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Getting closer and closer to Christmas and the end of the year now, whch is why we are spitting out album reviews left and right for the time being. After all, in only a matter of weeks I'm supposed to be posting an article rounding up 2008 and its best and the worst.....there's also a little surprise in the bag that I know all of you will like, but I'll save that for Christmas eve. In the meantime, this week's news activity can be found in our news archive.

Albums of the week:

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R

Gig Reviews:

Negura Bunget @ Purple Turtle, London

Cryptopsy @ Underworld, London

Album Reviews: (in order of date added)

Magica - Wolves & Witches [6½]

Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets...And A Caravan Of Weird Figures [5½]

Coerced Into Battle - Enemy Mine [6½]

Houston Calls - The End Of An Error [7]

Holy Moses - Agony Of Death [7]

In:Aviate - 1985 [7]

Axel Rudi Pell - Tales From The Crown [6]

Nickelback - Dark Horse [5]

Tessmarka - Tessmarka EP [6]

The Modern Age Slavery - Damned To Blindness [8]

Åsmergin - Arv [5½]

Infernoise - The Chainsaw's Law [7]

Vira - Recurrence [8]

Travis - Ode To J.Smith [7]

Chaos Delivery Machine - Manifesto [5]

Mind Gone Blind - Liars & Preachers [6]

Taake - Taake [8½]

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [9]

No Fun At All - Low Rider [8½]

Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R [9]

Legion Of The Damned - Cult Of The Dead [6½]

Purgatory - Cultus Luciferi - The Splendour Of Chaos [7]

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