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Groundbreakers: Acid Bath – When The Kite String Pops
The music that comes out of the bayou in New Orleans, Louisiana is a reflection of the hot swampy environment and voodoo culture that permeates the air. If you are familiar with Noisey’s 7 part...
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Groundbreakers: Ministry – The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
In an earlier edition of Groundbreakers, we inducted Fear Factory‘s Demanufacture into our very own hall of fame. As important as that album was to the development of heavy metal, it itself owes much...
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Groundbreakers: Vulcano – Bloody Vengeance
Vulcano‘s debut album, released in 1986, is wildly influential in both obvious and subtle ways. Even if you never listened to Vulcano before, this sound is probably familiar to you. Low production...
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Groundbreakers: Sleep – Holy Mountain
In 1992, California’s Sleep built a bridge connecting the past and the future of metal music. *Cough* This is a joint venture in which two South American dudes will explain how the dudes from Sleep...
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Groundbreakers: Kreator – Pleasure to Kill
1986 is often considered the most important year in thrash metal history. Master of Puppets, Reign in Blood, Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying, and Darkness Descends were all unleashed that year, kicking...
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Groundbreakers: Kayo Dot – Choirs of the Eye
In 2003, a little-known band from Boston called maudlin of the Well broke up. In itself, this event was nothing remarkable, until members regrouped that same year as Kayo Dot to release their debut...
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Groundbreakers: Thin Lizzy – Thunder and Lightning
“GODDAMN!” It is a hideous crime that there are still people walking in the streets thinking of “Whiskey in the Jar” as a song composed by Metallica; I remember I crushed the dreams of a little girl...
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Groundbreakers: Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
The entire purpose of the Groundbreakers series is to honor and revere those albums and bands that have shaped the course of heavy metal history. Type O Negative are one such band, though as my pal...
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Groundbreakers: Bathory – Hammerheart
Few bands in the extreme metal pantheon can claim credit for revolutionizing or birthing a single branch of the heavy metal tree; even fewer can claim to have done it twice. Today we venerate one of...
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Groundbreakers: Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
Join us in this quest to understand the secrets of this magic codex of the mighty bards. Each genre’s aesthetics bring listeners to a certain mindset. Black metal, for example, evokes an...
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Groundbreakers: Black Flag – My War
I like to think I have a very diverse taste in music and, more specifically, in metal. Maybe I could even be considered a special little snowflake snob. Even if you share the eclecticism of your...
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