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The Wizard
Dec 30, 20203 min read
TOP 30 METAL/HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF 2020 PART FOUR: 5-1
TOP 30 METAL/HARD ROCK ALBUMS OF 2020 PART FOUR: 5-1 05. My Dying Bride – Ghost of Orion/Macabre Cabaret Another band from the past...
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The Wizard
Nov 14, 20204 min read
Power it Up!
Band: AC/DC Album: Power Up Label: Columbia Records Style: Hard Rock Release Date: 11/13/2020 This fall, it seems a lot of the old guard...
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The Wizard
Nov 9, 20203 min read
An Alchemical Rebirth!
Band: Molassess Album: Through the Hollow Label: Season of Mist Style: Progressive/Psychedelic Hard Rock Release Date: 10/16/2020 Through...
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The Wizard
Oct 14, 20203 min read
The Mighty Black Metal of Askog!
Band: Askog Album: Varg Label: Self-Release Style: Black Metal Release Date: 10/17/2020 Askog is a two-man band from Sweden who formed in...
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The Wizard
Oct 10, 20203 min read
The Return of Enslaved!
Band: Enslaved Album: Utgard Label: Nuclear Blast Style: Black Metal/Prog Release Date: 10/02/2020 For almost three decades, the mighty...
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The Wizard
Aug 31, 20202 min read
Lost Tapes Found!
Band: Dokken Album: The Lost Songs: 1978-1981 Label: Silver Lining Music Style: Melodic Hard Rock Release Date: 08/25/2020 Don Dokken...
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The Wizard
Aug 20, 20202 min read
Crust's Dirge and Anthem
Band: Crust Album: …And A Dirge Becomes An Anthem Label: Rumf Productions Style: Doom, Sludge, Black Release Date: 08/14/2020 Hailing...
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The Wizard
Jun 28, 20202 min read
The Haunting Astral Witch!
Band: Astral Witch Album: Astral Witch Style: Doom, Fuzz Label: Independent Release Date: May 23, 2020 Astral Witch are a three-piece...
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The Wizard
Jun 21, 20203 min read
The Roaring Return of Lamb of God!
Band: Lamb of God Album: Lamb of God Genre: Groove, Thrash, New Wave of American Heavy Metal Label: Epic Release Date: 06/19/20 Has it...
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The Wizard
Jun 7, 20202 min read
Witchy Occult Rock!
Band: Rough Spells Album: Ruins at Midday Label: Independent Release Date: February 2, 2020 Rough Spells hail from Toronto, Ontario, and...
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The Wizard
May 27, 20202 min read
In the Land of Oz!
Band: Oz Title: Forced Commandments Label: Massacre Records Style: Traditional Metal Release Date: May 22, 2020 Oz is one of those cult...
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The Wizard
May 18, 20203 min read
Darker than Obsidian
Artist: Paradise Lost Album: Obsidian Label: Nuclear Blast Style: Death Doom Release Date: May 15, 2020 What are you going to say about...
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The Wizard
May 17, 20203 min read
Say Their Name: Witchskull
Artist: Witchskull Album: A Driftwood Cross Label: Rise Above Records Style: Doom Release Date: April 24, 2020 Australia’s Witchskull...
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The Wizard
May 16, 20202 min read
Soliciting Speed Metal Madness!
Artist: Solicitor Album: Spectral Devastation Label: Gates of Hell Records Style: Speed Metal, baby! Release Date: April 24, 2020...
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The Wizard
May 15, 20202 min read
Termination Shock! The New Traveler
Artist: Traveler Title: Termination Shock Label: Cruz del Sur Style: Traditional Metal/Hard Rock Release Date: April 10, 2020 From the...
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The Wizard
May 14, 20201 min read
Entrancing Doom!
Band: Hadewijch Title: Herbal Noise Label: Electric Valley Records Style: Doom, Post-Rock Release Date: May 8, 2020 This French trio have...
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The Wizard
Jan 26, 20202 min read
Rebirth into the Big League
Ten songs, thirty-four minutes of pure, unadulterated blackened speed. Midnight return with their newest platter, Rebirth by Blasphemy,...
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The Wizard
Nov 30, 20192 min read
Disgusting Festivities
Carnifliate are a foursome from Slovenia, and they have unleashed a particularly brutal album full of death and grind and humor....
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The Wizard
Nov 29, 20192 min read
Thundering, Churning Instrumental Darkness: Ramprasad's Tsuris
Ramprasad is the brainchild of two collaborators from Portland, OR: Aaron D.C. Edge and David Fylstra, who wrote and performed all of...
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The Wizard
Sep 29, 20192 min read
Monolord Deliver No Comfort
Monolord return with their fourth full-length epic, bringing more Doom and shifting, heavy riffs, shaking the Earth to its foundations....
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The Wizard
Jul 30, 20192 min read
A Brutality Sampler
This week the Wizard turns his magical gaze upon a four-song collection called Scorn Coalescence, which features two brutal bands from...
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The Wizard
Jul 23, 20192 min read
The Great War
The Great War Sabaton The great modern purveyors of Power Metal return this year with an exemplary release. Sabaton sing songs about war...
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The Wizard
Jul 13, 20193 min read
Double Slams from South Asia
Did you know that South Asia has a vibrant and bubbling Hardcore scene? It seems the cauldron of punk/metal is boiling and overflowing...
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The Wizard
Jul 1, 20193 min read
Euphoric Cyborg Highs
Euphoria Nanotech Independent Last night the Wizard was reflecting on his Life in Metal, going back over the decades and thinking about...
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The Wizard
Jun 19, 20192 min read
Cryptic Visions of an Alien Invasion
Allagash Cryptic Visions Independent Allagash crawled out of Canada a few years ago, a fully-equipped Metal band ready to rock and roll,...
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The Wizard
Jun 16, 20192 min read
Crawling, Slimy, Heaving: Pathetic’s Rat King
Pathetic Rat King Independent This one crawls out of the gate covered in grease and blood, slithering along, serpentine and ugly as hell....
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The Wizard
Jun 16, 20192 min read
Hammering Riffs, Crushing Metal: Snogg’s Chhinnamasta Delivers
Snogg Chhinnamasta Self-Released Snogg hail from Slovenia and are a duo that has so far released a demo and three short releases....
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The Wizard
Jun 15, 20192 min read
Old Guys Bring Us an Old Star
Darkthrone Old Star Peaceville Records Darkthrone has become the new Motorhead, bringing the world quality new releases every few years...
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