HYPOCRISY „Virus”
Cool Songs: Warpath, Craving For Another Killing, Incised Before Ive Ceased, Blooddrenched, Scrutinized
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RUSSELL ALLEN & JORN LANDE „The Battle”
Cool Songs: Another Battle, Hunters Night, Silent Rage, Wish For A Miracle, Where Have The Angels Gone
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DOPE „American Apathy”
The absolute best thing about this new Dope disc is its value for money. Theyve always been a rather fan friendly band (hell, they even told former label Epic to jam it sideways when they allegedly attempted to rip their fan base off) and as such American Apathy is chock full of goodies.
MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD „Merciless”
Cool Songs: Shark Ethic, Two Men Enter, One Man Leaves, Temporary Solution to a Permanent Problem, Mad As the March Hare, Damage Control Freak, Oxygen Debt
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HALLOWMAS „The Road to Hallow”
Formed in 2002 by vocalist Boris Randall and Damien Matthews, Hallowmas main philosophy was to write dark, haunting rock n roll tunes. Some call it horror punk, but such a description possibly has more to do with their lyrical themes and blatantly provocative image.
YOB „The Unreal Never Lived”
There are conventional doom metal bands and then there is YOB. As much as you can identify classic Doom with the likes of Black Sabbath and Candlemass, this three piece act from Eugene, Oregon seem to want to play their own brand of oppressive heaviness.
A LIFE ONCE LOST „Hunter”
When Philadelphia quintet A Life Once Lost released their 2003 album A Great Artist I alluded to the fact that a couple of other like-minded bands had cause to pursue a court preceding based on plagiarism. Of course, A Life Once Lost are not the only band to base their core sound on extremely well established template (Swedish Melodic Death bands especially), but gee, did they pushed the envelope.
RUINS „Spun forth As Dark Nets”
Cool Songs: Spun Forth As Dark Nets, Draw Near The Ice, The Ends of the Earth, Feed the Emptiness, Long And Mournful Shores.
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BEACHER „This Elegy, His Autopsy”
Cool Songs: Its Good Weather for Black Leather, Function! Function!,
And on the Day That He Became a Human Plumb Line, Psycho Galvanic Skin Response, I Wont Miss or Be Missed, Reach up to the Gods
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FEAR FACTORY „Transgression”
Cool Songs: 540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit, Contagion, I Will Follow, Millennium, Transgression.
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