Articles by Laura Wiebe

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  The 11th Hour

  Lacrima Mortis

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

  Slow, gloomy riffs, rich synth orchestration, despondent melodies, Latinized invocations of death and tears ― these are all familiar...

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  Iced Earth / Symphony X / Warbringer

  Phoenix, Toronto ON February 6

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

  Frequent openers Warbringer might pass for a Toronto fixture, with this tour finding them at the height of their game, despite a last-minut...

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  Ghost / Blood Ceremony / Ancient VVisdom

  Mod Club, Toronto ON January 22

  PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2012

  Nostalgia reigned at the Mod Club for this three-act show, though what exactly people were nostalgic for wasn't that clear. Retro metal sou...

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  Evergrey

  A Decade and a Half

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2012

  At two full CDs and 24 songs, A Decade and a Half is a broad summary of Evergrey's career so far. The band's latest double release combines...

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  My Dying Bride

  The Barghest O' Whitby

  PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2011

  After the sophistication and restraint of Evinta's orchestral re-imaginings of the My Dying Bride back catalogue earlier this year, The Bar...

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  Vallenfyre

  A Fragile King

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2011

  Twenty years ago or so, UK dark metallers Paradise Lost were a very heavy band. Listening to Vallenfyre's A Fragile King, conceived and wri...

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  Opeth / Katatonia

  Guelph Concert Theatre, Guelph ON October 30

  PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2011

  Downtown Guelph resembles a ghost town in training on Sunday evenings, Devil's Night or no. On this particular Sunday that stagnant peace w...

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  Skinny Puppy

  hanDover

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2011

  It's been years since I sat down to listen to a new Skinny Puppy album. When I hit play on the band's latest effort, hanDover, I was gratef...