Pentagram – Lightning in a Bottle Review

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What about Pentagram has ever been “Lightning in a Bottle”? Pentagram are, fundamentally, the first all-American Sabbath rip-off. Given, Pentagram were early adopters, releasing singles all throughout the ’70s even if the first full-length only materialized in the mid-’80s. Being early is not always a good thing. Good thing lightning in a bottle strikes exactly when it needs to. Like a wizard. That’s how that works, right?

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Ploughshare – Second Wound Review

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Albums sometimes communicate things to Scuttlegoat before he has even heard them. Sometimes this is done via the promo blurb telling him to be wary. Other times, a combination of album cover, album and track titles will tell him what to expect. While more casual metal listeners often sneer about anything that pushes beyond the 5 minute mark, to Scuttlegoat colossal song lengths might also communicate to seasoned metal listeners like himself that the album at hand is advanced listening or at least making an attempt at being a more profound, distinguished work.

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Veilburner – The Duality of Decapitation and Wisdom Review

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The number seven often holds special significance in western culture; a significance that goes beyond intra-number cannibalism. Artists have at times tried to transport this mystique to musical composition. As standard Western musical scales already hold seven individual notes, many artists seem to have tried their hand at incorporating the number seven into their rhythmic framework. But has anyone ever tried cutting off its head?

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Spooktober Pairing! Impaled vs Yuzna and Gordon

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We here at The Goat Review embrace both the spooky in sound and in picture. Today, our own Scuttlegoat and Transcendental Goose Boss steps forward to recommend you an album from the wild, splattery death metal side, Death After Life (by Impaled), and a classic of splatstick sexual deviance, Re-Animator (by Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna). Partake in one or both or neither, just know that Death After Life and Re-Animator promise that there’s more to the end than a mouthful of dirt…

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Ataraxie – Le Declín Review

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Extreme metal can take many forms. But in this time of ours where acts try to out-Flanderize each other — essentially extremity fitting into the mold of extremity to be extreme — there is less and less that can actually be considered extreme. Ataraxie present their vision of funeral doom as a no-frills, heavily death metal inspired affair. It may be slow, but will it rush to the top of you doom metal essentials?

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