Articles By Max Deneau
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Integrity The Blackest Curse Published Jul 06, 2010While the fact that this album even exists is a minor miracle ― after the disastrous attempt at touring To Die For and mass exodus of...
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Anathema We're Here Because We're Here Published Jun 28, 2010There comes a time in certain bands' careers where they have inarguably peaked, and a brief summary of their musical trajectory isn't suffic...
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Letter to the Exiles The Shadow Line Published Jun 28, 2010It's nice once in a while to hear an unabashedly generic metalcore record, if for no other reason than to reminisce about a time when "bree"...
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Maryland Deathfest featuring Gorguts, Blood Duster, Converge, Eyehategod Sonar, Baltimore, MD May 28-30 Published Jun 03, 2010The sweltering heat of downtown Baltimore set an appropriately suffocating atmosphere for what has become North America's premier metal fest...
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Deftones Diamond Eyes Published May 18, 2010As a reactionary piece to 2007's bloated, overproduced Saturday Night Wrist, Diamond Eyes is an effective, yet double-edged, return to what...
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The Ocean Heliocentric Published Apr 13, 2010The Ocean clearly have very little regard for the expectations of critics or fans, as has been proven over the course of several full-length...
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Bleeding Through Bleeding Through Published Apr 13, 2010A highly publicized fallout with former label Trustkill somewhat dampened the momentum of 2008's rock solid Declaration, but has not deterre...
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Burzum Published Apr 06, 2010The long awaited return of one-man black metal pioneer Varg Vikernes to guitar-based music has been rife with predictable, yet somewhat legi...
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Burzum Belus Published Mar 10, 2010What began as a primitive assault on the tenets of modern music and culture, and climaxed with an incarceration that lasted 15 years has now...
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Acacia Strain The Most Known Unknown Published Feb 22, 2010Boasting one of the stupider names for a live DVD in recent memory, and an almost overwhelming amount of live footage, it's questionable whe...
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Xasthur 2005 Demo Published Feb 22, 2010While the necessity of this release could certainly be debated, Hydra Head has decided to flood the market with yet another stopgap offering...
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Ihsahn After Published Jan 25, 2010There are times in certain musicians' careers where they transcend what is expected of them and rise to the point where they are beyond crit...
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Living Sacrifice The Infinite Order Published Jan 25, 2010When a band are inactive for quite some time, they have a couple of options before them: ape their imitators and play it safe or rise above...
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Blacklisted No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me Published Dec 21, 2009Nine times out of ten, when a band jump into the studio within a year of releasing a widely acclaimed breakthrough album, the results will n...
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Rise And Fall Our Circle is Vicious Published Dec 21, 2009While it's easy for merely solid releases to slip through the cracks in one of the most prolific years for heavy music in recent memory, Ris...
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American Me Siberian Nightmare Machine Published Dec 21, 2009Well, somebody had to fill the void left by Bury Your Dead's untimely swan dive into full-blown nu-metal. All mockery aside, American Me's n...
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Coalesce Ox EP Published Nov 17, 2009Leave it to Coalesce to drop one of the finest albums of 2009, then chuck the leftovers at us at the end of the year, reminding listeners an...
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Black Anvil Time Insults the Mind Published Nov 17, 2009Bestowing a blackened aura upon a solid thrash/groove foundation, Black Anvil are not "the best metal band out of NY in ten years," as certa...
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Culted Below the Thunders of the Upper Deep Published Nov 17, 2009Displaying remarkable fluidity for an album purportedly assembled piece by piece via email by both Canadian and Swedish members, Below the T...
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Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect Published Nov 17, 2009When you've reached the point in your career that Between the Buried and Me have, you no longer need to restlessly expand on your formula &#...