Articles by Sean Palmerston

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  Alestorm

  Captain Morgan's Revenge

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2008

  Want to get your band noticed? Do what Perth, Scotland quartet Alestorm did. Starting as a joke bedroom band called Battleheart, the band d...

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  Beneath the Massacre / Nephelium / Starring Janet Leigh / Senate

  The Casbah, Hamilton ON January 9

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  A Wednesday night in early January is not exactly ideal timing for a metal show in the Hammer, but this proved to be much better than antic...

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  Opeth

  The Roundhouse Tapes

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  After disappointing some longtime fans with their first live DVD release a few years back — mainly due to the fact it contained only music...

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  Primordial

  To The Nameless Dead

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  Released too late in 2007 to make most best-of lists, this sixth offering by Irish epic metallers Primordial is something special. A concep...

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  Sodom

  The Final Sign Of Evil

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  It’s an interesting concept, to go back and revisit the early part of your career by re-recording early material, but not always one that w...

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  Steel Assassin

  War Of The Eight Plagues

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2008

  Chances are that unless you followed Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre compilations back in the mid-’80s, you’ve never heard Steel Assassin. Bas...

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  Pearlene

  For Western Violence And Brief Sensuality

  PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2007

  Remember the last time a record really took you by surprise? When an album came out of nowhere and bit you on the ass with its awesomeness?...

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  Jason Isbell

  Siren Of The Ditch

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2007

  After spending much of the past five years as the co-front-man of the fabulous Drive-By Truckers, guitarist/songwriter Jason Isbell recentl...