Articles by Aaron Levy

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  Various

  The World's Greatest Tribute To Ozzy Osbourne

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Dubbing your compilation "The World’s Greatest Tribute” is lofty and pretentious. You’d better have a set of brass balls the size of Tokyo...

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  Rammer

  Cancer

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Sometimes the unexpected is a good thing. It leads one into the occasional moment of dumbfounded surprise. Such is the case with Toronto-ba...

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  Chuck Norris Experiment

  The Chuck Norris Experiment

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  When your band features members of Tiamat, Rickshaw and Taurus, one might believe that something so amusingly-dubbed as the Chuck Norris Ex...

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  Love Drunks

  The Love Drunks

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Cheap, upbeat and full of sexy swagger, the Love Drunks deliver a sound akin to the country punk of Agriculture Club without so many tracto...

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  Slang

  Skilled Rhythm Kills

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  With the onslaught of metallic influence and bravado that has infiltrated hardcore over the years, thank God we have Japan — or Slang to be...

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  Cobra Noir

  Abode of the Dead

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Abode of the Dead is clearly a metal album, but one can’t deny that it is also the direct product of rock’n’roll thanks to a direct, down s...

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  Sun Descends

  Incinerating the Meek

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  "Raping the Originators” may have been a better title for this release spearheaded by former Exumer vocalist Mem V. Stein. The tinny produc...

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  Backyard Babies

  Live Live In Paris

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  The influence of Southern California’s Social Distortion has never been more obvious. Maybe that opening slot the Backyard Babies had not t...