Down - Down IV Part I: The Purple 'Ep

Genre: Heavy/Doom/Stoner
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2012


1. Levitation
2. Witchtripper
3. Open Coffins
4. The Curse Is A Lie
5. This Work Is Timeless
6. The Misfortune Teller

1st 'Ep, in a scheduled series of 4 'Eps, by Down. It focuses on the band’s heavier influences. According to Anselmo, the sound this time is a kind of tribute to doom heroes like Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Witchfinder General and Trouble. Nothing groundbreaking, but solid and entertaining.

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Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy

Genre: Techn. Death
Country: Canada
Year: 2012

1. Two-Pound Torch
2. Shag Harbour's Visitors
3. Red-Skinned Scapegoat
4. Damned Draft Dodgers
5. Amputated Enigma
6. The Golden Square Mile
7. Ominous
8. Cleansing The Hosts

7th album by Cryptopsy, this time self released, 4 years after their big fail in metalcore territories. From the start of the album’s first song, you are assaulted with violent tempo shifts, very groovy, oddly-timed riffing and voracious drumming. With 36 minutes of music and an average track length of 4 minutes, we can see that the band has packed in all sorts of goodies into these songs as opposed to writing more filler songs to 'get more time'.

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Hooded Menace - Effigies Of Evil

Genre: Death/Doom
Country: Finland
Year: 2012


1. Vortex Macabre
2. In The Dead We Dwell
3. Curses Scribed In Gore
4. Crumbling Insanity
5. Legend Of The Lycanthrope
6. Effigies Of Evil
7. Evoken Vulgarity
8. Retribution In Eternity

3rd album by Hooded Menace. The album continues in the same vein of the previous releases of the band. Slow tempo, growling vocals and super-downtuned, heavy as fuck guitars. The album sluggish and somewhat repetitive, making it’s 51-minute runtime an endurance test. But it’s 51 minutes of pure, unrelenting evil. They have capture the old-school sound of the early doom/death bands and stirred it up just enough to make it interesting and new.

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Acid Death - Eidolon

Genre: Death/Thrash
Country: Greece
Year: 2012

1. Blind Reflection
2. Crossing The Line
3. Towards Hate
4. Convict 655321
5. Inside My Walls
6. No Sky Above
7. Eidolon
8. Odious Maggots
9. Dying Alone
10. Sole Truth

3rd album by Acid Death, 12 years after their last one and after a split-up in 2001. Compared to their their previous works, they became more mature and technical, adding some more groove elements to their music. Nice death/thrash with its roots in the old school.

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Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients

Genre: Death
Country: Holland
Year: 1991

1. The Secrecies Of Horror
2. Bitterness
3. Twisted Truth
4. Darkening
5. Lost Souls 6. Blood
7. Land Of Tears
8. Free Us From Temptation
9. Prophetic Revelations
10. Impure 11. Testimony
12. Soulless
13. Presence Of The Dead
14. Mindwarp
15. Stigmatized
16. In Sorrow

3rd album by Pestilence. Martin Van Drunen is departed, replaced on vocals by lead guitarist Patrick Mameli and the legendary Tony Choy (Cynic, Atheist) on bass. There are 16 tracks of which half are interludes of various kinds used to break up the main songs. The playing on here is not overly technical but tasteful and executed to perfection. Some riffs may be just pure aggression, but some other parts are truly emotional, very melodic and harmonic.

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Agalloch - Faustian Echoes 'Ep

Genre: Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2012



1. Faustian Echoes

Great one-song 'Ep by Agalloch. It is based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epic masterpiece 'Faust'. The song is epic even by Agalloch standards, at 21:34 it’s the longest track ever recorded by the band. Musically, here we have black metal with blast eats mixed with acoustic parts, epic melodies, slower parts and generally a great variety.

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Massacre - Condemned To The Shadows 'Ep

Genre: Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2012




1. Back From Beyond
2. Succumb To Rapture

2 new songs by Massacre, reformed with Rick Rozz and Terry Butler, from the initial line up and Edwin Webb behind the mic and Mike Mazzonetto behind the drum kit. 2 songs of old school death metal with a lot of doom/death moments, but without offering something astonishing or similar to their legendary debut.

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23rd Grade Of Evil - Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream

Genre: Thrash/Heavy
Country: Switzerland
Year: 2012

1. Not Guilty?
2. Blinded By Confidence
3. I Am Your God
4. Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream
5. Lullaby For The Weak
6. You Don’t Know
7. Take My Life
8. Scream And Shout
9. For Better Or Worse
10. Two Days A Week
11. Get Out Of My Way
12. All My Lies
13. 23

2nd album by 23rd Grade Of Evil. The groovy elements are almost gone, and their place has taken by more traditional heavy metal elements. The thrashy identity of the band is still here, enriched with more melody.

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Dephosphorus - Night Sky Transform

Genre: Grindcore/Black
Country: Greece
Year: 2012

1. Uncharted
2. Cold Omen
3. Starless
4. Night Sky Transform
5. The Fermi Paradox
6. The Astral Putsch I: Plateau Of Initiation
7. Identifying The Encapsulator
8. The Astral Putsch II: Array Of Truth
9. Unconscious Excursion
10. Aurora

2nd album by Dephosphorus. Night Sky Transform is 10 tracks, exactly 31 minutes, of swirling blackened grindcore. Songs are well constructed and diverse, from straight grinders to sludgy crusties to black metal anthems! The band managed to pour untold quantities of passion and intensity into this record.

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Helloween - Kepper Of The Seven Keys, Part II

Genre: Power
Country: Germany
Year: 1988

1. Invitation
2. Eagle Fly Free
3. You Always Walk Alone
4. Rise And Fall
5. Dr. Stein
6. We Got The Right
7. Save Us
8. March Of Time
9. I Want Out
10. Keeper Of The Seven Keys

3rd album by Helloween, that was initially to consist a double Lp with 'Keeper I', but due to company's request it was split and recorded later. There are about 15 minutes more content than on the first part, the album is more diversified and the quality of the lyrics and the musical skills has also improved in only one year. 

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Finntroll - Nattfodd

Genre: Folk/Black
Country: Finland
Year: 2004

1. Vindfärd/Människopesten
2. Eliytres
3. Fiskarens Fiende
4. Trollhammaren
5. Nattfödd
6. Ursvamp
7. Marknadsvisan
8. Det Iskalla Trollblodet
9. Grottans Barn
10. Rök

The 3rd album by Finntroll, finds them hitting their stride as one of the finest examples of folk metal, widely regarded as their best amongst the fans. It's a ridiculously fun album, providing ample enjoyment, with excellent performance in every section, songwriting, musicianship, ideas, melody, aggression.

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Bonded By Blood - The Aftermath

Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2012

1. I Can't Hear You
2. Shepherds Of Rot
3. The Aftermath
4. Crawling In The Shadows
5. In A Wake
6. Repulsive
7. Among The Vultures
8. Show No Fear
9. Restless Mind
10. Left Behind
11. Killing In The Name (Rage Against The Machine cover)

3rd album by Bonded By Blood, with major lineup changes. Minus one guitarist and with their main vocalist left, the band lost some of their identity and quality. Right from the beginning, you are pummeled with a seemingly endless number of crunchy, fast, riffs. These riffs aren’t as memorable as those found on the previous albums, though.

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Memorain - Evolution

Genre: Thrash/Speed
Country: Greece/International
Year: 2012

1. Nations On Fire
2. Where Hate Lies
3. The Break
4. Circle
5. Misery
6. Rules Of Engagement
7. Death Shop
8. Destiny Found
9. A New Era
10. Power Out
11. Scratching The Surface
12. Methods Of The Past

4th album by Memorain, started as a greek thrash band, but through years transformed into a project-supergroup of Ilias Papadakis being helped by Steve DiGiorgio, Gene Hoglan, Ralph Santolla and Chris Valagao. Speedy songs full of solos, breaks and melodic yet aggressive riffing. Guest appearances by Dave Ellefson, Jeff Waters and others. 

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Obituary - Slowly We Rot

Genre: Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 1989

1. Internal Bleeding
2. Godly Beings
3. 'Til Death
4. Slowly We Rot
5. Immortal Visions
6. Gates To Hell
7. Words Of Evil
8. Suffocation
9. Intoxicated
10. Deadly Intentions
11. Bloodsoaked
12. Stinkupuss

Debut album by Obituary. The violence here expressed by these young musicians was an example for the generation of deathsters to come. Everything here is so obscure, sick and brutal, starting from the bestial, animalistic John Tardy’s vocals. First project for legendary producer Scott Burns.

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