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Planex's Almostopster: Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars

Planex's Almostopster: Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars

by Planex on Mon, Apr 22, 2024

Yes, Planex listens to more than just slam

In my formative years of being a person on the internet with strong opinions on extreme metal, I participated a few times in a tradition known as Nothing But Black Metal November or NBBMN. I believe 2015 was my first self-imposed exclusively cold and frostbitten November, and I decided to try the experiment because I felt I had never gone beyond the surface of black metal. I knew some of the classics, but figured there was much more to see.
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DUMPSTER SLAMDIVE APRIL 2024

DUMPSTER SLAMDIVE APRIL 2024

by planex on Thu, Apr 18, 2024

Planex explores the ''slam'' tag on bandcamp so you don't have to

I haven’t been back to this dumpster in a while. Gotta hose it out every now and then or the manager of the Burger King next door starts to complain about the smell. It’s been two years since I last polled the state of slam on Bandcamp, and there have been a number of legitimately good slam releases since then. Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship has changed the game with Otakuslam <3 Animecide, the best release of its kind.
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meri's Almostopster: Swallow the Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III

meri's Almostopster: Swallow the Sun - Songs from the North I, II & III

by meri on Sun, Apr 14, 2024

A tough one to swallow.

Swallow the Sun are a band whose particular brand of melodic doom and gloom has always appealed to me. You can see this through my overrates in the discography run and the presence of their debut The Morning Never Came in my topster. My introduction to the band was through New Moon, around the time Emerald Forest and the Blackbird was released, when I was exploring a few different bands with somewhat similar sounds (In Mourning and Insomnium, from memory).
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The Nerd's Almostopster: Tyler Childers - Purgatory

The Nerd's Almostopster: Tyler Childers - Purgatory

by The Nërd on Sun, Apr 7, 2024

We apologize for the publication of this article.

Editor’s note: I think The Nërd is at war with himself. No one really knows what’s going on in his head, but this is what he had to say first (to be read with the voice of Hank Hill from King of the Hill). I ain’t writing no fucking review. Far more talented people than me have written about this album so go look them up. Or don’t, I’m The Nërd, not The Cöp.
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