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Author & Punisher – Women & Children

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Women & Children

01. Women & Children
02. In Remorse
03. Melee
04. Tame As A Lion
05. Fearce
06. Miles From Home
07. Pain Myself

[06/11/13]
[Seventh Rule]

The marriage of metal and electronic music is not a new concept, and often ends up with shoddy or campy results. Industrial metal is one such genre born from this union and even still, results may vary; Bands like Godflesh and Jesu are regarded quite favorably as innovators whereas the likes of Marilyn Manson and Static-X get mixed reception. Recent developments within the genre have lead to wild avant-garde experimentation, where Norway’s SHINING and Californian one-man band Author & Punisher are met with repeated acclaim for their furtherance of industrial music in their own right.

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Road To Metalfest 2013

After the Burial‘s Road To Metalfest tour was a progcore dream tour! Featuring support from Within The Ruins, The Contortionist (who had Last Chance To Reason‘s Michael Lessard filling in on vocals!), and Glass Cloud, the trek took the bands to and from the annual New England Hardcore & Metal Festival. Needless to say, the Eastern US got rocked — hard. Our regular contributing photographer Maclyn Bean shot the stop  in West Chester on April 22nd, and photos from the show can be viewed below!

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Windhand

As far as blatant Black Sabbath worshiping goes, Windhand are one of the bands that do it absolutely right. The occult rock thing is getting a bit homogenous, but it helps when you’re able to be as catchy as Windhand. The band have just wrapped up their full-length Relapse solo debut (they had a split album with Cough earlier this year through the label) and are hitting the road this June.

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Brew Records Closes It’s Doors

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It’s a sad day. UK independent record label Brew Records has announced that they are closing their doors after 6 years of service. The label has been a home to some of the noisiest and loudest bands in the UK including Hawk EyesBlacklisters and Nine Black Alps and released over 25 releases during their lifetime. As their parting piece, the label have made all of their releases (barring the latest Humanfly release) available digitally as pay what you want through their bandcamp and have reduced the prices on physical releases, giving you the chance to check out some really great music and hopefully throw their cash their way too. Check it out here, I would highly recommend Blacklisters BLKLSTRS, Hawk Eyes Mindhammers and Humanfly‘s Darker Later, but honestly you really can’t go wrong here.

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Karnivool

Sound Awake is my favorite album of all time. It’s the perfect mix of heavy and harmony, and it’s one of those albums you wish you could have written. However, it’s been four years since the band put it out, and although I’ll never tire of it, it’d be nice to have a new album or even just a new song to jam. Well, ladies and gents, it is nearly time.

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Leprous – Coal

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Coal

01. Foe
02. Chronic
03. The Cloak
04. The Valley
05. Salt
06. Echo
07. Contaminate Me

[05/20/13]
[InsideOut]

Considering Leprous‘s previous album Bilateral is considered by many to be a masterpiece of progressive metal; Norway’s Leprous had a tall order in front of themselves. Coming up with a followup to such a critically acclaimed and beloved album is no doubt a daunting task. Despite that, after two long years of waiting, Leprous have conjured the successor to Bilateral, and it’s called Coal. Usually, when bands release an album after their magnum opus, the result is either a “version 2.0″ of the previous album, or it’s a return back to the normal style of the band. Leprous have taken a bold turn instead, and they have reinvented themselves. Coal is clearly a Leprous album, carrying all their trademark touches, but it’s also very fresh and unique.

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The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack

And that song is beyond awesome, and is easily my favorite song they’ve done so far. My affinity for this new track ‘Raped in Hatred by Vines of Thorn‘ doesn’t stop at its subject matter, but the song’s somewhat nostalgic view of classic melodic death metal brought into a contemporary context is really quite brilliant. The song is ridiculously catchy with the right amount of tech; that solo for instance is just blissful. Stream it here courtesy of Revolver.

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The World Is A Beautiful Place - Wherever, If Ever

There’s endless debate over how to appropriately tackle the problem of album leaks and piracy these days. Some bands and labels ignore the problem and continue on with the press hype machine as if nothing happened. Some bands and labels react actively by seeking out and destroying download links and uploads wherever they may form. Arguably, the best way to go about fighting a leak is to do it constructively by turning the wave of interested fans into legal streams, a trend which is becoming increasingly common. Tesseract‘s new album Altered State isn’t due out until the end of the month, but following a leak this past weekend, their label Century Media opened up the album for streaming on Youtube.

However, the most constructive way I’ve seen a leak tackled was by emo/post-hardcore band The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die and their label Topshelf Records, who responded to the leak of the band’s new album Wherever, If Ever by going ahead and releasing the album a month early. Woah!

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The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer

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One Of Us Is The Killer

01. Prancer
02. When I Lost My Bet
03. One Of Us Is The Killer
04. Hero of the Soviet Union
05. Nothing’s Funny
06. Understanding Decay
07. Paranoia Shields
08. CH 375 268 277 ARS
09. Magic That I Held You Prisoner
10. Crossburner
11. The Threat Posed By Nuclear Weapons

[05/14/13]
[Sumerian/Party Smasher Inc.]

At this point in their careers, one would expect seminal mathcore giants The Dillinger Escape Plan to slow down a bit and fully embrace their inner Faith No More more extensively. This isn’t necessarily to the fault of Dillinger or an expectation that they’ve created and fostered in themselves, but is an expectation based on real trends with similarly influential bands who have risen in fallen in the decades past their initial breakout. If you take a look at some of the metal’s biggest bands — In Flames and Opeth come to mind for their respective subgenres — it’s not uncommon for bands to soften with age. Needless to say, this doesn’t apply to The Dillinger Escape Plan, who in their fifth album One Of Us Is The Killer are at their most volatile since 1999′s Calculating Infinity.

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Defeater Letters Home

“The Wave” is a term that was said as a joke about the new wave of post-hardcore bands, including the likes of La Dispute, Make Do And Mend, and Defeater. The latter has been one of the most captivating bands out of this wave, and their albums are always really emotive and energetic. In keeping with the two year write-record-tour cycle, the band has recorded their upcoming studio album Letters Home and are set to release it July 16th via Bridge Nine Recordings.

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