Articles by Laura Wiebe

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  The Gathering

  Disclosure

  PUBLISHED Sep 27, 2012

  I want to like Disclosure more than I do. Smooth female vocals are the record's dominant texture, interacting with a range of dreamy and ab...

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  Stolen Babies

  Naught

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2012

  Six years after There Be Squabbles Ahead positioned Stolen Babies as members of metal’s experimental vanguard, they still sound provocati...

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  Fleshgod Apocalypse

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2012

  Scheduled among the early performers of day two, Italy's Fleshgod Apocalypse had at most a half hour to win over the crowd, and time constr...

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  Exhumed

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2012

  California death metal band Exhumed kicked off their performance before Fleshgod Apocalypse even started their last song, diving headfirst...

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  Kataklysm

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2012

  For a four-member band with one guitarist, Montreal's Kataklysm have a gargantuan sound, their "northern hyperblast" bursting forth at weap...

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  Killswitch Engage

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2012

  From a classical prelude straight into groove-oriented melodic metalcore, Killswitch Engage kicked off one of the catchiest (and, at times,...

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  Between the Buried and Me

  Downsview Park, Toronto ON August 12

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2012

  Between the Buried and Me came out to a dramatic intro track, facing the largest crowd of the day so far. Their progressive metalcore is fu...

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  A Forest of Stars

  A Shadow Play for Yesterdays

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2012

  Sonically, A Forest of Stars represent the avant-garde spectrum of 21st century black metal. Conceptually, this "gentlemen's club" (with on...