Articles By Kevin Stewart-Panko
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Beyond The Embrace Against The Elements Published Jan 01, 2006The unwritten rule is that try as they might, American metallers don't live up to European/Scandinavian standards when it comes to black met...
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Darkest Hour's Metal Outreach For Core Kids Published Jan 01, 2006Darkest Hour have no respect for the many fissures that split the extreme music scene into factions. As the various tentacles of metal and h...
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Postman Syndrome Terraforming Published Jan 01, 2006This Jersey outfit is a curious little unit, as they dip their fingers into a wide breadth of sonic influence, from art and prog rock, both...
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King's Evil Deletion Of Humanoise Published Dec 01, 2002I'm going to make a sweeping generalisation here about Japanese metal, but it appears that many bands seem to mimic the popular styles from...
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Serrated Scalpel Suspended In Misery Published Dec 01, 2002There was once a time when the listening public would cut a second division band some slack if they had to deal with some sort of adversity...
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Steel Prophet Unseen Published Nov 01, 2002Here's something you don't see everyday, a power metal band with an African-American dude holding down part of the rhythm section. The old s...
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Killwhitneydead Inhaling the Breath of a Bullet Published Nov 01, 2002Two things disappointed me about this album. One: I was really hoping the band was called Kill Whitey Dead and that their material was all a...
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Atreyu Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses Published Nov 01, 2002Word on the streets of the suburbs is that Atreyu's new record pales in comparison to their past work on Tribunal. The usual cries of "sell-...
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Sightings Sightings Published Oct 01, 2002There are probably more people out there using records like this to either annoy the fuck out of their neighbours, show their new liberal co...
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Dio Killing The Dragon Published Oct 01, 2002Despite your opinion regarding Ronald James Dio and his pop-metal ministrations, you have to give it up for the little elf. He's fronted som...
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Moonsorrow Voimasta Ja Kunniasta Published Jul 01, 2002Weird one, this. The imagery would have you believe that these dudes are fortified, card-carrying members of the "Defenders of the Netherwor...
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Lickgoldensky Enjoy Terror Published Jul 01, 2002Lickgoldensky will undoubtedly garner attention from the hardcore scene as, if I'm not mistaken, it's the first band to emerge from the flam...
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Examination of the... Lady In The Radiator Published Jul 01, 2002Whereas most people are utterly mystified when they find out where this band calls home, I'm only surprised that there aren't more bands com...
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Necrosphere Revived Published Jun 01, 2002For Italys Necrosphere, I have some hope. Its obvious they can play, have both groove and song structuring sense picture Morbid Angel me...
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Gurkkhas A Life Of Suffering Published Jun 01, 2002Frances Gurkkhas sport an image that portrays them as a bunch of war-ready mercenary types. Battle ready soldiers from France? Yeah, right....
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Phobia Serenity Through Pain Published Jun 01, 2002The way I see it, when assessing a grindcore album, one shouldnt be rooting around the record in question in search of an overtly original...
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Mental Horror Proclaiming Vengeance Published Jun 01, 2002This Brazilian band appear to have taken a cue from countrymen Krisiun and set out to play as fast as they can with no regard for what the r...
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Benediction Organized Chaos Published Jun 01, 2002British veterans Benediction, longstanding leaders of a pack of bands that are signed, recipients of a fair amount of promotion, but are una...
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Negate The Dead Guy Palace Published Jun 01, 2002I think that anyone thatll try and tell you that Europeans can play hardcore/noisecore better than Americans is either playing devils advo...
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Blind Guardian A Night At The Opera Published Jun 01, 2002Oh, Christ! An album called A Night At The Opera coming from the Teutonic power metal-affected minds of Blind Guardian. If youre already br...