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Enforcer Release Video For Midnight Vice

Leave the Hall favourites, retro revivalists Enforcer have released a video for the track Midnight Vice taken from the blindingly good Diamonds. It is available now in Europe on limited edition digipak CD, regular CD and limited edition coloured vinyl.

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Disturbed – Asylum

Disturbed – Asylum

Disturbed – Asylum

The pale blue glow of the anti junkie UV lighting set the mood perfectly. David sat, dictaphone gripped tightly in his hand, placed between his legs, only inches above the shimmering water. A single groan, then a splash. It was over in seconds. A whole weeks cheesy pasta and Vimto evacuated into the ceramic cradle.

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Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy

Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy

Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy

I am old enough to remember Slipknot’s early days. The buzz, hype and the mystique that surrounded them before they released their self-titled album – which I duly purchased – painted them as a bunch of total mental cases that wore the masks so they could do what the fuck they wanted and could anonymously replace each member if one of them quit or died. Their masks were a rejection of the mainstream and marked them out as something darker and less predictable than everything else Nu that was being shat out of 1999. So what happens when you remove those masks and renege on your initial statements of intent? Well on one level you retain the street cred of latter day Glen Benton, and on another you become Kiss circa 1983. Enter Stone Sour.

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The Absence – Enemy Unbound

The Absence – Enemy Unbound

The Absence – Enemy Unbound

The Absence return after what seems like far longer than the 3 years it’s been since Riders Of The Plague, their 2nd album, pushed them to the forefront of the melodic death/thrash/music picture, establishing themselves as the smart alternative to the Arch Enemies of this world and becoming firm Leave the Hall favourites in the process. Naturally the question must be asked; after such a hotly anticipated build-up, will they choke like Michael Hutchence or gloriously unleash a pent up torrent of creamy metal musical ejaculate into our lives?

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Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

The release of a new Iron Maiden album has almost become more than simply music. Along with Priest and the other elder statesmen of the genre, every new release is an affirmation of the continuing health of a beloved musical institution and, by extension, metal itself. For a metalhead a new Maiden album should be greeted with the sort of rapturous masturbation usually reserved for a teenage boy that’s just flicked over to babestation for the first time, and so it was as a loyal acolyte that I made the pilgrimage to HMV to pick up a copy of The Final Frontier, Iron Maiden’s 15th opus.

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The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 2

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 2

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the definitive(ish) list of the greatest heavy metal concept albums. This is the business end, it’s the big one. Here we get into the real heavy hitters of conceptual conceptualising; the beard-stroking, lute-playing minstrels of our time.

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The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

Hello. Here is my take on the 8 greatest concept albums of all time, or at least the ones I have A) Heard and B) Remembered for the purpose of writing this piece. WASP’s Crimson Idol, Iced Earth’s Framing Armageddon double album and others were unlucky to miss out on merit, I totally forgot about Orphaned Land until writing this little intro, had massive reservations about Priest’s Nostradamus, wasn’t sure if Painkiller was really a concept album and generally made a right bollocks of the whole thing. With your expectations now suitably dampened, I present numbers 8-5 on this countdown to conceptual glory…

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Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast

Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast

Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast

Soilwork return, and with Peter Wichers back in their ranks and in the producer’s chair, fresh from working with Warrell Dane and twiddling Nevermore’s knobs, I approached this album with the tentative hopes of a horny ugly man at a blind nightclub.

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Buried Pleasure: Toxik – Think This

Buried Pleasure: Toxik – Think This

Buried Pleasure: Toxik – Think This

This makes absolute sense as the first album for me to review for our forgotten or overlooked classics section, as the ratio of genius to actual recognition is so phenomenally high (approximately a billion trillion to one at last count). Toxik are the kings of the overlooked thrash bands, the ones that sat 2 divisions below the big 4 but no-one really knows why. They burned brightly at the end of the 80’s, releasing two albums before breaking up in ’92, though they have since reformed and I await new material like some sort of thrash metal gimp chained in their cellar. For some, Toxik’s first album, 1987’s awesome World Circus, is their finest, but for me it is all about 1989’s follow up – Think This.

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