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Iron Maiden
Is This Their Final Frontier?
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Cephalic Carnage, The Acacia Strain, Call & Response with Chris Connelly (The High Confessions), Malevolent Creation, Decibel's Extreme NFL Preview, Q&A with Julie Christmas, book excerpt: Mean Deviation, the making of Amorphis's Tales from the Thousand Lakes
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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Century of Self
Little bit of resurrection | Richter Scale
Let’s not kid ourselves about Trail of Dead’s corporate experiences. After all, it’s not like fate snatched the band from the jaws of imminent autotune. They tried a buncha things—mainly involving progginess. Some worked; some didn’t. Giving Interscope a few of the best years of their lives left them unbloodied, unbowed, unbroken and unwilling to repeat old mistakes—especially ones involving contracts and/or trying to recreate 2002’s Source Tags and Codes. As for new ones, it all depends on how you feel about Muse, metal and melody. But seriously, they only nip their U.K. bros in bombast infrequently, briefly and well on The Century of Self, as with opening instrumental “Giants Causeway”’s thundering piano. As for metal, they’re strictly universe-next-door.
—Rod Smith
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