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New Cormorant Album Dwellings Due Out This Fall!

Jimmy Rowe
July 28, 2011
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Whether you call them prog, melodic death metal, or Tiberian ass-bastard folk (an inside-joke that they'll probably never live down), Cormorant can be summed up as just amazing. Their 2009 album Metazoa mad... Read More...
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Educating the Falses: The Tale of the American Battle Wizards Storming Through the Barricades of Moridor to defeat European Darkspawn Metalians of Power in the Battle of Scalzi

Heavy Blog
April 25, 2010
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For the most part, power metal is universally a joke around metal heads due to it's crap songwriting, lack of riffs, hardly touching down with "metal" because it's so vagina-esque, and the unbelievably chee... Read More...

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