This Darkness Feels Alive with Agustin Lobo, Matias Bahamondes Agustin Lobo: The cover art for ‘This Darkness Feels Alive’ is undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the music. It is the first thing you can appreciate without going any further before even listening to the album. That hell landscape full of dark characters…
Universe Creation with Davide “Hades” Castiglione The band was born in 2011, created by Davide ”Hades” Castiglione (vocals, guitars) and Vænix (drums). Two words, ”hate to name the band” and ‘’enshrine’’ meaning ”enshrining the hate”. In 2014 Hades collaborated with Aeternus (drummer from Handful Of Hate) to create the crushing debut album titled ”When The…
Free Speech by Schizoid, Humanoid Our last album, ‘Free Speech’ 2020, was released on CD by Lavadome Productions. It contains eight new songs, plus four songs from the EP’ Komouš’, which means twelve songs. I recorded the guitars at Standa Valášek’s studio Šopa; everything else was recorded at home. My brother recorded the drums on…
Ikaria by Mindpatrol Luxembourgish Extreme Progressive Metal band Mindpatrol has specialised in narrating stories through its music ever since its birth in 2012. To breathe life into the worlds and characters of their imagination, Mindpatrol uses all means loud and capable of drawing an image in front of the listeners’ inner eye. We call our…
A Feast of Fools with Alon Forged by the love for metal and hatred for anything else, Sinnery formed in late 2012 in Herzliya, Israel. The 4-piece toured Israel nonstop while entering the studio with Israeli producer Eli Pikover (Sonne Adam, Whorecore, Shredhead) to record their first album. In 2016 the band signed with Pitch…
Quantum Resolution by Jeffray Arwadi Formed in 1995 as a more straightforward extreme metal band with a punk-influenced attitude, Kekal has been venturing deeply into its continuous exploration in creating music for more than two decades. Their 4th album, ‘1000 Thoughts of Violence’ 2003, marked the beginning of their journey into the unknown. They successfully…
Reforma with Uroš Lipovec Noctiferia has been active for two decades with no brakes and has released six studio albums, performed at Wacken Open Air as the first Slovenian band in history. Also toured China twice, performed multiple times on national television, did an unplugged performance in a national Opera house with a symphony orchestra.…
Ambition 999 with Andrey Ind Grenouer latest release is already not quite new. I am talking about the deluxe edition of the album ‘Ambition 999’, which includes bonus tracks and a DVD, and it has been a year and a half since it saw the light. The apparent reason for the absence of any new…
Tales To Horrify by Francis Frightful Formed way back in 1986 by Francis Frightful, Opposition Party started as many social misfits expressing their rage at society and the world in general through punk rock. They took their cue from early UK hardcore/punk bands such as The Exploited, GBH, Chaos UK, Broken Bones, English Dogs, and…
Let Them Hate… as Long as They Fear By Riccardo Ball We have a new EP on the way, it’s been demoed, and we are aiming to finish recording around August. Before that was our album ‘Let Them Hate … So Long As They Fear’, it’s Evolutionary Thrash if there’s such a thing – guess…
Suspended Between Earth and Sky with David Porter Our new album is titled ‘Suspended Between Earth and Sky’ and is principally a concept album about misery, disorder and the indifference of reality. It is essentially an ode to our frustrations and torments we’ve experienced both as part of this band and personally between now and…
Conjurements with Narciso Monteiro, Joana Carvalho “Somewhere between Doom, Symphonic and pure Heavy Metal, King Baal hail from Portugal with a very personal approach to metal, blending powerful and intense patterns with occasional dreamy musical landscapes.” Narciso Monteiro: The writing process was quite normal, as nowadays it’s very easy to collaborate with anyone digitally. Hence,…
Year of the Jackalope with Tom Jordan 20 Watt Tombstone are Wausau Wisconsin’s hard-touring death blues saviours. They have played hundreds of shows over the past few years and recently embraced European shores in 2019. Fusing the sounds of ZZ Top with Kyuss by way of Robert Johnson and Black Flag, the band has continually…
Crystallize with Nastassja Giulia The modern metal band Enemy Inside was formed in 2017 out of Aschaffenburg (DE) through Nastassja Giulia (vocals) and Evan K (guitar). In 2018 their debut album ‘Phoenix’ was released internationally through Rock Of Angels Records. Enemy Inside toured extensively in G.S.A. but also in Spain, the Netherlands, Greece, Bulgaria etc.…
Antiquity with Gabriel Luis Wythersake is a Blackened Symphonic Death Metal Band hailing from the Nations Capital (USA). They were formed by a collective of individuals with the same passion for melding Melody with Brutality amid a backdrop of Majestic atmosphere. 2021 will see Wythersake release their first full-length album on Scarlet Records. Thanks to…
Scene of the Wild with Witchseeker Witchseeker is a heavy metal band from Singapore. They were formed in 2012 by bassist/lead vocalist Sheikh Spitfire in late 2012, initially as a one-person project. Witchseeker has gone through different lineups, from a trio, a duo, a trio again and presently, a quartet. With Brandon Speedranger on guitars,…
Future Being Invented with Guntis Lielpēteris, Rasa Lielpētere Revelation Attic was formed in 2017 by Guntis Lielpēteris and Rasa Lielpētere. In 2018 they released their debut album, ‘The Cradle of Life’, which contained nine songs. The band published a metal version for a Christmas song, ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’, a year later. In 2020…
Reared Up in Spectral Predation with Brett Taylor The process of making this album was not too tricky at all! Covid-related restrictions fueled things by forcing me to stay home. Before everything got severe with the pandemic, my wife and I lucked out and found a house to rent that included a (free) garage apartment…
Pilgrim with PVIII The songwriting took place in 2019. So by the end of that year, all of the music was written, and we started recording. We only had minor delays due to the restrictions because the central part was done before the pandemic. That also means that we had to wait a year for…
The Chant of Trees The Chant of Trees is music I started to compose in the 90s. It’s the music I felt inside when I was 20 and discovered spirituality and animism universe. I passed my time walking and meditating in my mountains and forests from my land. My older brother was an Iron Maiden…