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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