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Anvil 2/23/12 at Reggies

Thursday night, Anvil made a return visit to Reggies over in the South Loop. Last year they put on a really good show at the same venue and for...
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A look back at 1987 in HEAVY METAL Music – The genre as it was 25 years ago!

As we are a culture obsessed with nostalgia, I thought it might be a wee bit of fun to take a look back to see what is now a quarter-century old in...
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CD review: Thrash hard with Non-Stop on Forget the Consequence debut CD

Trenton, NJ’s Non-Stop is a novel entity in the metal community; in that its pièce de résistance is 21st century crossover thrash metal. The...
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CD review: New Jersey’s TRIGGERED IMPULSE gets raw on System Upgrade 3.0

  • Triggered Impulse
  • August 5, 2011
Triggered Impulse, hailing from Cookstown, NJ, is a harbinger of urban-styled death metal that ruptures a vein somewhere between Malevolent...
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Exclusive interview: Norway’s KVELERTAK takes on THE TROLL HUNTER

  • Kvelertak
  • June 23, 2011
Modern metal bands more and more seem to fall in line with the conventions and dogma of specific, pre-existing genre classifications, rarely...
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CD review: Singapore’s WORMROT resurrects classic grindcore on Dirge

When listening to a Wormrot album, you’d almost think it was 1988 all over again. The band is taking amazing strides to resurrect the once...
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Exclusive interview: ANVIL singer Steve “Lips” Kudlow keeps moving forward (1)

If you do not know the name Anvil by now, you are either not into metal or you didn’t have television or Internet access during the band...
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Exclusive interview: ALEX SKOLNICK on critics & Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Pt. 3)

I’ve always felt that the true success of a jazz song is when the music becomes visual in the listener’s mind; where the intertwining...
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CD review: Finland’s OMNIUM GATHERUM penetrates the soul on New World Shadows

  • Omnium Gatherum
  • April 7, 2011
Apprehension was abound going into the new Omnium Gatherum album, NEW WORLD SHADOWS, as its predecessor, THE REDSHIFT raised the bar for the...
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Melechesh releases video for 'Grand Gathas of Baal Sin'

Black/death metal mystics Melechesh have just finalized an official music video for their song, “Grand Gathas of Baal Sin”, taken from...
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