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Dissident Aggression on short hiatus

by Metal Insider | Jun 9, 2016 | Dissident Aggression

As Canadian hardcore band Grade once sang on their seminal Separate The Magnets album, sometimes, “…life gets in the way of living…” That’s a somewhat overly dramatic way of saying the weekly Dissident Aggression column will be taking a brief hiatus for a few months....

Dissident Aggression: Behexen – The Poisonous Path

by Metal Insider | Jun 2, 2016 | Dissident Aggression

We could debate until the cows come home exactly which bands deserve the ‘underrated’ tag. Within each sub-genre there are literally dozens upon dozens of bands that the metal consensus cries foul about not getting their due. One such act in the black...

Dissident Aggression: Dark Funeral – Where Shadows Forever Reign

by Metal Insider | May 26, 2016 | Dissident Aggression

They say seven is a lucky number. There’s also supposedly dark magic behind the number seven. Seven years of bad luck for a whole host of reasons, so say the superstitions. Maybe it’s the fact that it has been seven long years since their last full-length,...

Dissident Aggression: Bog of the Infidel – Asleep in the Arms of Suicide

by Metal Insider | May 19, 2016 | Dissident Aggression

It’s been written at length, even in this space, about the varying long, strange trips that many US black metal musicians insist on taking the genre, often with mixed results. While the overt atmospherics and genre-bending can, at times, prove to be interesting...

Dissident Aggression: Sulphur – Omens of Doom

by Metal Insider | May 13, 2016 | Dissident Aggression

Black and death metal have been kissing cousins for longer than anyone would probably care to admit. Even when the corpse painted legions of Scandinavia took over as the underground’s flavor of the month in the early to mid 90s, while death metal seemed to, in...

Dissident Aggression: Sun Worship – Pale Dawn

by Metal Insider | May 5, 2016 | Dissident Aggression

Worshiping of the sun has been practiced for literally thousands of years and across various regions of the globe. The Ancient Egyptians obviously saw a large chuck of their religion revolve around that big, fiery ball in the sky. Various Native American tribes in...

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