Articles by Chris Gramlich

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  This Day Forward

  In Response

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  After two full-lengths that established This Day Forward as a competent if somewhat unoriginal metallic/hardcore act, their Kairos EP signa...

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  Unpersons

  III

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Shakespeare wrote, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Well, the old bard sure wasn’t talking about metal, where first impress...

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  Daughters

  Canada Songs

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Emerging from the ill-fated car wreck that was As the Sun Sets (three of its ex-members are here), Daughters absolutely obliterate all that...

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  Ion Dissonance

  Breathing Is Irrelevant

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  As a truly blood-curdling scream kicks off "Substantial Guilt vs. The Irony of Enjoying,” the leadoff track from Ion Dissonance’s Breathing...

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  Neil Perry

  Lineage

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  When I kick, I hope I’m remembered like Neil Perry. Lineage offers 40, count ’em, 40 tracks in almost 55 minutes to remember them by. And t...

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  Jude The Obscure

  The Coldest Winter

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Grimsby, ON may not be known for much besides its excellent name, but at least they have Jude The Obscure. Another Canadian metallic hardco...

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  Neurosis

  Official Bootleg.02.Stockholm.Sweden.10.15.99

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  With Neurosis now rumoured to be more or less a studio-bound project (no more touring, not that they’ve done anything terribly extensive in...

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  Fantômas

  Delìrium Còrdia

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Mike Patton is at it again. The master of the unexpected, bizarre and often utterly brilliant has offered up an hour-long soundtrack to the...