Tag Archives: altar of plagues

Ten debut metal albums that came out in 2009

Posted by on February 1, 2019

Serious question: did anything super important happen in 2009? Seeing as how I was 12, I really wasn’t in-the-know with a lot of the grown-up things happening at the time — but, more importantly, Apparently, I hadn’t yet been introduced to “devil music,” so I initially missed out on all of the celebrated releases like […]

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Top 10s of the year from Abigail Williams, Beyond the Shore, Kyng, Venomous Maxiumus and Luder

Posted by on December 5, 2013

As 2013 sputters to a close, it’s time for everyone to look back at the year in music and reflect on what they listened to the most. It’s a little unfair to compartmentalize an entire year of music into a top ten list, but that’s exactly what we’ll be doing starting later this week. We […]

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Top 10s of the year from Anthrax, Broken Hope, SpiralArms, Rivers of Nihil

Posted by on December 4, 2013

It’s December, which means it’s time for that annual rite of passage where everyone attempts to summarize a year’s worth of music into a top ten list. Metal Insider and its contributors will be releasing our lists starting soon, but we’ve also gotten lists from some of the artists themselves. Here’s the first installment, featuring […]

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Rivers Of Nihil guitarist Jon Kunz’s Top 5: Black Metal Releases

Posted by on October 7, 2013

Rivers Of Nihil is arguably one of Metal Blade’s finest recent death metal signings. While the Reading, PA five piece’s first full-length offering The Conscious Seed Of Light (out on October 15) captures the brutality of classic death metal, it also blends in the heaviest elements of black metal. So it’s no given that guitarist […]

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Altar of Plagues Announce Breakup

Posted by on July 15, 2013

Following the release of their third (and most popular) LP a few months ago titled Teethed Glory and Injury, Altar of Plagues took the metal community by surprise by announcing their break-up. Guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist James Kelly posted the following message on the band’s Facebook page: Altar of Plagues will conclude this year. I decided before writing “Teethed Glory […]

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