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“Electric Messiah“ - HIGH ON FIRE

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The shirt hating guitar giant Matt Pike strikes again! Earlier this year, he and the other members of Sleep dropped the best stoner rock/doom metal album of this year with “The Sciences” (and accidentally killed that scene in the process) but now he shines again on “Electric Messiah”, the new album from his other band High On Fire.

Where Sleep is thick, gnarly and slow, High On Fire is crunchy, fast and angrier. Think SunnO))) versus Slayer.

Any good? HOF has never released a bad record so far and “Electric Messiah” is again quality stuff. However, HOF’s albums tend to be a little interchangeable meaning that if you rather stick to “Death is his Communion”, you won’t miss much.

“Become” - Zardonic

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Venezuelan producer Zardonic was not the first to mix electronic music with metal but he was the first to start from the perspective of a producer and not a band member. Over the years, he has delivered a steady stream of songs that are characterized by high energy, aggression and, despite the unholy mix of d ‘n’ b, dubstep and metal, relatively slick and easily digestible.

Any good? Most of it, yes. Zardonic does however heavily rely on the guest musicians making an appearance on this album and they make or break the track. For instance the Qemists deliver the goods on “Takeover” but Jørgen Munkeby (SHINING [NO]) is a disappointment, perhaps to his jazz-mindset being incompatible with the club-vibe of Zardonic.

“СКАЗКА“ - IC3PEAK

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Who? A Russian horror-pop duo that makes gorgeous videos. The gothic version of Little Big.

Any good? The band cleverly use dynamics and style changes to create eerie, unsettling atmosphere but it gets boring really quickly due to the lack of variation, the run-of-the-mills instrumentation and the rather limited voice of the singer. The videos however are amazing.

“Queen of Darkness” - SERVANTS OF THE APOCALYPTIC GOATRAVE

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The new artistic life of d'n'b producer Bongra with a lot of atmospheric black metal-influences.

Any good? No. The artistic intentions are there, I applaud every attempt to present rock in a more contemporary setting, there are some great passages and I really REALLY want to like it but honestly, this sounds like a black metal parody and the drumcomputer playing superfast, dry blast beats doesn't really help either.

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