CRYSTAL BALL „Timewalker”
From the land of Celtic Frost and ahem, Krokus, comes the fifth full length from Switzerlands Crystal Ball. Entitled Timewalker, it arrives some two years after their Nuclear Blast debut Hellvetia.
DUSKFALL, THE „Lifetime Supply of Guilt”
The Duskfall are a new name to me. Their musical style most certainly isnt.
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME „Alaska”
Cool Songs: All Bodies, Selkies: The Endless Obsession, Roboturner, The Primer, Autodidact
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CANCER „Spirit In Flames”
After taking the best part of the last decade off, UK Death Metallers Cancer reunited (as is the current want of many long dead veterans metal acts) in 2004. They quickly signed to Englands Copro Records and put out a feeler EP entitled Corporation$.
ILL NINO „One Nation Underground”
For some strange reason, I was completely in another portal of the universe when Latino-Metallers Ill Nino hit with Confessions and their debut Revolution, Revolucion. Was that a good thing? Well, perhaps on the strength of their nu-flavoured third effort One Nation Underground, it may have been.
CURL UP AND DIE „The One Above All, The End of All That Is”
Cool Songs: Uncomfortable Routine, Antidepressants Are Depressing, There Is Never Enough Time to Do Nothing, Instrumental, There Ain't No Can't in American
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FALL OF TROY, THE „Doppelganger”
Cool Songs: F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X, I Just Got This Symphony Goin, You Got A Death Wish, Johnny Truant?, The Hol[ ]y Tape, Tom Waits
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BANNER, THE „Each Breath Haunted”
Cool Songs: Devil Hawks, Mudweller, I am Legend, Ill be Happy when youre Fucking Dead
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MADBALL „Legacy”
Cool Songs: Adapt and Overcome, Heavenhell, The Crown, Behind These Walls, Darkest Days, Damned, For My Enemies
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CHIMAIRA „s/t”
When Cleavlands Ky-Meara (thats how you pronounce Chimaira folks) released 2003s Impossibility of Reason, its musical content was pretty much a reaction to the nu-metal tag that that was incessantly hung like an albatross around their necks at every turn. Reason.. was a middle finger to those who would believe that commercial stardom was their only agenda.