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Enslaved Release “The Sleeping Gods” EP

Norwegian psychedelic extreme-metal trailblazers Enslaved released The Sleeping Gods (Scion) as a free five-song EP yesterday, which you can download here. Following up on last year’s Axioma Ethica Odini, the EP finds the quintet navigating through 30 minutes of genre-bending progressive metal like they have for two decades. Check out the tracklisting below. Enslaved – [...]

Live Report: Dimmu Borgir at Terminal 5, New York, November 8

Number of times I covet Grutle Kjellson’s moustache: 35.

Newsworthy artistic choice: Dimmu Borgir recently changed the cover art for their newest album, Abrahadabra, only a few weeks after it was released. The change was from a multi-eyed industrial gargoyle man to the exact same image with a skull instead of a man’s face.

Recent suggestion heard by this author: The change was because the man’s face looked like he was blowing a dude.

HAIL: THE GRIMMEST OF BLOWJOBS!