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Recent Reviews

Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason
77

Meshuggah's most slept-on album.

Pretty much every release they've done seems to revolve around a different motif - early albums were proofs of concept experimenting with thrash and groove metal; the early 2000s saw them playing with lower tunings, atmosphere and texture; Obzen married these initial two ideas together; Koloss slowed it down and made it sound gigantic. This album feels very self indulgent in a lot of ways, like a jazzy middle ground between Catch 33 and Obzen where ... read more

Godflesh - Streetcleaner
80

Industrial metal has to be one of the biggest wastes of potential in a genre of all time. In less than ten years you went from THIS to Rammstein's silly kinky rave rock and whatever the hell Marilyn Manson was doing (I don't really think what he was doing was industrial at all but that's an argument I'm not going to have right now).

There's only so far you can take certain riffing and guitar equipment to achieve a higher level of brutality (hence the progression from ... read more


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