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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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The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Worse Than Alone
Getting along so awfully | Eyeball
Pity the aspiring avant garde metal band. A bridge swiped from the climax of a Tom and Jerry episode and bookended between slightly off-time metal riffs drops nary a jaw today. The audience is jaded, from cranky old-schoolers for whom metal crossed-over with anything other than hardcore jumped the shark with Scatterbrain’s “Don’t Call Me Dude” (1990!), to hipper-than-thou connoisseurs endlessly climaxing over John Zorn’s Naked City and Mr. Bungle, to kids whose gold standard for multi-genre-loaded epic freakouts are the prodigious feats of Between the Buried and Me and the Dillinger Escape Plan.
—Shawn Macomber
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