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There's an old saying that goes something like this. "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death . . . I wouldn't want to set up camp there." I think the same thing could be said for Damon Fox's mind.

The main architect of the glorious doom, bombastic glam that is Bigelf, Damon's mind is not a safe place for the uninitiated. No one knows what's lingering behind each synapse, hiding between the axons, lurking within the dendrites.

Last year, I thought I was going out on a limb when I named Bigelf's mind staggering album, Cheat the Gallows, my number one heavy album released in 2008. Turns out, many other of the contributors to that Best of List, felt similarly, adding Cheat the Gallows to their lists as well. Well, I got news for you. In 2007 the Bigelvin men released an album Hex, that in many ways is just as impressive, and certainly heavier, than Gallows. If it had been released this year, it would already have the top spot nailed down.

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