Articles by Kevin Stewart-Panko

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  Incubus

  Make Yourself

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Incubus is simply an awesome band. They have the distorted guitars, but they also have finger wagging melodies, an actual singer and dance...

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  Labyrinth

  Timeless Crime

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Italy's Labyrinth is in direct opposition to everything currently popular in metal. While keyboards do play a large part in Labyrinth din,...

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  Sevendust

  Home

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Sevendust may be heavier than the Goo Goo Dolls, but heavier doesn't always mean better. They diddle with the lowest common denominator of...

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  Steve Vai

  The Ultra Zone

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 1999

  Passion & Warfare was the last great guitar wank record. No one since — not even Vai himself — has been able to match the eclec...

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  Ratos De Porao

  Carniceria Tropical

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  This longest standing Brazilian extreme music band is back, not with a half-assed, limp-wristed effort, but with an absolutely barn-burning...

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  Engine

  Engine

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Engine is Ray Alder from Fates Warning's solo baby. Joining him are Bernie from Agent Steel, Pete from Face to Face and Joey Vera from ever...

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  Goddess of Desire

  Symbol of Triumph

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  In Europe right now, the whole "true metal warriors fighting the rest of the non-metal world" is a big thing. Bands are dusting off their l...

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  Megadeth

  Risk

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  There was a time when it wasn't an embarrassment to sport a Megadeth T-shirt as you strolled down the street humming such ditties as "Killi...