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Parkway Drive – Deep Blue
By Keith Carman Fans of the hardcore spectrum yet consistently pegged as metalcore, Parkway Drive have never been considered an outright metal band. However, with latest endeavour Deep Blue, they...
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Hero Destroyed – Throes
By Matt Lewis Hero Destroyed is a band borne out of the rusted steel wreckage of Pittsburgh PA. This five piece, which includes the drummer from deceased Commit Suicide(loved that band), has just...
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Ion Dissonance/ The Last Felony/ Starring Janet Leigh @ Club Absinthe,...
By Matt Lewis On a rainy Monday night in Hamilton, the stage was set for a low turnout to a killer metal show. The Ion Dissonance, Last Felony and Starring Janet Leigh tour was hitting the Steel City...
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Ion Dissonance – Cursed
By Matt Lewis Ion Dissonance, a band among bands hailing from the great metal hotbed of Quebec. Their fourth album Cursed comes without much fanfare or anticipation, their previous album Minus The...
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Orchid’s Curse – Voices: The Tales of Broken Men
By Jason Wellwood Metalcore is a much maligned genre right now but it’s bands like Orchid’s Curse who are going to survive the ‘I’ve heard this before, booooring’ attitudes of today’s music consumer....
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Bring Me The Horizon – There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A...
By Bill Adams Ever been totally shocked by an album that you figured you had pegged on name recognition alone? It’s dangerous to make assumptions like that and the most recent proof of that fact is...
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Norris – The Great White North
By Jason Wellwood It’s not easy breathing new life into a stale genre like metalcore and no one, I mean NO ONE, has put out something as catchy and punishing as Thunder Bay’s Norris in a long time....
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Sylosis – Edge of the Earth
By Rob Kachluba Coming out nowhere a few years back these young lads from England known as Sylosis released a monster debut of precise razor sharp melodic metalcore that raised quite a few eyebrows...
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All Else Fails – The Oracle, What Was, Is and Could Have Been
By Jason Wellwood I’ve been a fan of All Else Fails for awhile now, their progressive approach to metal and intelligent, environmentally conscious lyrics have always felt refreshing. Each release...
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The Return of… Kevi Metal’s Rimshots (August 2012 edition)
By Kevi Metal Ok, so it’s been a while since I did one of these, but I’ve been busy with that whole trying to make a living while remaining true to one’s ideals nonsense. Anyone got wind of a good job...
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BornBroken – The Healing Powers of Hate
By Matt Hinch From the Canadian Mecca of metal, Montreal, comes upstart antagonists of aggression BornBroken and their debut The Healing Powers of Hate. From the opening moments of lead track “Can’t...
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Six of Swords – Polar Vortex EP
Six of Swords is a five-piece band from Toronto, Ontario. They put out an exciting demo in 2013 which was filled with the type of extreme music cuts that all brutal death metal fans would enjoy diving...
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Mad Trapper – Dead Living
Mad Trapper is a four-piece band from Toronto and this is their second full length. On Kill Us, Start Anew, which some would say was very popular in the metalcore scene in Toronto, the band...
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False Flag – Nest of Vipers
False Flag‘s Nest of Vipers is an excellent EP that doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Four tracks of prime groove metal. Reference points are Lamb of God, Exhorder, and of course, Pantera. What gives this...
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Six of Swords – Polar Vortex EP
Six of Swords is a five-piece band from Toronto, Ontario. They put out an exciting demo in 2013 which was filled with the type of extreme music cuts that all brutal death metal fans would enjoy diving...
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Mad Trapper – Dead Living
Mad Trapper is a four-piece band from Toronto and this is their second full length. On Kill Us, Start Anew, which some would say was very popular in the metalcore scene in Toronto, the band...
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False Flag – Nest of Vipers
False Flag‘s Nest of Vipers is an excellent EP that doesn’t outstay it’s welcome. Four tracks of prime groove metal. Reference points are Lamb of God, Exhorder, and of course, Pantera. What gives this...
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Thy Kingdom Slum – A History of Dissent *CANADIAN*
Man, “Century” by Lodown was probably one of my most-played songs back when I was on CKLN. This catchy, groovy, heavy rock number had a few listeners asking me “Dude, who the heck was that?” But...
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Integrity & Krieg Split
Integrity and Krieg join up for a brutal, crushing split following the release of Integrity’s critically acclaimed 2017 album, Howling, For the Nightmare Shall Consume. The split, running 23 minutes in...
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