Ye gods, what a terrific slab o’ wax! The new Nile album was released on Nov 3rd and I got it on Nov 6th. After spinning it nonstop from then until now, I feel I’m qualified to write a review. The album starts with Kafir!, which is Arabic for “Nonbeliever” or “Infidel” or some other [...]

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Billed as the “Most Extreme Metal Tour of 2009″ and sponsored by such heavies as MetalSucks.net, the Summer Slaughter tour of 2009 was a mix of many things. It was long, from 2 PM to 12 AM, a full 10 hours of death metal goodness. We got to the King Cat theatre in Seattle around [...]

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But Viren, you’re 27, you should stop listening to this #$@&^#!@ and cut your hair and get a real job. Death, needs no introduction. The Philosopher Lack of Comprehension Symbolic, live in Los Angeles The mighty Nile, which is not Egyptian for “lame”. Execration Text Sarcophagus, look for the sweet, gentle riff around 3:05 Nasum, [...]

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listen to extreme metal? This is a question I’ve been asked quite often, of late, sometimes prefaced with ‘You don’t look like a metalhead’, or ‘Really, I would have never guessed!’. To reply to the first comment, maybe the fact that I look like an unprepossessing banker in the city has something to do with [...]

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A whole host of shows are headed our way, don’t miss these if you’re into the same genres of music as me. This promises to be the highlight by far though. Suffocation / Cryptopsy / Cephalic Carnage / Aborted / With Passion at the Commodore Ballroom Oct. 18, 2005, Tickets are $37 Another great show [...]

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