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The Metal Mayan
Apr 19, 2023
Enforced - War Remains (Century Media)
Among the many intertwined branches of the heavy metal family tree, crossover thrash is often considered the offspring of hardcore punk...
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The Metal Mayan
Apr 16, 2023
Morbid Angel, Revocation, Vitriol, Crypta @ The Gramercy Theater
----- Author's note: this review is dedicated to the memory of Fred Livingston Jr., to our fellow metalheads and their families...
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The Metal Mayan
Apr 9, 2023
Enslaved, Insomnium, Black Anvil @ Irving Plaza
Despite a week of increasingly warm days, a lone Wednesday stood out as the chosen window for winter to make one last stand before bowing...
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The Metal Mayan
Apr 6, 2023
Austin Meade, The Azures @ The Mercury Lounge
As the dividing line between the hip and artistic Greenwich Village and the styling shops of SoHo and Nolita, Houston Street is a New...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 25, 2023
Woe Unto Me - Along The Meandering Ordeals, Reshape The Pivot Of Harmony (M-Theory Audio)
One of the most radical branches in the world of extreme music, few sub-genres push the limits quite like funeral doom metal. Often times...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 20, 2023
Sermon - Of Golden Verse (Prosthetic Records)
There is something pure about anonymous art and music, an intimacy of sorts where listeners can focus on the material rather than the...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 14, 2023
Rotting Christ, Carach Angren, Uada, Gaerea @ The Gramercy Theater
Between nightfall and storm clouds covering the island of Manhattan, the black clad concert goers seemed to melt into one long stream of...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 10, 2023
Ov Sulfur - The Burden Ov Faith (Century Media)
Though far from any frozen fjords or deep forests, Las Vegas, Nevada, is not without its ample sphere of influence in the world of...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 7, 2023
Fleshgod Apocalypse, Obscura, Wolfheart, Thulcandra @ The Gramercy Theater
"Look at you guys, all dressed up," he said, his voice rich in a Brooklyn accent, "ain't this a metal show?" The couple in line smiled,...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 4, 2023
Entheos - Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade Records)
For many years, bands such as Meshuggah, Tool, and Opeth have been affectionately referred to as 'thinking (hu)man's metal'. From...
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The Metal Mayan
Mar 3, 2023
Elysion - Bring Out Your Dead (Massacre Records)
----- Author's note: As of this writing, it has been just a couple of days since a terrible train accident happened in Greece. While my...
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The Metal Mayan
Feb 27, 2023
Hulder, Blackbraid @ Le Poisson Rouge
The year is 1524 and fleet of canoes maneuver softly across the bay towards a mighty ship off the coast of an island called Manahatta. On...
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The Metal Mayan
Feb 24, 2023
Visions of Atlantis, The Spider Accomplice @ The Meadows
For many years, the Newtown Creek, located on the far side of Williamsburg just north of Flushing Avenue, was traversed by countless...
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The Metal Mayan
Feb 21, 2023
Enslaved - Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)
As the old adage goes, with age comes wisdom and with experience comes new possibilities. Few bands have demonstrated this quite like...
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The Metal Mayan
Feb 12, 2023
Distant - Heritage (Century Media Records)
Deathcore: an extreme subgenre of hardcore and death metal that carried a nearly two decade long history of adoring fans and resentful...
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Kate Drexel
Nov 29, 2022
The Jinjer USA Tour @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
I know, I’m late posting this but with the Thanksgiving holiday madness, I haven’t had a chance to sit down and write a proper review....
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The Metal Mayan
Nov 25, 2022
Imha Tarikat - Hearts Unchained – At War with a Passionless World (Lupus Lounge)
Since its inception, black metal has long been a style meant to take the listener to a different plain of existence. Sometimes it's to...
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The Metal Mayan
Nov 20, 2022
Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun (Napalm Records)
With temperatures dropping below freezing in the northeastern United States but the full force of Mother North still to come, the season...
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Kate Drexel
Nov 7, 2022
The Deadmen and Dragons Tour @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
On Halloween Eve, I was fortunate to shoot the Deadmen and Dragons tour, featuring Trivium and openers Between the Buried and Me,...
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The Metal Mayan
Nov 3, 2022
Napalm Death, Brujeria, Frozen Soul, MDC @ Bowery Ballroom
While easily recognizable on any given day, Halloween weekend is a time when even the most outrageously dressed metalhead can fly under...
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