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| Gloon: Shadowen, War Shrike, Hunter, Killer, Assassin. “Then down out of the darkness hurtled a shadow that was darker still, a whistle of sound and fury that sliced through the air like black lightening. It landed with an audible thud, wings spread and cocked, feathers jutting out like spikes. It was a bird, but a bird like no other. It was big, larger than a hawk or even an owl, its feathers slate gray with red brows and a crest that bristled menacingly. Its beak was yellow and sharply hooked. Its claws were two sizes too large for the rest of its body, and its body was squat and blocky, all sinew and muscle beneath its feathers. It hunched its head down into its shoulders like a fighter and stared through hard, wicked eyes”. Extract from “The Talisman of Shannara” Book Four of “The Heritage of Shannara” by Terry Brooks 1993. |
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| After 7 years and close to 1,000 reviews its time to say goodbye to the metal reviewing business. In that time my brother and I have gone from a simple site to voice our opinions on our own collections to receiving and reviewing CDs from all across the world.
Many Aussie sites have come and gone in that time: Full Strength, Primal Agony, Necrozine (just to name a few) and now unfortunately it is our time to move on. What started as a pastime ended up being a full time job and as we left Uni and got jobs and started families’ time become more and more precious. As a result the site wasn’t updated as often as it should have been which just isn’t up to scratch and not fair to our readers and the bands and labels that went to the effort to send us their wares. So it is with regret I officially close the site, it will remain active purely as a resource and home for our past reviews and efforts but from today will not be updated again. To all the bands and labels who supported us and intrusted us to review their music we thank you and we hope you continue to promote your art through the new breed of Australian metal websites that are still active and enthusiastically promoting metal to the Aussie hordes. Horns up and Blast on Gloon and Tyrant (ex Lord Pale) |
| R.I.P. 2001-2008 |