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The Best Metal Albums of 2006

Blood and Thunder

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006

[22 December 2006]

by Adrien Begrand

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006

Begrand and Blood and Thunder look back on a metal-icious 2006: its creative resurgences, its tinges of sludge, its Japanese doom-ridden drones, and its ever-reliable Scandinavians.

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