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Band
Loudblast
Title
Burial Ground
Type
LP/EP
Company
Listenable
YOR
2014
Style
Death
5/2/2014 1:04:07 PM - Review by: Eric Compton
Seventh album to date for these French death pioneers. 'Burial Ground' follows up the group's 2011 record 'Frozen Moments Between Life and Death' and showcases the familiar precision and power the band have utilized since the early 90s. This may be the best album of the group's career, a stellar effort of melding slower doom riffs into bruising romps of grooves and growls. 'From Dried Bones' is dynamic evidence that this is simply above average planning and developing, a unique song that starts as a slow voyage before building to a roistering crescendo. Hopefully the signing with Listenable Records will further their cause.
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COMPANY
REVIEWER DATE MADE RATING
Burial Ground
2014
Listenable
Eric Compton5/2/2014
4
Planet Pandemonium
2004
Boycott
Eric Compton3/16/2005
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