Articles by Chris Gramlich

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  Unbroken

  It's Getting Tougher to Say the Right Things

  PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2000

  Some may be familiar with the Unbroken moniker via their infamous Life, Love, Regret album. Deceased for almost five years now, Unbroken's...

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  Discordance Axis

  The Inalienable Dreamless

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Discordance Axis's The Inalienable Dreamless is by far the best grindcore album of the past several years. Considering the limited availabi...

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  Keelhaul

  Keelhaul

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Like many of the elite in extreme music, Keelhaul make their mark not by excelling at one particular aspect of a single genre, but by combi...

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  Krakatoa

  Channel Static Blackout

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Cross pollination between metal and hardcore continues to create some excellent music in both genres. Krakatoa is a side-project band featu...

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  National Acrobat

  The National Acrobat For All Practical Purposes, Is Dead

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2000

  Hailing from Louisville, KY the National Acrobat are one of those truly rare bands that are at once both gloriously confusing and downright...

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  Camera Obscura

  To Change The Shape of an Envelope

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2000

  Camera Obscura's debut CD is like a perfect blend of keyboard-oriented rock, punk aggression, droning riffs and dreamy atmospherics. To Cha...

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  Thrones

  Sperm Whale

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2000

  While Joe Preston may have cemented his place in the musical spectrum as one of the pioneers of heavy, extreme and slow (for godsakes he wa...

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  Cattlepress

  Hordes To Abolish The Divine

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2000

  The oft-overused analogy of a musical act being the equivalent of a truck, train, or some other heavy piece of machinery and running over t...