Articles by Laura Taylor

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  Summoning

  Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2002

  Clearly recognisable as a Summoning album, Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame is the band's latest medieval fantasy epic inspired by the writ...

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  Battlelore

  Where the Shadows Lie

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  If only Tolkien had known he would inspire whole brigades of metal bands with his novels. Battlelore is one of the latest Lord of the Rings...

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  Pain

  Nothing Remains the Same

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  More polished and commercially appealing, Nothing Remains the Same takes Pain one-step further from Peter Tägtgren’s metal roots than eithe...

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  Theatre of Tragedy

  Assembly

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Assembly carries on where Theatre of Tragedy’s last studio album, Musique, left off. There’s not much metal in the 11 songs on this CD, and...

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  Tiamat

  Judas Christ

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Johan Edlund didn’t purge himself of his pop yearnings with Lucyfire’s This Dollar Saved My Life at Whitehorse. Tiamat’s latest offering is...

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  Various

  Blood, Sweat and Tears: A Tribute to Type O Negative

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  With its eerie green packaging, this CD looks like a fitting tribute to the goth metal institution that is Type O Negative, but as the sayi...