Battle Born by Will Kerr Introducing Battle Born; a five-piece power metal band from Windhelm, Eastmarch. Join us as we set out to forge mighty steel, sing powerful hymns of war, and rid our homeland of the terrible scourge. The Battle-Born family are a pillar of society in the land of Skyrim, a freezing land…
Do Or Die by Anssi Korkiakoski The band name is after free’s song ‘Wishing Well’, which I think is one of the finest hard rock songs ever written. I’m a big fan of classic two-word band names, and I spent some time thinking about the name—all the best bands in the genre use two-word names.…
Warlord by Leather Synn Leather Synn is a sex-related name, so you may figure that we like the subject. The band was supposed to be called only Leather, but then our first singer suggested Leather Synn, and we liked the idea. ‘Warlord’ is the title of the first track, and it is a song written…
Tid Och Rum by Döda Havet Our band name Döda Havet wasn’t an obvious pick. As I suppose many bands do we thought about different names, tasted the words and pondered about their meaning. The name Döda Havet stuck, to me mainly because I liked the picture that I painted in my head, where the…
Amuse De Q by Little King Our music is like the time you lost your virginity to that high-end hooker your boys paid for, and you can’t remember it the next day because you’d been on a two-day bender for your birthday. Did it even happen? Does it count? How are you going to pay…
Supreme Hypocrisy by Giovanni Pontillo The name The Order comes from Bruno Spring, our guitarist, and it was a song he wrote for the band Gurd, his previous group before he started with the band The Order. It is about the order in a political direction—a new way of thinking a new movement. For us,…
Simplefast is a Metal band from Athens, Greece. They were formed in late 2011. They have performed many lives and headline shows at clubs and in many open-air and indoor festivals in Europe. In 2014 they self-released their first EP Album, entitled ‘Cursed’. In 2017 they released their second, 10-track album ‘Apocalypse’ through AMAdea Music…
Born of Dying Embers by Steven Moser Tragic Death has always been a band that embraces the apocalypse or destruction of mankind. When we first started in 2009 we wanted a name that could bring together all the different musical inspirations and strike our fans with the emotion we were going for. Especially as we…
New Revolution by Simple Radicals The Simple Radicals is a retro/alt-rock band based in the United States from Chicago, Illinois’s great blues and rock city. The band was founded by John Malkin (Lead Vocals/Guitar and John Griffin (Lead Guitar/Vocals) and also includes James Page (Bass) and Griff Johnson (Drums). Together, they capture their collective musical…
Uncrown by Daniel Beckman Ages is a name which represents a timelessness, and an unwavering reminder of perpetuity. And it gives us a sense of awe before the endlessness and vastness of all things that are. Regardless of humanity’s failures, accomplishments, atrocities or triumphs; time, progress, and existence will endure. It felt like the perfect…
Fire In The White Stone By Dan Capp Wolcensmen began in 2013 as a casual solo-project, seeking to create acoustic, atmospheric music with themes based on English spirituality and mysticism. After a well-received demo, Deivlforst Records from Germany released the debut album ‘Songs from the Fyrgen’ in 2016. Due to its success, it was reissued…
Pale Season By Alexander Backlund Not straying far from his most notable roots, Fredrik “North” Norrman founded THENIGHTTIMEPROJECT — a pleasantly nostalgic road for those more familiar with his work in KATATONIA. Our music can be described as an odd blend of four eclectic tastes. The base of our sound is rock, and some fitting…
Home by Alex Richichi The Offering formed in 2015, the quartet has a way of cleverly suffusing all their influences—from black and death to heavy and modern to thrash and power to nü and hardcore—into their story-like songs. Overtime (and across many refinement sessions), The Offering has developed their all-in dynamic into a signature sound.…
Divina Autem et Aniles By Jarrett Pritchard & Clayton Gore Pulchra Morte (ˈpul.kʰra / ˈmɔr.te) began with the idea to re-capture a feeling that has become increasingly scarce in the dense landscape of extreme music today, formation of songs containing weight, atmosphere and feeling. Started by Clayton Gore and Jason Barron (formerly of St. Louis…
Anātman by Alexander Kachar Reido have been around since 2002. The band was founded in Minsk, Belarus, by Alexander Kachar and Anton Matveev. The first album was called ‘F:\all’ and was released in 2006 on Russian label Solitude Prod. The style of ‘F:\all’ could be described as funeral doom with some industrial and avant-garde elements.…
Part Island By Jon Lyon A UK experimental metal band formed in 2006 and known for their melancholic and constantly evolving sound. Latitudes progressed rapidly from the doomy instrumental post-metal of debut EP Bleak Epiphanies in Slow Motion (2007) to the broader scope of acclaimed first full-length Agonist (2009), which fused dreamlike vocals and synth…
Ódn By Jón Aldará, Theodor Kapnas TK: Hamferð is a doom metal band from The Faroe Islands. The music which we write is heavily inspired by our surroundings as well as the history and culture of The Faroe Islands, which we feel gives us a unique sound. There is a certain Faroese tone, a sort…
Woodland Rites By Tom Templar One of the leading lights in the UK’s heavy underground scene, Green Lung’s sound harks back to the golden days of psychedelic rock and proto-metal, injecting those classic sounds with occult venom and punk energy. They released the critically acclaimed debut album Woodland Rites in March 2019, and have toured…
Party In The Chaos By Christian Ceccarelli Deflore is an explosive mix of electronic grooves, heavy n distorted instruments and psychedelic-noise atmospheres, that blends into a genre the band calls Human Indu[b]strial. The industrial instrumental duo project Deflore, represented by master-minds Christian Ceccarelli (Electronics, Bass and synthesizers) and Emiliano Di Lodovico (Guitars and synthesizers), starts…
Queen of Swords by E and A Crestfallen Queen hail from Stuttgart Germany but could have very well been born anywhere in the dark hazy fog of the seventies. The quintet was formed in 2016 playing their brand of Progressive Blackened Rock. The Doom laden riffs are backed by galloping metallic rhythms and hounded by…