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Album Reviews 2020

Album Review: Karg – Traktat (AOP Records)

02/02/202014/01/2020 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2020, AOP Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, heavy metal, Karg, Melodic Black Metal, Metal, Post Black Metal, Shoegaze, Traktat

AOP Records proudly presents “Traktat” – the new full-length album of Austria’s Karg and follow-up to 2018’s highly acclaimed “Dornenvögel”!

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GBHBL’s Top 20 Albums of 2019 – Part 2

29/12/201929/12/2019 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 1349, 1914, Aephanemer, AOP Records, Aural Music, Avantgarde Music, Cattle Decapitation, Century Media Records, Childrain, Death Atlas, Despotz Records, Eisenwald, Finsterforst, Forgotten Paths, Gates To The Morning, GBHBL, GBHBL's Top 20 Albums of 2019, GBHBL's Top 20 Albums of 2019 - Part 2, Graviton Records, Heretics, Home, How Are We to Fight the Blight?, Into The Vast Uncharted, MDD Records, Metal Blade, Mystifier, Napalm Records, Netherbird, Nightrage, Nuclear Blast, Pantheon MMXIX, Pelagic Records, Prokopton, Protogoni Mavri Magiki Dynasteia, Return To Earth, Rotting Christ, Saor, Season of Mist, Self-Released, Slow, Soilwork, Sun of the Dying, The Blind Leading the Blind, The Earth Is Silent, The Infernal Pathway, The Offering, The Shaking Sensations, The Silver Ghost, The Sixth, Thormesis, Top 20 Albums of 2019, ToT Records, Ultar, Verkligheten, VI-Dantalion, Wolf to Man, Zerfall

Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Bang Life brings you part 2 of our Top 20 Albums of 2019. This list consists of both Brendan and Carl’s top 10 to 1 albums of 2019.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review: Sun of the Dying – The Earth Is Silent (AOP Records)

25/11/201906/11/2019 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album Review, Albums, Albums 2019, AOP Records, Doom, Doom Metal, heavy metal, Metal, Sun of the Dying, The Earth Is Silent

Spanish death/doom metallers Sun of the Dying are back with their sophomore album, The Earth Is Silent. A spiritual successor to their debut album, this record follows its footsteps in a more emotional, atmospheric, yet harder way.

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Carl’s Top 50 Albums of 2018: Part 2 (40 to 31)

27/12/201811/12/2018 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 40 to 31, A Perfect Circle, Amr, Aonia, AOP Records, Arson, BMG, Breaching, Candlelight Records, Carl's Top 50 Albums of 2018, Century Media Records, De Profundis, Eat the Elephant, Empress, Gizeh Records, Harakiri for the Sky, Hundred Year Old Man, Ihsahn, Khôrada, Mantar, Nuclear Blast, Orphaned Land, Part 2, Prophecy Productions, Reminiscence, Salt, Self-Released, The Blinding Light Of Faith, The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze, The Seven, Top 50, Top 50 Albums of 2018, Transcending Obscurity Records, Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs, Wolves & Vibrancy

This is Carl from Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life’s best rock and heavy metal albums of 2018 continuing with numbers 40 to 31.

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Album Reviews 2018

Album Review: Karg – Dornenvögel (AOP Records)

11/11/201823/10/2018 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher Album, Album Review, Albums, Albums 2018, AOP Records, Atmospheric Metal, Black Metal, Dornenvögel, heavy metal, Karg, Metal

With the release of their sixth studio album, Karg will celebrate its rebirth as a live band for a few special dates in 2018 & 2019. Dornenvögel is out on November 16th 2018 via AOP Records.

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Album Reviews 2018

Album Review: Spiral Skies – Blues For A Dying Planet (AOP Records)

05/05/201820/04/2018 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Album Review, Albums, Albums 2018, AOP Records, Blues For A Dying Planet, Occult, Occult Rock, Rock, Spiral Skies

Swedish occult rock band Spiral Skies’ upcoming, debut album, Blues For A Dying Planet will be released on May 18th via AOP Records. A unique blend of folk, doom and 70’s inspired rock music.

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Album Reviews 2018

Album Review: Harakiri For The Sky – Arson (AOP Records)

20/01/201820/01/2018 Carl 'The Disc' Fisher 0 Comments Album, Album Review, Albums, AOP Records, Arson, Black Metal, Harakiri for the Sky, heavy metal, Metal, Post-Metal, Post-Rock

The fourth album from Harakiri for the Sky, a unique mixture of melancholy and aggression, is called Arson & will be released on February 16th 2018 via AOP Records.

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