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Metalegion 7

Highlights on this issue range from features with some of the top acts of the metal scene, like Incantation, Enslaved, Gaerea, Onslaught, Vicious Rumors, Mercyless or the vile black metal act Cultus Profano but also covering underground gems like Deathstorm, Hyems, Ages, Shed The Skin, Malokarpatan, Pessimist or the avant-garde super-group Imperial Triumphant between others.

It also features a label report from Avantgarde Music, a mixtape done by Thanatos vocalist/guitarist Stephan Gebédi, a massive 7 page feature with Tore Stjerna from Necromorbus Studio with tips and explanations on how to produce extreme music, plus all sort of regular sections and a 78 minutes sampler CD featuring songs from bands that will satiate your headbanging needs.

INCANTATION – Consistency is something that not all bands are able to attain throughout their entire discography, and even fewer when we are talking about bands with a career spanning 3 decades. Incantation have become one of the most influential metal bands of all time, and their 12th album, “Sect of Vile Divinities”, reinforces during a perilous period that John McEntee and co. still have what it takes to make infernal dark albums.

ENSLAVED – Erecting the fortress where they will reign as gods

GAEREA – Crossing the realm where lost souls experience pain…

MERCYLESS – Explaining the concept of the mother of all plagues

IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT – Thrilling musical expertise and visual richness

HYEMS – A grim testimony that there is expectation in failure

SHED THE SKIN – A tribute that become something bigger with time

IRREDEMPTION – Obscurity was never so dense, atonal, or threatening

ONSLAUGHT – Obliterating all religious hypocrisy with vile thrash

SICKENING HORROR – Sharpening their own blades with a deadly dexterity

DEATHSTORM – Proof that excellent thrash metal is still being made

NECROMORBUS STUDIO – Shares knowledge about producing extreme metal

VICIOUS RUMORS – Four years waiting for a new soon-to-be classic album

ATTICK DEMONS – Experiencing without turning away from themselves

CONSUMPTION – Death metal written in an enthusiastic recursive way

CULTUS PROFANO – Evoking a glorious grim past that is not forgotten

PESSIMIST – Exploring all the elements that make good thrash

AGES – Disclose the admirable result of five years of creation

ACERUS – Bringing back the old heavy metal euphoria

PURTENANCE – Exhibiting why Finnish death metal is so lethal

MALOKARPATAN – Expanding the confinements of witching metal

PUTRID OFFAL – Studying decaying anatomy with chainsaw fingers

HUMAN CARNAGE – Brutality probing malignant and decaying territories

EVIL WHIPLASH – Going back towards an iconic speedy metal period