Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Death Angel

  Park Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 10

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2014

  The Bay Area thrashers may have had to play early and in full daylight, but the time of day did nothing to dilute the impact of their set....

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  Cynic

  Park Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 10

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2014

  While much of Heavy Montreal was an exercise in intensity and extremity of a more straightforward or brutal variety, Cynic introduced an en...

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  Fucked Up

  Park Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 10

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2014

  Toronto based hardcore punks Fucked Up have an uncanny ability to combine relentless positivity with cheerful violence, and as fans have co...

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  Slayer

  Park Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 10

  PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2014

  Slayer are now an impossible band to review. The high priests of American thrash occupy an unfuckwithable position in the minds and hearts...

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  Babymetal

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2014

  A fusion of multi-subgenre heavy metal and Idol-style J-pop, Babymetal have become an online phenomenon. Their unusual mash-up aesthetic an...

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  Biblical

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2014

  Toronto-based stoner rockers Biblical played one of Heavy Montreal's smaller stages, but brought some of the biggest riffs of the first day...

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  Whores.

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2014

  Atlanta, GA's WHORES. were the secret champions of Heavy Montreal's first day. Their bitingly acerbic noise rock is an entirely different e...

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  Voivod

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2014

  Quebec's own thrash innovators Voivod felt profoundly, supremely at home on one of Heavy Montreal's main stages, playing to a crowd that wa...