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After eight demos and two EP’s, Bergen, Norge’s Slavia finally issues its first full-length. It’s unclear whether Slavia is a one-man project with live session musicians, or a full-blown band. What’s certain is that Jonas Raskolnikov Christiansen is on vocals (Raskolnikov is an awfully heavy name to lay on a child), backed by members of […]

If Fugazi were on Deathwish Inc., they might be Coliseum. Thus, abstract yet hard-hitting politics meet dirty tones, Motörhead worship, unison bends, and a general hardcore ethic. Ryan Patterson’s howl even suggests Guy Picciotto with more testosterone (“defeater” sounds like “repeater”). Kurt Ballou’s behind the boards on No Salvation (Relapse, 2007), so it pulses with […]

by Cosmo Lee And last in this mini-series of writers as musicians (or vice versa) – me. Late last year I endeavored to set the 7 deadly sins to music, using only piano sounds. The project took about a month and a half to execute. I am a mediocre composer, a lousy pianist, and an […]

When you name your band World Downfall, you pretty much guarantee yourself a lifetime of Google page rank fights with Terrorizer (I wonder if Daylight Dies are pissed that Killswitch Engage put out an album with their name in it). And on Beyond Salvation (self-released, 2006), this Cologne band indeed walks a similar line between […]