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		<title>Serenity: The Refined Elegance of Austria&#8217;s Finest</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 01:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Pigeon Post #1: New Music from Eclectika, Boneworm, Boil, and A Hero for the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; First, a brief introduction&#8230; The Metal Pigeon blog is a relatively small endeavor. I am a staff of one; the writer, editor, and publisher. I realized long before I wrote my first article here that I couldn&#8217;t compete with the amount of content published on a near daily basis by metal sites that had [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1245&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avantasia&#8217;s The Mystery of Time: Sonic Ambivalence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m going to be talking about Tobias Sammet and Avantasia, I&#8217;ll point out that this isn&#8217;t a conventional review in the sense that I&#8217;m trying to help you decide whether or not to check this album out &#8212; because of course you should. Sammet possesses a nearly peerless songwriting ability within the power metal/hard [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1186&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Releases by Rotting Christ, Cnoc An Tursa, and Ominum Gatherum cure what ails The Metal Pigeon</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/03/30/new-releases-by-rotting-christ-cnoc-an-tursa-and-ominum-gatherum-cure-what-ails-the-metal-pigeon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the newest Darkthrone masterwork only being a few weeks old in my listening rotation, I gotta be honest about feeling like I&#8217;ve been going through an all things extreme metal burnout lately. Regular readers of this blog probably won&#8217;t be surprised at hearing this, considering that I&#8217;m often talking about metal listening cycles in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1107&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perception and Acceptability with Amaranthe&#8217;s The Nexus</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/03/25/perception-and-acceptability-with-amaranthes-the-nexus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will be many &#8212; so so many reviews, opinions, forum rants, and of course YouTube comments that will take some pretty sharp, barbed digs with the metal pitchfork to this band and their new album The Nexus. Amaranthe offend many with a combination of sounds that hands tallied most metal fans would agree should [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1114&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Steven Wilson&#8217;s The Raven That Refused To Sing: A Confessional Perspective</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/03/02/steven-wilsons-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-a-confessional-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/03/02/steven-wilsons-the-raven-that-refused-to-sing-a-confessional-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve come to a downer of a realization in that I am experiencing an ever increasing disinterest in the new music being released by one of my favorite artists ever, the prolific and amazing Steven Wilson. He&#8217;s worthy of those two adjectives still, the first because its true (Porcupine Tree/ Solo Albums/ Blackfield/ Bass Communion/ [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1081&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the Black: Darkthrone&#8217;s The Underground Resistance</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/02/18/beyond-the-black-darkthrones-the-underground-resistance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a moment on the new Darkthrone record, the typically Fenriz-esque titled The Underground Resistance, where you might smile and think to yourself, &#8220;These cheeky bastards.&#8221; Its at the start of &#8220;Valkyrie&#8221;, where Metallica-esque acoustic guitars chime in a ghost version of the reoccurring melody that carries this really bad-assed musical ode to classic metal [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1072&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Metal Pigeon Nod to Power Quest</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/01/31/a-metal-pigeon-nod-to-power-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Its been an exceptionally quiet start to the new year for metal related news and happenings, but one announcement a couple weeks ago really caught my attention. After twelve years and five studio albums, Power Quest from the UK, one of the premiere power metal bands of the past decade was calling it quits. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1045&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Metal Pigeon&#8217;s Five Most Anticipated Albums of 2013</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2013/01/19/the-metal-pigeons-five-most-anticipated-albums-of-2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Metal Pigeon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Killer metal tends to come in waves that ebb and flow. For example from 2010 through 2012 one could not begin to stem the tide of awesome new releases being dished out every single month. This prolific three year stretch of metallic goodness was particularly noticeable when juxtaposed next to the comparative drought metal seemed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=1014&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Metal Pigeon&#8217;s Best of 2012!</title>
		<link>http://themetalpigeon.com/2012/12/26/the-metal-pigeons-best-of-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I started The Metal Pigeon, my end of year lists used to be relatively private, only meant for me and anyone else within earshot who&#8217;d listen. But I chose to start a blog and with the power of social networking and the viral nature of the internet, my opinions are now very much up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=themetalpigeon.com&#038;blog=25629591&#038;post=919&#038;subd=themetalpigeon&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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