Articles by Max Deneau

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  Light Pupil Dilate

  Snake Wine

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  Light Pupil Dilate are clearly trying their hardest to present a genre fusion that doesn’t conform to the usual death/mosh/spazz/etc. frame...

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  Xasthur

  Defective Epitaph

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2007

  Another year, another Xasthur record. While lesser artists would burn themselves out creatively with this kind of prolific output, Xasthur’...

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  Absence

  Riders of the Plague

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  Having established themselves as an above-average At the Gates clone with their debut, the Absence have clearly set out to up the ante. Rid...

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  Atavist

  II: Ruined

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  With the words "No life worth living” proudly emblazoned upon the gatefold artwork, accompanied by grimy, urban decay-themed photography, o...

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  Austerity Program

  Black Madonna

  PUBLISHED Oct 24, 2007

  As Hydra Head’s popularity and relevance continue to expand exponentially, it seems their signings become less and less concerned with reco...

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  Soilwork

  Sworn to A Great Divide

  PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2007

  Metal fans are a fickle bunch, as the public reaction to Soilwork’s gradual shift towards accessibility has shown. Sworn to A Great Divide...

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  Coalesce

  There Is Nothing New Under the Sun +

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2007

  As a (tentative) final swansong for the almighty Coalesce, Hydra Head has seen fit to re-release one of their more perplexing offerings: an...

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  Impending Doom

  Nailed. Dead. Risen.

  PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2007

  A cursory glance at the all too clean-cut, shorthaired Christian lads in Impending Doom might lead one to dismiss Nailed. Dead. Risen. as y...