Review: Various Artists – Soundwave Assassins 2

Review: Various Artists – Soundwave Assassins 2
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Various Artists Soundwave Assassins 2 Backscatter Out Now With so many talented Salt Lake acts producing new music all over the place, it’s always welcoming to have a single disc that showcases the variety of their efforts. The second volume in the Soundwave Assassin series offers 13 compelling tracks balancing experimental, noise, harsh electronics and

Review:  CeCe Rogers – It’s Alright

Review: CeCe Rogers – It’s Alright
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CeCe Rogers It’s Alright Swing City Ahhhhhh. The GN is back! After the recent success of “Come On & Dance,” the living legend CeCe Rogers returns with a song that will stay in your head as well as in your record box. This features three mixes from “Gee’s Classic Club Mix,” a heavy vocal number

Review: Cerrone – Not too Shabby

Review: Cerrone – Not too Shabby
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Cerrone Not too Shabby Purple Music Here comes another great Cerrone classic after 26 years of life. Purple Music gives it another round of life with Jamie Lewis assigned to remix duty. Following up Jamie’s “Be Thankful” featuring Michelle Weeks (the Miami WMC top tune), this latest soulful disco gem from Switzerland’s finest shows what

Review: Cricco Castelli – La Casa del Jazz

Review: Cricco Castelli – La Casa del Jazz
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Cricco Castelli La Casa del Jazz Soulfuric Deep Smooooooooth. Producer Cricco Castelli debuts on this classic label with a hot fiery number set and jet for summer. After 15 years in the house music scene and over 50 releases on labels including Defected, MN2S and Catch 22, the man with the Latin love presents his

Review: Jon Cutler ft. Michael Watford – Watcha Gonna Do

Review: Jon Cutler ft. Michael Watford – Watcha Gonna Do
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Jon Cutler ft. Michael Watford Watcha Gonna Do MN2S Currently on a roll heading up MN2S 10th anniversary celebrations, New York-based Jon Cutler delivers another killer vocal gem showcasing the infamous singer Michael Watford. First heard in Miami WMC, this raw and back-to-roots melody is already hot in the boxes of Tony Humphries, Louie Vega,

Review: Anal Vomit – Demoniac Flagellations

Review: Anal Vomit – Demoniac Flagellations
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Anal Vomit Demoniac Flagellations  From Beyond Productions The name Anal Vomit makes one expect this band to be yet another ridiculous gore-grind band—not so! Instead, you get rabid, old school, thrash-inspired war metal! And it’s damned good. Only problem: The singer likes to play live and pose in band photos with no pants. That is

Review: Death Du Jour – Fragments of Perdition

Review: Death Du Jour – Fragments of Perdition
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Death Du Jour Fragments of Perdition  Golden Lake Productions With a silly name like that, you would expect these guys to sound like Lawnmower Death or something, but instead, it’s Finnish death metal, the old-school way—fucking heavy and fast. If you are into Drawn and Quartered, Mortician, Centinex or anything in between, you should own

Review: Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome

Review: Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome
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Winter Solstice The Fall of Rome  Metal Blade Records Ooh, tricky—I thought by the title and statue on the cover, this would be gothic metal or power metal, but it’s just another piece-of-shit screamo metalcore band. Fuck this waste of plastic. And I wish these fags would stop trying to trick people into thinking their

Review: Enthroned – XES Hareticum

Review: Enthroned – XES Hareticum
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Enthroned XES Hareticum  Napalm Records Ah, Enthroned … one of the best and most underrated black metal bands around. While most BM bands annoy me with their vocalists constantly screeching into the microphone, Enthroned’s vocalist is actually the focal point of the band for many people. The band has learned that light-speed fast all the

Review: Usurper – Cryptobeast

Review: Usurper – Cryptobeast
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Usurper Cryptobeast Earache Records Usurper started out as a band called The Dead Youth, a very unpromising grindcore band. Since then, they have reformed as essentially a faster, heavier version of Celtic Frost. Usurper have endured a few lineup changes since the release of their first few records, and it seems as though they have