We were in touch with Eight long before this return. The first time we spoke was back in October 2012, when the band existed in a very different Finnish landscape and screamo
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Not many bands can play this hard and still make it stick melodically. Daggers have been at this long enough to know the difference — the kind of band that’s eaten from more than one table, and it shows. “El Mundo Kaput” hits like
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