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2019 Single Slam

Single Slam – Harvest Pyre by Abbath (Outstrider)

16/04/201916/04/2019 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Abbath, Black Metal, Carl Gustav Jung, Christian mysticism, Harvest Pyre, Heavy, Immortal, King Ov Hell, Mia Wallace, New Metal, New Music, Northern Chaos Gods, Norway, Norwegian, Ole Andre Farstad, Olve Eikemo, Outstrider, Scandinavian, Season of Mist, Swiss psychiatrist, Ukri Suviletho

Abbath are due to release their second album, Outstrider, later this year and our first taste of new music comes now, in the single Harvest Pyre.

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EP Reviews 2019

EP Review – Mistakes Like Fractures by Knocked Loose (Pure Noise Records)

11/04/201911/04/2019 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher american metal, Breakdowns, Bryan Garris, Cole Crutchfield, Crossover, hardcore, Heavy, Isaac Hale, Kentucky, Kevin Otten, Knocked Loose, Laugh Tracks, Metalcore, Mistakes Like Fractures, mosh pit music, New Metal, New Music, Pac Sun, Pop Culture, Punk, Pure Noise Records, Slings and Arrows, The Warriors

Kentucky based metalcore outfit, Knocked Loose, return with their first bit of new music in 3 years with Mistakes Like Fractures.

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2019 Single Slam

Single Slam – The Sentinel by Earthbound

10/04/201909/04/2019 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Bloodstock, Bloodstock Festival, Chris Stroud, Earthbound, Endure, GBHBL, Heavy, Hertfordshire, Independent, John Stacy, Louie Penfold, melodeath, Melodic, Melodic Death Metal, New Metal, New Music, raw, Richard Shearing, Self-Released, Single Review, The Sentinel, Tom Watson, UK

Melodic death metallers, Earthbound, are back with a brand new single called The Sentinel, a blazing track chock full of hard hitting riffs and underlying melody.

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Album Reviews 2019

Album Review – Wolf to Man by Nightrage (Despotz Records)

31/03/201930/03/2019 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Album of the Year, consistent, Despotz Records, Dino George Stamoglou, Fransisco Escalona, GBHBL, Gemini, Greek, Groove, harmony, Heavy, Insidious, Lytrosis, Magnus Soderman, Marios Iliopoulos, melodeath, Melodic, Melodic Death Metal, New Metal, New Music, Nightrage, Ronnie Nyman, Swedish, Sweet Vengeance, The Puritan, The Venomous, Wearing a Martyr's Crown, Wolf to Man

One of melodic death metals most persistent and consistent bands, Nightrage, release their new album, Wolf to Man, on the 29/03/2019 via Despotz Records.

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2019 Single Slam

Single Slam – Raven’s Flight by Amon Amarth (Berserker)

25/03/201925/03/2019 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Amon Amarth, battle, Berserker, Bloodstock Festival, Cry of the Blackbirds, fast, Heavy, Johan Hegg, Jomsviking, melodeath, Melodic Death Metal, New Metal, New Music, Raven's Flight, Sweden, Swedish, Viking horns, Viking Metal, Vikings, War

It has been 3 years since Sweden’s Viking warriors Amon Amarth released Jomsviking. They return now with a new album and this first single, Raven’s Flight.

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2019 Single Slam

Single Slam – Evermore by Devin Townsend (Empath)

21/03/201921/03/2019 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Canada, Casualties of Cool, Devin Townsend, Empath, Evermore, Heavy, Metal, New Metal, New Music, Review, Strapping Young Lad, Symphonic, The Devin Townsend Band, The Devin Townsend Project, theatrical, Transcendence, West End Musical, Z2, Ziltoid the Omniscient

Evermore is the latest single released from Devin Townsend’s new album, Empath. The Canadian metal icon will release Empath on the 29th of March via his own label HevyDevy Records.

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