Kill it with fire - A review of Celtic Frost's Prototype

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I know it seems like beating a dead horse but since I have only recently come across Celtic Frost's infamous Prototype demo, I simply have to say that this might be the worst release I have ever listened to. That means something after having explored...

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Hammer high for the band's greatest live record so far - A review of HammerFall's Live! Against the World

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When I discovered heavy metal more than a decade and a half ago, many veterans told me that HammerFall's first few studio albums were very influential but that the Swedish quintet was a lackluster live band. I couldn't disagree more since I got the occasion...

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Trendy electronic rock music without a soul - A review of Within Temptation's Entertain You

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After three dreadful studio albums with the faceless The Unforgiving, the pop cover compilation The Q-Music Sessions and the unfocused oddball Hydra, former symphonic metal heavyweights Within Temptation finally released a decent output with Resist that...

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Overwhelming diversity explored in a structured way - A review of Atrocity's Die gottlosen Jahre

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Atrocity has always been a band that has changed its style so much that few people could keep track. The band started as grindcore pioneers Instigator, continued to play technical death metal, then offered industrial metal before evolving into gothic...

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Timeless melodic thrash metal with a modern edge - A review of Outrage's Run Riot

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Legendary Japanese thrash metal quartet Outrage has been around for thirty-eight years as we speak and has released fourteen studio records so far. Even though the band never went on hiatus and even pulled through the nineties that saw many genre colleagues...

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