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Every year, no matter how hard you try, some real gems are going to slip past you. With thousands of new metal albums coming out each year, missing something good the first time around is a statistical certainty. Terrifier's 2017 album Weapons of Thrash Destruction is a perfect example of a Top-Ten-grade release that I... Continue Reading →
I don't pay a whole lot of attention to modern-day traditional metal. My tastes have gradually gotten more and more extreme over the years, and I honestly don't have much interest in anything but death metal, black/hybrid stuff and a bit of thrash anymore, unless it's an album that I grew up loving. Nothing against... Continue Reading →
This is an all-black Thrull-themed standard deck that leverages black's necromantic capabilities to provide a fairly deep-pocketed ability to insta-summon creatures from graveyards on the cheap. It can also summon an endless supply of 0/1 Thrull tokens via Breeding Pits and then promote these tokens +1/+1 via Thrull Champions; accordingly, this deck can play a... Continue Reading →
Every year, Sierra Nevada releases an Octoberfest beer that is a collaboration with a German Brewery. This year, the collaboration is with the mighty Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, the oldest operating brewery on the planet and brewers of Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, my favorite beer for the last 25 years. This year's offering is a 6% ABV Märzen,... Continue Reading →
This black/red rat-themed horde deck depends on rapid deployment of small creatures to overwhelm the enemy early in the game. Creature and spell selection are all based around this strategy, with little attention paid to long-term survivability. Accordingly, this deck typically wins early or not at all. The Rat Race is a Mirage-era deck, but... Continue Reading →
This complete re-work of FNI's 2005 debut LP, Fellatrix Discordia Pantokrator, is another frontrunner for 2018 Album of the Year. As soon as the first track starts, you know exactly what you're in for. If you draw a triangle between the black/thrash of Nocturnal Breed, the black/speed of Midnight, and a strip-club house band that... Continue Reading →
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