Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  The Illness

  A Monument To Our Gilded Age

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2012

  Formed in 2008 and based in San Francisco, CA, the Illness illustrated their press kit with a full comic strip detailing their origin story...

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  Ides of Gemini

  Constantinople

  PUBLISHED Jun 6, 2012

  Constantinople (the full-length debut album by Los Angeles, CA's Ides of Gemini) is a dreamy conglomeration of dark ambience, psychedelia a...

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  Marduk

  Serpent Sermon

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2012

  Serpent Sermon is the 12th studio album from black metal juggernaut Marduk. Founded in 1990 by guitarist Morgan Steinmeyer Hårkansson in No...

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  Ulver

  Childhood's End

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2012

  Norwegian avant-garde dark ambient experimenters Ulver have always been too artistically restless to stay in one place for long. Their aest...

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  Dawnbringer

  Into The Lair of the Sun God

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2012

  When Dawnbringer released Nucleus in 2010, on Profound Lore, the metal community suddenly sat up and took notice, wondering where this band...

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  Disma

  Outside Stage 2, Baltimore MD May 27

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2012

  While Disma adhere to the basic riff structures of death metal, they slow the pace of their music down to a churning crawl. Their set borro...

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  Rwake

  Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 27

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2012

  Rwake, a band of Southern sludgesters from Little Rock, AK, dragged the blood, mud and tar inside the Sonar for a humid, choking set. While...

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  YOB

  Club Sonar, Baltimore MD May 27

  PUBLISHED May 29, 2012

  There is a point at which sound, at sufficient volume and when played with enough animal ferociousness, undergoes an alchemical transformat...