A Swarm of the Sun – The Woods
You know, some days are just lousy. They are. I don’t care how positive you feel, or how positive you try to be, some days just suck. It’s…
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Cobalt – Slow Forever
Life is full of surprises, that’s for sure. Take, for example, Cobalt. If you had told me years ago I would like black metal, I’d have told you…
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Altars of Grief – Iris
I’m not sure I’m really able to do this album justice. How’s that for a start? Iris by Canada’s Altars of Grief is a staggeringly powerful album, that…
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Source – Totality
Three years ago, thanks to a review at good old Angrymetalguy.com, I stumbled across a release from a three piece band from Colorado. The band was Source, and…
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Cult of Luna – A Dawn to Fear
Formulaic isn’t necessarily bad. Especially when the formula works so freaking well. But a formula in music should be a skeleton, a framework upon which something better is…
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Tool – Fear Inoculum
So far, all I’ve pretty much done is write about albums I like. And, well, that is fine to me. This isn’t a blog for reviews. I’ll leave…
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Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood
We all know that life can change in a moment. Sometimes those moments are major events. Other times, they are less so. I’d wager a guess that, at…
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Doom metal. It is epic, often majestic, heavy in the ponderous sense of the word It tends to be on the slower side, often with powerful, soaring vocals.…
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Three years ago I had a video recommended for me on Facebook. It was of a cover of the Rush classic “Subdivisions” but a band named Allegaeon. I’d…
Continue ReadingSecond to Sun – Legacy
This is a bit of a mix-up today. I hadn’t originally planned to write about this album. In the list of 30 albums for the 30 days of…
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