Articles by Kevin Stewart-Panko

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  Skyfire

  Timeless Departure

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2001

  There has to be a point where the listener just gets burned out on hearing Maiden-influenced guitar melodies, or all the possible note/riff...

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  Various

  The Keepers Of Jericho - A Tribute To Helloween

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2001

  The collection of bands is basically limited to those hailing from Italy (where power metal is king), Spain (where this comp originates) or...

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  Brother's Keeper

  Fantasy Killer

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  It's not a good sign when it's nigh on impossible to distinguish the first 11 songs of an 11-track record. Neither is it a good thing when...

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  Various

  Requiems of Revulsion - A Tribute To Carcass

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  A bunch of death and grind bands covering the legendary Carcass, a band who excelled at both death and grind. That the covers are pretty mu...

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  ...And Oceans

  Allotropic/Metamorphic - Genesis of Dimorphism (A.M.G.O.D.)

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  You always have to have a little faith in any band who've eschewed their typical old school roots in hopes of creating something out of the...

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  Flotsam & Jetsam

  My God

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  The High album three or four years ago renewed faith that the old men may still have some rock in them. Well, the rock has been traded for...

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  Kalmah

  Swamplord

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  The metal scene, and most specifically the Scandinavian and Scandinavian-sounding scenes, has become so overcrowded and the output so monot...

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  Lightning Bolt

  Ride the Skies

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  Lightning Bolt have touched upon something sweet here. If you took the noise rock and chaos of the Ruins and Melt Banana, melodicised it, a...