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REVIEW: Suffocation – Pinnacle Of Bedlam

February 17th, 2013

Jordan Munson

Band: Suffocation
Album: Pinnacle Of Bedlam
Label: Nuclear Blast
Genre: Technical Death Metal

In the pantheon of brutal/technical death metal bands, Suffocation is without a doubt one of the premier acts. Now in their twenty-fifth year as a band, with seven full length albums and a couple EPs under their belt, Suffocation could very easily phone it in at this point and still achieve moderate success. Luckily for us, that’s just not their style. Pinnacle of Bedlam, the band’s follow-up to Blood Oath (2009), is a shining example of exactly that.

Until now, Suffocation have typically employed a rougher …

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25 Days Of Metal 2012: #9 Beneath The Massacre – Incongruous

December 17th, 2012

Jordan Munson

Rather than counting down the days until we can celebrate Christmas, this year we’re bringing you a series of metal posts will be celebrating the countdown until we don’t have to be inundated with Christmas music and decorations everywhere. To coincide with this countdown we’ll be posting our top 25 metal (and metal-ish) albums of 2012. 25 days of hell, 25 rad metal albums to make up for it.

Montreal-based tech-death juggernauts Beneath The Massacre are back at it. Having only released an EP (Marnée Noire) since 2008 when they released Dystopia, BTM fans were chomping at …

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REVIEW: The Faceless – Autotheism

August 13th, 2012

Jordan Munson

Band: The Faceless
Album: Autotheism
Label: Sumerian Records
Genre: Technical/Progressive Death Metal

“It’s not you, it’s me.” That’s how I picture a conversation with The Faceless and their fans going in regards to their new album, Autotheism. Saying that the latest effort from The Faceless expands on their previous formula (if you could say they had one) would be an enormous understatement. Beginning with Akeldama in 2006 and then Planetary Duality in 2008, it’s been pretty clear from the beginning that The Faceless won’t be content resting on their laurels – something that is the most apparent on Autotheism…

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