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BABOON’S BALLS-BUSTIN’ BEATS, Pt. I: LOST SOUL AND DECAPITATED

Polish death metal gems from Lost Soul and Decapitated Not sure if others like to have similar experiences, but on the rare few evenings on which I’ve still got time for it and am alone at home, I like to pour myself some Scotch – the proper single malt stuff, not the milky commercial crap [...]

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FRACTAL GATES – BEYOND THE SELF

  Some six years after joining up as a band, Fractal Gates of Paris, France punch out their second studio album Beyond the Self. The band’s name is no doubt more than a coincidental resemblance to At The Gates, one of the few bands listed as a musical influence on the group’s official Facebook page. Though [...]

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FEARED – FUROR INCARNATUS

    OK, whatever you do, start spinning that bitchin’ track down below before reading on. Right, now that you’ve immersed yourself in ‘awesome’, let’s get to it. What you’re hearing is the second song on Feared’s new Furor Incarnatus album. Released back in February, I can only say I wish I had found it [...]

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LIFELESS – GODCONSTRUCT

    Over the course of years as a writer about metal, The Baboon has come to believe certain patterns exist in terms of metallic style in relation to location. No absolute truths and probably more exceptions than anyone could ever count, but still. For instance, metalcore is primarily an American show, with Australia and [...]

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FAMILIAR WITH SLOUGH FEG? BAND HAVE JOINED METAL BLADE RECORDS

The Lord Weird Slough Feg, or nowadays just Slough Feg, are a San Francisco-based but Pennsylvannia-born heavy metal band who have been around for decades. Formed in 1990, and having gone through on average one new member every two years or so, the band may be called ‘weathered’ – however, in their current form, the [...]

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OKULAR – SEXFORCE

    Sexforce. That’s potentially probably the weirdest title for a metal album ever. To those unknowing it might suggest some eighties or nineties gay disco stuff; bearded homosexuals dressed in tank tops and traveling in packs and singing horseshit lyrics. Not even remotely accurate…apart from the ‘bearded’ bit perhaps, and even that’s only half [...]

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HOPELORN – FROM WITHERED BRANCHES

    In essence we’re dealing with a chunk of Swedish black metal with a deep dark sludge tone. I did an experiment once, when I still ran Death Metal Baboon, and the result is surprisingly much alike Hopelorn’s From Withered Branches‘ record. Imagine a piece of typical slow-ass sludge with its characteristic heavily distorted [...]

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TEKSUO – THRÊNOS

    Barging in right through the door: rationally, there’s nothing wrong with this, and it has everything one would expect when hearing the word ‘metalcore’. Supporting this is the fact that the mere first tunes of this album convinced yours truly to get the record on CD. Then, after listening to a few more [...]

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IMMOLATE – BEYOND RECKONING

    Right, The Baboon is not a fan of intro tracks that aren’t music. They come in all sorts and flavors, but the most common sort is that with a horror movie ambience and crying or screaming human beings. Never understood the point of these. Likely most listeners will skip such an intro after they’ve heard [...]

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MOURNING WOLF – ELMHAVEN

    Reviewing EPs can sometimes be a tad tedious, as often there is very little to go on; it’s like judging a chef by a canapé. Moreover, and more importantly, more often than not EPs serve as the beginning of a bands’ proof of concept; an early sketch, recorded at “hey we’re paying for [...]

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