Articles by Kevin Stewart-Panko

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  Memory Garden

  Mirage

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  This Swedish band are definitely proficient musicians who got hooked up with an equally proficient knob twiddler, but Mirage is a prime exa...

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  Young Gods

  Second Nature

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  For the past 15 years, the Young Gods have subtracted the guitars while combining electronica, art rock, industrial, metal and the kitchen...

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  Canvas

  Lost in Rock

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2001

  The Brits have done their best to hype and sell this band as the limey contender to the noisecore sweepstakes. However, it's quite common k...

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  Extreme Noise Terror

  Being And Nothing

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2001

  "Not an original note of music mate." There's no doubting that this album is ruthlessly heavy and brutal from start to finish, but the utte...

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  Freedom Call

  Crystal Empire

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2001

  Conventional North American logic tells us that Teutonic speed/power metal with this degree of melody and pomposity is doing nothing for it...

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  King Diamond And Black Rose

  20 Years Ago - A Night Of Rehearsal

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2001

  You know you've got the music scene in the palm of you hand when an eight-track rehearsal recording you made with a band that never went an...

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  Martyr A.D.

  The Human Condition In Twelve Fractions

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2001

  The fact that the guy who "wrote every note that Disembodied ever recorded" and two of his former band-mates make up three-fifths of this M...

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  Various

  A Tribute To The Scorpions

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2001

  As much as tribute albums have really got out of control over the past couple years, there are still bands that deserve a tip of the chapea...