NUCLEAR ASSAULT „Third World Genocide”
Without any doubt whatsoever, the most questionable reunion release of 2005 is Nuclear Assaults Third World Genocide. The reviews for this new album (their first studio effort since the debacle that was 1993s Something Wicked), is easily 10% in the affirmative, 90% against.
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME „Alaska”
Cool Songs: All Bodies, Selkies: The Endless Obsession, Roboturner, The Primer, Autodidact
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CURL UP AND DIE „The One Above All, The End of All That Is”
Cool Songs: Uncomfortable Routine, Antidepressants Are Depressing, There Is Never Enough Time to Do Nothing, Instrumental, There Ain't No Can't in American
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FALL OF TROY, THE „Doppelganger”
Cool Songs: F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X, I Just Got This Symphony Goin, You Got A Death Wish, Johnny Truant?, The Hol[ ]y Tape, Tom Waits
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BANNER, THE „Each Breath Haunted”
Cool Songs: Devil Hawks, Mudweller, I am Legend, Ill be Happy when youre Fucking Dead
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MADBALL „Legacy”
Cool Songs: Adapt and Overcome, Heavenhell, The Crown, Behind These Walls, Darkest Days, Damned, For My Enemies
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CHIMAIRA „s/t”
When Cleavlands Ky-Meara (thats how you pronounce Chimaira folks) released 2003s Impossibility of Reason, its musical content was pretty much a reaction to the nu-metal tag that that was incessantly hung like an albatross around their necks at every turn. Reason.. was a middle finger to those who would believe that commercial stardom was their only agenda.
ALLEGIANCE „Overlooked”
Having just recovered from the most impressive debut album from Canadas Go It Alone, up and coming hardcore label Rivalry Records follow it up with an even more confronting slice of metallic bludgeoning in the form of San Franciscos Allegiance. Overlooked is the name of this new 12 track affair and it fairly well blazes a trail right through your skull in very quick time.
BOLD „The Search: 1985-1989”
Cool Songs: Running Like Thieves, You're the Friend That I Don't Need, Always Try, Looking Back, Hateful, Speak Out, Today We Live, Talk is Cheap, Nailed to the X, Clear, Wise Up, Still Strong
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OBITUARY „Frozen In Time”
The reunion renaissance continues to roll on. Eight years on since Back from the Dead (a title that served as a precursor to their first reunion), Floridian Death Metal merchants rise from the grave it seems to release Frozen In Time.