It’s fair to say that 2011 raised the bar with releases such as Machine Head‘s “Unto The Locust”, Steven Wilson‘s “Grace For Drowning” and Mastodon‘s “The Hunter”. However, 2012, it seems, has been even better for music, with quality albums seemingly being released every week!...

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Coming together around 2010 in Oakland, CA this crust/punk/sludge/doom/dreary outfit known as Abstracter offer up their debut release, “Tomb of Feathers”. Steeped in the music of unearthly noise and havoc, this band of four is set to carry on with something that is not quite...

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Doom metal, we can immediately think US, England, or Sweden and maybe even Canada but Germany is never a country image that comes up with the mention of this genre. Thrash metal sure, death metal ok, but doom metal, not so much. Well it is...

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Self branded as dark filthy metal from Brooklyn, Mutilation Rites is exactly that and more. Think black encrusted doom at louder than hell decibels and that is what these boys from NYC deliver. Their latest release Empyrean was picked up by Prosthetic Records, as wisely...

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AGALLOCH: Faustian Echoes EP Download Now Available North American Tour To Commence This Week AGALLOCH have officially made their new EP, Faustian Echoes, available for downloadable purchase at their Bandcamp page The EP arrives in conjunction with their upcoming North American tour, slated to commence...

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The editor’s at team ThisIsNotAScene polled our writing and photography crew to ask them what their top 5 favorites were at this point in the 2012 release year. With so many great releases so far in 2012 we thought it would be a good idea...

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Every band needs to start somewhere. Have a venue where music lovers can lend an ear to the newest offering, especially in a city sputtering with talented hopefuls. Las Vegas, USA is not always the first city you think of when it comes to great...

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Dense in sound and emotion, powerful in intensity and shadows, and vast in depth and structure, the debut album from US doomsters Pallbearer announces their full step onto the metal ladder, and at an immediate heady height. “Sorrow And Extinction” is an impressive album richly...

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King Giant is a southern doom outfit hailing from Virginia launching their new one, “Dismal Hollow”, as a follow up to the 2009 release of “Southern Darkness”. These southern gentlemen have embraced all that is great with southern sludge and doom and are poised to...

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