Articles by Max Deneau

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  Cannibal Corpse

  Evisceration Plague

  PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2009

  While 2006's Kill was nothing to scoff at, Evisceration Plague sees the notorious Buffalo veterans re-establishing the potency of their bra...

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  Underneath The Gun

  Forfeit Misfortunes

  PUBLISHED Feb 9, 2009

  How many releases that carelessly throw together disparate elements from different branches of metal and hardcore into an over-produced, pr...

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  Architect

  Ghost of the Saltwater Machines

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2009

  Architect's 2006 debut, All is Not Lost, stood out impressively at a time when abrasive, balls-out noisecore had receded from popularity, r...

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  xDeathstarx

  The Triumph

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2009

  xDeathstarx are Christian metalcore. Anyone still reading? While the necessity of this reissue is a matter of debate, as it's barely out-of...

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  Terminal Function

  Measuring the Abstract

  PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2009

  Somewhat atypically for Willowtip, Terminal Function's debut offering is a fairly palatable technical metal record that rests comfortably b...

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  Flu.ID

  Iots

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  It’s nice to occasionally see some good independent tech metal, especially considering that most of the genre’s original heavyweights are e...

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  Llynch

  We Are Our Ghosts

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  Germany's Llynch, despite a split a few years back with the Minor Times and a couple of EP releases, have remained relatively unknown here...

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  Meshuggah

  Contradictions Collapse (Reloaded)

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2008

  Sophomore effort Destroy Erase Improve and its centrepiece, the monstrously heavy "Future Breed Machine," remain the yardsticks by which Me...