Abattoir's Concert Hunt - Arch Enemy (Live In Zagreb, 21.06.2023)

As part of the variegated summer festival touring, Arch Enemy are one of many bands that filled the “in-between” days with a moderate portion of club shows. The (almost) half-Swedish band played in front of a 1000-head crowd, packed inside a steamy, sauna-like venue that is based in the middle of the main Croatian city. Executing this on the first day of summer suitably brought additional heat throughout the whole place. At the end of this show, I could simply wring liters of sweat from my soaked shirt.
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Splitting Hairs / Hearing Splits (Jan-Jun 2023)

We regularly review full lengths, collaborations, sometimes even live albums. EPs and demos often get love in our Clandestine Cuts series. Heck, we even review a bunch of stuff that isn't metal. But when was the last time you saw a review of a split album? Exactly! We are here to make up for that!
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Tech-Fest

Summer festival season is once more upon us, perhaps the best time of year for audiophiles who love their live music. My summer season is kicking off with a return to Tech-Fest, a festival that's been going for ten years now; returning after my first experience last year, this would be my second consecutive festival. With the news that this year was to be the final edition of the festival, and with one hell of a heavy line-up, I decided I had to be there one more time to make the most of one of the more unique metal events in the UK.
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Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! - June 2023

Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! - June 2023
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Abattoir's Concert Hunt - Testament, Voivod (Live In Ljubljana, 02.06.2023)

When it was announced at the beginning of this year, I signed up for this veteran package early on and bought the ticket soon after. The possibility to see Exodus live after so many years swayed this decision. Of course it’s always cool to see Testament with their classic line-up: Peterson, Skolnick, and Chuck Billy at the forefront. And to complete this veteran, 120-year-old bill, Canadian stalwarts Voivod joined as well.
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Abattoir's Concert Hunt - Cult Of Luna & Russian Circles (Live In Ljubljana 25.03.2023)

Post-metal as a genre has been evolving steadily throughout the last two decades with high-quality and diverse releases, justifiably becoming one of the vital branches on the "metal music tree". To form this unbreakable and stable backbone of the genre, we can undoubtedly be grateful for the essential contributions of bands like Cult Of Luna and Russian Circles. And having these two ensembles on the same touring bill? Well, for me it was almost a necessity not to miss these acts that are driving forces of the genre.
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Of Image and Images

I was going to cover Lordi, Babymetal, and Sabaton concert only in photos and had zero plans for writing about it. However, the way subsequent events unfolded prompted me not only to put my thoughts into words in the following essay but also mainly to focus on the importance of image, and especially on the importance of an image to the image.
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