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January 9th, 2020 Features

Konvent – The Crushing Weight of Doom

…er], that’s fine as well. Heidi Withington Brink: But mostly we’ve seen eye-to-eye on what to wear. Dead Rhetoric: You had a demo two years ago – how did you get hooked up with Napalm Records after that? Heidi Withington Brink: Last year [2018], in January we played in a festival in Copenhagen called Copenhell Freezes Over, which is the big festival in Denmark. It’s a one-day, networking type of festival where they invite a lot of business people…

January 2nd, 2020 Features

Human Fortress – Another Power Reign

…forward. The thing is, actually we are one of the bands who has a very well-defined musical direction. We don’t actually stray very far from it. It’s funny, because we are six guys who listen to lots of different kinds of music, but we have a common ground and that’s where we operate. Dead Rhetoric: When looking up background information about you, you are attributed with the following assessment of music on your personal Wikipedia page: ‘there ar…

December 29th, 2019 Features

Meshiaak – Misery with a Twist

…to work with, that are open-minded. The world has become a little bit close-minded. Either you are left or right – but you are both wrong. It’s us the people, and the people in the government, they don’t really care about us. If we understood that we have the power as people, regardless of religion, color, whatever, I think things would change. People are so divided and they’ve designed it like that. It brings massive division. I could go on for h…

December 8th, 2019 Features

Moonspell – Legacy of Sin

…tations in check. I’m not going to be a millionaire like Metallica, but hopefully I won’t have to play live until I’m 70. People have different definitions of success, and for me, it’s to keep Moonspell interesting and fresh. Also to release a kick ass album in 2020 with a lot of different ideas – picking up from where we left, but also trying to reach new places. That’s our plan. We have our ambitions and hope to make an impact with fans. It’s be…

November 24th, 2019 Features

Skyblood – An Alter Ego Voice

…ic: Where did you want to come across lyrically on this record? Levén: I re-wrote quite a lot of demo lyrics when I was out with Trans-Siberian Orchestra last year. Because when you are out with TSO you have a lot of time to actually work on something else, during the touring and all the non-days. I got help when I found the artwork I was going to use for the album, we redid the artwork and I came up with the name Skyblood. Suddenly I had a charac…

November 19th, 2019 Features

Eclipse – Shifting the Paradigm

…ic venue in Belgium called Biebob, where a lot of great bands have played before and we have played here a couple of times before as well. Dead Rhetoric: Paradigm is the latest Eclipse album. What did you want to accomplish with this set of material that maybe differs a little bit from previous Eclipse records? Mårtensson: For every record we always try to find out what Eclipse can sound like. When you start out as a kid, you always start by imita…

November 4th, 2019 Features

Turbokill – Churning Firepower

…Dead Rhetoric: You signed with Steamhammer/SPV and recorded your debut full-length Vice World – which consists of the four songs on your self-titled independent EP plus several newer songs. How did the songwriting and recording sessions go for this effort – and what do you hope the listeners will take away from the band on this record? Dietrich: In the first part, Ronny Schuster is the main composer of the melodies of the songs – he has a good fee…

October 9th, 2019 Features

Ray Alder – Floating in Water

…landscape. We reached out to Ray while he’s home in Spain, and after a brief blip in Skype connection we got down to learning the players assembled for the record, what he wanted to accomplish in the songwriting, beyond a lot of talk regarding Fates Warning and his thoughts on the ever-changing music consumption model. Dead Rhetoric: What the Water Wants is the first solo album of your career. Tell us why now seems like the best time to create th…

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

…that. We have a friend who is a professional photographer, so we had some Skype sessions about what to do with it. We wanted to show a person, for me who is kind of a goddess, who slowly disappears. We were somewhat inspired by the show American Gods. To me, the cover is about a goddess who will be forgotten. With less people worshiping her, she begins to be forgotten and disappears. That’s my take on it – to be forgotten. Dead Rhetoric: What are…

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

…the same level of quality, so we tried this road. To be able to spend three-four months in the studio like we always did before, we needed something more on top. We collected some extra money, we wanted $45,000 and in the end we reached $70,000. We can invest more money into videos, special guests because we wanted the variety. We are happy about this, we don’t know if it’s something we will do again, if you want to guarantee a minimum level of qu…

June 30th, 2019 Features

Constantine – Humility in the Aftermath

…’s Shredcore which was an all-instrumental affair. Outside of being a vocal-driven effort, where do you see the major differences in terms of the songwriting and recording this time? Constantine: As you stated very correctly, it’s totally different because the first (solo album) was all instrumental, whereas Aftermath is an album that features all vocals and only one instrumental track. The songwriting approach was not so different from the Shredc…

June 16th, 2019 Features

Smoulder – Epic Empowerment

…sigoth are really good friends of ours. It’s a combination of all the above- Canada is definitely getting more attention which is great. Canada is such a big country that you can’t always have a camaraderie – if you live 4,000 kilometers from a band that sounds like you, you may not even be able to know they exist! (laughs). Dead Rhetoric: Sarah also has her hands in numerous metal related activities as a writer in her own right, activities relate…

May 21st, 2019 Features

Axenstar – Honor Thy Time

…fferent side to your vocals – especially during the verses? Winterwild: Yes- it was kind of hard. Jens came up with the music and the riffs- he had this cool clean guitar part and we really wanted that on the album. I struggled a lot with both the lyrics and the melody of the vocals. I really had a hard time – I tried a lot of different approaches. It was not an easy song to write actually. Dead Rhetoric: Were there any songs that took on a bigger…

May 16th, 2019 Features

Paragon – Defenders for Controlled Demolition

…at riff from that song – and then we had some dystopia lyrics on the record- so maybe we need some science-fiction parts on the intro as well. I told Piet and he made this synthesizer intro. I sent him some John Carpenter stuff, as I’m a big fan of his films and the music. He sent it to us, and we use that as the intro for the show and the heavy parts we play for ourselves. Dead Rhetoric: Being an avid metal follower, what are your feelings regard…

April 21st, 2019 Features

Grand Magus – Strike of the Wolf

…ces that I’ve had, all fantasies, emotions, and feelings. My lyrics are a reflection of all that. For me as a person- nature has always been a very strong fascination. Nature has a big place in our music as a whole. Any particular things that I remember – not really. I think it’s the whole process of you becoming you. It’s hard to pinpoint any particular happenings or anything like that. Dead Rhetoric: During your time with Spiritual Beggars, did…

April 18th, 2019 Features

Exumer – Unleash the Hostility

…bums and tour in more areas than they ever could have imagined. Their fifth-length Hostile Defiance contains a mixture of mid-tempo to slightly faster thrash tracks – blistering the landscape with ripping hooks and pit-worthy transitions that have as much in common with the early Bay Area brigade (Exodus, Slayer, Legacy/Testament) as they will with the German brigade. Feeling the need to penetrate the brain of vocalist Mem Von Stein, he was happy…

April 7th, 2019 Features

Eternity’s End – Hotter Than Fire

…oduction, obviously you guys are doing a lot of the recording separately in-home studios- and came together with Piet from Iron Savior to mix and master. Discuss the challenges of pulling this together to make it sound so complete and cohesive? Münzner: I recorded all the rhythm guitars at my place, Phil recorded all his leads at his place, Hannes recorded his drums at his studio- so there were so many things going on. The challenge, with all the…

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

…concept. People I knew from the industry, many I had never recorded with before- actually most of them except for Nils. The idea of working with some singers that I really admired was appealing to me. That’s why I decided to do this – writing songs along the way with some of these people in mind. If I was going to get a singer like Chuck, it wasn’t going to be a light song. The whole album is pretty heavy actually. When I started writing and cons…

March 3rd, 2019 Features

Týr – Grounded in Honesty

…Joensen: Getting the first international record deal with Napalm Records definitely felt like a big move, and everything that followed after that. Our first experience touring with a tour bus, for an example- I really feel that we had done something extraordinary that no other band from the Faroes had ever done. Since then – doing a headliner tour in the US for the first time in many years last year was a very good feeling, we have some more head…

January 7th, 2019 Features

Torian – Thunderous Storms

…e things I would have to say as a young musician that you should choose carefully. You’ve got to make your own experiences- there is no other way. When I was younger, I only wanted to rock and roll. My earliest band was a thrash metal band, and before the thing became serious, we broke up. Dead Rhetoric: What are the future plans for Torian to support this record over the next year? Delius: We want to play gigs. We are searching for a booking agen…

December 9th, 2018 Features

Kalidia – Contenders to the Throne

…e album two years ago. I had a little part in one of the songs. It’s an all-star project that includes over 100 musicians from all around the world. It’s a really big thing. I was really happy when I got the call to join the live band and do some shows. It’s really a great situation with lots of talented musicians. This also led me towards growth, and I’m really happy to be a part of that project too. Dead Rhetoric: Being involved with these diffe…

November 11th, 2018 Features

Artillery – Fear the Rage

…it always been important for the band to spend an equal amount of care and effort into delivering interesting and relevant topics for the listeners to match the effort put into the music portion for the group? Stützer: Yes. Artillery has always had an interest in delivering potent topics from the lyrical side. We want to talk about pollution, the changes within the world, we always try to have an interesting thing in the lyrics. Of course the musi…

November 2nd, 2018 Features

Gama Bomb – Speed and Nostalgia

…knock personally it affected me. I’m still working through some of the non-visible and non-audible damage that that causes, which is damage to your confidence. I feel like I’ve only really finished working on getting my confidence back this year, even though my range came back a year and a half to two years ago. If my headspace was like it is now, I’d have been able to sing that way on Untouchable Glory if I really had to. I was afraid of it. I t…

October 7th, 2018 Features

Amaranthe – Just Be Yourself

…ds them with the core of the band itself. In short, something just as genre-defying and masterfully written as anything else they’ve accomplished. Sitting down for a Skype chat with vocalist Elize Ryd, whom this scribe has had the honor and pleasure of chatting with on multiple occasions, the opportunity arose to go a bit deeper than the norm. Some talk of Helix ensues, but there’s also some honest talk about the stresses of finding a new vocalist…

September 13th, 2018 Features

U.D.O. – Made of Steel

…Decadent, and then I would also produce albums together in the past with Stefan Kaufmann. This time, I was happy that Jacob wanted to be involved more- he was already involved in Steelhammer and Decadent, and in the Navy Metal Night video – he was involved in the mastering and also a little bit in the mixing. When I was in Denmark in the studio, he opened up and said that one day he would love to produce a U.D.O. album. So here we go- and I think…

September 3rd, 2018 Features

Brainstorm – Haunting at Midnight

…well so we can concentrate on the music a little bit more. There’s no five-year-old boy calling us in the middle of the night saying ‘daddy- I miss you’ when you are in Russia. It’s just the wife calling you, ‘hey where is the money- I must buy some new shoes’ or my son saying ‘dad- buy me some cigars or vodka’. That’s the deal these days. Dead Rhetoric: What’s on the agenda for Brainstorm as far as touring and promotion over the next twelve mont…