VMP Magazine
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal From September Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Converge Look Back On 'Jane Doe'
Roadburn, held every year in Tilburg, Netherlands, is the metal festival of your dreams, brought to reality. For one, it’s in the Netherlands, a paradise whether you’re a libertine or a sober naturalist. It celebrates metal’s creative spectrum, not focusing on one particular genre. What other festival would have Pentagram, Diamanda Galas, and Repulsion in a single day, much less a whole weekend? Roadburn commissions full-album sets from some of the more notable acts the play the fest, including Yob, Neurosis, and Wolves in the Throne Room.
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Deaf Forever: May's Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal From August, Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever April 2017: The Best Metal From This Month, Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.
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Deaf Forever IX: Thrashing Through The Best Metal of September
by Andy O'ConnorEvery month, we bring you the essential metal albums you need to hear. This month's covers records from High Spirits, Eternal Champ... -
Deaf Forever X: The Heaviest Metal We Found in October
by Andy O'ConnorEvery month, we bring you the essential metal albums you need to hear. This month's covers records from A Pregnant Light, Oozing Wo... -
Deaf Forever: All The Metal You Need In Your Life From July
by Andy O'ConnorDEAF FOREVER is a monthly column devoted to doom, black, dirge, power and every type of metal you can possibly imagine. Defeated Sa... -
Deaf Forever III: March's Best Metal Reviewed
by Andy O'ConnorWhat March lacked in quantity — this will probably be the shortest Deaf Forever yet — it made up for in sheer metal thrashing maaaa... -
Deaf Forever: February 2016
by Andy O'ConnorWelcome back to Deaf Forever! February’s picking up, with a few key releases already being teased for eventual release and major al... -
June's Best Metal Reviewed In Deaf Forever
by Andy O'Connor DEAF FOREVER is a monthly column devoted to doom, black, dirge, power and every type of metal you can possibly imagine. Nail... -
Deaf Forever: July’s Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: June’s Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: April’s Best Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: March’s Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: February’s Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: January’s Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2018
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column. These are the 10 best metal albums of 2018.
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Toward The Future That Should Have Been With Thou
We’re releasing a limited-edition version of the new album from Baton Rouge metal killers Thou, and you can grab that over here.
Below, you can read an interview Andy O’Connor — Vinyl Me, Please’s metal columnist — did with the band’s frontman, Bryan Funck, where they touch upon trying to challenge the standards of metal. You can stream Magus at NPR right now.
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Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Is Deafheaven’s Masterwork
Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, the new album from Deafheaven.
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Listen To Our New Metal Playlist
Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.
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Our Metal Playlist Raises A Fist To Lair Of The Minotaur
Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.
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Listen To This Month's Metal Playlist
Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.
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R.I.P. Vinnie Paul
Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month’s best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O’Connor, feels like putting in here. It’s the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you’ll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever. R.I.P. Vinnie Paul from Pantera.
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Listen To This Month's Metal Playlist
Every month, our Deaf Forever column rounds up the best releases in metal, ranging from Swedish post-black and d-beat to Tunisian metalcore and post-power metal. Deaf Forever is also now a playlist: a collection of the month's best metal, plus whatever our metal columnist, Andy O'Connor, feels like putting in here. It's the most punishing, unrelenting Spotify playlist you'll listen to every month. Turn up the volume and raise your second and fifth digits, this is Deaf Forever.
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal From February, Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal From April, Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: Tribulation, And The Best Metal Of January
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Khôrada Summon A Brutal Heat
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Stop Sleeping On Lair Of The Minotaur
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Khemmis Are Ready To Take On The World
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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When Professor Black Speaks, You Listen
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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The Pulverizing Grind of Pig Destroyer
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed and every other metal type under the sun.
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Thou Are Back, And Metalheads Should Be Pleased
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal From March, Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: October's Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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Deaf Forever: September’s Metal Music Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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The 20 Best Metal Albums of 2017
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column. These are the 20 best metal albums of 2017.
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Only Death Is Real: The Life-Affirming Power Of Bell Witch's 1 Song, 83-Minute Mirror Reaper
Usually, Deaf Forever highlights the best metal (and metalish) records every month. For October’s edition, we’ll dive deep into a record so massive, it needs its whole column: Bell Witch’s Mirror Reaper, which came out last month on Profound Lore.
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Album Of The Week: Converge’s ‘The Dusk In Us’
Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is The Dusk In Us, the ninth album from Converge.
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Blessed Black Wings Expanded The Pantheon of Metal
We’re releasing a special, limited to 300 swamp green vinyl edition of High on Fire’s Blessed Black Wings. Here, our metal columnist Andy O’Connor writes a Liner Notes essay about the album.
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal Of July
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column, where we review the best in doom, black, speed, and every other metal type under the sun.
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June's Best Metal Reviewed In Deaf Forever
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.
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Oxbow, Succumb, And The Best Metal Of May
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.
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Deaf Forever: The Best Metal From March, Reviewed
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.
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Power Trip's New Album Stakes A Claim For Best Metal Album Of The Year
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column that considers the best releases in black, death, power, Swedish black, speed, and every other metal genre you can name.
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2017 Is Already A Good Year For Death Metal
Every month, Andy O'Connor breaks down the best in thrash, death, black, Norwegian black, speed, and every other kind of metal that exists on the internet, on tapes, or in your nightmares. We call it DEAF FOREVER.
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Digital/Divide And Deaf Forever Picks For January's Store
Our metal columnist Andy O'Connor and our electronic columnist Gary Suarez pick titles for our store (which opens today!) and tell you why.
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The 10 Best Metal Albums of 2016
Deaf Forever is our monthly metal column.
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Deaf Forever and Digital/Divide Store Picks for November Store
Deaf Forever and Digital/Divide are metal and electronic music columns by Andy O’Connor and Gary Suarez. We’re having Andy and Gary pick a new album for the store each month—here are this month's picks: