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Dissident Aggression: Clawing Into Wolvhammer

by Metal Insider | Jul 7, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

American black metal has a long and, frankly, somewhat bizarre history. In the most embryonic of stages the bands labelled “black metal” often sounded more like the influential “first wave” European bands than anything their European...

Dissident Aggression: Uncovering the Relics of Vanhelgd

by Metal Insider | Jun 6, 2014 | Columns, Dissident Aggression

Long before the Swedish death metal scene was perpetually infused with the word “melodic” at every turn it was a scene that produced some of the most brutal and unrelenting death metal the world over. At some point though the musical pendulum started...

Dissident Aggression: Taking Leave In The Valley Of The Sun

by Metal Insider | May 23, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

Stoner rock is alive and well. That sub genre of 60’s psychedelia-soaked, Black Sabbath worshiping, bong loading, fuzzed out, rock n’ roll did not fade off into the Western skies as the sun was setting on bands like Kyuss and Nebula. Forget for a moment...

Dissident Aggression: Emanating From The Path Of Serpents

by Metal Insider | May 16, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

Some music is meant to simply clobber. It’s built with a battering ram aesthetic and rumbles through headphones like some prehistoric, ancient beast, unaware of the true destruction it wields. One fine example of music that simply cold-cocks you from note one...

Dissident Aggression: The Triumphant Return Of The Kings Of Sludge

by Metal Insider | May 9, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

Fourteen years. Fourteen long and lonely years we’ve all gone without an album’s worth of new material from New Orleans’ kings of sludgy misery, Eyehategod. How did we survive it? Surely there were the hundreds of bands influenced by...

Dissident Aggression: Lord Mantis Don The Death Mask

by Metal Insider | Apr 28, 2014 | Dissident Aggression

There are certain albums that you wait for months and months for, anticipating like a child anticipates a visit from the fat guy in the red suit every 25th day of December. In the back of your mind though there’s that constant nagging feeling though that what...

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