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Abiotic – Ikigai (The Artisan Era)

This is US tech metal band Abiotic’s first album since “Casuistry” in 2015. We’re promised “some classical and eastern style instrumentation, along with some progressive and jazzy elements.” Noteworthy is the number of contributors over the album, among them members… Continue Reading →

Black Crown Initiate – Selves We Cannot Forgive (SPV)

Pennsylvania’s Black Crown Initiate, like all good Steelmen, know how to craft good metal. Bursting from the quintet’s take on progressive death metal, you can hear inspired work from such gargantuan sources as Meshuggah, Periphery and Between The Buried And… Continue Reading →

The Room Colored Charlatan – Primitives (Subliminal Groove Records)

The story behind The Planet Of The Apes, a French novel by Pierre Boulle, was deemed great enough to warrant a movie of its own. That birthed a 70s franchise which then kicked off a comic book series, a TV… Continue Reading →

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