…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…
…olid 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…
…t 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…
…bes Tobias Jansson puts across in his singing – check out the emotional mid-range to soaring, Rainbow-esque highs throughout “Heartless”, or the soothing harmony engagement in the reflective “As Promises Burn” for two specific markers to his powerful control. The keyboards and guitars sculpt the sound for the band in a 70’s meets 80s/90’s mishmash – racing off the highway in a Firewind/Dio-esque manner for “The Great Escape”, while getting into a…
…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…
…lot of stuff in a short amount of time, and I hope to be able to keep along this same path. Little morsels of wisdom – it would be more like a symposium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8CdVlAK7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTPn7NCtPc Durbin on Facebook…
…bum 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…
…etween softer passages to gritty measures with “In Death With Trust”, a mid-album highlight. Stunted guitar-work syncopated next to bright keyboard lines shifts next to distant melodies / clean accents for dynamic difference to the good on “1939” – the main drum parts very militant in a mid-tempo control that could easily command audience clapping throughout. The diversity from heads down heavy tracks to the occasional, thoughtful power ballad or…
…n offer on multiple angles without compromise, facing forward to deliver a top-notch record that takes what Nevermore and Communic offer to the next level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaKbLmb1ySE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFD_qJQhP0E Manticora on Facebook…
…was done with my studies, a psychologist, I was going to turn into a grown-up, have a full-time job, and if I’m going to have any flexible time it’s now while I’m writing my master’s thesis. I just knew I wanted to do something that was more akin to the international bands than what I was used to here. There are some progressive bands but most of us listen to stuff like Opeth, Tool, and I wanted that kind of dynamic where it’s still dark and heav…
…finitely tours. We will tour the US for sure, hopefully Europe again. Festival dates, we will want to jump on. We want to play as much as we can this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvbV8J2EVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuw4F8hRyCc Lord Dying on Facebook…
…d about the band is that you have all of this stuff that you compact into 3-4 minutes, rather than stretching it out over 8-9 minutes. It’s always nice for me, at this point in my life, that you can take those big, epic sounds and condense them into something more digestible and easy to listen to by fusing that pop side too. Premberg: That’s the cinematic, epic feel of it. It’s hard to write music in 3-4 minutes because you have so many things you…
Debuting in 2017 with an album of pop-turned-metal covers in Rhapsodies in Black, and composed of all-star vocalists from the symphonic and modern metal scenes, Exit Eden hit the ground running. But when you have 4 very busy vocalists in their own right, it might take a bit of time for a second round to come through. But low and behold, here we sit eight years later with Femmes Fatales, their second full-length. Now composed of three members, and…
…ept European/ South American artists better in the symphonic, power-laden metal realm, do not discount the abilities of North American bands putting their own stamp/ seasoning on this ever-popular genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qElZWlBdXv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnvRIeqNVs Everdawn official website Everdawn on Facebook…
…lbum release in New Jersey. We will play Venera from start to finish, it will be a one-off. We want to look at tours in 2024, nothing is confirmed so far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qElZWlBdXv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tnvRIeqNVs Everdawn on Facebook…
…oured with them, and we were just a bunch of kids touring. They were super professional at that time. In the way they organized the merchandise, the way they did things it was very different. It pushed me more to learn how to do things properly and more in a professional way. Every time we share and tour with other bands, we learn. And I think other bands also learn things from us. We now have years of experience. Panza: If I have to give any tips…
…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…
…, Deflorantism showcases Junya’s talent as something to keep your eyes and ears on in the future. Feel free to check out his other project, Zemeth as well, if you want your melodic death metal to swing in a more neo-classical and power direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHYpaeKl9Ag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq37Zip9P1I&pp=ygUOYmxvb2R5IGN1bXNob3Q%3D Bloody Cumshot on Facebook Bloody Cumshot on Instagram…
…am hearing a crappy streaming MP3 or something like that. As far as the hi-fi playback goes, it’s more or less the same. To the first part of your question, I think it’s great. Musicians want to be heard, right? My attitude has been, and always has been, it should be accessible and on as many formats as possible. Whatever format a particular listener prefers, why would you not want to provide that? From a limited cassette to the Spotify version….
…it’s been very surprising indeed, because the band formed just one year-and-a-half ago! We got a bunch of songs, we recorded them, and that’s it! We choose the more catchy and straight in your face; it’s a demo, so you don’t need to be so bothered after all! I didn’t expect such a thing! Consider that we’ll have our first album out soon, and we re-recorded “Krushing All Altars,” “Sepulchrist,” and the title track with something new! Also, the cove…
…ich was a song we released as another project. Those songs were more fringe-y as far as the use of orchestra or being more new age-y, in Frank’s case. “Crater” was my contribution, which ended up being more like a catchy rock/metal song with just like weird time signatures, for me as a Tool fan, I guess that just kind of came out [laughs]. There was that diversity that carried over to this record. But with that being the case, what I think it all…
…sed in the Netherlands, and they are all based in Brazil. It’s a twelve-and-a-half-hour flight to get there. The culture difference is huge. We had different visions of how business should be dealt with. That’s normal, and that’s okay when you have different backgrounds. You have different ways of dealing with the business. I also felt it wasn’t my calling to be full-time in a death metal band. I really enjoyed my time in Crypta, they are very har…
…ming out in their rehearsal space with these songs. They asked Tommi the ex-drummer and Markus the ex-singer to play. From there Markus helped us record the first demo at his studio. Dead Rhetoric: Do you remember Miika when you joined the group, what was exciting about being in this band? Kokko: (laughs). Well, I didn’t have any expectations. I was looking for a new band as my previous band had broken up a couple of years before that. I could thi…
…ecruited the musicians who are now with you? Hurd: Yes. It started as a one-man project. I didn’t want it as a one-man project, but it probably kicked things off for the best. I didn’t have any other musicians to play with out in Dripping Springs, Texas, it’s a country small town. There weren’t guys itching to play melodic death, doom metal. (laughs). It’s not a whole lot of people to choose from. When I moved to Austin, which is twenty miles over…
…go abroad as well. Go across the borders into the rest of Europe. Introducing my music to as many people as I can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmSPF-Hdgks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EJA5kZlvxU Michael Catton on Facebook…
…. The versatility between shifting tempos, stellar musicianship, and adequate hook/groove parts will be rewarded to those fervent followers of the genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMUHIwNo890 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1tQEh1UKJ8 Sadus on Facebook…
…d and put into some sort of viable time capsule, whether that’s as a behind-the-scenes documentary or as bonus material for the aforementioned reissues. Maybe just some fun content for our sites. I’ve also always wanted to do an acoustic album. There’s something so challenging yet rewarding about stripping away the layers and effects and finding out how your songs fare around a fire or in a more intimate setting. I think it would be fun to do an a…
…ons, and stellar main hooks on both the vocal/musical fronts (love the back-and-forth main voicing to gang support) to never lose the plot momentum-wise. Subsequently “Take the Night” and “The Price of War” hit the mark for radio-friendly immediacy, fervent headbangers which sit in that mid-tempo to speedier terrain, guitarist Ben Batres leaning into his vocal melodies with that slightly raspy decadence, straddling the 80’s hard rock to metal/thra…
…ases such as Avalanche. They only need a willing audience to open some minds, as the conviction, talent, and proper professional output is already in place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxS5qvRjmHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKFrV3PfAz0 Temple Balls on Facebook…
