It's been a few years' wait since Sweden's Witchery last delivered, but Witchkrieg makes it pretty clear they haven't been wasting time. Sho...
Articles By Laura Wiebe Taylor
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Nevermore The Obsidian Conspiracy Published Jul 19, 2010I might have been anticipating the new Nevermore album a little too much. After being wowed one more time by 2005's This Godless Endeavour,...
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Pain Cynic Paradise Published Jun 07, 2010Usually it's the complex albums that take some time to grow on you, so after extended re-play, Cynic Paradise ended up catching me off guard...
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Madder Mortem Where Dream And Day Collide Published Jun 07, 2010After my disappointment with Madder Mortem's latest album, Eight Ways, the Where Dream and Day Collide EP is a tantalizing, but too short re...
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Hypocrisy / Scar Symmetry / Blackguard Wreck Room, Toronto ON May 29 Published May 31, 2010Wandering inside Toronto's Wreck Room, you couldn't quite escape the bright sun streaming in around the windows and doors of the dark club....
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Covenant / Decoded Feedback The Mod Club, Toronto ON May 17 Published May 18, 2010I could swear I heard U2 on the sound system after making my way through the Mod Club doors, and if it hadn't been for all the goth-attired...
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Negura Bunget Maiestrit Published Apr 07, 2010Out of Negura Bunget's two latest releases, Maiestrit is the retrospective album, putting an end to one chapter in the band's development wh...
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Barren Earth Curse of the Red River Published Apr 07, 2010Barren Earth's Our Twilight EP was enough to create a little buzz around the band late last year, but Curse of the Red River is even harder...
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Nechochwen Azimuths to the Otherworld Published Apr 06, 2010I was introduced to Nechochwen as a live act: one man, his deft hands and his classical guitar. That encounter revealed only one dimension o...
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Finntroll Nifelvind Published Mar 08, 2010Big and lively, Finntroll's newest folk metal extravaganza should come as no great surprise. The range of instrumentation and the symphonic...
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Dark Tranquillity We Are the Void Published Mar 08, 2010Dark Tranquillity are like an old standby: they're good at what they do and fans generally know what to expect, even if the band throw in th...
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Borknagar Universal Published Mar 01, 2010Universal is both laidback and busy, which may be a sign of Borknagar's typically bold intentions here (if the album title wasn't signal eno...
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Pagan Metal: A Documentary Published Feb 22, 2010A "documentary" isn't precisely what you get in this lo-fi look at the pagan metal scene. The whole shebang begins not with a menu but with...
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Between the Buried and Me / Cynic / Devin Townsend Project / Scale the Summit Opera House, Toronto ON January 26 Published Jan 27, 2010The scalpers were buying, not selling in front of Toronto's Opera House — clearly, the good buzz about this tour had spread. When Scale t...
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Sigh Scenes from Hell Published Jan 19, 2010Sigh's eighth album, Scenes from Hell, is a whirlwind of musical chaos, far more lively than I'd ever imagined hell to be. More like a Carni...
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These Are They Who Linger Published Jan 11, 2010These Are They announced their arrival on the scene with the Who Manifest EP earlier this year, laying down a three-track granite slab of ol...
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Semen Datura Einsamkeit Published Jan 11, 2010Semen Datura's third album is a schizophrenic black metal machine. Not content to plough ahead in a straightforward line of blast beats (alt...
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Sacrifice / E-Force / Maximum RNR / Spewgore Opera House, Toronto, ON November 21 Published Nov 23, 2009If a bunch of Toronto metalheads are now deaf in their right ear, it's Sacrifice's fault. Storming the Opera House for the second time this...
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Devin Townsend Project Addicted Published Nov 17, 2009Upon first glance, the new name Devin Townsend Project seems like a redundant, or even sly, move, just a rebranding of the man and his creat...
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Katatonia Night is the New Day Published Nov 06, 2009With its rumbling bass and melancholy melodies, Night is the New Day opens like an expected answer, following Katatonia's last few records w...