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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…

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…

Sodom – Revel in Attack Mode

…t 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? Angelripper: We have a single, an EP, we recorded “Witching Metal” in the same way as we had recorded it on the demo tape….

Rage – Back to Life

…kay. Dead Rhetoric: Did you enjoy the special camera angles – a lot of back-and-forth action as well as reverse and upside-down things going on? Wagner: Yeah, it fits a bit to the tempo of the song. There is some fantastic camera action that the director of the video did there. Dead Rhetoric: After numerous cancellations, Rage will finally be going on a co-headlining tour across Europe this fall with Brainstorm. How will it feel for the band (and…

Origin – Ripping with Nostalgia

…ked with our schedule; they could get the album out in June. We did the pre-tour with Misery Index before the album came out. We played two songs from the album before they released the first single. People got a good idea of those tracks once they came out. Dead Rhetoric: For the last few records after being on Relapse Records, Origin has had distinct deals with Agonia Records from Poland and Nuclear Blast for North America. How do you feel this…

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…

Sleepless – Eye of the Beholder

…Iron Maiden, I brought the brochure home, Eddie came on the stage, a larger-than-life thing. I knew I wanted to play music – I wanted to play bass because of Gene Simmons. I bought my first bass guitar when I was 14, had it paid off mowing yards when I was 15, with a layaway plan. I was never a real big cover music type of guy. I wanted to be on stage, and I needed to write music. We wanted to come up with songs, the easiest way to do that was get…

Virocracy – Balancing Brutality and Complexity

…rradiation). Everything was recorded right away so that we always had an up-to-date demo version (and pre-production) to listen to and continue working on. Taking these versions to the studio also helped a lot finding the perfect sound! Dead Rhetoric: Where does the band come across on the lyrical content? Do you place as much importance on what you try to convey with words as you do the musical compositions? Anika: The link between music and word…

Hyperia – Beware of Silhouettes

…e an outside the box track and make it metal rather than going with a tried-and-true staple… Scott DeGruyter: Basically, we decided as a team to do ABBA. It’s a fun song that we anticipate would be crazy live for people to scream their lungs out to. Everyone knows that song, plus we added the speedy section to make it even more metal than you can even imagine (laughs). Colin: It was probably alcohol influenced. It’s funny, ABBA when you break down…

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…

Memory Garden – Distrust of the Messenger

…lot of heart and soul into their work. They put out Forever the first mini-CD and Tides the first full-length album. Albums number two and three were on Metal Blade. I’m really happy they gave us a chance there, we were such a small band on their big label. We are not a touring band, we’ve never been, we don’t draw a lot of money into a label. I’m very grateful they took us on there and put our albums out, I understand we are too small for them….

Manimal – All About Honesty

…elieve your views and personal life have changed considering the almost two-year pandemic situation that has overtaken 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…

Victory – Cutting Right to the Bone

…ontillo: It was both of them. When we started writing, 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…

NorthTale – An Eternal Warning

…atmosphere and keeping the interest of your listeners through an eleven-and-a-half-minute track? Hudson: Oh yes. “Nature’s Revenge” is the first long song I’ve ever written. I have always had the vision for one. Long songs can get really boring really fast. Especially if there is a lot of orchestration, they can be hard to listen to. I never had anything to talk about, so that’s why I never wrote a long song. This is about the pandemic. When the p…

Beast In Black – A Cyberpunk Connection

…tone was important. In 2018 I already knew this album was going to be a sci-fi/cyber punk-oriented, and it needed the cover art that shows visually that it can relate to the topics of the lyrics. There’s the beast that is in front of the woman, it represents the connection between a living creature and an artificial creature. It’s there in the artwork as well as the lyrics, so they support each other. He did a good job with that. Dead Rhetoric: Yo…

Bonded – March into Blackness

…re. At the moment it’s a big problem, (the fans) are not willing to buy pre-sale tickets for festivals because of COVID-19. After all, the thrash scene, especially in our whole area of Dortmund, the best thrash metal bands came from this area like Sodom, Kreator, there is a big scene. We have the full support from the people. Playing shows or planning festivals is complicated, people are afraid. We thought with the first festivals when they start,…

U.D.O. – The Tank Rolls On

…with more modern ideas. It’s important for me to be open-minded, and I am definitely open-minded. Dead Rhetoric: How do you feel about the work of AFM Records as your label that you’ve been with 2004 with Thunderball? What makes them the perfect partner to work with after all these years? Dirkschneider: It’s more like a family to me. You can talk to each other, what we have to do, where we have to put more power on. Everybody knows each other, it’…

Kryptos – Danger on the Rampage

…over a single day. That was when the lockdowns for the second wave of COVID-19 came into effect. You don’t really get advanced warnings about these lockdowns in India. It’s spur of the moment, you may get an update on your phone that the government has announced these lockdowns. You have to follow them or get into trouble. We were a few hours away from completing the shoot, we got a message saying we needed to be inside in two hours. We had to get…

Brainstorm – Metal Outlaws

…possible to play to as many people as possible. When you are around twenty-eight, twenty-nine and you have this contract in front of you, this is your chance and the party will go on. That would have meant also we would have lost our day jobs, lost our families more or less because no wife could deal with this, being away for more than three hundred days a year. We knew from the first second on that this could be something that could last for two…

Toxic Ruin – Obliteration of Nightmares

…at areas are you happiest about, and what needs to be improved in the short-term (or long-term) for the greater good of the genre as a whole? Miller: As a whole in the metal genre, in this generation we need to see a little bit more originality come into it. It seems like to me anyway, over the last five to ten years now there’s been a lot of cookie cutter bands coming up. They are doing well, a lot of them are making names for themselves and even…

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…

Space Chaser – Dealing with Dystopia

…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 because it was hard to imagine seeing that. As we saw the finished project, we were blown away. I really can’t believe it, what we’ve done. It’s amazin…

Hannes Grossmann – Away from the Light

…e parts you don’t necessarily need. Dead Rhetoric: That takes a lot of self-reflection on your part to be able to be critical and remove things that don’t belong. Grossmann: I think it’s a big challenge, but it depends on the music. Some music is already shaped to be that way. Pop songs for instance. Most of the time, the pop song structure is very clear – verse/chorus or something like that. You have a restriction there. You have to move within a…

Helloween – Pumpkins Aligned

…record, so the recording process was very fun actually. We had a whole pre-production beforehand to choose the songs and figure out who would be singing what. Michael and Andi, they get along very well, so from the beginning it was almost love at first sight. We were just happy that it works that way. Dead Rhetoric: As you said, you were able to tour even before you worked on this record. Do you think that time helped work out any particular kink…

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…

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…

Devil Sold His Soul – Emotion and Loss

…The middle ground is where the interesting stuff happens. It’s where the left-field and outside the box stuff is happening. People are trying stuff and it is interesting. People are mixing stuff up 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 st…

Septagon – The Chalice of Madness

…heir debut when it came out. The Americans have a little bit more technique-wise, the German guys were really raw. Guitar-wise it’s more interesting, and that’s where the idea to form Septagon comes from. We are listening to the technical stuff but there’s still a lot of melody, and that’s what I always liked in my thrash metal. Nowadays people will tell me Septagon is not really thrash metal because you use a singer, he’s too clean. So I’m like,…

Cryptosis – Futuristic Swarm

…ee 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 because they were mainly made in the studio and not in the rehearsal room. In these ten days we really focused on the details, we played the songs together and it sounded a little bit different. We put the dots on th…

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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