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2024 Anniversary Series 074: Sabaton – Heroes
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Sabaton are one of those bands that have gradually built themselves from underground heavy metal heroes (pardon the pun) into bona fide, stadium filling metal gods. They...
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Review: Drevorod – Anthems of Soil and Stars
Review by Sandre the Giant If there’s one thing that the Russian scene seems to be able to produce with an alarming frequency and quality, it is melancholic and atmospheric black metal. Drevorod are...
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2024 Anniversary Series 075: Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Scribed by Sandre the Giant If you’ve made it this far into the Killchain’s journey, I don’t really need to explain either the story or the influence of Norway’s most famous black metal sons and their...
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Review: Crawl – Altar of Disgust
Review by Sandre the Giant It’s been six years since the last record from Swedish death crust punks Crawl, but if that split with Feral didn’t get you raring to go then I suppose nothing will. ‘Altar...
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2024 Anniversary Series 076: Biohazard – State of the World Address
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Kings of New York hardcore, Biohazard have been dropping sick breakdowns, proto thrash riffs, hiphop fury and tales of the streets for thirty years at this point, and their...
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Review: Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
Review by Sandre the Giant If you were deep into extreme music in 2022, you’ll remember the staggering debut of ancient Mexica inspired Tzompantli, ‘Tlazcaltiliztli’, and their emergence into...
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2024 Anniversary Series 077: Slipknot – Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
Scribed by Sandre the Giant It is truly strange for me to look back at the third full length from now iconic Iowan metallers Slipknot and not be astonished that this was twenty years ago. It makes me...
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2024 Anniversary Series 078: EyeHateGod – EyeHateGod
Scribed by Sandre the Giant We covered the classic ‘Take As Needed for Pain’ last year on the Anniversary Series, but we never need much of an excuse to cover New Orleans legends EyeHateGod; a band...
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Review: Dusk – Industrie
Review by Sandre the Giant We can be partial to a bit of dark industrial music here at the Killchain, and the new record from Costa Rica’s Dusk looks to be just that, especially looking at that...
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2024 Anniversary Series 079: Vader – Tibi et Igni
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Vader are the death metal equivalent of comfort food at this point in their illustrious career; a band whose music has become so reliably good and a sound that is so...
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Review: Extinct – Incitement of Violence
Review by Sandre the Giant Extinct have been around the German thrash scene for over 20 years at this point, and their second record ‘Incitement of Violence’ is out now through MDD Records. It has...
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2024 Anniversary Series 080: Napalm Death – Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Once ranked by Shane Embury as the worst Napalm Death record, 1994’s ‘Fear, Emptiness, Despair’ saw grindcore legends Napalm Death in a strange place; involvement with...
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Review: Idle Ruin – The Fell Tyrant
Review by Sandre the Giant Starting during the pandemic, Australian death/thrashers Idle Ruin relocated to Germany during the writing of ‘The Fell Tyrant’, their debut full length record, and you...
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2024 Anniversary Series 081: Septic Flesh – Mystic Places of Dawn
Scribed by Sandre the Giant A key part of the unholy triumvirate of the underground Greek scene in the early 90s, and their legend has only grown since then, Septic Flesh (Septicflesh is for the...
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2024 Anniversary Series 082: Corrosion of Conformity – Eye for an Eye
Scribed by Sandre the Giant For those of us who discovered Corrosion of Conformity in their Southern rock/metal incarnation in the mid 2000s, going back into their discography was a wild trip. Their...
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Review: Warrior – Hate Maelstrom
Review by Sandre the Giant Sweden’s Warrior came across my radar on 2021’s ‘Instruments of Death’ record, and their mix of fiercely dark and old school black metal with an almost supernatural grasp of...
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2024 Anniversary Series 083: Grave – Soulless
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Swedish legends Grave are probably the most overlooked of that scene’s pioneering outfits, given the fact that their sound hasn’t evolved much over the decades from that...
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Review: Coventhrall – Legacy of Morfuidra
Review by Sandre the Giant It proved difficult to ignore an album with a cover straight from a pulpy 70s science fiction novel, and so I’m checking out Finnish power metallers Coventhrall, and their...
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2024 Anniversary Series 084: Machine Head – Burn My Eyes
Scribed by Sandre the Giant For better or worse, the shadow that Machine Head has cast across the New Wave of American Heavy Metal in the early 2000s onwards is vast. They, alongside Pantera, really...
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2024 Anniversary Series 085: Arch Enemy – War Eternal
Scribed by Sandre the Giant If any band could lay claim to be the flagbearers of Swedish melodic death metal and the inheritors of At the Gates or In Flames, it would be Arch Enemy. No one has...
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