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Brendan Crabb, Journalist

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Album Review: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
"Eight albums in and positioned as this generation's Cannibal Corpse, gruesome extremity will stay in capably blood-stained hands."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Max & Iggor Cavalera, Skindred
"The brothers visibly revelled in the encore's sheer joy."
Reviews / Live
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Live Review: Dream Theater
"This wasn't a gig for the casual observer, if such a demographic exists for the American outfit."
Features / Music
Max Cavalera Is Back To His Roots With His Estranged Brother
"It was a controversial album. Not everybody liked it at first"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Kreator, Vader, Daemon Pyre
"Frontman Mille Petrozza was in his element, he and fellow axeman Sami Yli-Sirnio complementing each other's frantic fretwork."
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Album Review: Prophets Of Rage - Prophets Of Rage
"'Take Me Higher', 'Smashit' and stomping 'Who Owns Who' are simply aching to be performed live."
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Album Review: Arch Enemy - Will To Power
"Perhaps the only major curveball they could realistically throw at their audience nowadays is clean vocals."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Stone Sour, Bare Bones
"... Deployed in their natural enormodome environment, their intentions made far greater sense."
Features / Music
There's No Point Chasing Something Around, You've Got To Get Out In Front
"The last thing we would do is go like, 'This thing is really big, we need a band like that.' I think that's ridiculous."
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Album Review: The Haunted - Strength In Numbers
"It's most effective when referencing past glories... while melding them with potent hooks and fresh vitality."
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Album Review: Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation
"Their collective bellies are so full of fire they could spit lava."
Features / Music
21st Century Pop: The Mainstream Has Traded Ambition For Accessibility
"There's no doubt for me that the '80s was a high point for that philosophy, that you could be very accessible but without having to dumb your sound down at all."
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