…re nothing is repeating. You get this world, then the next, and then the next. I think everyone sees it differently, and I don’t want to tell people what they should be thinking about listening to it, but there’s a place where it starts from this melancholic area, then there is almost this world of dreamy ‘through an old projector’ escapism. It’s warm, there’s this sort of artificial sunlight that you are under. Then you are pulled back to the rea…
…play in front of that, it was cool. Totally crazy. It was fun to shoot “S.E.X.” – we had a lot of friends come be in the video. It was nice to see all of these women being a part of this. All of the women had our own little moment – mine was with the car, Noelle was with the candles, Kris was surrounded by other women. It was a fun, hard working but great moment. Dead Rhetoric: How did the sax solo for “Love = Love” come about? As it makes sense t…
…at the same time, so we changed the name. The band started with Kride the ex-guitar player and with their other bandmates jamming 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 hav…
…hat’s our goal for 2024 and beyond. That’s in the works right now. We are already working on new material; I have a lot of riffs and ideas in my computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70mRmxgBKDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2blq4pewi8 Hinayana on Facebook…
…egarding other musical projects, there are some collaborations with other bands and our drummer Sali is also active with his thrash/death band Metalfetamina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwDncWatsU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHLHXfNViN8 A Dark Reborn on Facebook…
…where everytime she stopped to take a drink of water, people would chant “H-2-O.” That excitement led into the music itself of course, and looking across the room you could see everything from people swinging lightsticks to the music to others headbanging along. It was hard not to be pulled into Himari’s intimate performance. The heaviest moment came with the thrilling “Keisei Densetsu,” which borders on a melodic death metal rampage at points, an…
…Latin roots, and make things seamless in the progressive/power metal context. Do you believe this has been an important trait to help Angra become an original leader versus a follower in the music world? Andreoli: Absolutely. It’s not so conscious as you would say. It’s part of who we are as musicians to listen to and play different types of music with different people and bring this knowledge into the songwriting process for Angra. The prog elem…
…. The longest track “Twilight of the Black Rose” concludes the record, a six-minute plus outing that contains a calmer intro, choir/ orchestration components, dazzling neoclassical keyboard/guitar break tradeoffs and some operatic melodies to showcases the multi-genre influences at play with these musicians. Years in the making, Unyielding, Unrelenting is a labor of love that has some appeal to the symphonic, power metal marketplace. Pulling songs…
…us appear in one moment, then classic Exodus or Destruction/ Kreator the next. Marlee’s range as a vocalist can go from shrieking screams to full on caustic roars, occasionally injecting a bluesy, clean angle which may surprise a few listeners on the band’s heavier interpretation of Heart’s “Crazy On You”, the classic rock staple turned on its ear. Drummer Ryan Idris hits his kit in full-on attack mode, knowing how to properly channel those speed…
…le the title track is a rare ray of sunbeam in an otherwise cloudy and full-of-hail (heh) record mood-wise. The reverberating shoegaze shimmer of Nothing never fails to tug at heartstrings, but final track and debut single “Spend the Grace” yanks the beating cardiac muscle right out of your chest and stomps at it furiously. It’s a perfect ending to an equally beautiful and monstrous album made by two of the most prolific and soul-crushing bands to…
…ook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOj41VvhpU Nemophila Guitarist Saki (ex-Mary’s Blood, Amahiru) has made Nemophila a more world-renown act, but the entire act is not to be overlooked for their playing abilities. What’s fantastic about Nemophila is their ability to genre-blur. Some songs feel much more melodic, some feel more rock, and some scream of heaviness. Mayu’s vocals are just as shape-shifting as the music around her, which keeps their…
…various aspects of our career (manufacturing, distribution, promotion, etc.). Because I realized early on that an advance from any label is in fact a loan that you’re responsible for paying back through royalties, it made me want to work more, not less, to get the band where I felt it could go. It certainly made me want to become more frugal with budgets and learn more aspects of the industry so that I could do publicity as needed or radio promot…
…our back in 2015, I think. I was close to the front row, and I got Nikki Sixx’s pick as well. I find those things cool and meaningful, these cool treasures I still have with me. The albums – it’s a real hard question. It depends, lately my favorite album the past two weeks has been Bon Jovi – Keep the Faith. A great record. Maybe Skid Row’s first one. And something from Kiss – Love Gun. Dead Rhetoric: How do you feel about the current state of the…
…co is helping with that. Dead Rhetoric: How did the guest appearance with ex-Kamelot / Conception singer Roy Khan come about for “The Fall of Man”? As I’m aware that for Georg, Roy is his ultimate vocal hero, that must have been so special to occur here… Hermsdörfer: Exactly – and that was one of the reasons why we tried to get him. As everyone knows, we love to have guests on our albums. For the first few albums, it was one or two women. We thoug…
…, and the duality of triumph and introspection is a successful one. Don’t sleep on a US act that can carry just as much emotional weight and melodic wonder as their European counterparts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOCj5WVPnzQ&pp=ygUIaGluYXlhbmE%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2blq4pewi8&pp=ygUIaGluYXlhbmE%3D Hinayana on Facebook Hinayana on Instagram…
…tour with Boundaries, Foreign Hands, and Roman Candle starts in Tampa. Then we are covering the rest of the US and it takes us into December. Then we are going to rest, because we have a lot planned for 2024! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRLTXZBgzlI&pp=ygUKZHlpbmcgd2lzaA%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLMV9UAS7M&pp=ygUKZHlpbmcgd2lzaA%3D%3D Dying Wish official website Dying Wish on Instagram Dying Wish on Facebook…
…e is an otherworld voice telling you what to do, like what note to go to next. When I am writing about something I love, starting with a blank word document and then seeing it pour out and seeing it take shape – then going back through and editing/refining it, it’s a really comforting experience for me. With the band, when we write music together, I like that synergy. It’s my favorite part. Many people in bands say that touring and playing live is…
…ol, I went along to some sort of performance deal, and a kid who was our next-door neighbor was performing on an electric guitar. I decided I wanted to do that. I started having lessons straight away until I was sixteen from when I was eight years old. Dead Rhetoric: A Sign of Things to Come is the sixth studio album for Sylosis. Where do you see this record sitting in the catalog of discography for the band? Did you feel like you have to continua…
…e’re going to be shipping all that out before we leave for tour, so get pre-orders in now, now, now. Gallop: Yeah, that’s right, that’s what I’m getting to. I’m going to link our Bandcamp, where we have our merch with all of our pre-order bundles and things like that. So if you do want to have a bit of Ice Giant merch in your life soon, then do order some pre-order stuff. And while we are going to be together during this week leading up to tour, w…
…records, and we’re set on making our efforts more than just a studio project. There’s also always another solo album coming. That’s how I explore the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqHHgqP65_4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw8mmo5dRhQ Michael Abdow on Facebook…
…s that was covered – I’m talking about promoting my band, managing the band. Organizing everything, doing the merch, selling the merch, being responsible, taking care of the money that we had to reinvest in everything else. I am basically the band’s manager because I take care of everything, other than the music. That moment when I thought I had to learn how to do this effectively – and then I started researching and started talking to other peopl…
…erything. We have a lot of offers and good things happening next year. We will start the promotion of the new album and for sure we will be playing a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GgUoAN0NGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP9nI9cNREU Nervosa on Facebook…
…ven’t released anything in so long, and I forgot how it feels…and what’s next.” Finishing up our chat, Castillo brings up an entertaining bit about the band’s recent trip to Blue Ridge Rock Festival. “Apparently, you can’t sell music at Blue Ridge, we could only sell shirts. So we were onstage like, our album released today and you can buy it…anywhere but here, so don’t ask us for it because we don’t have it!” Ending the chat on one more bout of l…
…songs? Boatwright: Three songs. We had a fourth that was tied to our now ex-bassist and it was a good song, but it was very much tied to that bassist, who isn’t with the band anymore. So we let that song go with that bassist. So three. Lanthier: Yeah, so we had three songs kind of put together by the time Boaty joined in. And then when Boaty joined in it just started becoming more and more of what it was over time. Boatwright: Which was great. I…
…tar for this outfit, he recruited vocalist Marc Grewe (Insidious Disease, ex-Morgoth) and drummer Morten Toft (Raunchy) to fill out the lineup, the results coming to life in this debut album Impii Hora. Long-time producer Jacob Hansen was the missing piece on bass beyond providing his veteran behind the board skills, while The Arcane Order guitarist Flemming C. Lund laid down the lead parts. The combination of players paying homage to late 80’s to…
…plans. Dead Rhetoric: Skull & Crossbones formed a few years ago with four ex-members of Stormwitch. What can you tell us surrounding the circumstances that led to the formation of this group, adding vocalist Tobi Hübner to round out the lineup? And did you know straight away the style of heavy metal you wanted to develop, or was it a feeling out process to arrive at your sound? Tobi Kipp: First I can say, Volker, Jürgen, Marc, and myself were very…
…to these years in a more aggressive, open way. We reached out to vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga to catch up on the new record, thoughts on choosing singles, studio to stage preferences, discussion of his podcast, his interesting history course work he would set up for both Americans and Europeans to learn more about each other, and what’s on tap for the next few tour/live festival outings. Dead Rhetoric: The latest Primordial studio record is How It End…
…rk serves as a strong example of what can be accomplished outside of the box. Opening track “Rising Sun” is as good as any to give a proper dissection to in order to lay bare the wild and off-kilter swerves in sound that Broken By the Scream not only pull off convincingly, but to the point where the tracks will earworm their way into your mind. Starting off with some frenetic thrashy riffs and blasting drums, the dual scream/growl vocals interplay…
…but album for Never Obey Again here – those who love modern metal with plenty of hooks, melodies, and momentum should be quite pleased with The End of An Era. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SikK-9AX8cU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnaWirdIMM Never Obey Again on Facebook…
…gle Infected Rain album so far, and we are about to release album number six. That tells you something [laughs]. He was born and raised in the same country as me, as well as the majority of the members of Infected Rain. He is also the brother of our drummer. We invited him to the band later, after we had met Valentin. We had a drummer but he moved to a different country and stopped playing music. So there is a different drummer on the first album,…
