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Episode 207: Amorphis, Ramming Speed, Axis 2015 Album Reviews + New Music from Parkway Drive, Baroness, Skyharbor and more!

At Long Lasting Impression

This week marks the return of First Impressions! I know you’re excited…stop trying to hide it. While we may have dropped an album review to fit in the previews, we compensate by playing SEVEN songs this episode!  So, it all balances out in the end.

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Reviews:
Amorphis – Under the Red Cloud (Nuclear Blast)
Ramming Speed – No Epitaphs (Prosthetic)
Axis – Show Us Your Greed (Good Fight)

First Impressions:
Skyharbor – “Out of Time”, new single out now
Parkway Drive – “Crushed” from Ire out 9/25 from Epitaph
40 Below Summer – “Mangina” from Transmission Infrared out independently on 10/6
Trivium – “Until the World Goes Cold” from Silence in the Snow out 10/2 from Roadrunner
Horrendous – “Sum of All Failures” from Anareta out 10/27 from Dark Descent
Baroness – “Chlorine & Wine” from Purple out 12/18 from Relapse

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Episode 173: Covered in New Music

We have a mixed bag of releases this week.  What makes that different than most every other week?  Well, nothing really.  Though, we do finally have some 2015 releases to talk about!  So, that’s different than the last few weeks, I guess.  It’s more like getting back to normal…or whatever.  Just listen.

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Reviews:
Falloch – This Island, Our Funeral (Candlelight)
The Last Ten Seconds of Life – Soulless Hymns (Density)
Septa – Destroyer and Covers, Vol. 1 (self-released)
Sylosis – Dormant Heart (Nuclear Blast)

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Episode 166: Death in the Snow Covered Forest

This week’s show does haven our typical variety of genre-hopping madness.  No, this time the four new reviews fall into two categories: Death Metal and Black Metal. The BM here is of the Post-/Atmospheric/Folk variety, but it is Black nonetheless. Anybody who has been listening to this show for a while knows Brian prefers DM and while Nick seems to enjoy this style of BM.  So with these leanings, will there be squabbles ahead? Will the ratings takes hits?  Listen to find out!

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Reviews:
Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral (Peaceville)
Fen – Carrion Skies (Code 666)
Horrendous – Ecdysis (Dark Descent)
Wayfarer – Children of the Iron Age (Prosthetic)

(Just a reminder: Before doing your Christmas shopping on Amazon – which we know you are going to – please go there through one of the album links on the side.  That simple click-through will help keep this podcast up and running.  Thanks!)

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Episode 154: Finding Yourself and Trying New Things

As the title suggests, we unintentionally themed this week’s show about growing up.  Not directly about us, or all of the bands, but it is here.  We have a couple of bands who are figuring out who they are – one tries something a little different, another takes a look at back to their former self. The other couple are something a little different for your hosts.  OK, one in particular stands out as the, um, new experience, but it’s always good to try new things.  That’s what our mothers tell us, right?

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Reviews: Code Orange – I Am King (Deathwish); The Haunted – Exit Wounds (Century Media); Set and Setting – A Vivid Memory (Prosthetic); Sólstafir – Ótta (Season of Mist)

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Episode 151: For Those Who Like Shiny Objects

Doing one of the things we do best – or, at the least, pretty consistently – we have another diverse show for you. Jumping from detoxed Metalcore to Folky Melodic Death to Black Metal strangeness to Death-y Grindcore, we have perfect formula for the ADD diagnosed listeners who can’t…SQUIRREL.  We also may have another first in this episode during one of our reviews.  Curious which?  Well, there is an easy way to find out…

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Reviews: Columns –Please Explode (Relapse); Eluveitie – Origins (Nuclear Blast); Nachtmystium – The World We Left Behind (Century Media); Wovenwar – Wovenwar (Metal Blade)

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