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Episode 232: Anthrax, Omnium Gatherum, Omnihility 2016 Album Reviews

Try Harder Next Time

Well, this time we recorded the show before hitting the slopes, but we didn’t get to edit and such until after.  So, late again (get used to it), here were are with brand new releases that we are actually interested in hearing what you think about.  I mean, yeah, the whole point of this is we share our thoughts and you use that knowledge at your discretion.  However, we feel like we are missing a little something at some points here, so we want to know what you think!  Use that comments section and share you thoughts!  Be heard!

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Reviews:
Anthrax – For All Kings (Megaforce)
Omnium Gatherum – Grey Heavens (Lifeforce)
Omnihility – Dominion of Misery (Unique Leader)

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Episode 199: Between the Buried and Me, Teethgrinder, Organ Dealer, Rest Among Ruins 2015 Album Reviews

Grinding Through Progression

As hinted at last week, we review the new BTBAM album this week, and we (accidentally) decided to pair it with another long-winded progressive album. In an attempt to balance that out, we picked two albums whose combined length is still not as long as either progressive album. They do, however, test our endurance…just in a very different way.

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Reviews:
Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic (Metal Blade)
Teethgrinder – Misanthropy (Lifeforce)
Organ Dealer – Visceral Infection (Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)
Rest Among Ruins – Fugue (independent)

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Episode 144: Depends on How You Look at it

While expectations of a band or album obviously play a role in how one is going to feel about the end result, one’s general view of a band and the style the play (even if both are liked) can also influence one’s opinion.   This also – again, kind of obviously – applies to one’s feelings on a genre as a whole.  So of you reading this might be saying “Well, duh.  Thanks for wasting our time.” we reiterate that because it comes into play quite a bit in this episode, wether it before the one of the bigger albums we review this week or the new (Side)Showcase we have the privilege of presenting.

Feel free to keep these discussions going with your own views and thoughts in the comments section!

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Reviews: Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite (Metal Blade); Fake Idols – Fake Idols (Lifeforce); Miasmal – Cursed Redeemer (Century Media); Serdce –  Timelessness (Blood Music)

(Side)Showcase: Septa

Live review: “The Oncoming Storm 10th Anniversary Tour” featuring Unearth w/ Cruel Hand, Extinction AD, and Armed for the Apocalypse @ The Studio at Webster Hall in New York, NY on June 21, 2014

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Episode 142: Change is the Only Constant…Except When It’s Not

This week, we inadvertently did a study in evolution (or lack there of) of bands.  Two of our bands have been around for quite some time and over the years have had some major internal changes (one of them, very recently) and we look at what it has done to their output by putting it up against their past works. One of them hasn’t been around for nearly as long, hasn’t had the internal changes, but somehow made an evolutionary step that, well…I don’t want to spoil, but we have a discussion about.  And the fourth band we review only put out their second album, we haven’t hear the first and they don’t really fit the change thing.  But, hey, we didn’t intend to have this sort-of-theme, so deal with it.  OH!  And we also have a new (Side)Showcase this week! We haven’t had one of those since Episode 114 in December.

Last but not least –  Happy Father’s Day to all you fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other fatherly figures out there!

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Reviews: Arch Enemy – War Eternal (Century Media); Shear – Katharsis (Lifeforce); Tombs – Savage Gold (Relapse); Vader –  Tibi Et Ini (Nuclear Blast)

(Side)Showcase: N.Tesla

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Episode 118: The End of the End (of the Year)

It’s that time! Time for Brian and Nick to share their top albums for 2013!  And this year, there are more than ever!  After individually making lists of more than 20 albums (beyond 20 was largely undecided when they worked on the collective list), the combined lists brought a Top 25!! There were so many great albums this year, it was hard not make a list this long.  Realistically, it should be even longer because there are even more great albums that didn’t make the cut because of math, but there was just not enough time (and energy) to go further.

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So, without further delay, here is The Sideshow Podcast’s Top 25 Albums of 2013!  Feel free to discuss and debate (and leave your own lists) in the comments.

  1. Nails – Abandon All Life (Southern Lord)
  2. Byzantine – Byzantine (independent)
  3. Norma Jean – Wrongdoers (Razor & Tie)
  4. Nero Di Marte – Nero Di Marte (Prosthetic)
  5. Amorphis – Circle (Nuclear Blast)
  6. Dead Letter Circus – The Catalyst Fire (The End)
  7. The Ocean – Pelagial (Metal Blade)
  8. Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed (Prosthetic)
  9. Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
  10. TesseracT – Altered State (Century Media)
  11. Dark Tranquility – Construct (Century Media)
  12. Protest The Hero – Volition (Razor & Tie)
  13. Disperse – Living Mirrors (Season of Mist)
  14. Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal (Epitaph)
  15. Unhuman – Unhuman (independent)
  16. Soilwork – The Living Infinite (Nuclear Blast)
  17. Anciients – Heart of Oak (Season of Mist)
  18. Audrey Horne – Youngblood (Napalm)
  19. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us is the Killer (Party Smasher/Sumerian)
  20. Lunarsea – Hundred Light Years (Punishment 18)
  21. Enshine – Origin (Rain Without End)
  22. Man Must Die – Peace Was Never an Option (Lifeforce)
  23. Weekend Nachos – Still (Relapse)
  24. DevilDriver – Winter Kills (Napalm)
  25. Old Gods – Stylized Violence (Forge Again)