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May 5th, 2024 Features

Freedom Call – Embrace the Silver Romance

…an impact with your music and elevating yourselves to a bigger, wider fan base? Bay: One of the most important turning points of Freedom Call that took place, I remember building up this band with a former member of Gamma Ray, Dan Zimmermann. That was always a conflict of interest between Freedom Call and Gamma Ray, but we didn’t have any troubles. Around 2010-11, we toured with Gamma Ray, and it was only performing with Gamma Ray that we had a s…

January 26th, 2023 Features

Xandria – Behold the Wonders

…at the time the plans aren’t finished yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHtSElUma6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyNK37-a0ec Xandria on Facebook…

January 5th, 2023 Features

Screamer – All Hail the Kingmaker

…demon rider into flesh with the wasteland pirates / warriors. Mad Max LARP-ing basically, but we think we have a fun thing that we can build into a story coming up ahead. It goes with the shirts we make, how we want to look on stage and what we are doing. Everything it’s connected, it’s important to realize that even when you are not a major band, it’s important for the underground bands as well. Dead Rhetoric: David Paul Seymour did the cover ar…

November 13th, 2022 Features

Sodom – Revel in Attack Mode

…o “Gathering of Minds”, it’s the heaviest song on that album. We choose “Jabba the Hut”, that was from my favorite album Get What You Deserve. It was very hard to decide what we would take. I don’t want to decide alone for myself, the whole band decided. Yorck Segatz is a big metal fan, Toni is a Sodom fan, Frank was in the band during the 80’s. That was really interesting. The album really reflects what we have done over the last forty years. Dea…

September 25th, 2022 Features

Rage – Back to Life

…’s okay. 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 (…

July 21st, 2022 Features

Origin – Ripping with Nostalgia

…out in the summer. I sat down, put on one of my favorite movies Conan the Barbarian, inspirational movie to come from nothing and the warrior, conqueror, king. It gets me inspired. Each month I created a new song for the album. Two or three nights a week I would create these ideas, by September I had six songs formed. I started going to Nate’s studio, he used to be in Soulsucker. He helped me out recording demos to a click track that I could send…

June 9th, 2022 Features

Fallen Sanctuary – Headed to the Top

…and the first few years of the 2000’s. Avantasia is still there, but also bands like Sabaton and Bloodbound are totally different in the way they show the power metal style to the people. In this album, you can find some influences from Stratovarius, Helloween, and Angra – and acoustic things for sure. Hopefully the power metal fans will love this album, and we will be able to tour with some of the bands we talked about before. Dead Rhetoric: If…

April 26th, 2022 Features

Sleepless – Eye of the Beholder

…ere have an eclectic taste for metal. I love that people are doing Black Sabbath worship bands, our other band is like Stained Class-era Judas Priest. You’ll get to hear them in a few months. It’s a great moment in time, there’s more openness. There are a young group of people into metal. My oldest son is 21, and he couldn’t stand my music growing up. Now he’s got his battle vest covered in patches, got a bass. The older generation of metal people…

April 21st, 2022 Features

Virocracy – Balancing Brutality and Complexity

…hing videos showing myself trying to walk, there’s Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath playing in the background. When I was about 10 years old, I started watching music videos on MTV 24/7 being crazy about hip-hop and rap. When I turned 14, I started listening to Nirvana, Foo Fighters, or Green Day which made me pick up the guitar when I was 16. I then turned to the traditional thrash metal of the 80’s growing ever more into heavy music up until now. D…

March 15th, 2022 Features

Hyperia – Beware of Silhouettes

…production, and all that. Dead Rhetoric: How did the idea of recording an ABBA cover with “Gimme Gimme Gimme” come into being? I feel it’s always more impressive to take 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…

March 3rd, 2022 Features

Serious Black – Vengeance Is Personal

…e ago. From album to album, it started to be more difficult to work with Urban. Urban had kind of a fuck off attitude. He started to say if you want to record this song, I will not sing it, you will have to search for another singer for this song. Even if we got great offers to do a song. That’s why Jan (Vacik) for instance sings “No Son of Mine”, the Genesis cover, we did back on the limited edition of the debut album As Daylight Breaks. He deliv…

January 20th, 2022 Features

Memory Garden – Distrust of the Messenger

…er have really aimed for success in a way like that. We’ve always had this band as a hobby, creating music that we love. It has been well-received, and we’ve taken all the chances we can get with gigs to do the best possible thing all the time. None of us had any high expectations, really. We weren’t aiming for the stars. Fredrikson: The band this year is going to celebrate its 30th anniversary. It was hard to see that all of a sudden making it bi…

January 6th, 2022 Features

Manimal – All About Honesty

…our work? Nyman: It was very unfortunate that the release had to be pushed back one time. And then we had to push back the vinyl release once more. Obviously, I think we gained on releasing all those singles as we did. The main idea was to release four singles before the album and release the first single in May. Try to build hype, to build something – and also by releasing singles, those songs get a little bit more focus and attention from media…

December 23rd, 2021 Features

Victory – Cutting Right to the Bone

…eer prior to joining the band? Pontillo: At the time, Victory was a bigger band in the late 80’s and early 90’s. I was a very young boy, it was almost impossible to follow them as I was into more of Guns N’ Roses at the time. Later then, I heard some songs of theirs and I enjoyed albums like Culture Killed the Native and Temple of Gold. I actually met Herman Frank two years ago, we were playing with our other bands. I was playing with The Order an…

November 18th, 2021 Features

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…

November 16th, 2021 Features

Beast In Black – A Cyberpunk Connection

…nd still work. And also Basil Poledouris – he composed the first Conan the Barbarian film, Starship Troopers, and Robocop. He has so many immortal melodies. Apart from films, some of my favorite bands in metal are Judas Priest, Manowar, and W.A.S.P. I would say those band members who composed those greatest songs from those bands are my favorite composers. And from the Finnish music scene, Tuomas Holopainen from Nightwish and it used to be Timo To…

November 9th, 2021 Features

Bonded – March into Blackness

…rk really well together, a really good team. I enjoy working with him. The band is doing a co-production with him, every day we are in dialogue about the songs, about the sounds. Working is very easy with him. It’s the same with Björn for the artwork. Not only with the music, we wanted to continue the artwork theme. When you see the scene for the second album, it’s obvious that it’s the same guy who worked on the first one. We don’t want to change…

November 7th, 2021 Features

U.D.O. – The Tank Rolls On

…the album more interesting. There is a good mix of songs – fast songs, mid-tempo songs, ballads, everything you know. A lot of melodies and some really good guitar work on this album. Dead Rhetoric: Subjects such as global climate change, peace problems, shooting amongst minors are some of the topics covered on this album. Does it surprise you on an international scale how humanity hasn’t really evolved or solved some of these problems on Earth –…

November 2nd, 2021 Features

Kryptos – Danger on the Rampage

…round. Is it a challenge with digital technology to get more of an organic, 80’s-oriented sound for the production? Lewis: Yes. Analog is always better. We had to make do with what we have at the moment, digital is pretty much what we have. Our guitarist Rohit, he set up his own studio, and it’s a small studio but it saves us a lot of money and time because we don’t have to book another studio. It was done digitally for the most part, we try to ge…

September 23rd, 2021 Features

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…

August 31st, 2021 Features

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…

August 22nd, 2021 Features

Portrait – When None Becomes One

…ow important is friendship and chemistry within the band? And how does the band handle the balance between regular jobs, music/touring, and the business end of things? Lindell: It’s very important, the friendship part. It’s not like only the songwriting, recording, and fun stuff all the time. We have to go through a lot of challenges, and one can easily get on each other’s nerves. We need to have a relationship where it’s great with each other wit…

July 15th, 2021 Features

Space Chaser – Dealing with Dystopia

…hetoric: Also as a German band, a lot of your influences are more American/Bay Area-oriented. Was that a conscious decision based on your tastes to include more of the American influences versus the domestic thrash approach? Scheuerer: Absolutely. We all love Kreator, that’s for sure. But we have always been more into the American thrash side, than over the German thrash side, for our personal tastes. Like Exodus, Testament. We love Sodom and Krea…

June 20th, 2021 Features

Hannes Grossmann – Away from the Light

…That’s always what I wanted, and successfully did with my career. Looking back at the different bands I have played in, most of them are metal. But that’s because I started with metal. I could play different kinds of music, but of course other metal bands ask me to play with them because I’m associated with that type of music so I stick with it. I really enjoy it. But the variety was important for me, and it really helped me to become a better mu…

June 13th, 2021 Features

Helloween – Pumpkins Aligned

…ed Helloween back in 2003, what was your feeling playing in such an iconic band probably growing up as a fan and then joining? Did you have any fears that had to be conquered or did you feel confident based on your previous work with Freedom Call that 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 an…

June 3rd, 2021 Features

Herman Frank – Unique Voice

…ecorded the drums live, we tested Kevin a hundred times, the same with the bass. I would recommend to every band out there – record in a real studio, it may help you out. Dead Rhetoric: Do you think bands need to get together more and rehearse their material more before going into the studio – versus the work they do at home? Frank: (laughs). For sure. It’s the most important thing you can do. There are a lot of people sitting back on their own an…

May 8th, 2021 Features

Arion – A Modern Evolution

…a pretty versatile album. Even if it is versatile, it’s also very straight-forward. It’s not experimental in a bad way [laughs]. I’m also really proud of the guitars and vocals too. They were really well recorded, and I’m happy for that. Dead Rhetoric: Do you feel that you have a lot of freedom in writing as you don’t stick to particular metal conventions? Kaipainen: Yeah, it does. That’s kind of the key for the happiness that comes along with it…

April 22nd, 2021 Features

Devil Sold His Soul – Emotion and Loss

…g a few songs here and there. Once we got the point where we brought Ed [Gibbs] back into the band and we did the anniversary tour, that was really the first time an album had been thought about. We have kind of been languishing around. We haven’t really had that positive vibe and mental direction to sit down and want to be creative. Ed Gibbs: I would say that everyone in the band has kind of been sorting out their careers and personal lives in th…

April 15th, 2021 Features

Septagon – The Chalice of Madness

…hing, I thought it would be interesting to have something like the Black Sabbath / Headless Cross on the cover, with some people who are dead, different people so you look and it doesn’t matter who you are and what you do, you are going to die anyways. That was the idea to show ghosts on the cover, and I told him I wanted a color scheme that reminds me of the Romero classic zombie films. We had red on the first cover, the next one was green. I wan…

April 8th, 2021 Features

Cryptosis – Futuristic Swarm

…thick enough sound. Laurens playing stereo guitars as well – we are a three-piece band but we have four guitar amps on stage. That was really an eye-opener for us, it changed the sound and the way our vision is towards music. Dead Rhetoric: What are some of the challenges that Cryptosis has had to face as a band so far – and how do you hope to overcome them? Houvast: One of the challenges for us was creating a huge live sound as a three-piece. Whe…