tracks people. Mumakil are always to the point.
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Mastodon – Crack The Skye

Posted by: mx on: April 16, 2009

Crushed by the work lately, it’s hard to find the time to collect all the recent impressions into more than a handful of words. I’ll just say that this is by far the best metal album that I’ve heard in a year or so.
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Static-X – Cult Of Static

Posted by: mx on: March 22, 2009

Haven’t heard these guys since the days of Machine. Well, it seems everything is in place, Wayne’s hair is still upwards, the sound crushing and soulfully soulless. Here’s to all the pain.
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Sepultura – A-Lex

Posted by: mx on: December 12, 2008

I see Sepultura as one the most important bands in the history of metal. They’ve been around for quite a long time (since 1984) and continue to evolve, in a physical sense as well – A-lex is the first album without both of the Cavalera brothers. The sound on this concept album based on A [...]

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Arch Enemy – Rise of the Tyrant

Posted by: mx on: October 5, 2008

I rarely listen to metal these days, not because it has become too heavy for me, but because most of the music that comes out sounds predictable, bland and in effect, since it tries to be serious, quite boring. I was tempted to check out this Arch Enemy album, as the praise of their melodic [...]

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Xihilisk – EPTwo Special Edition

Posted by: mx on: June 10, 2008

Discovered this through a TorrentFreak article. Xihilisk says:
This is a Demonoid exclusive. I would describe the genre as experimental indie/electronica but it has elements of lots of other things including chiptune, post rock, metal etc.
It contains the original EPTwo(which was 6 tracks)remastered, and 3 new tracks which are probably the best i’ve ever done:
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Opeth – Watershed

Posted by: mx on: June 9, 2008

This is the first time I listen to Opeth, although it’s their ninth album already. Their songs are often longer than ten minutes, with variations going from death metal growling peaks to subtle acoustic arrangements for guitar, strings and piano. It’s clear that they’re very skilled musicians and the leader, Mikael Ã…kerfeldt, has many ideas [...]

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Deftones – White Pony (Red Limited Edition)

Posted by: mx on: June 1, 2008

I was very happy to find a limited edition of one of my favourite albums of all time, Deftones‘ White Pony, featuring a nice bonus track “The Boy’s Republic” recently posted on Demonoid in FLAC format. Eight years on, I still enjoy every bit of its’ psychedelic heaviness and emotional intensity, from the first riffs [...]

High On Fire – Death Is This Communion

Posted by: mx on: January 12, 2008

Metal used to be the music I listened to most back when I was 16, 17 or so. I usually don’t find it that interesesting nowadays, however I do occasionally check out some albums which reviews present as musically interesting, or beyond the average, which I now tend to classify as narrow-minded pretence or mental [...]

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