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artist of the month

All Shall Perish

Oakland California's, ALL SHALL PERISH, returns with their most diverse offering yet! Never one to record the same album twice, ALL SHALL PERISH has made yet another giant leap forward for themselves and the death and grind genres. Awaken the Dreamers cements the band‘s status as leaders in their field after 2006's milestone release, The Price of Existence, permanently secured the groups place in metal history. In a scene that is fast becoming stale ALL SHALL PERISH is here to resuscitate and breathe new life into a genre full of fly by night successes.

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Awaken the Dreamers review (coming soon)
show review (coming soon)
Nuclear Blast Records

Opeth
After releasing albums for nearly fifteen years, I doubt these Swedes require an introduction. Opeth releasing an album is like Russell Crowe starring in a new film. You know it will be fantastic, but will it eclipse the last?

I:scintilla
Show review: A baseball diamond, a praying mantis, and an electronic rock band.

Scar Symmetry
A unique band captured on a rather predictable album.

Opiate for the Masses
Three years ago, in 2005, The Spore by a band called Opiate for the Masses was my choice for album of the year. Now, with a new label, a new bass player, and a new album, Opiate for the Masses has again done the unexpected...

Gigantour, Vol. 2 (DVD)
This is the second run of Dave Mustaine’s Gigantour, the imminently premier metal festival across the Americas.

in the dark no want no need no desire not anything not any of the things once deemed important only the thick curse of blackness swelling up like a dense mist hovering over a damp october evening in fall nothing but the cool calm feeling of metal on the temple scratching wildly as if to rub away the pressures and the punishments and the pains but they linger and hover more deeply than ever and there i sit waiting for the darkness to completely fall no respect no need no help just existing in this dim and gray place with these dim and gray people blankness expressions on each and i sit and contemplate the banging of the corpse in the moonlight underbrush i enjoy nothing and nothing enjoys me where am i when will i arrive i have tried and failed and completed one full circle still wandering and wondering what it is that has happened or will if i am to go tonight to the river with the pistol and the man on all fours dramatically and fast forwardly approaching as if anxiety has gotten the best now and forever i watch and wait and he approaches but he does not reach me he never reaches me for to feel is to touch and to have not i simply wait in this oblivion as the darkness prevails in the shadowy gloom where no one can help me no one admittedly and the good times a distant past as they happen once with each person only to never been seen again and i yearn for the continuation only to lay to waste in the muggy dew on the dim lit porch i try to think clearly but negativity is upon me as has always overridden and i can see no further through the depths of the power that i do not possess alone

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