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CD Review: Opera Diabolicus
ARTIST: Opera Diabolicus TITLE: +1614 YEAR: 2012 LABEL: Metalville Records Author: Tony Martinez If Dimmu Borgir and Iron Maiden had a love child, it would be called Opera Diabolicus. The band was created from the metal minds
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CD Review: Megadeth
ARTIST: Megadeth TITLE: Th1rt3n YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Roadrunner Records Author: Sam Yakou Almost a year ago Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine announced the band would begin work on a new album. After retreating to the band’s San
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CD Review: Evanescence
ARTIST: Evanescence TITLE: Evanescence (Self-Titled) YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Wind-Up Records Author: Sam Yakou Evanescence have been big players in the alt-goth-chamber-heavy rock genres they move between. This is remarkable when you consider their name recognition is
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CD Review: Edguy
ARTIST: Edguy TITLE: Age of the Joker YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Nuclear Blast Author: Sam Yakou German power-metallers Edguy return with Age of the Joker. A strident and epic foray into the harder rock sound of
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CD Review: Dream Theater
ARTIST: Dream Theater TITLE: A Dramatic Turn of Events YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Roadrunner Records Author: Raymond Melendez Dream Theater is back with an epic solution to weak modern metal. “A Dramatic Turn of Events” marks
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CD Review: Trivium
ARTIST: Trivium TITLE: In Waves YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Roadrunner Records Author: Sam Yakou Trivium seem to have a reputation in the metal community as an up and coming band despite the fact that the Florida
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CD Review: In Flames
ARTIST: In Flames TITLE: Sounds of a Playground Fading YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Century Media Author: Sam Yakou Sweden’s melodic death metal champs In Flames return with Sounds of a Playground Fading; their first studio
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CD Review: Queensryche
ARTIST: Queensrÿche TITLE: Dedicated To Chaos YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Roadrunner Records Author: Sam Yakou Queensrÿche return with Dedicated to Chaos; the latest album from the Seattle progressive stalwarts. Following on the heels of their
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CD Review: Symphony X
ARTIST: Symphony X TITLE: Iconoclast YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Nuclear Blast Author: Sam Yakou When Symphony X released Paradise Lost in 2007 it was deemed their heaviest and darkest album to date. Four years later
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CD Review: Morbid Angel
ARTIST: Morbid Angel TITLE: Illud Divinum Insanus YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Season of Mist With the release date of June 7th, 2011, Morbid Angel’s “Illud Divinum Insanus” promise to captivate audiences around the world… But
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CD Review: Septicflesh
ARTIST: Septicflesh TITLE: The Great mass YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Season of Mist SepticFlesh – The Great Mass is one of those albums that just seems to get better the more you listen to it.
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CD Review: Neuraxis
ARTIST: Neuraxis TITLE: Asylon YEAR: 2011 LABEL: Prosthetic Records Prosthetic Record has found yet another Diamond for their gem collection. Fast, Fierce and Sharp as a Razor Blade, Neuraxis defines the word “Melodic Death
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CD Review: Antagonist
ARTIST: Antagonist TITLE: World in Decline YEAR: 2010 LABEL: Prosthetic Records
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