Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  North Atlantic Drift/Northumbria

  Split

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2014

  Northumbria released one of the secret treasures of the Toronto drone scene last year, All Days Begin As Night, a ghostly, deeply textured...

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  Aurvandil

  Thrones

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2014

  The proper name Aurvandil is proto-Germanic and means "luminous wanderer"; it is usually a reference to the North Star, and several mytholo...

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  Stoneburner

  Life Drawing

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2014

  In Herbert's Dune novels, the Stone Burners were intensely destructive atomic weapons that were particularly good at causing blindness, due...

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  Enthroned

  Sovereigns

  PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2014

  Belgian black metal stalwarts Enthroned occupy a nebulous, liminal kind of space when it comes to their identity; the four-piece has had ov...

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  Of Feather and Bone

  Adorned in Decay EP

  PUBLISHED Apr 11, 2014

  Denver, CO's Of Feather And Bone positively revel in their challenging ugliness. Combining crust with grind and hardcore with punk, their l...

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  Carcass / The Black Dahlia Murder / Gorguts / Noisem

  Metropolis, Montreal QC, April 9

  PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2014

  Musical comebacks and reunions are taking place at an ever-increasing rate, and many fail, never managing to recapture the precise sonic al...

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  Neige Morte

  Bicephaale

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2014

  While Norway is unquestionably the spiritual birthplace of black metal, the strangest, most challenging and often most sublime specimens of...

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  Delain

  The Human Contradiction

  PUBLISHED Apr 8, 2014

  Were they a weaker group, Dutch symphonic metal band Delain could easily fall prey to suffering from an identity crisis. The group are cons...