Inhuman with Swarmageddon Swarmageddon is a metal band founded in 2015 by the singer Marion in Besançon, France. Their music mixes different kinds of metal (melodic death metal, progressive metal, slam death) and is influenced by bands like Gojira, Shadow Of Intent, Dark Tranquillity. Their debut EP “An Infinite Landscape” was released in 2018, and…
MMXX by God is dead God is Dead is a death metal band from Moldova formed in 2018 by former Moldavian and Ukrainian metal bands. The band has released the ‘MMXX’ EP in 2020 and is working on their debut full-length, which is planned to be released in the mid\end of 2021. We play mostly…
Abyssal Trip with Niklas Olsson The writing and recording were done way before the pandemic hit the world, so no, it didn’t affect us at all. It took so long to release this album mainly because we work slow and things, like work, tend to come in between. All in all, the process was pretty…
Thanatos Rising with Dr. Danny Mann, Sean Elston, Keith McIntosh With a definite progressive metal bent, Sorizon aims to break down subgenres to bring metalheads together. Sorizon has released their third full-length album, Thanatos Rising, featuring powerful artwork painted by Eliran Kantor (Testament, Sodom, Havok). The themes of Thanatos Rising resonate with the state of…
Mokvání v okovech with Řád Zdechlin, Hnisatel Řád Zdechlin: Hail from Prague! Sněť is a five-piece death metal band worshipping old ways of metal! We know each other from the local gigs and bands. Ransolič and Hnisatel had dreamed about starting a new band together, and they are passionate about death metal like Autopsy and…
Blinded by their Faith by Rikavac Our latest release is a single called ‘Blinded by their faith’, and we consider it to be old school death metal genre. We are leaning toward that sound now in general because all three of us like it, and that’s sour common ground. There will always be influences of…
Riddles, Ruins & Revelation with Morten Veland Due to the pandemic, this turned out to be a challenging album to make; we had to do many things quite different than we would typically do. The pandemic hit Europe with full force just a few days before we were supposed to begin the recording sessions for…
Into the Storm with Gou Takeuchi, Kazuki Kuwagaki HMA: Any stories worth sharing in getting the album together? GT: It took us a year and a half to record the album due to covid. During the recording process, a state of emergency was declared, and there was a time when we couldn’t work on recording…
Void with Neil Purdy Luna’s Call have become a vital staple-piece of the UK’s vibrant metal scene with performances at Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2018 and Badgerfest 2019. Luna’s Call have performed with acclaimed acts including Cognitive, Hundred Year Old Man, Moloch, zhOra and more. The Lincolnshire based band have now surpassed their own high…
Rage of War with FireForce We did the instrumental recordings in Belgium in Bob Briessinck’s Breeze Inc. Studios before the whole Corona thing started. He’s our sound engineer, and fortunately, he was available. He did a tremendous job. Vocal coaching is something different, though, and that’s why we went to Germany again, as we did…
Cleopatra with Alina Gavrilenko We were lucky enough to get into the studio together and finish recording right before covid in Pennsylvania/New Jersey. At that point, we only had three days to record all vocals for 12 songs, with harmonies and layers. I had to sing for around 12 hours a day, so I’m amazed…
Robot Black Metal with Satyra Tricky is a word to describe what it’s like to write, record, and build robots to play a music release when you as a human have minimal hand use. It took me nearly 2 years to build the robots you hear on the album. All of the electronics are DIY,…
Patterns of Light with Craig Rossi Three years after departing from his former band of 18 years, Craig Rossi decided to spawn Drift into Black in 2017. A solo act that was supposed to be a project with Craig on vocals, guitars, and keyboards eventually turned serious after his debut EP Shadow People. That was…
Ancient Breath of Forgotten Misanthropy with Leszek Makowiecki The limitations are always there, not so much in the production and recording of the album, but more in writing and constructing songs for the album. I think that for my most hated there are moments so-called creative impotence because to come up with the right riff,…
Inheritance with Depths of Hatred The album was already written and recorded before the restrictions, so it was not a problem, but we had to work via zoom with Christian Donaldson to finish it at the mixing stages. As far as conspiracy theories, flat earthers takes the whole cake. Humans and life inspired us in…
Part.1 with Trippy Death of a Legend is a massive rock’n’roll turmoil born in 2020 from Milano hardcore punk scene members. The lineup consists of Trippy on vocals, Mark on guitars, Zane on bass and Don Malasorte on drums. The band’s style mixes iconic groovy vibes of blues rocker Danko Jones with the rough edge…
Dead Star with Joe Mills DayGlo Mourning began with Joe Mills, Ray Miner, and our first bassist Matt Rayborn. We all meet through Craigslist ads for musicians wanting to play something in the doom genre. Matt was with us for the 1st year and recorded the first album with us. He eventually decided to move…
The Cult with Marta Gabriel It’s the first time in the history of Crystal Viper, when we recorded the album without seeing each other, without working together in the studio. I mean, we were in constant contact, we exchanged thousands of emails, messages and calls, then we were sending all the tracks between each other,…
WWII: Memories for the Future by Maria Diese Rampart is a female-fronted heavy metal band founded in 2006 and led by the singer Maria Diese. After touring numerous countries in Europe, Rampart has won the position of one of the most hard-working bands in the genre, distinguished for the classic songwriting and the impressive style…
Soul Diminished with Thomas Cronin We’re not a band that gets in a room to jam songs together anyway, so the whole writing and recording process was the same for us regardless of the pandemic. I mean, being out of work for months made it come together a lot quicker, and I got the time…