…speedy tempo shift midway through sends shivers as guitarists R. Amun and C.W. Wolfgang use fiery fingers to dazzle the aural landscape in burning hot intensity. CD owners will get two bonus tracks, “Liars In Wait” and “Death Forever”, the latter another killer throwback to the days of early Exciter or Metallica as the thrash/speed metal foundation beyond the shouted gang chorus should cause pit mania everywhere. The combination of influences keep…
…quite important in the company came over and said, ‘that was your last song.’. (laughs). In terms of good shows, we played a cool show with Raven about eighteen months ago in San Francisco, that was at Eli’s Mile High Club. We are going to try to do an album release gig there. We are happy to be going back there. Dead Rhetoric: Working in other bands like Spirit Adrift, Pounder, and Slough Feg among others, what sorts of learning lessons and tools…
…seven years – at a time when many artists are putting out albums on a three-to-five-year clip. A transitional record of sorts, David recruited an all-Italian lineup to write and record this material – a testament to his current adopted home in Italy. The outcome is a much more primal offering, leaning into heavier, dynamic directions that prove he’s not content to be a one-trick pony in this style. The opening strains of “Enemy Is Me” alert the li…
…s meet next to powerhouse vocalists, rock solid bassists, and versatile drummers – the results in this genre benefit all the astute listeners willing to heed the call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7OHT-ZNkuA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeTVKNg_tvs Firewind official website Firewind on Facebook…
…othing short of spectacular. Like I said at the beginning of this writing, this is not just a new album release…this is an EVENT. Standout Tracks: All of Them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm5Z-ciozcc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SywCGhiwNyw Job For a Cowboy on Facebook…
…arts in mid-September. The rest of the year is reserved for other activities. 2025 will also be about more extensive touring, and that information will be coming about soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwKBpdin0Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0Qh_lVivc Sonata Arctica official website Sonata Arctica on Facebook…
…l that contains the right balance of musicianship-enhanced passages beyond proper hooks that seep into your brain for months on end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBhn0695Smo Saffire on Facebook…
…Dead Rhetoric: Do you believe it’s harder for people to engage in more face-to-face communication, versus the use technology to communicate? Melissourgos: I’m an old school person. I prefer talking to someone straight in their face. I will give you a small example. I didn’t used to have my own Facebook account until a year ago. I just use it for the promotional stuff of the band, and maybe talking with friends or people that are not living that cl…
…final vocals. One of them came back, it was “Tear Them Down”, and the riff.. it wasn’t something talked about or discussed. I’ve had instances like that working with producers, sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. Where you have to go back because he was playing the riff in D and it’s supposed to start in G and drops to D and gets that lift where the payoff is from. I’m not super anal about this stuff – but I wrote it a certain way. That…
…f problems with that. Costs are definitely a factor in this. We probably will do another short US run, if anything, later in the year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7rfHknVa54 Morta Skuld on Facebook…
…Here we are now, and hopefully we can take these songs into every city in the US and beyond and hopefully make another record while we are doing it. Either way we are coming to play these live for sure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGOId2-EDw&pp=ygURZGFya2VzdCBob3VyIGJhbmQ%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUWfCfKxQv4&pp=ygURZGFya2VzdCBob3VyIGJhbmQ%3D Darkest Hour on Facebook Darkest Hour on Instagram…
…tumn…maybe even two. We are trying to see if we can make it work. But we have a lot of shows coming up, the new album comes out in February, and a lot of music videos after that. There’s a lot going on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7t9SspFWKA&pp=ygUNaW5mZWN0ZWQgcmFpbg%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-JGQgnwpGE&pp=ygUNaW5mZWN0ZWQgcmFpbg%3D%3D Infected Rain on Facebook Infected Rain on Instagram…
…h provide the pinpoint amount of clarity in what has been historically a lo-fi endeavor. Personally, black metal that sounds too thin is an easy pass, and thankfully Hulder doesn’t fall into that trap. Every sound is robust, while not losing that frosted over tonality that’s vital to black metal of this ilk. Hulder has crafted what is to date her most complete work, further expanding the project’s sound without losing or marginalizing any critical…
…ig to gig. Suddenly, reality happened as we lost the first bass player Bene. M. back in 2020, and we did a European tour in 2020 with another bass player. Right after that tour, the pandemic hit. Suddenly these young kids going from just caring about the band, and being on the road, we were now stuck at home with a break. That was a game changer for us. I wouldn’t say it was all bad. It came at the right time for us honestly to reflect on what we…
…ced by sick main hooks and solid songwriting that should easily embed itself into the underground hordes no matter where you come from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzg7l7iN_dc Petrification on Facebook…
…rd. It’s not that they are our friends, but they have really created an out-of-this-world record indeed. I’m also quite fond of Dutch musician Jurre Timmer’s acoustic folk solo project Thurnin. His first record Menhir grabbed my attention back when it was released in 2021, and his follow up Utiseta from last year is equally brilliant. Really soothing, evocative folk. And just to round up some of the things I’ve been listening to lately: Hexvessel,…
…f the genre – but similar to the case of Udo and Sven Dirkschneider for U.D.O., it’s happening again with this Swedish thrash outfit Rifforia. Vocalist Nils Patrik Johansson has been known over the years for his work in Astral Doors, Lion’s Share, Civil War, Wuthering Heights and his solo records – while his son Fredrik has been playing drums through bands like Tuck From Hell and Brother Tuck. Rifforia is the latest outfit, Axeorcism the debut rec…
…sive madness. In the end, it’s a wonderful sound that hopefully means the next effort will be a couple of years down the road instead of making us wait ten. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni-1QOLniKU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jx_5i3lG7s Night Fever on Facebook…
…a rock vibes as it reaches a chorus that seems born ready to be a live sing-a-long favorite. “Alive” feels the most modern, dipping into more front-and-center electronic elements than the other tracks, embracing more hooks and (mostly) steering away from the more abrasive elements of the act. Two ballad-esque numbers are placed strategically at the middle and end for a rightly earned breather, with “Odyssey” (which will be featured in an upcoming…
…vibes, we have some black metal vibes. We know that we push boundaries – we want to play some of this stuff live to figure out what we are as a band live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1mk1ecnXpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5g07fPKkrs Advocacy on Facebook…
…rations and influences in that regard? Leduc: I’ve always been a fan of sci-fi. I’m wearing a Ghost in a Shell t-shirt right now (laughs). I’m still studying at the university, social sciences, so I’ve always been into both our thinking through and theorizing our collective knowledge when it comes to technology. That was always something I think about in an academic capacity, and now I brought music into it. With this new project I’m working on, w…
…t guitar rhythms for “Down”, where the initial hoarse bellows of vocalist E.M. should send chills down spines as his clearer Cronos meets John Tardy nuances cut through the musical proceedings like a knife. As guitarists M.F. and M.J. circulate in that mid 80’s to late 80’s period of Bay Area meets European axe players that wanted to crush the listeners in this swirling buzzsaw manner, precise while throwing down the right number of earworms befor…
…and we will be on the road for two weeks in the UK and Germany in March. That’s what we have planned. There’s more planned, but we can’t tell you much more right now. But that’s the plan so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqhx1e1vzh8&pp=ygUIbWV0YWxpdGU%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYpRIZXZH0&pp=ygUXbWV0YWxpdGUgZXhwZWRpdGlvbiBvbmU%3D Metalite on Instagram Metalite on X…
…so I think he will show his talent outside Rome In Monochrome soon. Thank you for your time and your beautiful and interesting questions, see you on the road! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwbI-U9BRg4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TClUyRzJRKw Rome in Monochrome on Facebook…
…. So nothing concrete yet, but I’m going to keep my fingers crossed and encourage everyone to request Exit Eden everywhere they can [laughs]! Photo by Stephan Heilemann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5p917OyAnI&pp=ygUJZXhpdCBlZGVu Exit Eden on Facebook Exit Eden on Instagram Exit Eden official website…
…going throughout the year. We’ve got a couple of festivals confirmed, and we are looking to get some actual tour dates. One or two shows a year is not enough anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oX9LFx2szs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrG-mSSvIeo Striker official website Striker on Facebook…
…ead, and Mega Drive are all some of the forefathers for this movement, side-by-side with the mighty Gost. Having been plying his trade for over a decade now, he’s a producer who doesn’t hesitate to take risks with his music, incorporating many fresh elements with each subsequent release. As previously stated, this was our first time seeing Gost, having sadly narrowly missed other opportunities to catch a live set. Gost’s stage presence has changed…
…he nail there. It was a time when the world was still recovering from COVID-19. We had to get the vaccination cards, fill out the paperwork to make sure we could enter the European Union, the countries there. It wasn’t fully recovered yet, and that was only a year and a half ago. It was so refreshing to see the crowds in Europe coming and joining us. We were told because the venues were reopening, there were so many concerts and festivals, be awar…
…t months of 2024, we will tour Spain. Around May we will tour Europe. We have some very good news about heavy metal festivals we will play in the summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdadtnK2VJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeOdlYlMnc0 Hitten on Facebook…
…say 30 years ago, but when the execution and delivery are outstanding, people will be hard pressed not to celebrate this triumphant outing for years to come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDLXl_BaRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrMa26D7rKg Solitary Sabred on Facebook…
