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Jake Patton’s Top Albums of 2016
2016 has been a crazy year for releases across all genres, and with so many great albums it inevitably makes the job of creating a top 10 list even harder. So many bands are producing music of a higher...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Anwar Rizk’s Top Albums Of 2016
Well, here we are again folks. Another year, and another slue of ridiculously amazing albums have come our way. Each year it seems to get harder to narrow down my top picks for the year, but having bands continually...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Chris Reid’s Top Albums of 2016
2016 was another great year for new releases. Here are my picks for the very best of the year, a mixed bag for sure. 10. Megadeth – Dystopia As a Megadeth fan there’s nothing not to like about this...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Mitch Alexander’s Top Albums of 2016
I think 2016 is going down as the next 1998 – a really good year for me personally, but a shit year politically and sexually for world leaders and poor people in oil-rich countries. Nearly every band who released...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Rod Whitfield’s Top Albums of 2016
I say it every single year, and I’ll say it yet again in 2016, what a year for new releases! I ended up having a grand total of 28 releases that were in the running for a Top 10...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Metal Obsession @ Summer Breeze Open Air 2016
Images: www.summer-breeze.de Words: Gary Carson This was my first time at one of the final big festivals for the European summer, Germany’s Summer Breeze Festival, in its 19th iteration, located in the corn fields of Northern Bavaria in Southern Germany...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Metal Obsession @ Hellfest 2016, Clisson – Day 3
What was to be the final day, seemed like it had already been a month of moshpits, pad thai and windmilling. Bearing the Metal Obsession flag for Day 3 of Hellfest 2016, I took in all the sights, sounds...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Metal Obsession @ Hellfest 2016, Clisson – Day 2
The second day dawned and after literally two hours of sleep it was time to leave the comforts of my bed in the middle of a horse farm, to catch an early train to Hell. Thy Art is Murder...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Metal Obsession @ Wacken Open Air 2016
Wacken Open Air 2016 Images: Sonja Maglicic Words: Gary Carson Click here to view the full gallery. I met Germans. I met people from Italy, Austria, Finland, Norway, and Denmark. I met a couple from Ecuador, some people from Canada,...
- Posted 8 years ago
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Metal Obsession @ Hellfest 2016, Clisson – Day 1
Images & Words: Prarthana Venunathan When you love metal and travel as much as I do, Hellfest is certainly the happiest place on Earth. From the moment you enter through the Gates of Hell (which ironically resembles the structure of...
- Posted 8 years ago
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El Colosso – Forgotten Ancestors
Another heavily underrated local act, this Melbourne band has...
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Markus Saastamoinen – Puzzle Pieces
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