Articles by Max Deneau

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  Trigger The Bloodshed

  Purgation

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2008

  Hailing from across the pond and clearly progressing independently of North American trends, Trigger the Bloodshed play unrelenting, speedy...

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  Acacia Strain

  Continent

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2008

  The Acacia Strain turned more than a few heads two years back with their pummelling third LP, The Dead Walk, a thoroughly breakdown-oriente...

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  Hybrid

  The 8th Plague

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2008

  An improvement on their already arresting Beyond Undeniable Entropy EP, Hybrid’s debut full-length recklessly molests just about every styl...

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  Krallice

  Krallice

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2008

  Seemingly to prove they can play and write circles around established virtuosos in any genre, Behold... the Arctopus/Dhysrhythmia 12-string...

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  Nachtmystium

  Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2008

  Every once and a while a metal record comes along that, while inevitably alienating long-time fans and drawing a line between their "respec...

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  Withered

  Folie Circulaire

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2008

  Withered broached many year-end lists with their Lifeforce debut, Memento Mori, and have brought their sound to fruition with Folie Circula...

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  Summer Slaughter

  The Opera House, Toronto ON August 16

  PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2008

  The unprecedented rise in the popularity of metal and hardcore has led to the proliferation of many mid-to-high profile festival tours. In...

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  Misery Signals

  Controller

  PUBLISHED Jul 22, 2008

  Although 2006’s Mirrors was a compelling, well-written album, it fell slightly short of the expectations set by Of Malice and the Magnum He...