3.03.2019

HELLKRUSHER


















"human misery"
Year:  2017
Country:  UK
City:  Tyne
Label:  Ruin Nation
Format:  LP
Tracks:  15
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Crust Punk













They ain’t no fucking rock stars.  They ain’t no fucking rip off.  They care about what they do and they also care about you, too.  29 years have passed since the recording of their first record, called “Wasteland” and 29 years later they give you “Human Misery” released on Ruin Nation Records.  With numerous line-up changes, various ups and downs, breaks in playing, breaks in gigging, HELLKRUSHER with Scotty and Ali at the wheel are still ambitious punks that care about what they do and how they do it.  Time has come to talk about past and present with Scotty, the guitarist.  Read to the end, as there is a special announcement waiting for you. The band continues with their typical crust punk as well adding elements of modern thrash metal.
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"buildings for the rich"
Year:  1992
Label:  Chaos Control
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  20
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Crust Punk


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HELLYEAH




















"undeniable"
Year:  2016
Country:  US
City:  Dallas, TX
Label: Eleven seven
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  50 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Nu Metal















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2.16.2019

THE DAMNED















"damned, damned, damned"
Year:  1977
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  38 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk Rock















THE DAMNED are a punk-rock band originally from Croydon, England, a suburb of London, who were formed in 1976. Despite being one of the definitive early punk bands they were also one of the most ambitious; with their later albums moving away from gothic rock to psychedelic rock. They are notable for being the first of the british punk band to release a official single, put out an album and tour the United States. Their debut album, "Damned Damned Damned" was released 6 months before The Sex Pistols’ debut "Never Mind The Bollocks". THE DAMNED have dissolved and reformed many times, with singer Dave Vanian remaining the sole constant. They have incorporated many styles in their music, most notably psychedelia, gothic and new wave. In addition to serving as inspiration for many of the american young bands who created hardcore music beacause their fast punk (in 1976),  THE DAMNED are also generally regarded as one of the founders of goth / dark music. Original members Dave Vanian (David Lett), Captain Sensible (Raymond Burns), and Rat Scabies (Chris Millar) were all members of the semi-legendary Masters of the Backside which included future Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde. 
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"music for pleasure"
Year:  1978
 
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  32 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:         Punk Rock














"Music for Pleasure" is the second studio album by English punk rock band the Damned. It was released on 18 November 1977, through record label Stiff. "Music for Pleasure" was produced by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and featured new member Lu Edmunds on guitar alongside Brian James, as well as guest saxophonist Lol Coxhill. The album was the last album-length studio release to feature original guitarist Brian James, who would rejoin the band in the late '80s and early '90s for a live album and studio single. It was also the group's final album release on Stiff Records. It saw the band move into more complex song structures, while maintaining the punk sound of their debut album. At the time of its release, the album was dismissed by critics as a poor misstep. During August and September they recorded "Music for pleasure", by produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason (of all people), which eventually did just the job for media hacks with a desire to write them off as has-beens. A notable flop, the LP was rather strange in a way that words can't describe, but boasted another clutch of fine songs, some of which were new ones by James. ‘Politics', a re-done 'Stretcher Case', 'You Take My Money' were James originals, but the standout was Sensible / Scabies' infamous attack on the band Television (‘Idiot Box'), complete with parodic Tom Verlaine guitar. Avant garde saxophonist Lol Coxhill even appeared on one track, the Stooges-like 'You Know'. The press hated it and therefore slated it. Scabies, who had to be persuaded to stay in the band to record the LP, left the band before it was released in November. The LP flopped dramatically: despite brilliant cover art by Barney Bubbles, the bad reviews sunk it.
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"machine gun etiquette"
Year:  1979
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:       Punk Rock















"Machine gun etiquette" was THE DAMNED's third album but the first after a quasi-breakup and founding guitarist Brian James' departure, which was quite the blessing in disguise. The Damned made history with their punk debut, "Damned Damned Damned" but their second album, "Music for pleasure", was a real stinker. Without James they were able to reinvent themselves. Bassist Captain Sensible switched to guitar and they made an amazing record, far and away their best and one of the best albums of the era. The first song, "Love Song," is absolutely brilliant and the band recorded here (in my opinion) the first "proto-hardcore" songs ever. Hell, the whole record is great.
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"the black album"
Year:  1980
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  18
Time:  58 min.
Genre:  rock

Style:        Goth Punk















Far from the Sex Pistols scandals and increasing "mainstream" of The Clash music, there was a third way which adopted by THE DAMNED and this was, of experimentation with many styles such as: post-punk, goth rock, cold wave and even sounds from the 60s decade like garage or psychedelia. With its debut album THE DAMNED demonstrated its fast and noisy punk-rock (in 1976), but with this "The black album" the band wanted to  be more creative than destructive, and recorded a concept album from start to finish as the huge work who had made their admired The Who with "Quadrophenia" or David Bowie with "Ziggy Stardust", a work of aArt in a nutshell. Often this disk is described as one of must on the list of so-called "Art Punk" due to high musical quality, but I personally think this is a complete post-punk album or goth-punk album, nothing more. The thing is THE DAMNED started to record very good albums with high quality in many aspects: creativity, originaliy, technical level, sound production, etc. Since "The black album" nothing to do with its three first albums.
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"strawberries"
Year:  1982
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  48 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Punk















"Strawberries", originally titled "Strawberries for Pigs", is the fifth studio album by English punk rock band The Damned. It was released in October 1982 by record label Bronze. Describing the album we can to say this is a mix with classic punk-rock, goth rock and also an increasing influence of dark pop sounds. Despite their sound more melodic, the album is excellent and highly recommended. This release here was made in 2015 through major "Universal Music" (Sanctuary Records) on LP and CD format. 
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NAZ NOMAD AND THE NIGHTMARES
"give daddy the knife Cindy"
Year:  1984
Country:  UK
Label:  Big Beat
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Psychedelic Rock












"Naz Nomad and The Nightmares" was a one-off project featuring the members of punk rock band The Damned. Naz Nomad and The Nightmares released one album entitled Give Daddy The Knife Cindy in 1984. The album was packaged to look like the re-issue of a 1967 soundtrack album to a (fictitious) low budget American horror film. A copyright notice on the front cover claimed the film was "Copyright 1967 American Screen Destiny Pictures", and credits are given for the film's stars, director and producer. The album itself featured covers of songs by garage rock and psychedelic acts who had influenced the Damned, plus two original numbers in the same style. Each member of the band took on pseudonyms different from those used in The Damned for the project.
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"phantasmagoria"
Year:  1985
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD , LP
Tracks:  8
Time:  58 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Rock















"Phantasmagoria" is the sixth album by The Damned, released by MCA records in July 1985. Special editions were available on white vinyl or picture disc — some versions included a free 12" of their No. 3 hit Eloise. After much wrangling, the Damned received a new contract with MCA Records in October 1984 (past member Captain Sensible's hit solo career helped) and recorded the album in Eel Pie Studios between March and June 1985. It reached No. 11 in the charts, and was the band's highest charting album ever. The non-album single "Eloise," (a Barry Ryan cover), released six months later, became a huge UK hit reaching No. 3. The Damned centred the entire album around David Vanian's deep voice, giving much of the album a gothic feeling. "Edward the Bear" is a light pop tune sung by Roman Jugg. The album is currently out-of-print in North America but was remastered and reissued by Geffen Records in Japan in 2007, which features replicas of the LP's outer and inner sleeves and the CD's label resembles the white vinyl edition. One of the best gothic albums written ever. Excellent 
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"anything"
Year:  1986
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        New Wave















After Captain Sensible left the Damned in 1984 when his solo career took off with the freak success of his single "Happy Talk," Dave Vanian took over the creative reins of the group, and he began nudging their music in a direction that reflected his growing interest in the goth movement. The Damned's flirtation with goth led to them signing a major label deal for the first time and enjoying one of their biggest commercial successes with the 1985 album "phantasmagoria". "Anything" probably was their most economic profitous album, but at the same time, their less talented. Despite all, there are three good songs (released as singles): "Eloise", "gigolo" and "in dulce decorum".
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"not of this earth"
Year:  1996
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Punk















Underrated, understood and forgot album. Due to unknown reasons, this album was released through different record labels, with different artworks and also differently untitled ("I'm alright jack and the bean stalk" for example), and maybe these all facts became in a complete faillure. The reality was the album passed unuticied by both, medias and audience. But despite this, the album is simply another great piece of rock, recorded by this legend band: The Damned.
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"grave disorder"
Year:  2001
Label:  Nitro
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  58 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Punk








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"so, who's the paranoid?"
Year:  2008
Label:  The english channel
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  60 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Punk















Like any album from a band on the wrong side of 30, "So, Who's Paranoid?" comes with a stigma attached: The success rate on these kinds of middle-aged reunion projects is already low, and factor in a founding role in the '70s punk scene and members named Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies and the odds plunge to a nearly microscopic level. Realistically, the Damned is lucky enough to still be alive. Yet somehow the band has done two better than expectations would warrant, not only staying together (intermittently, and with a revolving cast of new and original members) but recording an album that somehow rises above mediocrity. So, Who's Paranoid? plays like a slideshow of the Damned's career, moving from simplistic, three-chord punk ("A Nation Fit for Heroes," "Nothing") to crooning goth ("Under the Wheels"), capping off with a baggy, shambling psych exploration that would be destructive if not placed safely at the end of the album. Along the way, the band makes room for some bloated Broadway style numbers ("Since I Met You," "Nature's Dark Passion") and even a dash of Britpop ("Danger to Yourself"), a thematic limpness that is either a sign of distraction or a way of showing off how diversely talented the band is. This cobbled, retrospective feel is the greatest failing here but ultimately feels like a quibble compared to how badly things could have turned out. The album is consistently smart and musically gratifying, if not overly sharp, and with the generally even tone established by Dave Vanian's refreshingly wry lyrics, it maintains a somewhat united feeling despite its scrapbook sensibility. For a band seemingly long past their prime, this level of quality is no small accomplishment, digging at old veins to create a smaller-scale version of the Damned's earlier successes.
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"evil spirits"
Year: 2018
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  43 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Punk







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"darkadelic"
Year:  2023
Label:  Ear
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Goth Punk








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CODE ORANGE














"what is really underneath"
Year:  2023
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Metalcore








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"underneath"
Year:  2020
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  14
Time:  35 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Metalcore








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"forever"
Year:  2017
Country:  US
City:  Pittsburg
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Metalcore












Code Orange (previously known as Code Orange Kids) is a hardcore punk band that formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2008. The band signed to Deathwish Inc. for their first two studio albums Love Is Love/Return to Dust (2012) and I Am King (2014) and have since released a third, Forever (2017), through Roadrunner Records (Warner Music). In 2012, four of the band's members – Reba Meyers, Jami Morgan, Joe Goldman and Dominic Landolina – formed the rock band Adventures. The band have one Grammy nomination under their belt for the song “Forever”. They started out playing "really straightforward punk rock," but would eventually take their music in a heavier direction with the introduction of new member, Bob Rizzo, who met members of the band at a local show and they were strongly influenced by music styles such as: sludge, math rock, thrash metal, etc.
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"I am king"
Year:  2014
Label:  Deathwish
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  30 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Metalcore








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2.07.2019

MÖTLEY CRÜE























"generation swine"
Year:  1997
Country:  US
City:  Los Angeles
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Heavy Metal















Mötley Crüe is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, on January 17, 1981. The group was founded by bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, lead singer Vince Neil and lead guitarist Mick Mars. Mötley Crüe has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 25 million albums in the United States, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The members of the band have often been noted for their hedonistic lifestyles and the persona they maintained. Following its hard rock and heavy metal origins, with the third album Theatre of Pain (1985), the band joined the first wave of glam metal. Its most recent studio album, Saints of Los Angeles, was released on June 24, 2008. Its final show took place on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2015, and was filmed for a theatrical and Blu-ray release in 2016. On September 13, 2018, Mötley Crüe announced that they had reunited and were working on new music.
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"idem"
Year:  1994
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Heavy Metal








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"new tattoo"
Year:  2000
Label:  none
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  42 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Heavy Metal








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"saints of Los Angeles"
Year:  2008
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Heavy Metal







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1.30.2019

MALEVOLENT CREATION




















"the 13th beast"
Year:  2019
Country:  US
City:  Buffalo
Label:  Century media
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  50 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal
















It would be easy to pass off the latest Malevolent Creation release as a cheeky nod back to the band's brief albeit notable emergence in the underground death metal scene back in the early 90s, but that would mean forgetting the band never really went away. Sure, looking at each gap between their last few albums will only ever cast an impression of a band taking their time, but Malevolent Creation are in no rush to release new material these days. Rather, they're seemingly content to flesh out ideas, take their time and have as much fun as their younger selves did back in 1991.

Unfortunately, as solid as latest effort The 13th Beast is, it's little more than what would satisfy those who have been waiting for this new release for a while. It's very hard-hitting, indeed, but it's also easy to annoy because of the sheer boredom some songs allow. Add to this the fact that the album borders on 50 minutes in total length (I.e. too long for a death metal release of this calibre), and you're left with a flash in the pan. Opener "End the Torture" introduces the album fittingly enough with some frankly menacing grooves and on-point rhythms, even elaborately battening down the proverbial hatches with those razor sharp solos, but to hear so much repetition in virtually every other song is a bit, well, lazy. It's not so bad if you've been following Malevolent Creation since day one, but to newcomers hearing the likes of "Canvas of Flesh" even once becomes tiresome.

As a flipside, at least the obviously stronger moments in The 13th Beast go some way to derailing your thoughts of boredom. "Mandatory Butchery" is a more frenzied animal and doesn't settle down into the same groove-flecked main riff for longer than half a minute, whilst "The Beast Awakened" revels in youthful exuberance thanks to its punkish energy and generally more grinding performance. That said, the production doesn't quite match the musicianship. Imagine you're listening to The Ten Commandments and then hearing the otherwise raw riff work as it gets twisted and cleaned up, sounding synthetic as the end result. You can hear how compressed the album sounds and it offers no feeling of immense power or maniacal deliverance, something which engaged Malevolent Creation's earliest works from the get-go. Here, the result feels too clean, and hearing too much of it on the near 7-minute long "Born of Pain" simply gets frustrating too soon.

The 13th Beast isn't exactly the best death metal album to kickstart the year with. For comfort listening it's decent enough, but decent in this day and age won't quite give anyone further reason to lend repeated listens, especially for those who know they can get better quality versions elsewhere. Nobody's knocking Malevolent Creation for wanting to stay true to what has worked for them for almost three decades, but with average, tiresome full-lengths such as this perhaps four year gaps between releases can be seen as a good thing (*Review by Robert Davis ).
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1.26.2019

PUNCH






















"they don't have to believe"
Year:  2014
Country:  US
City:  San Francisco
Label:  Deathwish
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  15
Time:  26 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore        Punk















They Don't Have to Believe is the third full - length from San Francisco based straight edge (vegan, anti-drugs, anti-alcohol) and hardcore punk band Punch. This album took on additional significance when singer Meghan O'Neil announced she was leaving the band shortly after its release. Instead of just being the band's latest LP, it would be judged as its probable swan song.

Punch's music is above average hardcore that sometimes ventures into grindcore territory. It's O'Neil's singing that really makes the band stand out from its contemporaries. Her lyrics are socially conscious and positive, although they are delivered with rage. The songs carry themes of self - empowerment and often have a feminist bent. Truthfully, O'Neil's singing is more like screaming, and maintains its intensity across these 15 tracks in 19 minutes.

You'd never be able to guess the content of this album by looking at its whimsical cover photo. From the opening track, "Worth More Than Your Opinion," it's obvious that this is less a punch than an all—out pummeling. Once the beating begins, it never lets up."They Don't Have to Believe" was inspired by a quote by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna. It's a powerful statement about not needing outside validation. The album rages from song to song, and it hardly seems to matter where one ends and the next begins. "Promises Kept" adds a male voice to slightly change the dynamic.

This album's greatest strength and greatest weakness are two sides of the same coin. It all revolves around O'Neil's voice. While she is relentlessly exorcising her demons, she really only has one vocal delivery style. It's good, but it begs for something more. The music has hyper—speed riffs, breakdowns and squealing feedback to provide variety, but the scream remains the same. The reason this works as well as it does is due to its short running time. Music this intense should be experienced in short bursts, and may be best suited for EPs.

Meghan O'Neil did not explain her reason for leaving Punch, but there did not appear to be any acrimony. In this era of constant reunions, it's hard to get too worked up about another band calling it quits. If They Don't Have to Believe is really the end for Punch, they can say they went out on a high note (*Review by  TomTrauma ).
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"push pull"
Year:  2010
Label:  Discos Huelga
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  17 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Hardcore        Punk








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1.19.2019

OBITUARY
















"slowly we rot"
Year.  1989
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"cause of death"
Year:  1990
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  9
Time:  41 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"the end complete"
Year:  1992
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  9
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"world demise"
Year:  1994
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  60 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal














Obituary are a death metal band from Tampa, Florida. Formed in 1985 as Executioner, then changed spelling to Xecutioner, the band changed their name shortly before the release of their first album Slowly We Rot in 1989. The band are regarded as influential proponents of the Floridian death metal sound that emerged in the late 1980s and officially they are one of the best-selling death metal bands of all time. Following the release of their fifth album - 1997's Back From The Dead - Obituary disbanded, although a live album Dead surfaced a year later. In 2005 the band reformed, recording the reunion album Frozen In Time, since then, the band has continued to tour and release new material.
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"back from the dead"
Year:  1997
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD
Tracks:  10
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal







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"frozen in time"
Year:  2005
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD
Tracks:  10
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal







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"xecutioner's return"
Year:  2007
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD
Tracks:  11
Time:  44 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal







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"darkest day"
Year:  2009
Label:  Warner
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  13
Time:  45 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"inked in blood"
Year:  2014
Label:  Relapse
Format:  CD
Tracks:  12
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"idem"
Year:  2017
Label:  Relapse
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal








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"dying of everything"
Year:  2023
Label:  Relapse
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  50 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Death Metal


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