…solid set of thrash with a slight tinge of death metal dropped into the mix. Solid and forthright, the Lakeland, FL natives warmed up the crowd and seemed to have fun doing it, while also showing their genuine appreciation for gaining the opportunity to open such a stacked show. Well done, and I’m sure we’ll catch them again sometime. Flub Click here for more Flub photos Sacramento, CA’s Flub opened for the touring package, providing the audience…
…Birdflesh hail from Sweden, and have been grinding our eardrums since 1992. Being a genre leader and innovator for decades, they’ve put out six full-length albums, amongst many splits and singles. Sickness in the North drops on April 21st on Everlasting Spew Records. You can pre-order the album on physical formats as well as digital. Birdflesh is: Gris Stian Røvkletil – Guitars/Vocals/Synthesizers Tryne Krekvind – Bass/Vocals Kyrk Brenner – Drums…
…dication, we’re going to have quite a debut to enjoy. Olkoth formed in Columbia, South Carolina in 2016, and have since released an acclaimed demo in 2019, followed by the single “Eidolon in the Flames” in 2021. At the Eye of Chaos drops on May 26th on Everlasting Spew Records. You can pre-order the album on physical formats as well as digital. Olkoth is: Zach Jeter – Rhythm & Lead Guitar/Vocals Hunter Ross – Rhythm & Lead Guitar Alex Rush – Bass/…
…nd. It’s more of an escapism thing. Dead Rhetoric: With bands like Spiritbox experiencing a larger breadth of fans that your standard metal band, something you have in common with them, your music can hit a few different demographics without turning people off. Do you feel like there’s this untapped potential audience you can appeal to, outside of just metal? Rolfe: I think that’s one thing that we always did like. None of are really massive metal…
…mote. It’s weird, because we are an old school kind of a band. We are hands-on. My father until he passed on thought I joined Overkill because of the free beer and girls (laughs). And to some degree, he was right. (laughs). It wasn’t that he was 100% wrong. We’ve also taken the best out of the situation and made the best out of those opportunities. Because it was new, because it was different, because we weren’t as hands on with Jason for the drum…
…ter the older I get. I’m a huge reader, and I wasn’t that way my whole life. E-Myth Revisited, a lot of business-oriented books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad for money management. Ramit Sethi as well, I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Dead Rhetoric: How do you see the next year shaping up for activities related to Voidscape or any other bands/projects taking place for the members of the group? Torres: Ninja the drummer is working on a new Tombs album, which I’ll…
…f My Dying Bride, how the workload and relationships develop amongst the six-piece, the challenges of day jobs/families against band activities, as well as hopeful future touring/recording plans. Dead Rhetoric: Auer is the fourth studio album for Marianas Rest. Considering the prolonged absence of any live shows/touring due to the global pandemic, how do you think this helped shape the material, recording process, and overall outcome for this reco…
…musician. I hope to play a lot, looking forward to playing in Europe. We will write new stuff in the meantime, we are already busy to keep the flow going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_2OGgxD7Fg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHYyqdApdU4 Haliphron on Facebook…
…Grave and the diehards who need to own every record in this style – but others on the fence should stick to the originators for their death metal fix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-y9BKpcQJM Bastard Grave on Facebook…
…blame the pandemic like everyone else in the world. Everybody from your next-door neighbor to your phone company. Everybody used it as an excuse – not that I did, but I felt like I could if I wanted to. It was a beautiful time for us. We are back now, and now I feel there are way more demands on us now than ever. I’m so glad somebody forced us to do that. Dead Rhetoric: So was it intentional at first to have those staggered single releases that e…
…l a current member of Artificial Brain, there’s a lot of pedigree in the mix. It definitely shows both on album and in a live setting, as the band absolutely demands the crowd’s full attention, forcefully steamrolling one’s aural sensibilities. Tight and attentive, Aeviterne delivered a focused chaos that encapsulated their audience. Guitarist/vocalist Garrett Bussanick’s commanding aura, combined with an immense rhythm section of Ian Jacyszyn’s p…
…st in five years. Outside of the obvious vocalist change where you gained ex-Air Raid singer Arthur W. Andersson, where do you see this set of material sitting in the discography of the band? Were there any specific elements or aspects you wanted to showcase this time around? Alexander Ellström: After Motherless, we struggled a bit to figure out what we wanted to do on our next record. During that period, we parted with Linus so we had no idea how…
…ople can still expect a lot of passion from us on stage. Unfortunately, a U.S. tour is still not in sight. We don’t have any connections on the other side of the Atlantic, so it’s hard for us to get a foothold there, although some people would like to see us there. At this point, we are looking hopefully toward the future. Dead Rhetoric: Anything else to add? Horaz: In Germany, many tours were canceled after Corona because not many people attend c…
…stagger the releases a little bit. Those are the things I’m most involved with. I’m itching to get back out there and play live shows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xPbiMijpc Dreams of Gray on Bandcamp…
…e haven’t played anywhere in Africa as well, so there are continents to conquer. Make good tours, and more good music. Remember to enjoy this all the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWG-WzEciHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSU9I4W8czE Insomnium on Facebook…
…honest, if we did 30 dates of a European tour, I’d be dead by gig number six. I haven’t got the energy anymore to do that. Our fanbase are potentially older these days, with the same responsibilities. I rarely go out to gigs these days, unless it’s on the weekend. I don’t want to do a gig on a Tuesday night in the middle of nowhere to 30 people anymore, that doesn’t fill me with joy. We select what we want to do, on a gig-by-gig basis. We do spend…
…n April and May, we will do some festivals in the summer, Wacken and Graspop for example. And there will be more touring during the fall, I love touring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpqsYasuadc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P5rgMFXvbM Delain on Facebook…
…re. We have a smaller festival in the summer, and one in the fall not announced yet. We are planning for tours; at the time the plans aren’t finished yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHtSElUma6E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyNK37-a0ec Xandria on Facebook…
…ut, that I am looking forward to. It will take a lot of time, just to make things to connect more to the music. The soundtrack to your Middle Earth, sort of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiH5FNKKcjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaTI4XF8PAY Twilight Force on Facebook…
…at was also something for me because we’ve always played outside the sandbox. Sometimes it’s really hard, you feel that you are not welcome or that you are not accepted, is something wrong with you? Sometimes that comes to my mind, but when you get these possibilities with the Within Temptation shows, Napalm Records, I feel those are the highlights. We haven’t toured with this band yet, mainly the reason is because we don’t have a European agent….
…ere are some big differences between Singularity and The Fundamental Paradox. It’s a natural evolution. We are all into different backgrounds from metal. We think we are quite stubborn; we don’t want to follow the mainstream; we want to do what we feel is good and necessary. You can see the evolution between those two CDs. Lyric-wise it is different as well, it’s more of a concept album. Because it’s all about contradictions. Dead Rhetoric: Anothe…
…o drumming is that you have to play with the band. That sounds perhaps self-explanatory. Drummers can sometimes take up a lot of space and do a lot of things they don’t need to do, forgetting to keep the beat. I don’t have that approach. If it’s my limits or personal tastes, I think it’s a bit of both. Because I still love Nicko McBrain’s drumming, even though it’s all over the place all the time. I still think Tommy Lee lays down the most solid g…
…ure fashion while putting a bit of a current production footprint in the mix. It’s all about the haunting riffs, raspy growls, and supportive bass/drum foundation to bring these ideas home – and that’s what these nine songs achieve. Opener “The Human Paradox” sets the tone right, a veritable mid-tempo feast of crunchy chords in the Death/ Asphyx mold, Marc bellowing the words in a Chuck Schuldiner manner while the screams convey Tom Araya’s best w…
…r fans. In the end, it’s a testimonial treasure to learn more about this King in this manner, properly positioning this group as an upper tier act globally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAue9LH0w4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQIuI-nhic Arrayan Path on Facebook…
…of Serenity’s catalog, a new song, plus a Fallen Sanctuary track in the mix. The special guests enhance the festive atmosphere and enthusiastic response from the audience and could gain the band more appeal from outside the normal followers. We reached out to vocalist Georg Neuhauser to catch up on the back story behind Memoria, the special guest choices, how recent touring has gone coming out of the pandemic, a bit of history/geography talk with…
…where we can. There will be more singles released next year, and work on the third album has already started. We are pretty deep into that process as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsUryUofeyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4UqozmoB1Y Induction on Facebook…
…s love about our technology is the collaborations I can create with this box. I can reach out to anyone anywhere. I have plenty more relationships to form, musicians to work with. I love that fact that I can connect with someone around the world and create music with that person. Back in the day – 80’s or 90’s – if you were in many bands, you were frowned upon, as a band hopper. Today it’s about making music, making people happy, creating and the…
…here’s a lot that we can’t talk about yet, but if everything goes according to plan, we will be able to share some of that news sooner than you might think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHAIqQ_l_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0INVpyGPNs Edge of Haze on Facebook…
…a challenge for me to try to leave my comfort zone. I mostly do these three-to-five-minute songs. I was inspired to try different plug ins – the ESP for guitars, it’s a Finnish company, that sounded so great. With the clean sounds or heavy distortion. Sometimes when you buy gear you get new inspiration, so there is a bit of that in “Descent” as well. Dead Rhetoric: In the background information there’s specific mention of the band going for natura…
…digital personalities and working with them. We will open some of those ideas going forward for the next year. I can see us on the road over the next year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYminEDxNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdc3odh3pCk The Offering on Facebook…
