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  1. TartanLlama

    Dr. Slaggleberry - The Slagg Factory

    Dr. Slaggleberry – The Slagg Factory Crash Records – CRASH09-DS04 - 12 October 2009 By Simon Brand Tech metal is a genre rife with thousands of 18 year olds who have just learnt to sweep-pick playing random notes really fast. It has become unfortunately acceptable to shred arbitrarily...
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    Tech Death

    Gorguts
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    Zippo - The Road to Knowledge

    Zippo - The Road to Knowledge Subsound Records – December 2008 By Simon Brand From their beginnings as a stoner rock band in 2004, Zippo's latest effort leads them round the corner and down the path into progressive sludge territory. Featuring the expected chugging riffs alongside...
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    Atmospheric/depressive black/death metal with richness in sound.

    Lantlos perhaps http://www.myspace.com/lantlos
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    Ne Obliviscaris Recording Studio VIDEO Diaries (New Bass studio diary now online!)

    Nice, when do you think we could expect a release?
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    Great prog metal with female vox

    Second Gonin-Ish and Madder Mortem and add To-Mera. If you like Gonin-Ish, you may also want to check out some Sigh.
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    In case y'all haven't heard yet...

    The track is awesome, but I hope that's not the final artwork?
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    "Transylvanian" black metal

    Try Rheinkaos
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    New Ikuinen Kaamos song/New Album details

    I got a promotional copy and can confirm it's rather awesome. Review I wrote is here
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    Endstille Verführer

    Endstille – Verführer Regain Records – RR162CD – 7 April 2009 By Simon Brand Fitting distinctly into the hi-fi denomination of Black Metal, Endstille's sound on this album can be roughly guessed given the nature of it's production and knowledge of it's near...
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    Jazz fusion metal?

    I actually wrote an article on the subject a while back here.
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    Bands with a female vocalist

    If you like Cynic and Atheist, try Aghora and possibly To-Mera.
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    MOVIE SOUNDTRACK THREAD

    The first thing that came to my head when I saw the thread title was Requiem For A Dream, but I see you have that covered. I also love most scores from David Lynch films and Philip Glass compositions (especially the score from Koyannisqatsi).
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    Metal with contrasting Clean and Death vocals

    Cynic and Ne Obliviscaris would be right up your alley.
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    Cocoon Counter Culture Festival - Edinburgh, Scotland - 12/13 September 2009

    Cocoon Counter Culture Festival The GRV, Edinburgh 12/13 September 2009 By Simon Brand Edinburgh has always been notorious to me due to it's intensely bad metal scene; if you say to someone “Do you like metal?” the response you will normally get will be something along the lines...
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    Technical death/thrash

    Coprofago are awesome. Listen to them if you like Meshuggah, pretty much a mix between them and Cynic.
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    The Progressive/Avantgarde Metal Thread

    Thy Catafalque are indeed awesome. Being a Ne Obliviscaris fan, have you heard Ikuinenn Kamos and Klabautamann? Should be right up your alley if not.
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    Melodic Dark Ambient

    Try Elffor, I actually just put up a review of one of their albums here
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    Dark hall mp3s

    You just right click on the song names and click "save target as" or "save link as". Funny you mentioning it as I just downloaded them a couple of days ago.
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    Elffor - From The Throne Of Hate

    Elffor – From The Throne Of Hate Northern Silence Productions – NSP 075 - 28 November 2008 By Simon Brand A quick glance at the track-list for The Thrones Of Hate may cause a potential listener to write Elffor off as a pretty generic black metal band. Featuring song-names such...