Articles by Natalie Zina Walschots

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  Ghost

  Meliora

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2015

  Swedish shades Ghost have a truly rare sense of theatricality. Identities carefully concealed behind elaborate costumes and personas, their...

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  Slipknot

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

  The thing with Slipknot is you really just need to take them as they are: pure, over-the-top carnivalesque theatricality. A little bit infe...

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  Lamb of God

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

  Sometimes, you don't want to be battered by intensely difficult music, but by the flying limbs and whipping hair of everyone around you. So...

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  Ihsahn

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 9

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

  It's easy, looking at the composed, incredibly gentle face of Ihsahn, to imagine that a live set of his solo work is going to be a calm, ce...

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  Devin Townsend

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 8

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2015

  There might not be another figure in all of heavy music with as much love in his heart as Devin Townsend. When not being delightfully self-...

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  Dying Fetus

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 8

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2015

  There is something endearing about a band that embraces their own repulsiveness with the enthusiasm that Dying Fetus do. The death metal an...

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  Faith No More

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 8

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2015

  We've all seen photos of the current Faith No More tour, weaving and wending its way across the continent: the stage festooned with flowers...

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  Gorguts

  Parc Jean-Drapeau, Montreal QC, August 7

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2015

  Fresh off of a performance at Katacombes the night before, Sherbrooke's technical death metal wizards Gorguts showed absolutely no sign of...