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Metal Monday: Dark Empire Go From Refuge To Ruin
posted: March 5, 2012
Many bands and albums in the music world often fall into one of two categories: sounding familiar or sounding new and exciting. Long time OurStage metal band Dark Empire started out in the latter category,…
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Metal Monday: 2011 In Metal Album Art
posted: November 28, 2011
The metal world is a world saturated with pretty mediocre and often stereotypical artwork. Graphic satanic imagery, violent imagery, militaristic imagery, fantastical imagery, you get the point. Once you’ve seen enough album covers, you know how rare…
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Metal Monday: Mini Reviews Of June Releases
posted: July 4, 2011
June was a pretty gigantic month for metal music, with upwards of twenty-five notable releases, some by pretty powerful players in the metal world in recent years. Not everyone has the time and energy to…
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Metal Monday: Metal Preview 2011
posted: January 3, 2011
While providing some solid albums, 2010 was a fairly lackluster year in metal. Given only the short list of albums slated to come out in the first three months of 2011, it could very well…
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METAL MONDAY: REVIEW OF DARK EMPIRE'S HUMANITY DETHRONED
posted: October 12, 2009
Dark Empire, a Jersey band signed to Killzone Records, recently won July’s Metal contest here on OurStage. Humanity Dethroned is the follow-up to Dark Empire’s very solid debut release, Distant Tides. For those who have…
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METAL MONDAY: TWENTY YEARS OF METAL
posted: August 10, 2009
Twenty years is a long time. Two whole decades. Many things can change in that amount of time, but few styles of music went through as many changes as metal. 1989 was the tipping point…
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