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2024 Anniversary Series 131: Mercenary – 11 Dreams
Scribed by Sandre the Giant When you’re a young lad, venturing into the big city for the first time as a university student and also a metal fan getting his first taste of live shows happening in a...
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Review: Sentient Horror – In Service of the Dead
Review by Sandre the Giant It feels somewhat fitting that Sentient Horror hail from Stockholm, New Jersey as their sound is very, very Swedish in execution. One of the most reliable acts in modern US...
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2024 Anniversary Series 132: Old Man Gloom – Christmas
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Over the years, supergroups in metal have come and gone; some have been excellent and left a legacy of greatness and others have failed to live up to the moniker. But few,...
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Review: Mother of Graves – The Periapt of Absence
Review by Sandre the Giant The last two years must have been kind to Indiana’s Mother of Graves, whose excellent debut ‘Where the Shadows Adorn’ I reviewed on the blog last year. I was a big fan of...
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Review: Kaivs – After the Flesh
Review by Sandre the Giant Italian death metallers Kaivs are just about to release their debut record, ‘After the Flesh’, on Brutal Records, and if you’ve never come across these newcomers before,...
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2024 Anniversary Series 133: Unholy – The Second Ring of Power
Scribed by Sandre the Giant The first article we wrote in our Anniversary Series in 2023 was the debut record from Finnish death/doom titans Unholy, ‘From the Shadows’, and it did not take them long...
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Review: Immortal Bird – Sin Querencia
Review by Sandre the Giant Chicago’s Immortal Bird are slowly growing into a new force in the extreme metal scene, forging music as a weapon from a variety of genres. Their previous record, ‘Thrive on...
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Review: Wormwood – The Star
Review by Sandre the Giant ‘The Star’. the newest record from Sweden’s Wormwood, marks the close of their ‘Death’ trilogy, made up of previous records ‘Nattarvet’ and ‘Arkivet’, and takes us on a...
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2024 Anniversary Series 134: Tiamat – Wildhoney
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Part of the founding generation of Swedish death metal, (their ‘Sumerian Cry’ debut was actually the first death metal record recorded at the famous Sunlight Studios but...
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Review: Ashen Tomb – Ecstatic Death Reign
Review by Sandre the Giant The debut full length from Finland’s Ashen Tomb’ has been cooking for a couple of years now, and with a level of interest and hype that is always nice to see. ‘Ecstatic...
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2024 Anniversary Series 135: Sólstafir –Ótta
Scribed by Sandre the Giant I first came across Icelandic progressive black metallers/post rock titans Sólstafir on 2005’s Masterpiece of Bitterness’, a record that you immediately sensed was a band...
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Review: Black Curse – Burning in Celestial Poison
Review by Sandre the Giant Denver, Colorado’s Black Curse have returned from the wilderness to deliver the follow up to 2020’s excellent ‘Endless Wound’, and if anything have upped the ante from that...
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2024 Anniversary Series 136: Megadeth – Youthanasia
Scribed by Sandre the Giant By the time 1994 rolled round, Megadeth were on a massive roll. Thrash may have been taking a beating from grunge and ‘The Black Album’ but Dave Mustaine was determined to...
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Review: Weltschmerz – III: Non Sequitur
Review by Sandre the Giant Dutch black metallers Weltschmerz have been around for almost fifteen years at this point, but new record ‘III: Non Sequitur’ is only their third full length in that time....
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Review: Aberrator – Beckoning Tribulation
Review by Sandre the Giant New Zealand’s death metal newcomers Aberrator have appeared from nowhere with their debut full length record, ‘Beckoning Tribulation’ and amanged to ink themselves a release...
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2024 Anniversary Series 137: Anaal Nathrakh – Domine Non Es Dignus
Scribed by Sandre the Giant If you enjoy extreme music of any kind, you’ll be aware of Brummie destroyers Anaal Nathrakh and their famously intense assault of black/death/grind that has been napalming...
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2024 Anniversary Series 138: Yob – Clearing the Path to Ascend
Scribed by Sandre the Giant A rightly ascribed modern classic of doom, the massive seventh record from Oregon’s Yob was their third after coming back from a 2006 split, and 2011’s ‘Atma’ had put them...
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Review: Bile Caster – Writhing Between Birth and Death
Review by Sandre the Giant Originally published here: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/bile-caster-writhing-between-birth-death/ Leicester’s Bile Caster have been slugging their way through...
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2024 Anniversary Series 139: Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
Scribed by Sandre the Giant At this point in their career, Lamb of God have been long established as a major flag bearer in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, and one of the world’s biggest metal...
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Review: Enforced – A Leap into the Dark
Review by Sandre the Giant Richmond, Virginia’s thrash/crossover heroes Enforced are back with a new EP, and for those of us weaned on their awesome ‘Kill Grid’ and ‘War Remains’ albums from the past...
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