Articles by Mike Simpson

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  Helms Alee

  Weatherhead

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2011

  It's curious to note just how antithetical melody has become to much of heavy music, with the vocalist often being relegated to acting as o...

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  Xibalba

  Madre Mia Gracias Por Los Dias

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2011

  Unlike the majority of releases that uncreative metal journalists call "punishing," Madre Mia Gracias Por Los Dias lives up to the most bru...

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  Khann

  Erode

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2011

  It's intriguing to hear how Khann can manage to be part of, but sound separate from, post-hardcore, a genre that's already extremely diffic...

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  Black Tusk

  Passage Through Purgatory

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2011

  Indicating the chance of greater dollars to be made from sludge music now versus three years ago, this reissue of a not-too-far-past releas...

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  Red Fang

  Murder the Mountains

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011

  From a passing glance, one would imagine Red Fang to be yet another group of beer guzzling beard rockers who think rock peaked before the '...

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  Burzum

  Fallen

  PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2011

  Although released only a year after 2010's excellent Belus, Fallen shows that the comparatively long 11-year period between Burzum's curren...

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  Rotten Sound

  Cursed

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011

  Summoning forth a devastating guitar sound, supported by a massive bottom end, Rotten Sound's Cursed showcases a band that have refined the...

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  Kvelertak

  Kvelertak

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011

  For their truly astonishing feat of managing to simultaneously sound like everyone and no one on their debut album, Kvelertak must be grant...