Articles by Max Deneau

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  Burzum

  Belus

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2010

  What began as a primitive assault on the tenets of modern music and culture, and climaxed with an incarceration that lasted 15 years has no...

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  Xasthur

  2005 Demo

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2010

  While the necessity of this release could certainly be debated, Hydra Head has decided to flood the market with yet another stopgap offerin...

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  Acacia Strain

  The Most Known Unknown

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2010

  Boasting one of the stupider names for a live DVD in recent memory, and an almost overwhelming amount of live footage, it's questionable wh...

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  Living Sacrifice

  The Infinite Order

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2010

  When a band are inactive for quite some time, they have a couple of options before them: ape their imitators and play it safe or rise above...

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  Ihsahn

  After

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2010

  There are times in certain musicians' careers where they transcend what is expected of them and rise to the point where they are beyond cri...

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  American Me

  Siberian Nightmare Machine

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

  Well, somebody had to fill the void left by Bury Your Dead's untimely swan dive into full-blown nu-metal. All mockery aside, American Me's...

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  Rise And Fall

  Our Circle is Vicious

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

  While it's easy for merely solid releases to slip through the cracks in one of the most prolific years for heavy music in recent memory, Ri...

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  Blacklisted

  No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2009

  Nine times out of ten, when a band jump into the studio within a year of releasing a widely acclaimed breakthrough album, the results will...