Articles by Laura Wiebe Taylor

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  Rotting Christ / Mantic Ritual / Epicurean / Panzerfaust

  Wreck Room, Toronto ON January 12

  PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2009

  Short but brutally sweet, Rotting Christ's latest visit to Toronto produced the ideal concert outcome - leaving the audience craving more....

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  Woods of Ypres / Musk Ox / Eclipse Eternal / Piledriver / Detsorgsekalf / Endorphins / Into The Void

  Opera House, Toronto ON January 17

  PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2009

  In December the metal scene lost a dedicated and active member in Adrian Bromley, an editor, writer, publicist, collector and enthusiastic...

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  Enslaved

  Vertebrae

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2008

  This latest opus from Enslaved is a study in oppositions, especially the contrast between light and openness from darkness and claustrophob...

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  Abigail Williams

  In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Abigail Williams stirred up some buzz in 2007 with the release of their Legend EP but before long, it looked like the band were finished. N...

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  Amon Amarth

  Twilight of the Thunder God

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Amon Amarth are a finely tuned Viking metal machine and Twilight of the Thunder God reveals the band in all their simplistic glory. The alb...

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  Bleeding Through

  Declaration

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Declaration sounds tremendously big. You can probably credit Devin Townsend for some of that, his tsunami-of-sound production style turning...

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  Brave

  Monuments

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Despite numerous years and several albums of melodic metal making in the U.S., Brave have yet to achieve widespread recognition, largely, I...

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  Mamiffer

  Hirror Enniffer

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2008

  Mamiffer’s debut unfolds as an artistic suggestion, hinting at something beyond itself. Piano provides the record’s melodic framework, inte...