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Metal Monday: Tips For Making A Solo Metal Record

posted: October 24, 2011

Picture this: You’re a wildly-talented, successful musician in a wildly-successful, talented group, but you have more musical ideas than your band can record and release. What do you do? Well, you could just leave all…
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Metal Monday: The Summoned

posted: March 14, 2011

What happens when a band is influenced by acts such as Death, Necrophagist, Cynic, Origin, Between The Buried And Me, Decapitated, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Faceless, Into The Moat, The Dillinger Escape Plan &…
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Metal Monday: The Bridal Procession

posted: January 10, 2011

Deathcore, as previously mentioned in the Metal Monday column, has been a hot-button genre in recent years, garnering a lot of heat for being boring or overly stereotypical. The lable “deathcore”, for many bands, is something…
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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: Summer Slaughter Tour in Worcester, MA Review

posted: August 2, 2010

Worcester, Massachusetts, July 31st, 4:00 p.m. The weather outside The Palladium was perfect as I stood in line amongst dozens of other metalheads in anticipation of seven straight hours of metal assaulting my ears. Originally,…
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Metal Monday: 5 Bands you might not know, but should

posted: March 8, 2010

As you likely already know, OurStage is a music discovery platform serving all sorts of great musical artists. Sometimes, though, there are bands that people should know about but, for whatever reason, don’t.  Here are…
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