Articles by Laura Wiebe Taylor

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  Virgin Black

  Requiem — Mezzo Forte

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2007

  Mezzo Forte is the second part and first release from Virgin Black’s monumental latest undertaking: a three-album requiem mass composed by...

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  Apocalyptica

  The Life Burns Tour

  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2007

  Hearing Apocalyptica is one thing, seeing them is another, and until you do there’s no way you can fully grasp how the cello not only sound...

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  Anathema

  A Moment in Time

  PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2007

  Put Anathema onstage with a string quartet, let them loose to play some of their most emotional songs and film it from all directions with...

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  Tiamat

  The Church of Tiamat

  PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2007

  Tiamat’s first DVD is a little subdued, even dour. It’s not that the band don’t rock out, they do (and snarl and croon), but within a perva...

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  Novembers Doom

  The Novella Reservoir

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2007

  Woeful, wretched and wonderful, The Novella Reservoir conveys all the anguish and bliss essential to a great Novembers Doom album. Much mor...

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  Solefald

  Black for Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part II

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2007

  For anyone familiar with Solefald’s last album — Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part I — Black for Death holds few surprises. These two...

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  Battlelore

  Evernight

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

  Battlelore’s Evernight sees the band moving even further away from their initial fairly strict translation of Tolkien’s Middle Earth legacy...

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  Day of the Equinox II

  Opera House, Toronto ON - September 23

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2007

  When Canadian thrash meisters Sacrifice split up in the mid-’90s, it looked like they had played their last show. And they had, at least un...