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# Global Domination

### Recent updates

- S(crap)s: I Miss My Death / Kaoskult / Raus & Perunwit (split) / Spatial / Thy Flesh (13/06/14)
- Hatebreed: The rise of brutality (12/06/14)
- Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence (11/06/14)
- Mayhem: Esoteric warfare (10/06/14)
- S(crap)s: Akrotheism / Black Altar / Druknroll / Enthroned / Funeral Sutra (09/06/14)
- Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere (08/06/14)
- Dark Tranquillity: Construct (07/06/14)
- In Flames: The jester race (06/06/14)
- S(crap)s: Souldrainer / Tonic Breed / Rude / Defying / Electric Hellride / Scorned Disciple (05/06/14)
- Culted: Oblique to all paths (04/06/14)
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## Stubs

### Cynic: The portal tapes

#### 03/05/12 || Smalley

It’s a new year, but we’re already back where we left off; in my review of “Carbon-based anatomy”, I already lamented how Cynic’s only given us 2 full-lengths since ’87, and how ever since ’08’s Traced in air, they’ve been teasing us with drips and drabs, like a mostly dull EP of re-records, a decent new EP that still didn’t give us a long enough peek at a tantalizing new direction, and now “The portal tapes”, a previously-unreleased demo from by a short-lived band named Portal (who only recorded this one demo), a band that just happened to have some “Focus”-era Cynic members in it (minus Sean Malone and plus Jason Gobel/Aurna Abrams on female vox). So this isn’t even a real Cynic release, so don’t come into expecting too much of the same style…

…or even the same quality; I mean, you do get to hear the mystical, hippy-dippy, new-age side of Cynic, complete with heavy emphasis on feathery, toothless female singing, but it also comes without any of the energy, death metal-y balls, or robot vocals that Cynic has (had?) as well. The paranoid android vox I can easily take or leave, but without any of the greater intensity or heaviness of real Cynic, “The portal tapes” just meanders. Sure, its echoing atmosphere is pretty, er… pretty to listen to, but in terms of actual engagement or entertainment value? Not so much. Wishy-washy hippie ethics might be fun to trip out with (musically or for real), but when it comes to making metal, it ain’t so good. At least the instrumental chops are still as good as ever.

6/10: Give us the 3rd fucken full-length already!!!

- 10 Latest Stubs
- Complete Stubs-listing

After going thru that crap, you most likely wanna read something way more interesting. You do, admit it.

Below are some links to most recent articles, take your pick.

## Audio autopsy

  Audio Autopsy - June 2014
  Audio Autopsy - May 2014
  Audio Autopsy - April 2014
  Audio Autopsy - March 2014
  Audio Autopsy - February 2014
  Audio Autopsy - January 2014
  Audio Autopsy - December 2013
  Audio Autopsy - November 2013
  Audio Autopsy - October 2013
  Audio Autopsy - September 2013
  more

## Reviews

  Hatebreed: The rise of brutality
  Vomiting Corpses: Coma - The spheres of innocence
  Mayhem: Esoteric warfare
  Agalloch: The serpent & the sphere
  Dark Tranquillity: Construct
  Culted: Oblique to all paths
  V/A: One and all, together, for home
  Cemetery: Enter the gate
  Ancient Ascendant: Echoes and cinder
  Dead Congregation: Promulgation of the fall
  more

## Class 6(66)

  In Flames: The jester race
  Overkill: Taking over
  Primus: Sailing the seas of cheese
  Destruction: Live without sense
  Merauder: Master killer
  Forced Entry: Uncertain future
  Evildead: Annihilation of civilization
  Flotsam And Jetsam: No place for disgrace
  Venom: Black metal
  Black Sabbath: Headless cross
  more

## Demons

  Distress Of Ruin: Predators among us
  Torchia: One
  Begrafven: Begrafven
  Children Of Madness: Howl from beyond
  Necrophor: Verbum vexillifer
  Seven Against: III
  Forlorn Chambers: Unborn and hollow
  Black Overdrive: Demo
  Told By Blood: Steamworks
  Sorkka: Ensimmäinen jae
  more

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