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RETRO TUESDAYS: Erosion – III (1992)

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The progression from hardcore punk to thrash metal and beyond is often treated as mono-directional flow as if […]

December 4, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Lordian Guard – Lordian Guard (1995)

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The seven trumpets, seven natural disaster themed horrors described in the strange fables of the Book of Revelation (CE […]

November 27, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Sacrilege – Lost in the Beauty You Slay (1996)

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With time the disintegrating and self-shaming hulk of Göteborg’s brief melodic death metal superiority mutates into parody and […]

November 20, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Ripped – Through My Eyes (1993)

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North Canton, Ohio progressive death/thrash metal underground legends Ripped might have formed under the name R.I.P.T. (Rebellious Intellectual […]

November 13, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Convulse – Reflections (1994)

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Formed in Nokia, Finland in the late 80’s as a short lived rehearsal only thrash metal band named […]

November 6, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Crusher – Corporal Punishment (1992)

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Throughout the history of French death metal few pockets of lasting impact remain as underappreciated as the short […]

October 30, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Enslaved – Where is the Meaning (1994)

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Formed as a supremely grotesque doomed death metal outfit in 1988, Cottbus, Germany project Necrophenistic Nightmare would undergo rapid […]

October 23, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Bifrost – Mythistory (1998)

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Nigh pornographically heightened levels of paganistic pride run through this third album from Meerssen, Netherlands extreme thrashers Bifrost […]

October 9, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Drifter – Nowhere to Hide (1989)

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In gestation as early as 1981 but fully formed and active starting in 1983 Uster, Switzerland born heavy […]

October 2, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Blood Farmers – Blood Farmers (1995)

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The history of this unassuming horror inspired doom metal album would only seem tragic if you’d never spent […]

September 18, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Sadus – Swallowed in Black (1990)

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The East Bay’s most violent answer to the rising tides of thrash metal in the early 80’s came […]

September 11, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Mass Psychosis – Face [Compilation] (1995)

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Formed in Keyport, New Jersey as Psychosis in 1987 the untamed spirit of this aptly named death/thrash metal […]

September 4, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Deathrow – Life Beyond (1992)

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With the technical thrash metal trend in some dissolving demand across Europe post-’88 the arms race for riffs […]

August 28, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Sìn-Ta – Sìn-Ta (1996)

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Italian doom metal has a glorious experimental history thanks in no small part to the psychedelic, and oft […]

August 21, 2018 Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Mörk Gryning – Tusen år har gått… (1995)

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Scandinavian black metal offers a grand graveyard of legendary yet short-lived record labels and Tomas Nyqvist’s No Fashion […]

August 7, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Samael – Worship Him (1991)

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No matter how often journalists, aging fans and various other fools tout the vital contributions of Swiss legacy […]

July 31, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Tank – Honour & Blood (1984)

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By the end of 1983 Tank had proven they were a swaggering, blow and booze fueled heavy metal […]

July 24, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Armoured Angel – Communion [Demo] (1990)

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Even the most persistent kings of underground heavy metal rarely carry the torch as long as Canberra, Australia […]

July 17, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Crystal Age – Far Beyond Divine Horizons (1995)

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Although the big city kids in At the Gates were cooking up world-bending forms of Swedish death metal […]

July 10, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

RETRO TUESDAYS: Falkenbach – …En Their Medh Riki Fara… (1996)

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The old and reliable barometer for what is ‘good’ versus trash in my book of heavy metal has […]

July 3, 2018 Heavy Metal, Reviews

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