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January 26th, 2023 Features

Xandria – Behold the Wonders

…hope we can do this even more in the new year, now. Dead Rhetoric: What’s left on your personal bucket list left to accomplish – either on the musical side of things or personally – that you haven’t been able to achieve as of yet? Heubaum: Alright. That is hard to say. I am happy with the album we just recorded; I want to see where this gets us. I don’t know. I want to do some things again – in the past we toured the US, South America, going to a…

January 5th, 2023 Features

Screamer – All Hail the Kingmaker

…do to push through? Petersson: Don’t know if we have had failures by that definition. We’ve definitely done a lot of tours and shows that we shouldn’t have done. We know that in the heavy metal world, because of doing that, it has helped us out further down the road. Getting a festival slot, or getting a place to crash, the van breaks down, you have friends in almost every city across Europe. It’s perhaps not a clear example of what you are asking…

November 13th, 2022 Features

Sodom – Revel in Attack Mode

…n the band during the 80’s. That was really interesting. The album really reflects what we have done over the last forty years. Dead Rhetoric: Discuss the work behind the European, limited-edition box set – as it includes numerous bonuses, a 72-page book, double colored vinyl, posters, and more? Do you enjoy creating something special for the diehards and collectors who take the time, effort and money to support the band in this manner? Angelrippe…

September 25th, 2022 Features

Rage – Back to Life

…nearly most of what I originally intended to do, there’s only one chapter left that I still didn’t do. Most of the material is there, and we are getting into the production phase. We are trying to make a cohesive book out of this. It’s looking pretty good that everything is going to be ready during the next album cycle, which we plan to have come out also in 2024 for the 40th anniversary of Rage. We will be able to release both of them together. W…

July 21st, 2022 Features

Origin – Ripping with Nostalgia

…I had previously played in some DIY bands, I just had not toured. Luckily before then I had done some regional stuff. Before Origin got signed, we had played in 14 states. I felt pretty confident, and relatively good with money, so I bought a van and a trailer. That worked well. It made more sense, because we weren’t making as much money. We did really well selling our merch, it was tough. I befriended Cephalic Carnage, who I knew five years prior…

June 9th, 2022 Features

Fallen Sanctuary – Headed to the Top

…ommon to have a single lefty musician in the band. Right now, we are four lefties – Alfonso is only a lefty though when it comes to writing, he plays soccer that way – but he plays right-handed dominant when it comes to the drums. Dead Rhetoric: Your debut album is Terranova – what were the recording and songwriting sessions like? Did you and Georg have distinct duties to achieve, and were there any surprises, obstacles, and challenges to overcome…

April 26th, 2022 Features

Sleepless – Eye of the Beholder

…ainly is turning heads. We reached out to bassist/composer Eric Dorsett on Skype one afternoon recently, who was very happy to tell us the ideas behind the band, if they will play live or remain a studio project, talk of Voivod, Nevermore, and 80’s new wave artists, plus discussion on another traditional metal project and a final Dead Conspiracy tape in the pipeline. Dead Rhetoric: Tell us about your earliest memories surrounding music growing up…

April 21st, 2022 Features

Virocracy – Balancing Brutality and Complexity

…cy will hold sway until we actually want to make the world a better place refraining from selfish benefits that mostly stem from our wealth. Dead Rhetoric: What’s on the agenda for Virocracy over the next twelve months? Do any of the members have any other bands, projects, or guest appearances in the works that we should know about/ look forward to? Alex: We already have some concerts on the agenda and are looking forward to play our new songs liv…

March 15th, 2022 Features

Hyperia – Beware of Silhouettes

…, we would have had to be quarantined there, I think. We came back a week before the world shut down. Marlee: They already had (measures) in place. They were taking temperatures before you could even enter a building. You didn’t have to necessarily wear a mask, but in busy areas you would wear a mask. That was even before the pandemic, on the trains it would say if you are sick, please wear a mask. They had low cases compared to the rest of the wo…

March 3rd, 2022 Features

Serious Black – Vengeance Is Personal

…nvestment from love into this person. Suddenly, after four years, one day before she left she said I’m a great guy, the best thing she’s ever had in her life, and twelve hours later she left with the words that she didn’t care what I had done for her. She told me I was an asshole and I had to live with it. It had nothing to do with help, we tried to make everything proper. You find out during the holidays, you need money for self-employment, I did…

January 20th, 2022 Features

Memory Garden – Distrust of the Messenger

…castle but in the end, he can’t get away – he also gets the disease. It’s definitely more fiction than fact. We had most of the songs done before we started with the lyrics. We had the order of the songs made as well. There was a lot of stuff added when the lyrics came together. There are always things you change and try out. Things changed until the very end of the whole process. Dead Rhetoric: How did the guest musicians come into mind for this…

January 6th, 2022 Features

Manimal – All About Honesty

…vertaken the world? Nyman: It makes you humble, you know? It makes you grateful, you take being healthy for granted. I’m healthy, my family is healthy. Sometimes during the years, I’ve been jealous (of) the musicians who can make a living with their music. But over the past few years, it’s been the opposite. I was happy that I didn’t make my living on my music. All these friends of ours, it was their jobs, and their salaries were taken from them o…

December 23rd, 2021 Features

Victory – Cutting Right to the Bone

…ing, we were in the COVID-19 scenario, so we worked together with Zoom and Skype. He had some fantastic songs already, and he just showed me and told me to follow some of the vocal lines, but also write lyrics and if I had some ideas for different songs to do the vocal lines on my own. It was 50/50 for him having great ideas for the vocals and me having great ideas for the vocals. The lyrics, I did most of the lyrics. It was hard work, it’s not ea…

November 18th, 2021 Features

NorthTale – An Eternal Warning

…of my problems. If everyone was a little less selfish, everybody would benefit. That’s what I admire about the Scandinavian countries, and I spend so much time there. Everybody understands that if everyone produces, everyone can benefit from it. Better doctors, better schools, better everything. If everyone has access to it. But I don’t think that everybody should rely on others. Nobody should sit down and say, well it’s going to be provided for…

November 16th, 2021 Features

Beast In Black – A Cyberpunk Connection

…bum cover there is a beast but it’s really small. You can see the beast’s reflection, he knows how to draw the beast and he’s been drawing it and refining it since day one. We have a long, long history as he has worked with me in my previous band Battle Beast. He’s a really good friend of mine. It’s always to nice to work with someone we always appreciate and like as a human being. And he’s really good in drawing the Beast in Black style artwork….

November 9th, 2021 Features

Bonded – March into Blackness

…ing back at many years and I really enjoyed things. Looking forward, we hopefully can continue again with Bonded. This is what I want. I’m proud. Dead Rhetoric: Do you have a preference for the studio or the stage when it comes to yourself as a musician? Bernemann: I absolutely prefer playing live. The studio is okay, but compared with playing live it’s not the same. I like the contact with the people – you know so many people, technicians, promot…

November 7th, 2021 Features

U.D.O. – The Tank Rolls On

…Dammers. Tell us how the recording and songwriting sessions went for this effort – and did the pandemic allow you to really put more time, effort, and focus on the little details to make things even more satisfying in the end? Udo Dirkschneider: Let’s say the recording thing was a little bit different than how we do things normally. Normally we start putting all the ideas, see if we have enough, and then once we do go into the rehearsal rooms, th…

November 2nd, 2021 Features

Kryptos – Danger on the Rampage

…ou? Lewis: Wow, that’s a tough question. At the top of the list has to be Defenders of the Faith by Judas Priest. That is one of the first heavy metal albums I listened to, and probably my all-time favorite heavy metal album. It defines what heavy metal is: riffs, solos, vocals. It’s got everything. Ten out of ten. And that’s one of the albums that influenced me a lot, start a band and become a musician. When I play it today, I still get goosebump…

September 23rd, 2021 Features

Brainstorm – Metal Outlaws

…hanged from your early time joining the group until now? Franck: Yes, the definition has changed. The definition has changed a lot. When we released albums like Soul Temptation and Liquid Monster, we were some kind of the next big thing. The albums sold amazing, the tours were amazing, we were playing in front of thousands of people every night. We had a number one hit in Hungary with “All Those Words”, for example. It was cool and fine with us. A…

August 31st, 2021 Features

Toxic Ruin – Obliteration of Nightmares

…that I listen to, I’ve noticed that their cover art is pretty interesting before I even dive into their music. Baneck: Just seeing really cool cover artwork, going through other artists, it gets your attention right away. Having solid art is definitely important in drawing attention. Dead Rhetoric: You’ve done some DIY tours over the years beyond your local area to establish more of a presence in the scene – including a tour last year cut short du…

August 22nd, 2021 Features

Portrait – When None Becomes One

…the World was. But that is nothing we have been thinking too much about, before writing the songs. It’s nothing that we decide before we go into the writing process. The only thing that we tend to think about is we want to stay true to our essence and develop (the songwriting) in a way so we don’t repeat ourselves. And I think that is something that we have succeeded with. Dead Rhetoric: Would you consider that the biggest challenge at this point…

July 15th, 2021 Features

Space Chaser – Dealing with Dystopia

…. We got incredibly lucky. Boy – we were all blown away. We saw it a week before, we had no idea what it was going to look like. It’s going to be video, just a little more professional. We quickly realized, this is a mini-movie. Lucas told us the video effects, and what was supposed to happen. It was hard to imagine, but then it’s so big. I remember in the beginning where you have the spaceship, with the Space Chaser logo, I laughed out loud becau…

June 20th, 2021 Features

Hannes Grossmann – Away from the Light

…interesting. You should not circumcise your songs [laughs]. That’s not beneficial. A lot of the time, when you play technical metal, there are parts in a song that are not necessary for the song. They are cool parts, but use them for something else. Maybe they don’t have to be in that song. That’s a critical way of thinking – does that part have to be in the song? If the answer is yes, then I keep it. If no, then by all means delete it or use it…

June 13th, 2021 Features

Helloween – Pumpkins Aligned

…hat you were up to the challenge? Gerstner: You know, the thing is when I left Freedom Call, I basically left the metal scene. I went more into the studio direction, I worked as a studio guitar player and produced bands, writing songs. I did a lot of pop and rock music, alternative rock. I was out of the metal scene, I didn’t even know that Helloween were searching for a guitar player. And then one day, Charlie called me up as I knew him before. H…

June 3rd, 2021 Features

Herman Frank – Unique Voice

…ique voice! That’s the phrase I have been looking for. I didn’t know this before. You might look for that. A couple of people have it, and some don’t have it. Dead Rhetoric: Are there things left to accomplish in your musical career that you haven’t been able to achieve, do, or see as of yet? And will you know when it’s time to step away from the scene? Frank: Right now, I don’t know when to step away from the scene. There are a lot of things I wa…

May 8th, 2021 Features

Arion – A Modern Evolution

…you feel that track really helped get your name out there? Kaipainen: It definitely helped. You are not the only person who had that first interaction to Arion, so it definitely helped us. It wasn’t just because Elize was in it, but because everything in that song and release seemed to go really well. There was a lot of hype building for the release and it was really positive. Spotify played it a lot and many people seemed to like it. So they wen…

April 22nd, 2021 Features

Devil Sold His Soul – Emotion and Loss

…together. If you go to the staples, I get it but I’ve certainly heard it before. Gibbs: Definitely. There’s some really great stuff on Nuclear Blast, as well as the back catalog. You have bands with operatic singing like an Epica and then you’ve got straight-up super heavy stuff like Meshuggah and Dimmu Borgir. It’s a broad church. I know we are maybe more core than those bands, but there’s a place for us. Nuclear Blast did sign us, and they know…

April 15th, 2021 Features

Septagon – The Chalice of Madness

…t lie deep in the 80’s and early 90’s. When it comes to thrash metal, I’m definitely a US guy. I know that we had a lot of German thrash bands in the 80’s, and I am still a big Kreator fan, I think they are by far the best of the well-known bands, we have had other great stuff like Paradox, Vendetta, or Deathrow. But I always was more into the Bay Area scene, Forbidden, Heathen, the usual suspects, Mordred their debut when it came out. The America…

April 8th, 2021 Features

Cryptosis – Futuristic Swarm

…en days in the woods somewhere on a farmland and rehearsed, just straight before we entered the studio. That gave me some room to improve the songs in a more relaxed atmosphere. Houvast: Yes, for me as well I can agree with Frank on that. This was the first time we did something like this before entering the studio. We created all this pre-production and we had a clear idea of how the songs could be recorded. We really had to rehearse these songs…

March 18th, 2021 Features

Ronnie Atkins – A Therapeutic Shot

…, get a good lawyer. Get somebody that knows something about the business before you sign on the dotted line. Believe in yourself and what you do, stick to that. If nobody else believes in you, believe in yourself and you will get there, hopefully. Dead Rhetoric: Is that a situation where you wish you had taken more time with contracts in the early days of Pretty Maids? Atkins: When we started out, nobody really believed in us. The record companie…

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