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January 9th, 2020 Features

Konvent – The Crushing Weight of Doom

…It’s a tough question – for me, I really like the Deftones, Tool, Black Sabbath. Of course, Guns & Roses. Heidi Withington Brink: Maybe we should choose an album each? Rikke Emilie List: I’m thinking about three vocalists in my case – I feel like every time I saw bands onstage, you would always get wrapped up in it. Not necessarily that you wanted to be up on stage, but the vibe of being in a band was appealing. I think every band I ever saw live…

January 2nd, 2020 Features

Human Fortress – Another Power Reign

…s a job, they don’t have the fan aspect anymore. I really try to keep my 15-year-old alive within. Music is very interesting and exciting for me, and not only in making music but also consuming music. Dead Rhetoric: Do fellow musicians ever seek you out for advice regarding technique or business-related questions – and if so, what sorts of advice or topics do you have them think about? Monsanto: A couple of them – normally younger guys. I’ve produ…

December 29th, 2019 Features

Meshiaak – Misery with a Twist

…chnical sometimes, and he’ll rope me in to keep things solid and more metal-based. Some of the progressive stuff obviously gets in there. Dead Rhetoric: How important do you believe the embellishment of keyboards, orchestration, and extra narrative/background elements become when developing this material – and is it something you become aware of when performing these songs in front of live audiences? Wells: It’s only a couple of songs that have a…

December 8th, 2019 Features

Moonspell – Legacy of Sin

…ndows were smashed on the tour bus. Everyone was afraid and nervous, even Abbath. Get well Abbath, by the way. Abbath was a bit nervous about playing in Oslo, because he was from Bergen. We went on stage, and we just had Wolfheart – you could hear a tear drop falling between the songs. For me, it was just magical – we stood our ground and played our songs. When things cooled down after a few years, we went there with Samael and Rotting Christ, and…

November 24th, 2019 Features

Skyblood – An Alter Ego Voice

…012, and I really cherish those three albums. I like that, I like Gothic Kabbalah which we did with Therion as well. I’ve done a lot of different things, I did a couple of albums with Gus G, the guitar player. We had some really cool shows together and he’s a really close friend of mine as well. That’s the cool thing about playing music, you have a lot of chances to play with great musicians. So many good musicians and great people to play with to…

November 19th, 2019 Features

Eclipse – Shifting the Paradigm

…fill us in on the recent lineup changes within Eclipse, as you’ve lost long-time bassist Magnus to replace him with Vicke Crusner, the brother of your drummer Philip? What circumstances took place for this change? Erik Mårtensson: Having a band is like having a second family, and it takes a lot of time and effort to give 100% in a band. We felt in the recent years Magnus the old bass player couldn’t give 100%, and it affected the mood and the whol…

November 4th, 2019 Features

Turbokill – Churning Firepower

…of the cover in my head, I drew it and this would function with this little 80’s touch. I’m a big fan of the 80’s so I wanted to integrate that. I went to Geno Genma because he is a great graphic artist and he also made a lot of great stuff with Alpha Tiger. I wanted it to be in this style of comic drawing, I had this picture and he made it in a better way. He made it absolutely awesome, the artwork. I wanted to make a cover which is exciting and…

October 9th, 2019 Features

Ray Alder – Floating in Water

…lbums. Now it seems that everyone is so busy – Joey is in Armored Saint, Bobby is in two or three different bands, he’s always playing, Jim is doing the Arch/Matheos record, I’m living in another country. It seemed like the right time, I needed something to do- I didn’t want to sit around and wait to do another album with Fates. I figured I would try to do a solo album. I met a few people in Spain – said we were thinking about doing this and we st…

September 22nd, 2019 Features

Sascha Paeth’s Masters of Ceremony – Another Added Dimension

…possibilities for vocal lines. A song like “Die Just a Little”, it’s a half-ballad with a heavy mid-part and she screams like bloody hell! It’s amazing, and the most hard rock song on the album, but she turned it into a beast in a way. It just gave the whole (album) another dimension. Her growing is hard to say – I think she sings differently on this album. I had a certain demand for a certain voice that we tried out in the beginning. After we fou…

September 15th, 2019 Features

Elvenking – All Hail the Runes

…play with all the time. The one thing that I always love are stories, well-written games with well-written stories. Lately there are a lot of games that are focusing on the story, and that makes me happy. One of the latest games I love lately is Life Is Strange, one of the coolest things I’ve played, seen, or read – it is just like a movie. That was one of the best ones I’ve played in the current years. Dead Rhetoric: What are some of the common…

September 5th, 2019 Features

Imperium Dekadenz – Black Forest Metal

…lies to all bands in Germany. I think that Germans are more open to having bands coming to bands coming into the country from abroad, that’s our opinion. That doesn’t just apply to black metal, but all types of heavy metal bands. Dead Rhetoric: What would you still like to see Imperium Dekadenz achieve? Horaz: I think that Vespasian and I, we have different goals. For me, it’s about making art and spending time on tours. That’s the most important…

August 4th, 2019 Features

The Offering – Welcome Home

…into the studio right now, I’m still having a little PTSD thinking about it- the self-criticism over and over again. At least the next year and a half we are going to tour like nobody’s business, if we are lucky enough. If someone asks us to go, we are going. Nishad: We aren’t supposed to submit another record until at least 2021, and that will come up very soon. We are a band that takes a long time to write – I may start writing early next year….

July 18th, 2019 Features

Turilli/Lione Rhapsody – Stepping Forward

…image took the priority over the substance. As an artist, I have to bring back the substance. Back then we would have an image that made for ridiculous videos, ridiculous photos, some things that Fabio and I are ashamed of us. The second half of our career, the people understood what we were trying to go for. We are making music based on our hearts and soul. Our English lyrics in the beginning are really cheesy, but now with this new band, I love…

June 30th, 2019 Features

Constantine – Humility in the Aftermath

…rnational scale? Constantine: We have a very great scene. I can name a few bands- Rotting Christ, Septic Flesh, Firewind as you mentioned with Gus G, 1000Mods, which is a more stoner rock band but we are all in the same family. Lucifer’s Child, Suicidal Angels, these are great bands. I agree with you regarding Gus G, he has paved the way for everybody. He is a role model to look up to, he was the first from Greece to have this amount of success, a…

June 16th, 2019 Features

Smoulder – Epic Empowerment

…t’s over- you want to put it on again. When I think of battle records, Omen- Battle Cry, the second that is over, I’m ready to play it again. I feel like that with King of the Dead – Cirith Ungol, hundreds of other albums that are short, punchy and to the point. The ultimate goal is to have someone finish your album and want to press play again – and if your album is too long, that’s not going to happen, unless you are Reverend Bizarre and then I…

May 21st, 2019 Features

Axenstar – Honor Thy Time

…oric: You’ve discussed in the past a love for Lost Horizon, witnessing the band live back before they disbanded. What was it like hearing the studio material in a live setting with one of the most pure, powerful singers in the world in Daniel Heiman – and do you ever hope for a third studio record someday? Winterwild: (laughs). I would hope they do a third studio record. When I saw them live, it’s incredible how his voice was almost even better li…

May 16th, 2019 Features

Paragon – Defenders for Controlled Demolition

…The old, classic bands that will cease to exist in the next years, Black Sabbath already, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Ozzy are still around, Saxon is still around – but they won’t last so much longer. They get into the charts and sell a lot of records. Then we have these more commercial metal bands, a lot of new bands which are in the charts but I don’t like because they don’t sound like metal and it doesn’t seem like they are into the music, but t…

April 21st, 2019 Features

Grand Magus – Strike of the Wolf

…’ve done I’d say we started out with a much more obvious, Ozzy-era Black Sabbath influence and then our initial inspirations – bands like Judas Priest, Manowar, and Dio-era Black Sabbath, became much more obvious the third and fourth albums. That’s pretty much for me tells you what’s been going on. And overall you layer in the epic parts of Bathory – the Hammerheart and Twilight of the Gods records, that’s always been a huge inspiration and I thin…

April 18th, 2019 Features

Exumer – Unleash the Hostility

…Stein: Let me tell you something. The biggest surprise was when we got the band back together, Ray and I in 2008 and then started to tour in 2009. We did a short tour over in Europe and the states. We played five shows and they were all over the place. Wherever we went, we saw these much younger people than us knowing and loving our music. It came to us as a shock, especially when we hit Los Angeles in 2009. That’s the first time we played in the…

April 7th, 2019 Features

Eternity’s End – Hotter Than Fire

…at understanding of space travel and weapon technology. But they are still barbaric and live by the rule of the sword. They cannot really handle this from a social standard, there’s a lot of unrest in the galaxy. They go on a long travel to Earth and try to destroy the human race, causing cosmic unbalance. This creates a long 900 years interstellar conflict. The lyrics go on to describe this difficult time period. You can see this as being metapho…

March 26th, 2019 Features

Ex Libris – Bringing History to Life

…ts own? van Giersbergen: What I love is that we are doing this process part-by-part. For every chapter, we are writing, rehearsing, pre-production, and then recording. Then we do all the promotion. It means that I haven’t read a single thing about the character for the next chapter. It’s kind of scary because it has to be finished in like 6 months. But on the other hand, it does make sure that I keep my focus. My focus is solely with the one chara…

March 7th, 2019 Features

Walls of Blood – Descension to Ascension

…s and had our names put on them. Came up to the dressing room and gave the band the shirts- and mine was there as well. He was there with his son, who was a fan. Shawn has met a few more people along the way, but he had more time in the band, as I left after three or four years. There you have it. Dead Rhetoric: What’s next on the agenda for Glen Drover over the next year? Would you like to take this material on the road – and if so, how would you…

March 3rd, 2019 Features

Týr – Grounded in Honesty

…w times. I don’t think there is much that would shock many people… I love ABBA and a lot of Scandinavian pop music from the ’70s and ’80s. I know that’s probably not shocking – it takes a lot more to shock people in the metal industry these days. I don’t have any illusions about shocking anybody with my nerdy personality (laughs). Dead Rhetoric: You also have a Patreon account personally. Can you discuss the crowdfunding medium and the engagement/…

January 7th, 2019 Features

Torian – Thunderous Storms

…n band, you have to work harder and harder. For example, there are Swedish bands or bands from Scandinavia where the Germans think they are better so they support these bands. We’ve got to work harder, but there are a true group of fans here who support Torian, that’s great. Sometimes things go better for the foreign bands. Dead Rhetoric: What does success mean to you for Torian and personally as a musician? Delius: That we can play all around Ger…

December 9th, 2018 Features

Kalidia – Contenders to the Throne

…a Rosellini’s potent vocals. We were able to grab Rosellini for a round of Skype one morning just after the album had been released. We collected her thoughts on the new album, the band’s evolution, her other projects, and her recent degree in veterinary medicine. Dead Rhetoric: How has the response been to The Frozen Throne so far, as it just recently was released? Nicoletta Rosellini: It has been a great response. We got a lot of nice comments o…

November 11th, 2018 Features

Artillery – Fear the Rage

…s a very good musician, he has played in the past with Glenn Hughes, the ex-bassist of Deep Purple, and a lot of other big stars in Denmark as he’s a very good guitar player. He’s very good to discuss things like the specific guitar sound he wants here, giving us good input. He listens to our desires, and we are like twins now in the way we think about the new album. This is the best production he has done for any Artillery album, we are very glad…

November 2nd, 2018 Features

Gama Bomb – Speed and Nostalgia

…ype conversation chuckling at a recent review he came across regarding his band- which according to him states ‘Municipal Waste are running out of inertia … Gama Bomb, another band who haven’t hit the same caliber of popularity, have even less of a reason to exist.’ He follows it up by telling me, ‘if you couldn’t laugh at it, you’d be in the wrong business. You give up a lot to do this – and then you have people sitting on their couch empowered t…

October 7th, 2018 Features

Amaranthe – Just Be Yourself

…s for those from the newer generation. Some bands are inspired by us, some bands are inspired by ‘80s bands, and some are inspired by totally different bands. It’s proof that we have existed for so long that we actually inspire other people. That is fantastic; it’s amazing. It goes for all bands. Everyone is inspired by someone. I was inspired by Nightwish and Evanescence. Even though we didn’t turn out sounding that way, it’s still a very big par…

September 13th, 2018 Features

U.D.O. – Made of Steel

…gs contain those undeniable grooves and metal stomp that put the Teutonic, balls to the wall band on the map. We should be so fortunate to enjoy the prolific career of a man who lives for the genre and loves playing for his fans. Reaching out to Udo by Skype the week after this album’s release, we catch up on the work of the record, the contributions of producer Jacob Hansen and Udo’s son on drums Sven, where Udo sees the state of heavy metal toda…

September 3rd, 2018 Features

Brainstorm – Haunting at Midnight

…nds of course, but never ones as big as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath from the past. It’s sad but true. That’s just my opinion. Dead Rhetoric: Where would you say the biggest differences have taken place in your metal career from your beginnings with Lightning and Ivanhoe through your time in Symphorce and Brainstorm? Do you have any specific benchmark moments where you knew you were reaching another level personally or professionally?…