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Subterranean is an MCD released by the Swedish melodic death metal band In Flames in 1995. This is the only release with vocalist…
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A master of progressive death metal or the “Gothenberg sound” practiced by many a Swedish band, In Flames delivers one of its best…
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Recorded in 2000 during the band’s Clayman tour, this hourlong live CD — consisting mainly of songs from the Clayman, Colony, and…
In Flames was certainly under the extreme-metal microscope upon the release of Soundtrack to Your Escape and its predecessor, Reroute to Remain. The band…
Frantic metal band In Flames can deliver a good melody around the militaristic, precision drumming of Daniel Svensson and the occasionally guttural…
The fourth and final volume in a series of releases industrial-metal guitarist/producer Devin Townsend has been working on since…
Deconstruction is the twelfth studio album by Canadian musician Devin Townsend, and the third album in the Devin…
Novembers Doom’s eighth studio album takes its title from the darkest ocean depths: the region beyond the reach of all sunlight, otherwise known…
For many headbangers, black metal is the first thing that comes to mind when Norway is mentioned. That is understandable; many of the top black…
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The unimaginative title chosen for Xerath’s second album — II — only heightens existing perceptions that the Baskingstoke, England-based…
Riverside’s Memories in My Head is a three-song EP running 32 and a half minutes, and, that’s right, that means each track is around ten or…
At first glance, the title of Queensrÿche’s eleventh studio album, Dedicated to Chaos, seems strangely at odds with the…
Symphony X’s eighth studio opus (and first for Nuclear Blast), 2011′s Iconoclast, sees the New Jersey progressive metal…
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This Minnesota-based deathcore band combines many of the failings of their subgenre with many of its best features and comes out with…
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From Chaos to Eternity is the eighth full-length studio album by the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire. It was…
