Articles by Laura Wiebe Taylor

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  These Are They

  Who Linger

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2010

  These Are They announced their arrival on the scene with the Who Manifest EP earlier this year, laying down a three-track granite slab of o...

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  Sacrifice / E-Force / Maximum RNR / Spewgore

  Opera House, Toronto, ON November 21

  PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2009

  If 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, 2009

  Upon first glance, the new name Devin Townsend Project seems like a redundant, or even sly, move, just a rebranding of the man and his crea...

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  Katatonia

  Night is the New Day

  PUBLISHED Nov 6, 2009

  With its rumbling bass and melancholy melodies, Night is the New Day opens like an expected answer, following Katatonia's last few records...

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  Paradise Lost

  Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us

  PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2009

  I've checked in on Paradise Lost over the years but this is the first time I've felt compelled to stop and listen in about a decade. When I...

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  The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab

  Modern Expressing Machines of Revolutionary Youth

  PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

  If The M.E.M.O.R.Y. Lab's take on industrial metal feels a bit dated that's because it is ― ten years old, in fact, though the band's...

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  When Icarus Falls

  Over the Frozen Seas

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  At three songs and over 30 minutes of material, Over the Frozen Seas overflows its EP status. Similarly, the music of Swiss quintet When Ic...

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  Dream Theater

  Black Clouds & Silver Linings

  PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2009

  As Dream Theater's latest album builds from silence to dramatic onslaught, I could swear these proggers have been listening to Emperor, Dim...