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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Shooting Guns - Born to Deal in Magic: 1952-1976

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I kept hearing great things about this Shooting Guns band but never really paid much attention. Most of the praise came from a resident o...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

NEW AXESLASHER SONG

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I meant to post this a while ago but internet issues put a kink in that plan. So without further adieu, here's a new track from the up...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Mortor - Shoot 'Em Up

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I find myself typically listening to a lot of doom, sludge, black metal, death metal and various mutations and mixtures of said genres...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Ponderous Chain - Shackled

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While I might not use the word "burgeoning" to describe the Kingston, ON metal scene, there are a number of talented band...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

So...who is this?

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A while ago I downloaded an album, added it to iTunes with a bunch of other albums and carried on. Later, said album showed up as Unknown ...
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Sons of Tonatiuh - Parade of Sorrow

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Upon a short but trusted recommendation from Gruesome Greg (ie a tweet) I decided to give Atlanta's Sons of Tonatiuh a listen....
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Vulture Kult - Don't Let Rock n' Roll Ruin Your Life

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Don't Let Rock n' Roll Ruin Your Life from Saskatoon's Vulture Kult had me step outside my comfort zone. I'm more comf...
Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Offending - Age of Perversion

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This album was kind of weird to me. Not in an avant-garde, these guys are messed up, what the FUCK is going on? kind of way though. ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Last Call Chernobyl - Set Adrift EP

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When my ears first beheld Set Adrift , the recently released EP from Halifax, Nova Scotia's Last Call Chernobyl, my first thought was ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Huge False Tour!!

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Minnesota black metal titans False are set to embark on a huge US tour in a few weeks. Man, do I wish I could make any of those shows but i...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Toronto's Vesperia to release live DVD

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VESPERIA Releases New Video Clip From Upcoming Live DVD 'Untamed in Toronto!'       Every week during the month of July, Toro...
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Heads up, Western Canada!! Into Eternity tour! Laika too!

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Into Eternity to tour Western Canada INTO ETERNITY has returned! Revamped and stronger than ever, the Saskatchewan-based Canadian ext...

From the Archives

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I was digging through my email trying to find something and I came across a curious message. I sent this message to a guy I met at an all-we...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Anhedonist - Netherwards

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Anhedonia can be defined as the inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable. So it is not without a sense o...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Heavy Metal Haiku: Abigail Williams - Becoming

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Black night screams aloud Strings are bowed amidst the dark Atmospheric bleak
Friday, June 29, 2012

Hell/Thou split 7": Resurrection Bay

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Back in April, the always reliable Gilead Media teamed with Pesanta Urfolk to release a limited (1000 copies) split 7' featurin...
Friday, June 22, 2012

TITAN - Burn

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  We last heard from Toronto's favourite sons of sonic destruction on 2009's Colossus EP . Which means it has been almost three...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Fear Factory's 'The Industrialist': The Heavy Metal Haiku Album Review

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Mechanized beating Future concept riff machine Programmed to destroy www.twitter.com/MetalMatt_KofN
Sunday, June 3, 2012

Emptiness - Error

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The latest in a string of releases on Dark Descent Records to have grabbed my attention is the third full-length album from Belgium's Em...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Black Sheep Wall - No Matter Where It Ends

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Last year, the band Batillus rocked my core with its shear heaviness. This year, Black Sheep Wall has done the same. I'm not afra...

Basalisk demo EP Review

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 The first time I heard this band it was live as local openers for Montreal's Barn Burner. During their set, I could hear the infl...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thoughts on "Until The Light Takes Us"

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I finally got around to watching Until The Light Takes Us , a documentary about some of the criminal activities and the people involved in t...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Corrosion of Conformity - Corrosion of Conformity

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Remember when you were a kid and you had that group of friends that did everything together? But there was always that one guy that had ...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

I don't get to do this much.

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It's not very often I get to just sit and mess around on the internet. Seriously. But tonight I've got a couple hours covering the l...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Biohazard - Reborn In Defiance

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I never really thought Biohazard would release another album. I thought they were done. The members had moved on to bigger and better boob...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Beneath The Massacre - Incongruous

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I am trying not to rag on bands so much. Especially Canadian bands. But BTM's Incongruous just doesn't inspire my praise. Monoch...

BARN BURNER and guests at The Mansion, Feb. 25, 2012

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Some things in life are a given. The oceans will be salty. The government will suck. And Barn Burner will put on a great show. It's nat...
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