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Welcome to Apoch's
Welcome to Apoch's, a site dedicated to weeding out the bullshit in Heavy Metal today. As a personaal crusade, Apoch has vowed to inform the masses properly of good and bad releases in detail, none of that lazy three to six sentence stuff. This site will cover Metal first and foremost with insight into his opinions on Movies and Video Games as well. Do you support the war?
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02/09/12 |
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Ads from Project Wonderful |
Since some complications came up through Google Adsense, removing me from the program because some reader clicked the ads too many times in one day (so instead of not paying me for those "invalid clicks" they just upright removed me and won't pay me for the real clicks, ya bunch of scam artists!) I have been seeking a new ad service. Enter Project Wonderful. I will be adding the banners throughout the course of the month, so bare with me while I fight with coding. The right side skyscraper boxes and the boxes at the bottom of reviews may go as well due to lack of room. Either way, bare with me.
UPDATE: I added the banners to all pages that had them in the first place, as well as swiped out all disquss comment boxes in the CD review section. |
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01/29/12 |
Marduk Announce Title of New Studio Album |
Swedish black metal tyrants MARDUK are currently in the studio finishing the recording of their 12th studio album, entitled Serpent Sermon. The album is set to be released in late spring 2012-- be sure to check out some in-studio photos here on the band's Facebook. [...]
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02/04/12 |
Relinquished Reveal Onward Anguishes Artwork |
RELINQUISHED from Austria will open in March 2012 after their success, "Susanna Lies In Ashes" (2010/Noiseheadrecords) with the publication of ONWARD ANGUISHES another, even more intense chapter of the Relinquished storyline.
As a foretaste of the new album, recorded at Noiseheadstudios in Austria, where the band shows a new and even stronger side, we present [...]
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02/04/12 |
New Master Album Details, Track Stream |
Legendary Czech death metal legion MASTER have completed work on their eleventh studio offering. Entitled The New Elite, the 11-track work of deviance was again recorded at Shaark Studios and features cover art by German graphic designer Mark Bridgeman, viewable at THIS LOCATION [or see below]. [...]
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02/04/12 |
Flenser Records Issues Free Download of Obolus Album Lament |
This is the mysterious black metal band's second release and expands upon the gazed-out harshness of their debut demo.
The 2011 Obolus demo was previously released by Sunyata Recordings and will be reissued by the Bay Area label Merz Tapes. That recording demonstrates a supreme balance of harsh 90's black metal and somber California depressive gaze. The release deservingly rounded out a number of year-end lists. [...]
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02/03/12 |
Paradise Lost Reveal Tragic Idol Artwork |
Gothic metallers PARADISE LOST have now revealed the cover artwork for their much anticipated new studio album, Tragic Idol, set to be released on April 23rd in Europe and April 24th in North America via Century Media Records. Named one of Decibel Magazine's "Top 25 Most Anticipated Albums of 2012", Tragic Idol features artwork designed by Parisian artist Valnoir (www.metastazis.com), who has not only worked on this band's release, but also with artists [...]
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02/02/12 |
Anathema Reveal Weather Systems Artwork, Details |
Anathema will return in April with Weather Systems, their brand new studio album.
Weather Systems is the follow-up to 2010's We're Here Because We're Here, which has been featured prominently in numerous end-of-year polls and the producer, Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), has described it as ''definitely among the best albums I've ever had the pleasure to work on.''
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02/02/12 |
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Kreator Reveal Details of Upcoming Album |
German thrash titans KREATOR have revealed the title of the bands upcoming album: Phantom Antichrist. The album is currently being produced at the famous Fascination Street Studio with renowned producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH) in Φrebro, Sweden.
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01/26/12 |
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Stillborn Release "Stillborn II" Video |
Stillborn have released a new video for the song "Stillborn II (Singularities of the Ordinary Vulgar Boor)," which comes off the band's 2011 release Los Asesinos del Sur through Ataman Production and Pagan Records. The video can be viewed through the News section, as well as the link below.
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Bleeding Through has gone through plenty of changes throughout their career. However, the most obvious really began around their fourth album, The Truth, where the band seemed to try to build their foundations around more generic patterns of screaming the verse, singing the chorus, more of the mainstream sound for the Metalcore scene at the time, and focusing more on the traditional Hardcore and Metalcore sound on albums that followed, but really leaving behind much of the band's identity. For the group's seventh full-length release, The Great Fire, it seems Bleeding Through is trying to go back to the sound that threw them into the spotlight on This is Love, This is Murderous. Is it a little too late, or can the group really mold their more modern sound with their more glorious days?
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