CHR and Doug walk in each other's shoes as Doug opens the show with the Ukrainian death/doom band 1914 and CHR going for straight thrash with Ohio's War Curse.

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The Albums:

1914 : The Blind Leading The Blind (2018) 3:00

Named after the year World War I began, 1914 is a Ukrainian death/doom band with lyrics centered around World War I and the horrors of war.

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War Curse : Eradication (2019) 22:32

War Curse is a West Coast-style thrash metal act based out of the Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio area of the USA.

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CHR and Doug open the show with two different takes on death metal — the hardcore-influenced Misery Index and the melodic Viking tales of Amon Amarth. Doug introduces some complexity into the indie segment with the genre-crossing Hath, while CHR celebrates the 75th anniversary of D-Day with Sabaton's debut.

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Misery Index : Rituals Of Power (2019) 5:34

Misery Index is a USA based band whose music is best described as death metal with strong hardcore punk and grindcore influences.

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Amon Amarth : Berserker (2019) 17:16

Amon Amarth is a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in 1992. Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and history.

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Hath : Of Rot And Ruin (2019) 30:57

Hath is a New Jersey-based band that crosses multiple subgenres, including death metal, black metal, prog, and sludge.

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Sabaton : Primo Victoria (2005) 45:19

Sabaton is a Swedish power metal band whose main lyrical themes are based on war, historical battles, and acts of heroism.

CHR picks up the pace from last month with Italian power metallers Frozen Crown while Doug gets slammy with the hardcore/thrash stylings of Sworn Enemy.

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The Albums:

Frozen Crown : Crowned In Frost (2016) 3:30

Frozen Crown is an Italian female-fronted power metal band. Melding the melodic elements of early Iron Maiden with the northern Euro-power structures of Sonata Artica, the band has a unique sound in an otherwise crowded space.

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Sworn Enemy : Gamechanger (2019) 18:46

Sworn Enemy is a Queens, New York based crossover thrash/hardcore/metalcore hybrid band that employs the riffs and structure of hardcore with the longer song structures and dynamics of the other two subgenres.

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CHR and Doug open the show with new albums from Belzebubs and Truth Corroded. In the indie segment, CHR features an Italian death/thrash band, NecrUterO, and in Heavy Metal Valhalla, Doug indulges in some '80s sleaze with L.A. Guns's debut.

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Belzebubs : Pantheon of the Nightside Gods (2019) 5:50

Belzebubs is a virtual band spawning from a web comic, authored by Finnish artist J.P. Ahonen, which takes black metal tropes and mixes them with the style of Calvin & Hobbes and the black humor of The Addams Family. Making the jump from the page to actual music, the band plays a hybrid of melodic black metal and death metal.

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Truth Corroded : Bloodlands (2019) 18:10

Truth Corroded are a thrash/death metal act from Australia, offering a vicious and confrontational sound, with a strong political, religious, and social commentary.

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Local/Indie Band:

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CHR opens the show with one of the saddest doom albums ever made in Trees of Eternity's solitary release, while Doug showcases some melodeath experimentation with the symphonic stylings of Meadows End.

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The Albums:

Trees Of Eternity : Hour Of The Nightingale (2016) 3:06

Trees of Eternity was a musical collaboration between Finnish guitarist Juha Raivio (Swallow the Sun) and the late South African-born singer Aleah Stanbridge. Their music can be described as down-tempo, gothic doom-inspired melancholia with angelic female vocals.

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Meadows End : The Great Antiquation (2019) 19:02

Meadows End is a Swedish melodic death metal band that started back in 1997. They incorporate symphonic elements into their songs to give them a unique-sounding flair.

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CHR and Doug open the show with new albums from Whitechapel and Týr. In the indie segment, Doug features a Russian thrash outfit, Mental Slavery, and in Heavy Metal Valhalla, CHR takes us back to his youth to relive the glory(?) of Whitesnake's breakout album.

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Whitechapel : The Valley (2019) 5:15

Whitechapel is an American deathcore band from Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. The band is named after the Whitechapel district in London, England, where Jack the Ripper committed his crimes. Although residing in the deathcore space, the band takes a lot of influence from various death, black, and progressive metal bands to put their own spin on the music.

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Týr : Hel (2019) 17:00

Refusing to adhere to a strict subgenre, Týr started out playing doom metal, but they have since moved to an interesting hybrid of folk, progressive, and power metal.

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Local/Indie Band:

Mental Slavery : Our Legacy (2018) 30:00

Mental Slavery is a thrash metal band from Moscow, Russia. They take a lot of influence from the early 1980s Bay Area scene and put their own spin on the material to keep it interesting.

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Doug opens the episode with progressive tech-death from Replacire, while CHR features a French death metal hybrid, Ad Patres.

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The Albums:

Replacire : Do Not Deviate (2017) 2:59

Replacire is and American tech metal band hailing from Boston, Massachusetts, and founded in 2010. They mix the traditional technical death metal sound with progressive and -core elements.

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Ad Patres : A Brief Introduction To Human Experiments (2019) 15:39

Ad Patres are a French death metal quintet that plays a brand of death metal that deftly mixes both the Swedish and Florida scenes into a unique hybrid sound.

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CHR and Doug open the show with new albums from Candlemass and Lamb of God's guitarist, Mark Morton. In the indie segment, CHR features a one-man, multi-subgere project called Dying Embers, and Doug uses Heavy Metal Valhalla to showcase an early infusion of rap, metal, and hardcore with Biohazard's fifth album.

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Candlemass : The Door to Doom (2019) 7:44

Candlemass is a Swedish doom metal band established in 1984. The band had a defining influence on doom metal, with a subset being named after their debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus.

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Mark Morton : Anesthetic (2019) 25:36

Anesthetic is the first solo album by Mark Morton, the guitarist for Lamb of God. The album features guest performances by Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach, Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge, Josh Todd of Buckcherry, Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, and Randy Blythe of Lamb of God.

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Local/Indie Band:

Dying Embers : Where Shadeless Dwell Frozen (2018) 46:19

Dying Embers is the solo project of Jürgen Schurz (Unhallowed). The project contains influences from acts like In Flames, Sentenced, Dark Tranquillity, and Metallica, resulting in a sound structure that is dark, but still melodic.

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Doug opens the episode with a different take on stoner doom featuring the Canadian band Dopethrone, while CHR goes off the rails with the progressive grindcore (that's a thing?) of Norway's Beaten To Death.

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The Albums:

Dopethrone : Transcanadian Anger (2018)

Dopethrone is a Canadian stoner doom metal band employing extremely downtuned guitars, hazy production, added blues and groove, along with a whole lot of "chemical mental enhancers."

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Beaten To Death : Agronomicon (2018)

Beaten To Death are a Norwegian grindcore band that pack a lot of progressive and avant-garde elements into their sound, producing some of the densest music around today.

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CHR and Doug go progressive in this month's new albums with the metalcore stylings of Born of Osiris and the death/doom of Nailed To Obscurity. Doug grounds the episode with the straightforward thrashing of Battlegrave, and CHR celebrates Black Metal History Month with Ulver's debut album.

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New Releases:

Born of Osiris : The Simulation (2019) 6:00

Born of Osiris is an American progressive metalcore band formed in 2003 in a suburb of Chicago. The group underwent several name changes over the years and actually started out as a satirical rap/post-hardcore band before settling into their current sound.

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Nailed To Obscurity : Black Frost (2019) 16:05

named after a track from Hate Eternal's debut record, Nailed To Obscurity is a German progressive death/doom band with a penchant for longer compositions and a sound that evokes early Opeth and mid-1990s Paradise Lost.

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Local/Indie Band:

Battlegrave : Relics Of A Dead Earth (2018) 29:08

Battlegrave is the result of two lifelong metalheads and great friends putting their minds together to create an aggressive thrash sound reminiscent of classic Slayer ...