Articles by Max Deneau

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  Holy Mountain

  Enemies

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  A group who have received near-unanimous acclaim from every end of the critical spectrum, the Holy Mountain are often referred to as part o...

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  Novembre

  Materia

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  While releasing this album so soon after Katatonia’s recent opus may wind up being a near fatal marketing error on the part of the never re...

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  Dim Mak

  Knives of Ice

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Jonathan Longstreth is in this band. If you are a fan of his previous work, most notably Origin, Angelcorpse and Skinless, than this releas...

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  Catacombs

  In the Depths of R'lyeh

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Limited by the same desire for achieving the peak of recordable extremity as traditional death metal, funeral doom nonetheless continues to...

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  Dead to Fall

  The Phoenix Throne

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  While the fact still remains that Dead to Fall’s vocalist and sole remaining original member Jonathan Hunt doesn’t contribute nearly enough...

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  Lair of the Minotaur

  The Ultimate Destroyer

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Do you enjoy being trampled to a bloody, formless mush track by blistering track? Did you find Mastodon’s Leviathan to be over-hyped and un...

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  Enslaved

  Ruun

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Reviewing an Enslaved album in a concise, readable fashion is never an easy task — these virtually unclassifiable Norwegians have managed t...

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  Pantera

  Three Vulgar Videos From Hell

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

  Compiling all three of Pantera’s infamous home videos, in addition to a full set worth of footage from the Monsters Of Rock Festival in Mos...