Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Barren Harvest

  Subtle Cruelties

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2014

  Not all misery is created equal. Some is like a flat black hole, sucking everything good out of the world and permitting no light to escape...

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  Noble Beast

  Noble Beast

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2014

  The album art of the self-titled debut from Minnesota power-metallers Noble Beast features a Tyrannosaurus Rex with lava pouring from its j...

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  Coffinworm

  IV.I.VIII

  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2014

  The sheer weight of doom metal, from the emotional quagmires it often wallows in to the massive, lordly riff structures and ponderous gravi...

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  Shroud of the Heretic

  Revelations in Alchemy

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2014

  The black metal that emerges from Portland, OR generally fits smoothly into the Cascadian black metal movement pioneered by bands like Wolv...

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  Morbus Chron

  From the Bowels of Hell

  PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2014

  Musical growth and development are as difficult for critics to quantify as they are for bands to manage. Too much progression in too short...

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  Dangers

  Five O'Clock Shadows At The Edge of the Western World 7”

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2014

  While only a seven-inch offering, California's merchants of "pissed off hardcore" managed to cram a hell of a lot of searing aggression int...

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  Morbus Chron

  Sweven

  PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2014

  "Morbus crohn" is the German term for the inflammatory bowel disease that we know as Crohn's disease; Morbus Chron are a Swedish death meta...

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  The Translator

  Blackgaze

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2014

  What is it? Blackgaze marries the harsh, alien instrumentation of black metal with the mellower, dreamy soundscapes of shoegaze. Heavily in...