Articles by Max Deneau

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  Hands

  Creator

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2009

  Considering the teeming masses of bands struggling to leave their mark in both genres these days, it was unavoidable that post-metal and me...

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  Burnt By The Sun

  Heart of Darkness

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2009

  Burnt by the Sun have achieved near-legendary status in the years since their sophomore full-length, The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good....

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  Moss

  Tombs Of The Blind Drugged

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2009

  Metal Blade is dipping its toes into the current doom explosion a little late, and while Moss aren't awful, they aren't the band that will...

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  Death Before Dishonor

  Better Ways to Die

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2009

  In the two years since Count Me In, Death Before Dishonor have evolved considerably, shedding their straight-up new school tough guy approa...

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  Orca

  Collapse & Decay

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2009

  Continuing the recent string of solid Torontonian efforts, Orca unleash two tracks and an interlude's worth of tense, imposing post-metal f...

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  Eagle Twin

  The Unkindness of Crows

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2009

  It seems just about everybody is playing doom these days. Featuring Gentry Densley (leader of defunct everything-core group Iceburn), Eagle...

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  Killswitch Engage

  Killswitch Engage

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2009

  While Killswitch Engage have effectively retained their place on the top of the melodic metalcore heap commercially, long-term fans and cas...

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  The Ocean

  Fluxion

  PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2009

  Having released easily one of the strongest albums of 2007 with Precambrian, the Ocean Collective have seen fit to reissue one of their ear...