Interview : Julien of GLORIOR BELLI Envelops 'Mind over Metal' in Darkness

So it’s blackened Southern bluesy sludge by a bunch of French dudes? I know everyone lately opens with similar description, but if you’ve heard Glorior Belli, the badassery is obvious. After a full opening of “Dark Gnosis” from ‘The Great Southern Darkness’ and a bad joke from me, we get FULL-ON deep regarding their obscure name and origins, the underlying thread between Scandinavia and the Mississippi Delta, and how Julien channels his beliefs through the music. Then, just to reel it back a bit… questions about booze.

 
Review : OPETH - "Heritage"

Rating: 3/5

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Dissecting CARCASS’s “Heartwork” – Fifth Incision

“Death awaits us all, and those who are pious and righteous are rewarded with the same eternal darkness as those who pillage the world blind. The meek will be buried right alongside those who engage in a Dionysian life of personal excess and unabated greed. The ground cannot tell the two apart.” ~Keith Spillett

 
Review : MASTODON - "The Hunter"

Rating: 3.5/5

It feels incongruous to write in flowery terms about what is allegedly their “fun” album, the one with the least pretense. So let me say this once again, as simply as possible: Mastodon is, more or less, a 21st-century American Voivod.

 
Review : SWAMP WITCH - "Gnosis"

Rating: 4/5

Upon first listen, my imagination conjured colonial Massachusetts and myself as a member of the infamous Salem witch hunt.

 
Review : DREAM THEATER - "A Dramatic Turn of Events"

Rating: 3/5

Listen, it’s great that the band (literally) regrouped for this album; I admire their perseverance. But seriously, dudes, I have another old adage for you: sometimes less is more. Shorten the songs, have fewer of them, and pour your soul into no more than one tender tune per album. My focus is scattered more than ever before, and plenty of other bands are capably competing for attention.

 
Review : BITTER RESOLVE - "Bows and Arrows Against the Lightning"

Rating: 3.5/5

Bitter Resolve should be repeatedly hit until reduced to ash, and you’ll be jonesing until the next strain arrives.

 
Review : ANTHRAX - "Worship Music"

Rating: 4/5

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Review : THRALL - "Vermin to the Earth"

Rating: 3/5

“Vermin To The Earth” doesn’t have much lasting appeal, even though many of the songs are actually pretty good. It all boils down to the over-the-top production, which spoils the misanthropic doom-ish atmosphere of the album.

 
Review : UNTIMELY DEMISE - "City of Steel"

Rating: 4/5

Buy and listen to “City of Steel” now, and get in on the ground floor with this savage Saskatoonian thrash.

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