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Episode 249: Dust Bolt, Silent Planet, Circle of Contempt 2016 Album Reviews

Baby Steps

Last week, we talked a bit about how bands evolve using old influences, or how they just devolve. This week, we inadvertently talk about band evolution and growth again, but from a different angle: taking small steps.  Small steps would seem safer, right?  They can be, but it still does not always work in a band’s favor.  Just listen to the show and you’ll get it.

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Reviews:
Dust Bolt – Mass Confusion (Napalm)
Silent Planet – Everything was Sound (Solid State)
Circle of Contempt – Structures for Creation

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Episode 136: Lock, Schlock, and Two Non-Smoking Barrels

May the 4th Be With You!! Han and Chewie (you can decide who is who) guide you through four star destroyers, five tie fighters and  through one trench run to bring an action-packed show.  It’s gonna take a little more time than a Kessel Run but this hunk-of-junk podcast has it where it counts and we get you through safely.

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Reviews: Aborted – The Necrotic Manifesto (Century Media); Devil You Know – The Beauty of Destruction (Nuclear Blast); Floor – Oblation (Season of Mist); Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun (Century Media)

First Impressions:
Misery Index – “The Killing Gods” from The Killing Gods out May 27th on Season of Mist
Tombs – “Edge of Darkness” from Savage Gold out June 10th on Relapse
Circle of Contempt – “Filth” from forthcoming album
Machine Head – “Killers & Kings (demo)” from forthcoming album on Nuclear Blast Entertainment
Slayer – “Implode” from forthcoming album on Nuclear Blast

Live Review: “Worldwide Plagues Tour” featuring ReVamp, Sabaton, and Iced Earth on April 18, 2014 at Best Buy Theater in New York, NY

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Episode 63: Last Chance to Dance

Ok, not really.  This is just the last episode of reviews. In this episode, we reach a grand total of 171 albums and EPs reviewed this year.  That doesn’t include the singles we previewed or liv shows we went over…just albums and EPS.  It comes to little over 3 a week, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but trust us, it is especially when trying to actually listen to them, do other things in life and maybe  listen to other music.  Anyhooooo…the final four reviews are a three more albums we missed, plus one new EP. Nick and Brian also give a review of the Every Time I Die show from last week plus go over a few year end lists from other sites and a couple of magazines.  The next two weeks will feature our own End of the Year Honors, so make sure you gets your asses back here to join in the fun.

Reviews: Circle of Contempt – Entwine the Threads; Code Orange Kids – Love is Love//Return to Dust; Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction; Rise and Fall – Faith

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