Articles by Kevin Stewart-Panko

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  United

  Distorted Vision

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000

  United are one of the oldest names in extreme music, hailing from the land that gave the rest of us sushi, Boredoms and big-eyed cartoon su...

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  Various

  Tribute To King Diamond

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2000

  Although King Diamond hasn't done much that could be considered exciting (read: good) in a long while, he does have an impressive back cata...

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  Kid 606

  Down With the Scene

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2000

  I'd be a whole lot more impressed with Kid 606 if it was band and not one guy. The music is a crazy, cut & paste pastiche of electronica, d...

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  Brainstorm

  Ambiguity

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2000

  Forget that this album starts off in a fairly promising Maiden/second tier Bay Area thrash mode before degenerating into cheesy Euro-power...

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  Gooloo

  Gooloo

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2000

  This great album could've been a lot better if the mix exploited the utterly brilliant noise "riffs" that the guitarists conjure up. The mi...

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  Ultraspank

  Progress

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2000

  I think it's just darn tootin' hilarious when a band puts drivel like, "we had more time to experiment on this album," in their bio and the...

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  Adrenalin Junkies

  Electro Tribe

  PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2000

  As the world techs up, it's inevitable that extreme music would up its incorporation of computerised/mechanised aspects. If you recall Migh...

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  Berzerker

  Berzerker

  PUBLISHED Aug 2, 2000

  As the world techs up, it's inevitable that extreme music would up its incorporation of computerised/mechanised aspects. If you recall Migh...