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Ghoulgotha - “To Starve The Cross”Rating: 8.5/10Buy from iTunes or Bandcamp Only in death metal reviews can words like “depraved,” “diseased,” “rotten,” “filthy,” “putrid,” “rancid,” “foul,” and the like be used to praise a musician’s work…

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Review: Gojira - "Magma"

6/19/2016

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Gojira - “Magma”Rating: 8/10Buy on iTunes or from their merch store​ Change seems to be the overarching theme of 2016 for metal, more than even in previous years. It’s a well-beaten horse to talk about “change” this broadly, but as we pass…

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Review: Whitechapel, Mark of the Blade

6/17/2016

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Dakota G.

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Whitechapel - “Mark of the Blade”7.1/10 Reviewed Before Release Stream / Amazon MusicWhitechapel is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in deathcore next to the godly Despised Icon & the now-mediocre Suicide Silence. June 24th marks the r…

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Review & Analysis: letlive. - "If I'm The Devil..."

6/12/2016

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Alex Brown

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Letlive. - “If I’m The Devil…”Rating: 10/10 Buy on iTunes or through Epitaph Records​Letlive is a post-hardcore band hailing from Los Angeles, California that has made a name for themselves for their intense live performances and deep mess…

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Yüth Forever - “Skeleton Youth Forever”Rating: 8.25/10Buy on iTunes, Bandcamp, or through Prosthetic Records Since Christmas Day 2015, the only taste we had of Yüth Forever’s then-forthcoming junior album was, in frontman Dev MacGillivray’…

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Hypno5e - “Shores of the Abstract Line”Rating: 7.5/10Buy on iTunes ororder the CD from the label It’s really shaping up to be a year for sprawling, ambitious albums. Between Katatonia’s The Fall of Hearts, Cobalt’s Slow Forever, and now Hy…

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Architects - “All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us”Rating: 6/10 Seven albums deep into a music career, you have a formula. It doesn’t matter what genre you play, how many times you’ve “reinvented,” how much you’ve “grown” since your debut: this…

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Review: Beartooth "Aggressive"

5/24/2016

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Dakota G.

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Beartooth - Aggressive6.8/10Reviewed Before Release on 6/3Beartooth was one of those bands that took me by surprise with the release of their original EP, Sick, back in 2013. Caleb Shomo had dropped the emo look of his past band Attack Att…

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