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Haiduk – Spellbook
Very infrequently does one of those albums come along where every riff is gold. Each nuance takes control of your attention, demanding total compliance. Spellbook is such a glorious creature. Since...
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Hexvessel – Iron Marsh
The release of Hexvessel’s No Holier Temple last year found me at just the right time. It’s wilderness obsessed cauldron brew of psychedelic rock and brit folk, with strange and viscous lumps of black...
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Hammemit – The Ghastliere Morrowe
Among my music collection is a small gathering of recordings that I refer to as “albums that ruin other music for me”. These are the few albums that I would, without hesitation, give up the entirety of...
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Hagl – In the Heart
There is something special or maybe a bit “off” about Russian black metal bands that always sets them apart from the outside musical world. Yes… this is a good thing! This strain of uniqueness maybe...
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Humiliation – Turbulence from the Deep
Let’s face it… if you’ve heard Bolt Thrower and you don’t like or love Bolt Thrower, all indications point to the fact that you’re not a man. Yes…. your penis has atrophied and fallen off. Having said...
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Heretic Cult Redeemer – S/T LP
The Greek metal scene continues to writhe and awaken/inspire greatness within the dark hearts of its inhabitants. Heretic Cult Redeemer, featuring members of Acrimonious, Necrovorous, and Embrace of...
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Hell – III LP
Been kicking this, the 3rd full-length descent into the sludge side of doom from Oregon’s one man vision of “Hell” around for a good month now and I’m still not sure how to approach it. Total...
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Hädanfärd – Vederstyggelsens uppväckelse part.II
If you’re unfamiliar with the obscure and hermetically cloistered community of black metal artists associated with Ancient Records in Sweden, it’s an oversight you’ll want to correct soon. The two...
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Harm – Cadaver Christi
Swedish influenced death metal with a pension for the classic era of the sound certainly isn’t a fresh cadaver exhumed from Berlin holy ground, but Germany’s Harm are trying their damnedest to...
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Howls of Ebb – Vigils of the 3rd Eye
Enveloped and empowered by the rancid earth covering death metal’s long dead ancient ones, California’s Howls of Ebb claw their way up from obscurity. Though the past may indeed give Howls of Ebb...
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Heavydeath – Demo I (Post Mortem in Aeternum Tenebrarum)
What births forth when two members of Necrocurse, a band’s whose debut Grip of the Dead landed on my End Of 2013 List, conspire together to commit their doom-ridden expectorations to cassette? Why, the...
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Hellgoat – End of Man 7″
2 songs of charred black metal from Atlanta are unearthed on this, Hellgoat’s 7th release (not including demos). Barbaric and well considered songwriting flows in and out of poignant tempo shifts and...
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Horrendous – Ecdysis
Where the excellently written debut, “The Chills”, placed this East Coast kill unit on the map with traditional, though endlessly intelligent death metal, Horrendous have bravely stepped into an...
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House of Atreus – The Spear and the Ichor That Follows
While (luckily) few stomach the “views” of Arghoslent, many in the extreme metal scene champion the actual music of the band itself, the band’s mostly mid-tempo galloping riffery finding its inexorably...
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Hypothermia – Svartkonst
I have always been curious about this band, but have never pulled the trigger when releases would surface for purchase. When the mood for depressive black metal hits, it is nice to have a variety to...
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