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		<title>The Best Metal Album of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There stands one album from 2009 that unites metal-heads everywhere. Young and old, rich and poor, famous and infamous, men and women, cats and dogs, Jesus and Satan can all agree that this album supremely ruled. No, it&#8217;s not Mastodon.
It&#8217;s&#8230;

fucking Skeletonwitch!

Breathing the Fire is the best metal album of 2009. Thrashing, rocking, harmonizing, blasting, screaming and shredding its way to the top. The way the song-writing combines each of these elements is what makes this album stand out, and what makes it so enjoyable time and time again. This album embodies everything that is unholy (a.k.a., awesome): Skeletons, fire, death, Satan, destruction and more death.
Besides, how can you not vote for an album where the &#8220;hook&#8221; in the song is screaming &#8220;Crushed! Crushed! Crushed, beyond dust!&#8221; or &#8220;Bow before the filth, your rotting god. Worship the divine decay. Delight in the rot, the disease and pestilence. Praise the lord of the plague!&#8221;
Here ...]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Loudest Bay Area Albums of 2009: #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Cobra]]></category>

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#1 &#8211; Black Cobra &#8211; Chronomega
Our vote for the loudest album of the year, and one that probably needs little introduction, goes to an album made by two friggin&#8217; dudes. It&#8217;s hard to believe one guitar player and one drummer make this much noise, but believe it,  because Chronomega is fast, fuzzy and loud!

Chrono is 9 tracks of in your face, down-tuned rock and metal. Drawing inspiration perhaps from bands like Motorhead, High on Fire and Southern groove metal in general, Chrono tears out the grooves and riffs along with some gnarly screaming vocals and furious drum beats, in true Cobra fashion. High-energy tracks like Storm Shadow, Glacies En Spiritu and Chronomega are sure to be crowd favorites. Who are we kidding? They&#8217;re ALL high energy tracks! A sentiment best summed-up from this show review from Hard Rock Chick:
After probably five failed attempts at seeing local metal duo Black Cobra, I finally made ...]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Loudest Bay Area Albums of 2009: #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[#2 &#8211; Cormorant &#8211; Metazoa
One might describe Cormorant as the Bay Area&#8217;s &#8220;foggy&#8221; Opeth. Like their Swedish counterparts, their song writing is epic and varied in acoustic and electric melodies. Their sound is a blend of prog metal, black metal and folk metal, which is melancholy at times and galloping at other times. Metazoa has caught the attention of quite a few places around the web, including some of you out there who have been emailing us and saying, &#8220;Check this album out!&#8221;

Like the album&#8217;s cover art, the lyrics in Metazoa are rich and detailed, painting a bigger picture of the music as a whole. The album&#8217;s sound, while coming off as a bit under-produced at times, has quite an impressive background:
Recorded and mixed in January 2009 at Sharkbite Studios by legendary producer Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Mr. Bungle, Eyehategod, Melvins, Sleep, Primordial) and mastered by Justin Weis (Slough Feg, Brocas ...]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Loudest Bay Area Albums of 2009: #3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gambling on the Richter Scale]]></category>
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#3 - Kowloon Walled City &#8211; Gambling on the Richter Scale
Something about KWC struck a chord around various metal and rock outlets on the internet this year. Call them rock, call them metal (they will deny being a metal band, despite head-banger attendance at their shows), call them noisy or call them heavy, they are what they are. Kowloon have a great sound that they&#8217;ve carved out for themselves with their brand of sludgy &#8220;noise-rock&#8221;, drawing inspiration from traditional noise-rock bands like Neurosis, Godflesh and Unsane.


Gambling on the Richter Scale, as front man Scott Evans puts it, is an exercise in &#8220;pushing sound around&#8221;. Slow, down-tuned dual guitars with a heavy bass presence and screaming vocals makes for a very &#8220;thick&#8221; sounding record. Raw and half-polished production-wise, Gambling embodies the band&#8217;s &#8220;indie spirit&#8221; and reflects the band&#8217;s desire to directly connect with fans. This is the only album on our ...]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Loudest Bay Area Albums of 2009: #4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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#4 &#8211; One Hundred Suns &#8211; Beneath the Hooves of Time
Another unsigned band has made it to our list. Don&#8217;t let that fool you though &#8211; the production and mixing on this album holds up, without sacrificing any brutality. Amidst the sea of retro-rock out there, it&#8217;s nice to see some death and black metal punching through the mix. Foregoing the white corpse paint, One Hundred Suns blasts, grinds and growls over melodic guitars and epic song motifs in their sophomore album Beneath the Hooves of Time.

Coming in at only 6 tracks long, Beneath the Hooves of Time manages to unleash &#8216;Suns arsenal of doom and death quite well. The track Destroyer of Worlds is a 2 and a half minute death metal salvo, while tracks like To Extinguish Into The Earth and Lords of War take the listener on some epic black metal journeys. Mad props to vocalists Iain ...]]></description>
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		<title>The 5 Loudest Bay Area Albums of 2009: #5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walken]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After much deliberation, quantification, perspiration and anticipation, it is our pleasure to announce to you our top 5 albums from the year 2009. Helping us out with this list is the undisputed queen of live music reviews, Jamie Harvey a.k.a. the Hard Rock Chick. Each day this week we&#8217;ll be presenting a new album that we felt deserved some recognition as being one of the best from the Bay Area in &#8216;09.
This past year, without a doubt, has been the year of the unsigned and independent label. All of those bands out there trying to make a name for themselves had a great opportunity in &#8216;09. The &#8220;big guns&#8221; (Testament, Metallica, Exodus,etc.) all either had albums in &#8216;08, or are expecting albums in &#8216;10. This year&#8217;s list, perhaps sounding a little unpolished in the studio, contains no less proportion of &#8220;heavitude&#8221; than other lists you might have come across in ...]]></description>
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