Tag: extreme metal
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Interview: NECROT
After wrapping up their stint as part of the 2019 Decibel Tour in March, Necrot have not been just sitting around. The band has already announced more shows for this summer, including two exclusive Canadian dates (in Calgary and Winnipeg). And at the end of April they joined Aseptic in opening for Exhumed at Eli’s…
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Zeal & Ardor, 4 December 2018, Birmingham UK
Zeal & Ardor with Blanket, December 4th 2018, O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK First on stage were cinematic rockers Blanket, a name that I have not come across before. Being very busy this year with two album releases – How To Let Go on May 18th via Music For Nations and Transfiction on November 23rd – the…
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Behemoth live in Toronto, November 2018
Behemoth with At The Gates and Wolves In The Throne Room @ The Danforth Music Hall – Toronto, ON – 6 November 2018 What could honestly be a better lineup? Wolves in the Throne Room, At the Gates and Behemoth were absolutely all amazing and seeing as it was my first time witnessing Behemoth, I…
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Virgin Black – Requiem Pianissimo
Requiem – Pianissimo is both opening and resolution. This long-awaited release presents the first section of Virgin Black’s three-part requiem but it also brings the trilogy to a close, completing the two-hour and thirty-three-minute masterpiece more than a decade after it began. Although Pianissimo opens the requiem series, to me this album begins in what…
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Damnation Festival 2018
Damnation Festival 2018, November 3rd, Leeds, UK While the first weekend in November was hosting Guy Fawkes celebrations across the country, Leeds University had its own reason to celebrate — Damnation Festival 2018, which was taking place on November 3rd at Leeds University’s Student Union. Over the years the festival has featured a vast amount…
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KEN mode live in Toronto, October 2018
KEN mode & Birds in Row @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto, 26 October 2018 Following the release of their impressive new album Loved in August, KEN mode has hit the road to bring the new songs to life. After a solid run of dates in the United States, the tour made its way across the…
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KING PARROT interview, September 2018
KING PARROT photo by Zo Damage Last month Hellbound’s Gene Gaona spent some time in Texas with Philip H. Anselmo and The Illegals along with the opening bands on the Choosing Mental Illness as a Virtue tour. We shared Gene’s interview with Anselmo and Mike De Leon already. Now we have another peak into those few…
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Create a Kill – Summoned to Rise
Being a fan of the Thrash genre since the tender young age of 12 (I’m now 45) I have been fortunate enough to hear and witness the birth of some of the greatest Thrash music known to man. For some time it seems like the genre which I have hung my hat on as my…
