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My Chemical Romance
The Black Parade
"The Black Parade" is in strong contention to be my personal album of the year. This album came from out of nowhere to surprise and amaze me as few albums ever do anymore Read This Review
Bowling For Soup
The Great Burrito Extortion Case
Gods help me, but I love these guys. Yeah, they are part of the current breed of annoying punk-pop wanna-be's, but I just can't help loving anything BFS does. Read This Review
Zyklon
Aeon
I've long been a fan of Emperor, and since Zyklon consists of Samoth and Trym from Emperor, I immediately pounced on "World ov Worms" when it was first released. Read This Review
YOB
The Illusion of Motion
Or as I like to call it, The Illusion of Not Sucking. YOB, creative doom genius or formless, directionless mass of nothing. You decide (though I am thinking the latter.) The good news is there are only four songs Read This Review
Vomitory
Primal Massacre
Nice name. Makes me hungry. Ok, so, the upside to this disc is that it is a merciful 34 minutes long. This is not my cup of death metal tea. This is stereotypical half-assed death metal Read This Review
Voivod
Voivod
When I heard that Jason Newsted formerly of Metallica formerly of Flotsam & Jetsam had joined Voivod I had two initial reactions. One was "weird, what an odd thing to do." But then the second reaction was "Cool! Read This Review
Vehemence
Helping the World to See
This is some pretty standard death metal. The vocals lie somewhere between Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. Not as clear as Cannibal Corpse, and not as deep as Deicide.The music isn't just all blast beat madness however, it is actually pretty cool Read This Review
Valkija
Avengers of Steel
I was about to give this band bonus points for covering Manowar, but it turned out that this is a different "Sign of the Hammer" and not the one penned by the metal kings. No bonus for you. But then I might have cried hearing this Read This Review
Transmission0
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So far this is a rather strange disc. It somewhat reminds me of Neurosis, but it's hard for me to say because I don't like Neurosis and so I avoid listening to them. But this sort of sounds like what I remember them sounding like Read This Review
Total Devastation
Roadmap of Pain
Please tell me the vocals aren't going to be like this all the way through the whole album. The music is actually pretty cool. But not only are the vocals a poor Cookie Monster imitation, but they are totally buried in the mix so Read This Review
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