Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Zatokrev

  The Bat, The Wheel and the Long Road to Nowhere

  PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2013

  Based in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, sludge-laden, blackened doom band Zatokrev have released a writhing, shattered slab of sound for their t...

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  Circle Takes the Square

  Decompositions: Volume One

  PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2012

  With Decompositions: Volume One, their sophomore release and first record since 2004, self-described apocalyptic punk rockers Circle Takes...

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  Maveth

  Coils of the Black Earth

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2012

  Active since 2007, releasing an EP, demo and appearing on the Breath of an Abomination compilation, Finnish blackened death metal band Mave...

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  Blaak Heat Shujaa

  The Storm Generation

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2012

  NYC-based Tee Pee Records often favours records that explore the darker reaches of psychedelia, and their latest offering from Los-Angeles-...

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  Eluveitie / Wintersun / Varg

  Opera House, Toronto, ON, December 13

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

  Folk metal often gets the reputation for being one of the lightest sub-genres of aggressive music. Between the folk instruments, traditiona...

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  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

  Peter Jackson

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  From the very first moments we witness the green fields and little rivers in the opening of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journ...

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  Sonata Arctica / Arsis / Kobra and the Lotus

  Opera House, Toronto, ON, December 11

  PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2012

  Power metal is less typically aligned with wintertime than, say, the grimmest and most frostbitten of black metal, which tends to dwell on...

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  Kowloon Walled City

  Container Ships

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2012

  Named after an unregulated outlaw city in Kowloon, Hong Kong run by the Triads during its brief, tumultuous history, Kowloon Walled City ha...