Articles by Clare Buchanan

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  Dark Fortress

  Ylem

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  Germany's Dark Fortress, now on their sixth full-length, manage to reinvent themselves with each release while retaining their melodic blac...

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  Troll

  Neo-Satanic Supremacy

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  Despite having existed since 1992, Troll have only released four albums and a demo to date. Nevertheless, they've managed to draw an audien...

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  The Kandidate

  Until We Are Outnumbered

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  Originally formed in 2005 as a duo under the name the Downward Candidate, the ensemble attracted new members, released a well-received demo...

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  Shining

  VI - Klagopsalmer

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2010

  While some albums are so consistent they're as dull as ditchwater, VI ― Klagopsalmer faces the opposite problem: it lacks commonaliti...

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  Imperium Dekadenz

  Procella Vadens

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2010

  Germany's Imperium Dekadenz combine the most emotionally hard-hitting elements of black and doom metal to create a wistful, mid- to down-te...

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  DRUDKH

  Lebedynyy Shlyakh (The Swan Road)

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2010

  Five years after its original release, Season of Mist has mercifully decided to re-release The Swan Road, along with the rest of Drudkh's c...

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  Inferno

  Black Devotion

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  Black Devotion, the fifth full-length studio album from Czech black metal masters Inferno, is a seething barrage of blasphemy. Despite the...

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  Aosoth

  Ashes of Angels

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  With Antaeus being on hold, singer MkM's side-project, Aosoth, are able to flourish. Ashes of Angels is the follow-up to Aosoth's 2008 self...