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March 9th, 2021 Features

Profaned – Summoning Ancient Dreams

…ere afflicted with other things too. We have a lot of deaths that are COVID-19-related. Sweden has a lot more dead people per capita. So something has failed. I’m no expert but I have seen our government being slow in its response, a lot of these things take time and they come to decisions too late. We have laws in Sweden that say you can’t lock down the country. We have a very strong freedom for the individual. We only have one law that allows th…

March 4th, 2021 Features

Sorizon – Arise with Thanatos

…w years, brings me a lot of stress relief. Makes me feel good. I have a one-year-old puppy, German short haired pointer, take him on walks all the time. His name is Ronnie James, I am sure you can guess where that is from. I live with my fiancé, that keeps me occupied with my day job and music. Mann: We’ve all been friends for a long time now. I think it’s a great group of dudes. We all have different hobbies. Especially during the pandemic I got…

February 28th, 2021 Features

The Crown – Hammering to Destroy

…2022 for The Crown to push this record? Tervonen: First of all, I feel so bad for the bands that rely on the live touring compared to us. When they have their bands as their major source of income, with COVID it’s been a bad year for them. For us, the live situation it doesn’t create problems in that sense. It’s impossible to plan anything as far as touring, we don’t have a single show booked. I see a lot of friends that are booking shows, and th…

February 2nd, 2021 Features

Warzaw – Freewheel Burning

…ullumstrø) the other guitar player in Warzaw. Kind of started with Black Sabbath and grew from there, Metallica, then Children of Bodom from Finland as I was a huge fan of theirs. (Trond) played guitar, and I got inspired from him. I took some formal lessons, but I was a terrible student (laughs). It lasted for a couple of years, but I got more into the guitar after I quit. In the beginning there was a little bit of classical guitar training, but…

January 17th, 2021 Features

Nervosa – Swirling in Chaos

…kground. Mia has been involved in black metal scene for a long while with Abbath and Triumph of Death, and Eleni has worked with a lot of progressive metal bands, and these are things that are different that Nervosa never had before. Dead Rhetoric: You recorded the album with producer Martin Furia in Spain – what did you enjoy most about working with Martin and how did he help shape or improve the final output, were there any specific areas he hel…

January 14th, 2021 Features

Iron Mask – The Masters Return

…anthems, speedier double kick monsters, and the occasional left field folk-ish or ballad/epic effort that prove the band’s strong musical capabilities in a catchy, entertaining song to song format. We reached out to Dushan via Skype to provide details on the newest singer Mike Slembrouck, his thoughts on Master of Masters, thoughts on the band’s expanding following, plus special plans for his love of superheroes and what he will be working on for…

December 29th, 2020 Features

Wreck-Defy – Substance & Integrity

…Megadeth, Testament, and Annihilator among others. But Wreck-Defy is a full-on band – releasing their third album for Powers That Be that can easily rival a lot of what we’ve heard from the Bay Area scene as well as containing a bit more of a melodic aspect while keeping up with the modern times. Crunchy riffs, solid grooves, versatile vocals, dynamic tempos – it’s all in there and more. We reached out to guitarist Matt Hanchuck on Skype to get th…

December 27th, 2020 Features

Gama Bomb – Stirring the Savage Seas

…ning to us. It’s good to be on a label that can capitalize on a younger fanbase with younger bands. Byrne: To Joe’s point, at least we are not a menagerie kind of thing. I am still discovering bands who are on Prosthetic all the time. They’ve got Venom Prison, they’ve got Vile Creature, they’ve got everything. It’s great to be in the middle of this huge, diverse bunch of bands. Their history, they’ve been there to build some seriously important me…

December 20th, 2020 Features

Iron Savior – Energy Overhang

…loween and Blind Guardian, not even the real life challenges of cancer for bassist Jan-Soren Eckert or the devastating coronavirus epidemic could stop this quartet from delivering more of their steady anthems and uplifting hooks/melodies to their faithful followers. We reached out to guitarist/vocalist Piet Sielck again on a busy day of Skype interviews, and he was happy to give us an update on Jan’s cancer and recovery, the infusion of new ideas…

November 30th, 2020 Features

Accuser – Smooth Contamination

…a good reason to call this Accuser. Dead Rhetoric: How did it feel to come back to the band René, as you had been away for a few years? Had you been paying attention to what they have been doing? Schütz: Yes, I’ve been away for exactly ten years. It was a good break, but Accuser has always been a big part of my life, musically. In the first era I was there until Taken by the Throat, and then when we had the reunion back in 2003. It feels very, ver…

November 6th, 2020 Features

DGM – All About the Songs

…m I ask them for some input. I don’t want to be the only songwriter in the band- but they say they trust me completely. Why would they change? Nowadays I do what I like and what we like. Every idea I still send to the guys and ask them if it is still DGM enough for what we play. Sometimes we have even thought about changing the name of the band, as it’s totally different from what DGM used to be years ago. It’s difficult, it’s not easy to start ov…

October 25th, 2020 Features

Leaves’ Eyes – Vikings for Life

…for the record. It’s the death of Hardrada and there are all of these flashbacks of adventures coming back, so of course we have to write epic music for that! We also had been touring and we had a lot of great shows and we got a lot of energy and impact from the live feel. I think those two things go hand in hand. When we were writing new material, we knew the background of it. On The Sign of the Dragonhead album, the last song “Waves of Euphoria”…

October 21st, 2020 Features

Saul – Rising Up

…o feel something. Dead Rhetoric: What are some goals that you have for the band? Bedsaul: The main goal is to get back onto the road. Releasing the record October 23, we are hoping things kick back off early in 2021 and we can get out on the road and support this record. We want to get out there and see everyone who is buying it, and want to support us on stage. That’s our main goal for next year. Dead Rhetoric: Do you have any plans set for 2021?…

October 20th, 2020 Features

Humavoid – Trapped Inside Aluminum Rain

…y when I was a kid, I started to make music on the computer. There were DOS-based programs on the computer, I started to make music, whatever music I felt like, and I was learning the guitar. So I tried to play the songs I created, and my composer side and instrumental side connected. It took a couple of years to connect that. And then later on I tripped on heavy death metal stuff, slam stuff. Morbid Angel, Hate Eternal stuff like that- at the sam…

September 9th, 2020 Features

Winter’s End – Align with the Sea

…solid and unified. Diego: When I joined the band, I thought it was a Boston-based band, but when I showed up at the studio I realized that many band members are spread out all over the place, sometimes 90 minutes away to play together. These guys are really driven and they would prepare beforehand together, the parts are all tight. Ryan: The level of commitment, I feel that we’ve got that right now. Dead Rhetoric: How does the band balance the sea…

August 26th, 2020 Features

Vanishing Point – Driven with Compassion

…the time we were recording the album, we’ve written a lot of music. We probably have three albums worth of pre-produced material ready to go, without lyrics and vocals of course. In terms of the music, it’s all there. We are not sure we are going to be able to play live, for a while. We have an Australian tour booked for the East and West Coast for March 2021. We are hoping we can do it. If we can’t play live, we will go back in the studio. We ma…

August 18th, 2020 Features

Unleash the Archers – Enter the Abyss

…ld get together safely. In fact, Grant couldn’t even come for the character-based parts we had to travel for the venue that it was filmed in and he would have had to quarantine for fourteen days away from his family afterwards. We filmed the playthrough parts separately, and then we filmed the character-based parts separately. We had small crews for both of them, no more than six people including the band members is the rule according to our gover…

July 26th, 2020 Features

Onslaught – Feel the Force

…are talking millions of streams over a six month period – if you put that back to the 80’s when they were paid for, the figures would be astronomical. But out of a million streams, you are getting not something close to a pound or a dollar per stream – and that’s not fair. I had to pay a subscription for Spotify for like ten pounds to register our album, I’d hate to think how many streams that is to pay them to register my album (laughs). It seem…

June 28th, 2020 Features

Paradise Lost – Solidity and Grace

…ting videos in this social media driven day compared to the era of MTV Headbangers’ Ball ruling the airwaves? Holmes: We used the same video director that we’ve used for the last few videos Ash Pears – you get along with him and he gets the band. We’ve worked with video directors in the past that even though they may be highly respected, they don’t necessarily get the band, and therefore the video is not going to work. It’s not necessarily about t…

June 13th, 2020 Features

Marrowfields – Low, Slow, and Brooding

…y guitar and use the home stereo as an amp. Once I started playing Black Sabbath riffs and getting into playing Metallica riffs, I was hooked and I wanted to be in bands. I switched over to bass for a while because every band I joined, that was a really difficult role to fill. I got the dorky little brother of guitar by playing bass. I kept doing it forever. Pretty much all of our friends are involved in the New England metal scene in some way. In…

June 3rd, 2020 Features

Warning Sign – Redemption of the Crown

…t out records and have them released internationally through stuff like CD Baby, Bandcamp, and have other outlets like yourself take an interest in what we do. It is a pretty cool spot to be in. Having all the machine behind a label, all the marketing power behind that would help us out a lot, but it probably would require us to be available for touring a lot. Which intertwines with the challenges talked about previously, so we would have to consi…

May 17th, 2020 Features

Sorcerer – Lamenting Spirits

…in music, and even some solid discussion of the Tony Martin-era of Black Sabbath. Dead Rhetoric: Lamenting of the Innocent is the third Sorcerer album. Considering the critical approval and fan reception to your last album The Crowning of the Fire King from 2017, did the band members place more pressure upon themselves during the process to make things stronger and better than the last time? Kristian Niemann: That would be a huge yes! We are alway…

May 14th, 2020 Features

Firewind – Resonate with Consistency

…bit of a different song for you to write and develop, it has that Black Sabbath “Heaven and Hell” type feel to it… Gus G: It was one of those riffs I had, like you mention with a “Heaven and Hell”, “Headless Cross” type of thing. I knew it was a cool song and a little bit different for Firewind, classic traditional metal. I thought with the right vocal line, it still could be a cool song. I sent it to Herbie and here’s the idea with this – outsid…

April 16th, 2020 Features

Wolfheart – Fire and Chaos

…c videos, that’s how I grew up starting to know about bands is through Headbangers Ball for example. To me it’s important to introduce the band with music videos and the visual aspect. It started to get complicated a little bit with fire this time. It is a little bit of a chaotic element, and I don’t want to use the stage pyro with gas because it looks industrial to me. Everything becomes too timed, a bit too industrial, too nice and well-planned….

April 7th, 2020 Features

Ad Infinitum – The Story Begins…

…I really love that. Dead Rhetoric: As you were saying some of those older bands, is that where you initially grabbed from with Rage of Light when you did the “Lollipop” cover? Bonny: [Laughs} That was not my decision, but I really enjoyed it! It was actually Jon [Pellet], the main composer of Rage of Light, was really into trance and electronic music. That’s how he created the sound of the band. At some point, he thought about a cover of Aqua? I…

April 4th, 2020 Features

Stallion – All in for Metal

…t for Stallion to balance out the speed/heavy tracks with occasional bluesy-based hard rock anthems like “Time to Reload” as well as the longer, Scorpions-esque ballad “Die with Me”? Äxxl: Yes I think so. I like to have a balanced record. It just so happens that we write the right amount of songs in each style, that you just have to put them in the right order and you’ll have that basic balance. It was the same this time around. I don’t know if I…

March 19th, 2020 Features

Heaven Shall Burn – No Truth Without Sacrifice

…omething. Then the song goes into more of a death metal thing, and there’s Bathory-like part. It’s almost like a small, metal opera in itself. We always wanted to do a song that was a rollercoaster of styles and emotions, and we are really happy that we had the space on the record and the time to create a song like that. We are really proud of it. Dead Rhetoric: I wanted to go back to the strings on the album. Where was the decision made to includ…

March 5th, 2020 Features

Burning Witches – Metal Adrenaline

…and subsequent recoveries, thoughts on releasing new material on an annual basis, band chemistry and respecting the good times as well as the bad, and thoughts also on overcoming discrimination within the metal music industry. Dead Rhetoric: You’ve had to face a couple of surgeries within the band during the latter part of last year – Romana having an emergency appendix surgery and yourself with a back surgery. How are you both feeling currently,…

March 1st, 2020 Features

Stitched Up Heart – Out of the Darkness

…t watching the shows and the other bands, hanging out in the audience front-and-center, hanging out with people the whole time, and then going to people’s houses and hanging out there until whenever. We were a lot more social, but as time goes on and touring happens – you get tired and things can get a little more dangerous. You kind of have to be a bit more careful as the fanbase grows. We’ve realized that we can’t always be out at the shows. The…

February 22nd, 2020 Features

Hyperia – Striving for Growth

…around the country and recording and releasing a three-song EP plus a full-length follow-up. Their approach to the genre incorporates melodic singing along with screams and growls, plus a varied musical aspect that can have everything from traditional to death and technical influences. Their latest album Insanitorium has been receiving great praise in the press, which led me to seek out the husband and wife tandem of guitarist Colin Ryley and voc…