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Heavy Metal Hensch
Mark Hensch offers the brutal truth on all things heavy metal. Stories include album and concert reviews, band interviews, bios and more.
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Music review: Hour of Penance's 'Sedition'
Hour of Penance's latest delivers savagery at light-speed. Published 12:40 p.m. May 3, 2012 - Comments
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Music review: The Axis of Perdition's 'Tenements (Of the Anointed Flesh)''
The Axis of Perdition's latest album will inspire fear and trembling in heavy metal fans. Published 4:44 p.m. September 20, 2011 - Comments
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Music review: Anaal Nathrakh's 'Passion'
England's Anaal Nathrakh display maximum aggression on their pulverizing new album. Published 4:07 p.m. August 18, 2011 - Comments
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Music review: Marduk's 'Iron Dawn'
Sweden's Marduk begin war games for their next album with a quick but quality EP. Published 4:44 p.m. July 2, 2011 - Comments
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Music review: Rotting Christ's 'Aealo'
The Titans of Greek death metal return with an epic tenth album. Published 9:02 p.m. June 27, 2011 - Comments
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Music review: Melechesh's 'The Epigenesis'
Israel's Melechesh have made an incendiary new album that should set the heavy metal world ablaze. Published 4:46 p.m. June 15, 2011 - Comments
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Concert review: Bullet for Valentine and Halestorm
Bullet for My Valentine and Halestorm went all-out during a recent District concert. Published 2:24 p.m. June 9, 2011 - Comments
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Music review: Amon Amarth's 'Surtur Rising'
Sweden's Amon Amarth stays the course on their superb new album. Published 12:02 p.m. May 18, 2011 - Comments
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Concert review: An Evening with Amon Amarth Tour
Amon Amarth cross the Atlantic and invade Virginia May 2 with their memorable melodic death metal. Published 9:44 a.m. May 13, 2011 - Comments
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Concert preview: Jaxx's Virginia Viking raid
Sweden's Amon Amarth promise to pillage concert-goers with their melodic death metal on May 2. Published 6:33 p.m. May 1, 2011 - Comments
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Mark Hensch is a heavy metal fanatic who has been scribing about the genre since 2003. A Grand Rapids, Mich. metalhead, Mark also writes for www.thrashpit.com while serving as its editor. He maintains a recurring column there called ...
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Mark Hensch is a heavy metal fanatic who has been scribing about the genre since 2003. A Grand Rapids, Mich. metalhead, Mark also writes for www.thrashpit.com while serving as its editor. He maintains a recurring column there called "Hensch's Hometown Heroes" which spotlights unsigned heavy metal bands. He apologizes for any subsequent ear bleeds readers incur while checking out his music blog. He also writes about restaurants and mixed martial arts for the "Washington Times" in addition to extreme music.
