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- Justin Bieber
Justice
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- Mare Cognitum
Solar Paroxysm
Jacob Buczarski’s cerebral, complex melodic black metal is an elegy for a dying planet. There is little hope on offer here, but plenty of silvery, well-executed riffs.
- Show Me the Body
Survive EP
On their latest EP, the band crumples up angst and complacency and offers a simple, singular diagnosis: you may feel numb, but fight.
- Senyawa
Alkisah
Mixing metal and noise with ritualistic howls, the Indonesian duo’s seventh album is a thrilling, at times ecstatic serenade to the collapse of civilization.
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