Articles by Laura Wiebe

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  Primordial

  Redemption at the Puritan's Hand

  PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2011

  Promoting the new Primordial album, frontman A. A. Nemtheanga has said, "you know what to expect." It's an apt statement, but not an unflat...

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  Pentagram

  Last Rites

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011

  Last Rites is a rumbling mass of laidback power, a somewhat surprising pleasure considering Pentagram's four-decade-long rollercoaster ride...

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  Vintersorg

  Jordpuls

  PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2011

  Four years after Solens Rötter, Vintersorg return with yet another demonstration of folk/black/avant-garde metal experimentation. But I off...

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  Amon Amarth

  Surtur Rising

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2011

  If you know Amon Amarth and the pretty much straight-ahead Norse metal they play, you know exactly what you're getting with a new Amon Amar...

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  Agalloch / Worm Ouroboros / Musk Ox

  Music Hall, London ON March 25

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2011

  More than five years after they last played Ontario, Agalloch returned with a lineup that could not have been better aligned. The self-des...

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  Woods Of Ypres

  Woods IV: The Green Album

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2011

  Ontario doom and gloom powerhouse Woods of Ypres make their Earache debut, not with a new record (now in progress), but with the internatio...

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  TesseracT

  One

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2011

  TesseracT gained attention last year for a tantalizing EP (Concealing Fate) and a live slot opening for Devin Townsend. New debut album One...

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  Finntroll / Ensiferum / Rotten Sound / Barren Earth

  Opera House, Toronto ON February 22

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2011

  With folk metal dominating more than half the lineup, the Finnish Metal Tour's Toronto stop didn't capture much of Finland's metal range. I...