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Newcastle's now defunct grindcore outfit Rat Faced Bastard left us two short EP's in their run time as a band. The latter "Fuck Wound" provides the listener with a 13 minute pummelling of grindcore inspired by acts such as Insect Warfare, Napalm Death, early Carcass, Repulsion etc.

I'll admit to not being the biggest fan of this style but when I listen to this genre this is exactly the type of stuff I want to be hearing, fast and chaotic riffs with heavy and quality production to back up the apocalyptic onslaught and this is exactly what we get…

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Chapel of Disease are a new band playing ridiculously filthy and rotten death metal in the vein of Asphyx, early Pestilence, early Gorguts and Morgorth. With fast banging riffs and slow doomy sections the band play a varied style of death metal which should have any fan of old school death metal foaming from the mouth. With a vocalist who sounds like Martin Van Drunen, Chapel of Disease wouldn't have sounded out of place in the Dutch death metal scene of the late 80's/early90's

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BeyondEternity's top albums (overall)

1. Edge of Sanity - Crimson II (3117)

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2. Labyrinth - Return To Heaven Denied (1134)

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3. Carcass - Heartwork (850)

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4. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness (776)

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5. Death - Human (615)

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6. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness (614)

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7. Pestilence - Consuming Impulse (573)

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8. Lost Horizon - Awakening The World (512)

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9. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath (510)

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10. Megadeth - Rust In Peace (502)

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11. Sonata…

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I first have to start of this review by saying how surprised I am how much I have come to enjoy this album. I have always been a more Floridian style US death metal fan. Whilst been unaware of the New York scene for a few years I decided to check it out. I was always put off by reputation as I heard a lot of it was to influence slam death etc. However I barley hear it in this album which is a good thing. Along with other such noteworthy acts as Immolation and Incantation.Morpheus Descends are…

2011 was a good year for Metal, in terms of releases. Some great albums where put out by bands. However we had a few very bad disappointments. ( Morbid Angel, Queensryche etc) However the good really did outweigh the bad. Also I was very privileged to see Judas Preist on their final "Epitath" world tour. Bloodstock 2011 with its amazing line up. Seeing Coroner reunion show and Immortal first show in the uk for nine years. Looking back their was actually some really fucking cool experiences. I also saw many a local show and got involved with my local…

Thrash Metal was the first genre of Metal I really got into and consider it to be my roots lie. Here are 10 of my favorites.

Megadeth Rust In Peace

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Here we have in my opinion, the greatest Thrash album ever made. This was also my first Metal album ever. I have such a connection to this. I can still remember the night getting it from a music shop in a massive shopping complex up here. I went to the cinema with my family, had food etc. But none of that mattered, I was just staring at the artwork…

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Blind Guardian are apart of the power metal elite, no doubt about it. They where doing classic power metal albums whilst Sonata Arctica where getting there noses rubbed and bottle fed of their mother still. This album in question "Tales From The Twilight World" started one of the most godly runs in metal history. This and the three releases after this are all top quality power metal.

This is where Blind Guardian defined their sound. Found their own style and created an amazing power metal album. Blind Guardian had started off well releasing two pretty cool speed/thrash/power albums. But…

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After Megadeth's reformation in 2004 with the release of "The System Has Failed" which was a pretty enjoyable listen. Including such solid cuts like "Blackmail The Universe" and "Kick The Chair". Megadeth had come back in a return of their old style. With 2007's "United Abominations" Megadeth took a more melodic approach and a step up in quality from the previous album. Then we have "Endgame" which is a massive step up in quality from "United Abominations". Let me tell you why.

Produced by the legendary Andy Sneap the initial chords of the opener " Dialectic Chaos". Really do…

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Firstly I have to say thrash metal used to be my favorite genre of metal. But when I get into other styles of metal i.e power,death,prog etc. I started listening to it less and less. I still love the genre a lot and when this "thrash revival" started I was happy to see a style of metal become popular. Now things have gotten out of hand. You have too many bands and it is turning into a trend. Bands like SSS, Violator etc been prime examples.

However Havok do not fall into this category. Following up on their decent…

Whetstone - Hunted EP Review

Whetstone are a four piece unsigned band from london. Who have managed to self release their debut EP entilted "Hunted". Whetstone play the "woodsy", progressive and epic black metal similar to early Opeth, early Ulver and Primordial etc. But with a unique and orginal twist on things. The EP is avilable for free download, so who wouldn't want some thought provoking epic black metal for free?

Anyway moving on to the review itself. The EP opens up with a very spacey keyboard intro. Which sets the mood for the true opener "Life Relinqueshed" which opens…