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Having witnessed the aural anesthesia of Vaiping live once before, it was with beastliness as a forethought and grim vexation that I agreed to review their sophmore release.
I found them insipid live. Four remarkably amicable, pleasant chaps from the rainy dregs of Stavanger arrived fresh-faced and lucid to display their talents to the [...]

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Rarely these days have death metal releases caught me off-guard. Most of them tread the familiar skunk infested paths of stinky jeans and sour breath infusing itself onto badly recorded/badly mixed/badly written records thrust out onto the pale public via a metal label in Bucharest or perhaps Gdansk. CD covers with indecipherable logos [...]

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Long reviled, understandably hated, doused in adjectives and superlatives, Maniac has long borne the cloak of rebellion and reaction. From the ashes of former band Mayhem which propelled him to the forefront of the foreign media with his intense live-performances (often ending in stages soaked with blood, lawsuits and visits to the ER) [...]

Serena-Maneesh have went and gone nostalgic on us, releasing S-M Backwards this autumn. This collection of early EPs, recordings and videos made us nostalgic right back at them, so tour manager/photographer Ben Sands dug out some old photos and memoirs from way back when Serena visited the Faroe Islands’ G! Festival in 2007:

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