Articles by Laura Wiebe

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  Hypocrisy

  End of Disclosure

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

  A rough-cut gem of brutal simplicity, End of Disclosure is the "back to basics" Swedish death metal effort Hypocrisy's main man claims he w...

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  Testament / Flotsam and Jetsam / 4 Arm

  Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto, ON, February 18

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

  Monday night should have marked a full-scale thrash invasion of the Phoenix Concert Theatre, where veteran titans Testament were headlining...

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  Therion

  Les fleurs du mal

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2012

  For the most part, I get (and appreciate) Therion. The quirkiness of their artistic and metallic bombast occupies special place in the meta...

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  Tiamat

  The Scarred People

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2012

  It takes a while to get into any new Tiamat record. No matter how well you know the band's back catalogue, each new release seems oddly und...

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  Killing Joke

  MMXII

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2012

  For an album signalling the end, or at least a dramatic transformation, of the world we know (hence the title's reference to 2012), the new...

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  Cradle of Filth

  The Manticore and Other Horrors

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2012

  A day prior to Halloween is a fitting release date for Cradle of Filth, and the band's tenth album begins with appropriately creepy tension...

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  My Dying Bride

  A Map of All Our Failures

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2012

  My Dying Bride perform what might as well be a trademarked kind of doom; it's an unsettlingly delectable sound forged over more than 20 yea...

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  Daylight Dies

  A Frail Becoming

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2012

  Daylight Dies aren't the most prolific metal artists. A Frail Becoming is only their fourth full-length album in a career that's spanned we...