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Slaughter The Giant – Abomination (2024) – Review

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One thing is certain. Depravity, Slaughter the Giant‘s 2022 piece, made waves over here. Huge tidal waves. And astonishingly so, because the band’s abrasive style certainly ain’t everybody’s cup of witches’ brew.

Now, right on time for the Top 10 season, StG launch a new red-hot ballistic missile called Abomination. Judging by the cover art, it must be some monkey business in Hell’s Cathedral. Priests hung upside down and daemon’s running rampant. Or something. Let’s grab some Holy Water, if that works at all. We’re not quite sure anymore. Be afraid, be very afraid!

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Thorium – The Bastard (2024) – Review

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When your Death Metal sounds Rogga-ish, there must be some truth to it. And sure enough, Thorium‘s new piece The Bastard does include one Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, et al) as the main guitarist. Sometimes I cannot fathom how this man can stuff so much work into his 24 hours of waketime without adding the night to it. After all, he’s got a gazillion bands to attend to, plus some loving attention to fans and friends. AND we will for sure hear from him later in the year all over again.

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Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera (2024) – Review

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I never knew diving into metal at large would make one appreciate classical music more than you’d ever imagined. Haunting themes straight from the opera stage, ferociously shredded to fit the metal narrative. Unspeakable creations that you didn’t expect until you met their terrible fury. But all those classically trained ladies fronting many a band truly take the darkly metallic cake. Somehow the sugar-sweet high-pitched female offering goes well with all those Neanderthal musings Extreme Metal is full of.

Fleshgod Apocalypse‘s Veronica Bordacchini is one of them. Well actually, no, not quite. She acted more as some permanent session … [...] Click to raid more!

Dark Tranquility – Endtime Signals (2024) – Review

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Ha! Yet another candidate for the RMR n00bs section. Never too old to be one, you know. Dark Tranquility is yet another of these old metal warhorses that never made it onto the RMR review pipe. Thus, for us, they’re firstcomers despite the band’s undeniable contribution to the holy books of The Lore ov Metal. After all, they’ve been in business since 1991 – and continually so. And again, we shall look at Endtime Signals without regard to what came before.

It comes as no surprise that Dark Tranquility is insanely popular with grizzly metalheads and adepts of metal o’ … [...] Click to raid more!