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Sep 14 Album Reviews

Sleep - Hempispheres

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Sleep delivers one of the year's most disappointing albums.

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Sep 9 Album Reviews

Chat Pile - Who Loves the Sun

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Chat Pile outdo themselves on Who Loves the Sun.

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Sep 4 Album Reviews

Mastodon - Marrow Deep

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Marrow Deep, while it has its share of shaky moments, is on the whole a pretty powerful and exciting album from Mastodon.

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Jun 12 Album Reviews

Converge - Hum of Hurt

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This might be one of Converge's most accessible albums so far.

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Aug 1 Album Reviews

Chat Pile - God's Country

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A hell of a debut that isn’t for the faint of heart. God's Country by Chat Pile

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Nov 29 Album Reviews

Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

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Bloodmoon: I is a pretty solid collab, and hopefully the title hints that the best is yet to come.

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Jul 10 Album Reviews

Boris - No

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NO is the most kick-ass Boris has sounded in over a decade.

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Oct 19 Album Reviews

High on Fire - Electric Messiah

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Apart from the slightly improved production quality and a couple of stylistic risks, Electric Messiah is a pretty standard High on Fire album.

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Sep 10 2018

Thou - Magus

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Magus is Thou’s best produced album yet and is, like Heathen, admirably ambitious in scope. However, the band’s sound still isn’t dynamic or enthralling enough to warrant the 75 minute runtime.

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Mar 24 Album Reviews

Keiji Haino + SUMAC - American Dollar Bill

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Aaron Turner’s Sumac joins forces with legendary noise rock experimentalist Keiji Haino for an hour’s worth of mind-melting post-metal jams.

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