Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Stratovarius

  Nemesis

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2013

  As Finnish power metal veterans Stratovarius enter their 29th year as one of the most influential groups in the genre, they're also releasi...

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  Nader Sadek

  Living Flesh

  PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2013

  Nader Sadek are an unusual project, named after the conceptual artist and songwriter who guides every aspect of the music, structure and pe...

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  Marduk / Moonspell / Inquisition / The Foreshadowing / Death Wolf

  The Wreckroom, Toronto, ON, February 25

  PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2013

  Black metal in the early evening always stretches the audience's sense of suspended disbelief, especially when the sun has just barely set...

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  Eight Bells

  The Captain's Daughter

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

  Based in Portland, OR, Eight Bells are the new project founded by Melynda Jackson, formerly of SubArachnoid Space. After shuttering that pr...

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  Archon

  Ouroboros Collapsing

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

  This is the sophomore full-length from NYC's Archon. Weaving together thick, heavy ropes of doom and sludge with psychedelic and stoner inf...

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  Portal

  Vexovoid

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

  Heavy metal, as a genre, embraces and encourages strangeness. Works based upon eldritch, Lovecraft-ian evil are almost commonplace. Profoun...

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  Puscifer

  Donkey Punch The Night

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

  Maynard James Keenan, founder and frontman of Puscifer, referred to the two covers that appear on this record as "an itch that needed scrat...

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  Shai Hulud

  Reach Beyond the Sun

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

  Not many bands are forced to fight tooth-and-claw to hold some semblance of a line-up together the way Shai Hulud have. Guitarist Matt Fox...