…you’ve had with the band that’s embedded in your memory? Griener: The Make-a-Wish Foundation is a great organization, from all that I can tell. We have worked with them a couple times. There’s a gentleman called Zach Neal. He has a disability where his bones are shriveling up and is body is falling apart. Where he once had the ability to move his arm 6” in the air, and now its 3.” It’s very sad. The gentleman has become one of my best friends. He…
…ugh the rapid destruction of what is considered the truth is now more front-and-center than it should be. The song “Among Us” largely addresses the tenuous grip a certain segment of people now has on the truth and how they are the mindless tropes who are intent on leaving the world in a worse place than when they found it. Sadly, we fear these themes will continue for years to come. Dead Rhetoric: Perusing YouTube, some comments mention “If they o…
…le of the Cross – Excelsis (Rockshots Records) From the mastermind of multi-instrumentalist Je Schneider, Isle of the Cross with Excelsis contains twelve tracks and over an hour of avant-garde progressive death metal that is melodic, symphonic, and semi-technical/djent from song to song. Two of the songs “The Wolf” and “The 9th Circle” are broken into two and three-part arrangements respectively, while “Sacrifice” sets the tone in a brutal Gojira…
…“Lethe,” which grows into something more assaulting, but far from being one-note. More energetic riffing, and the growled vocals and frantic drumming, is sure to bring out the tech/prog fans – but it’s also balanced with tempo changes and again, an emphasis on the atmosphere of the track. There’s urgency, but it never becomes too showy for the sake of it. The band switches back into instrumental territory again for the melancholic “Dwell,” which b…
…dible depth for such a release. With that same vigilance to staying outside-the-box, sophomore effort Darkness doesn’t simply go the easy route in providing Never Alone II and instead offers more artistic experimentation and an even wider breadth of influences to absorb. Thoroughly modern in design, the biggest expansions to the band’s sonic palette have to do with electronics. One will notice an increase, sometimes drastically depending on the so…
…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…
