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Interesting—although we have received promos for both Ereb Altor and the member-sharing offshoot Isole here at Mind Over Metal, nothing of theirs has ever been reviewed. And if you wanna be technical about it, that’s still true, because you’ll need to hit up MetalReview in order to read this review of Gastrike, the band’s third LP.  In both this and my last album reviewed — Witchsorrow God Curse Us — the newer bands acknowledge their lineage… a lot.  But I prefer the former’s love of Bathory to the latter’s Cathedral worship, and this may be the crowning musical achievement for its members thus far.

~MetalMattLongo

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I think Brad liked the 2010 self-titled debut from Witchsorrow a bit more than I enjoyed this sophomore set, but in either case, those with a taste for dripping doom by way of Cathedral will find something to enjoy. Though this is often my speed, and I was certainly in a doom mood, something more was needed for completion —read just how and why, over at MetalReview!

~MetalMattLongo

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It was really hard to avoid the topic of evolution, considering the artwork, themes, and marked progression of the band. Cattle Decapitation have released their most complete, cohesive statement to date with Monolith of Inhumanity. This is another review I wrote with the benefit of speaking with a band member first; Travis Ryan called in live to one of my last ‘Mind Over Metal’ broadcasts on WRUV, which you can listen to here. I actually have to repost an old one with Travis from 2009… hmm, mental note there. Anyway, read my monstrosity over at MetalReview!

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Anyone who follows Mind Over Metal knows that I dug Mechanize. Plus I had great talks with both Dino and Burton that year, and really thought the band was back for reals. But I was pretty unstoked about The Industrialist, dudes… check out my take at MetalReview. I incorporated elements from a more recent interview with Dino into the review, though it may surface in the podcast sometime soon.

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Since leaving WRUV, I felt a need to branch out further with my writing. During my time as Metal Director at the station, I always admired the folks over at MetalReview.com, who always supplied useful analyses with solidly backed arguments and, frankly, good grammar—two things I often look for and infrequently find, to this very day. I’m proud to be part of their team now, and surprisingly, the sophomore set from Finnish supergroup Barren Earth was unclaimed as of my joining; so The Devil’s Resolve was my first review, which you can read HERE.