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Converge-[When Forever Comes Crashing]-1998

Over the course of the years since the band's formation in the early '90s, Convergehas continued to release solid hardcore-metal records that improve each time in their technicality and structure, becoming more and more experimental within a musical genre that has a reputation for being quite stagnant. When Forever Comes Crashing is the culmination of that growth -- an extremely solid, well-written, and produced album that pushes the hardcore boundaries while maintaining the ability to explode....

Carcass-[Heartwork]-1994

Heartwork marks Carcass' return after the self-imposed hiatus that followed 1991's Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious. It's also the pioneering grindcore outfit's breakthrough release, successfully grafting melody onto the existing muscle of Carcass punishing antimusic. After a blistering opening salvo, the title track decelerates into a mid-tempo guitar lead, only to shift gears into a meaty verse that suggests the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. "Carnal Forge" and "Arbeit Macht...

Cannibal Corpse-[Butchered At Birth]-1992

In the early '90s, Cannibal Corpse acquired a small cult in the death metal underground by embracing some of the most gruesome lyrics the subgenre had to offer. Thriving on shock value, the band inspires comparisons to GWAR and comes across as a parody of death metal and grindcore more than anything. Like its previous album, the equally twisted Eaten Back to Life, Butchered at Birth addresses such lurid topics as dismemberment, torture, and masochism. One will need the lyric sheet to know just...

Caliban -[The Opposite From Within]-2004

Released in 2004, "The Opposite from Within" is Caliban's fourth album and it is their first record that was released on Roadrunner Records. It was recorded at "The Room" in Göteborg,...

Caliban -[Say Hello To Tragedy]-2009

Say Hello to Tragedy is the 7th full-length album by Caliban. The album will be released with Century Media Records, instead of the usual, Roadrunner Records. 24 Years, a new song and video from Say Hello to Tragedy was released on the 17th of July on the bands Myspace. A second song, Caliban's Revenge was released on their myspace on 24 July. A full album stream was put up on Thursday 13 August. The album entered the German Media Control chart at position No....
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