
Gridlink - Longhena
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 19.02.2014 RECORD COMPANY: Selfmadegod Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 0.0
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Skindred - Kill the Power
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 27.01.2014 RECORD COMPANY: Napalm Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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Primal Fear - Delivering the Black
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 24.01.2014 RECORD COMPANY: Frontiers Records 8.8
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Sincarnate - Nothing Left to Give
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FORMAT: MCD REALEASE DATE: 23.11.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Hatework 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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Valkyrja - The Antagonist's Fire
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 11.11.2013 RECORD COMPANY: 8.8
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Hail of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 29.10.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Hail of Bullets is probably the most important death metal band in 2013 dealing with war-related themes in its music. Yes, I know, Bolt Thrower is a beacon of the genre, and its merits cannot be erased... |
Motörhead - Aftershock
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 18.10.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Motorhead Music 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Motörhead chose the best title for their new record! Aftershock (2013) is indeed a smaller version of the earthquake they triggered 30-35 years ago with albums such as Overkill (1979), Ace of Spades (1980) and No Sleep... |
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 15.10.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Napalm Records 10.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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Spoiler alert! I’ve been listening to Monster Magnet for exactly 20 years, and in June ‘99 I think I was the only one in the whole stadium who was happier about the opening band than Metallica (and... |
Crossbone - Skate x Mosh x Destroy
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 12.10.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Autoprodus 7.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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I remember all sorts of discussions I’ve witnessed about new school versus old school or young versus old. I don’t care that much about the subject, but I can say that without old there would be no... |
White Walls - Escape Artist
Flesh Rodeo - Tellurium-128
Bloody Hammers - Spiritual Relics
Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 30.09.2013 RECORD COMPANY: InsideOut 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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There’s no point to reiterate this band’s significance for the evolution of music in general, because this would take a really thick novel and thousands of pages, something I’m not really good at. Nevertheless, I will try... |
God Is An Astronaut - Origins
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 16.09.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Rocket Girl 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 9.0
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Whoever said 2013 is a bad year for music should, among other things, listen to some more music and stop thinking only about the “classics” that have said their last words ages ago. Lo and behold, the astronauts are... |
Gorguts - Colored Sands
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 30.08.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Season of Mist 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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The veteran from Gorguts, Luc Lemay, has proven, by the fact that the Canadians have now released a new material, that he had all the reasons in the Universe to insist that this band does not disappear from the... |
Agathodaimon - In Darkness
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 28.06.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Massacre Records 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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After 5 years of wait since their last material, Agathodaimon released their sixth album titled In Darkness. You know what they say: “don’t judge a book by the cover”…. I was hoping this would not apply, because the cover... |
Queensryche - Queensrÿche
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 25.06.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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The real ones After Promised Land, Queensrÿche began to fall. I won’t go into details now, because the details are pretty nasty, what’s certain is that they kept falling until 2012, when they hit rock bottom... |
Jex Thoth - Blood Moon Rise
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 15.06.2013 RECORD COMPANY: I Hate Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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Perhaps the genres defined against the term occult should not have a precise recipe, something like: add some doom from Black Sabbath, first era, then some melodic and psychedelic themes, to make it more like stoner rock, then... |
Black Sabbath - 13
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 10.06.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Vertigo Records 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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On the latest Black Sabbath album, the members of the original lineup (minus drummer Bill Ward) tried to go back to their early years vibe. From this experiment, Ozzy got a rehab and we got a record... |
Megadeth - Super Collider
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 04.06.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Universal Music 6.0
METALFAN RATING: 7.6
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Dave Mustaine keeps revolving about his fixation to release a solid and accessible hard rock/heavy metal album. Something like 1991’s Black Album, which gained Metallica more fans than it managed to piss off (what happened after that... |
Overtures - Entering the Maze
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 31.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Sleaszy Rider Records 7.5
METALFAN RATING: 0.0
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So much music, so little time How can you stay up to date with everything that comes out if you want to follow something else than the bands you keep following out of inertia, the ones... |
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 28.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Virgin Music 8.7
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Dark Tranquillity - Construct
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 27.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 9.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.8
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It’s a good thing we still have constructors. On this scene suffocated by clichés and recipes for success turned sterile, trying to conceal their limitations with disgraceful unearthing of glories past, Dark Tranquillity continue their construction, apparently undisturbed.... |
Burzum - Sol austan, Mani vestan
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 27.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Byelobog Productions 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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It’s dark in the forest, outside it’s quiet, but inside the commotion has started. On the other side of the town there are still light fights and you can hear fragments of conversation about burnt churches, knives... |
TesseracT - Altered State
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 27.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Century Media 8.5
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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According to the principle “today it rains, or it doesn’t”, when I heard that TesseracT were preparing for a new studio album, I thought of two possibilities: it would either be much worse than their debut, considering that it... |
Leprous - Coal
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 20.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: InsideOut 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.9
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The “orchestra” of the Norwegian king Ihsahn has graced the firmament with a new studio material, felt, worked and analysed on all sides. The evolution of Leprous is amazing, considering the change of direction they had from their debut... |
Entrails - Raging Death
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 10.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Metal Blade Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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If you say you love old school death metal but don’t like this record, you have a serious problem. Entrails is one of the gems of the Swedish death metal scene. The band was created in 1990, but had... |
The Boy Who Cried Wolf - Bad Time Stories
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FORMAT: MCD REALEASE DATE: 06.05.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Fading Halo Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.5
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This release is not something unprecedented or unheard of, but I assure you that everything you will hear on Bad Time Stories is made with a lot of enthusiasm and quite a lot of knowledge about music. Practically, The... |
Howl - Bloodlines
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 30.04.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Relapse Records 8.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.6
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Three years after their debut, plagued by line-up changes, Howl somehow finds the strength and returns with a new studio album with a new line-up. Titled Bloodlines, the records reveals a more direct, more abrasive Howl, a Howl on... |
Illuminati - The Core
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FORMAT: CD REALEASE DATE: 30.04.2013 RECORD COMPANY: Autoprodus 9.0
METALFAN RATING: 8.7
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The Core is an album that I have eagerly anticipated, especially because I fell in love with Illuminati since the first time I ever saw them play live. Considering the fact that they slowly disappeared from the... |