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In Case You Missed It: The Matador – Descent into the Maelstrom
The Matador – Descent into the Maelstrom (Serotonin Productions, 21 April 2011). “It raged with such noise and impetuosity that the very stones of the houses on the coast fell to the ground.“ Much...
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Now Available for Pre-Order: (drama) – Zastor Tišine
(drama) - Zastor Tišine (Altsphere Production, 24 February 2012) Fuck me, I can’t seem to keep my eyes open. I’ve probably had about five cups of coffee today, but still, here I sit staring at this...
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Out Last Month: Tribune – Elder Lore / The Dark Arts
Tribune – Elder Lore / The Dark Arts (Corpse Corrosion Music, 20 March 2012) Whenever I discover a new band, I usually try to learn as much as I can about them, including where they come from. If it’s...
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Supervoid – Endless Planets EP
Supervoid – Endless Planets EP (self-released, 11 November 2012) Good afternoon, all you fine people! How are things where you are? Here it’s been rainy and nasty, and of course it’s Monday which is...
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Crawl – Crawl Demo
Crawl – Crawl Demo (self-released, 12 October 2012) So who’s in the mood for some heavy doom with a nice dose of southern sludge?? Don’t bother answering that; it was a rhetorical question. Here we...
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Seven Sisters of Sleep – Opium Morals (2013)
Seven Sisters of Sleep – Opium Morals (20 March 2013, A389 Records) Well folks, the last weekend in May is upon us, which means that most of my peers in the music-writing industry (and many of my...
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King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists (2014)
King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists (Ipecac Recordings, 02 June 2014) The bulk of my formative years were spent in the 1990s, from age eleven (when I was being introduced to Faith No More and...
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Now Available for Pre-Order: (drama) – Zastor Tišine
(drama) – Zastor Tišine (Altsphere Production, 24 February 2012) Fuck me, I can’t seem to keep my eyes open. I’ve probably had about five cups of coffee today, but still, here I sit staring at this...
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The Mound Builders / Pale Horseman – Split (RSD 2016) +3 Pale Horseman Albums...
The Mound Builders / Pale Horseman – Split (Failure Records & Tapes, 16 April 2016) Pale Horseman – Pale Horseman (self-released, 17 April 2013) Pale Horseman – Mourn the Black Lotus...
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High Fighter – The Goat Ritual (2014), Scars & Crosses (2016); Zirakzigil –...
High Fighter – The Goat Ritual (self-released, 28 October 2014) High Fighter – Scars & Crosses (Svart Records, 10 June 2016) Zirakzigil – World Builder (Prosthetic Records, 10 June 2016) Hey...
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Battle Path – Ambedo (2015-16); Hollow Leg – Crown (2016)
Battle Path – Ambedo (digital+vinyl Inherent Records / Crimson Eye Records, 09 November 2015; cassette Wood and Stone Productions, 24 June 2016) Hollow Leg – Crown (Argonauta Records, 04 March 2016...
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Obituary – Ten Thousand Ways to Die (2016), Obituary (2017)
Obituary – Ten Thousand Ways to Die (Relapse Records, 14 October 2016) Obituary – Obituary (Relapse Records, 17 March 2017) One of the originators of the foundational Tampa, Florida death metal...
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Sila Slona – Self-Titled; Montezuma’s Revenge – Them (2017)
Sila Slona – Sila Slona (Zero Hero Recordings, 27 January 2017) Montezuma’s Revenge – Them (Zero Hero Recordings, 03 March 2017) Anyone who has read or watched any sort of news in the United...
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Kirk Windstein – Dream in Motion (2020)
Kirk Windstein – Dream in Motion (eOne Heavy / Entertainment One, 24 January 2020) Exactly twenty-five years and eleven months ago, on the 24th of March 1994, the sixth episode of the fourth season...
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In the Company of Serpents – Merging in Light (2014), Ain-Soph Aur (2017),...
In the Company of Serpents – Merging in Light (self-released, 21 December 2014) In the Company of Serpents – Ain-Soph Aur (self-released, 10 March 2017) In the Company of Serpents – Lux...
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Creeping Death – The Edge of Existence (2021)
Death metal week (unofficial) continues here at Valley of Steel HQ with this EP that dropped last month from a band out of DFW, Texas, that’s been garnering some attention lately… Creeping Death –...
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