Theigns & Thralls with Kevin RidleyArt: Renato Faccini Bio: Theigns & Thralls is the brainchild of Skyclad’s singer/songwriter Kevin Ridley. Born during the covid lockdowns of 2020, it grew into a collaborative recording project involving twenty-five European musicians from bands such as Korpiklaani, Ensiferum, Cruachan, Waylander, Celtibeerian and Metal De Facto. A touring band of…
Torture of Industry with TheodicyArt: Milan Chmurek In the beginning, the Band was a thrash metal combo. Changing singers and drummers changed the genre to groovy death metal around 2014. Making music has been a hobby of all members and fills with the entire creative process of composing, texting, recording, producing, mixing and the visual…
Unslayable with TyrannusArt: CVSPE Tyrannus are a Scottish antifascist band that formed in 2018. They have recently released their debut album, Unslayable, in partnership with Creative Scotland, The National Lottery and True Cult Records. The album title is a word that describes both the protagonists and antagonists of the story of the album. The omnipotent…
The True Protagonist with Thomas StrømvigArt: Morten Grønnegaard Thank you for showing interest. I hope it was not paid for, and if it was, then I hope the price was appropriate. I am a huge fan of your undivided support of dark art and metal and have tried to keep up with MMA for a…
Āl Bēlūti Dārû with Wyatt E.Art: AMMO Wyatt E. wrote the soundtrack of the Babylonian exile of the Jewish elites of Jerusalem captured by the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II, after a two-year siege in 587 BC. Our music is Doom Ambient tainted with Orient influences. My father’s family comes from Eastern Europe; they were…
Rites of Gore – Sentient Horror Art: Juanjo Castellano Rosado All I need is my guitar, a cup of coffee, and my DAW open in front of me. The writing process is like anything else in music, just a lot of hard work and attention to detail. I’ll begin conceptualising a new record by making…
Nations Divide – Scars of Atrophy Art: Gabriel Turner Byrne I was raised Catholic, and it was probably the best thing to educate myself about what happens behind the scenes. I am a full-on atheist now. I use a lot of what I grew up with to fuel the lyrics and point out the commonly…
Torment & Wonder The Ways of the Lonely Ones – Benjamín Machín Art: Stan W. Decker Our lyrics are mostly related to some personal experience or feeling. They may seem a bit dark or depressing at a glance, but the underlying message is usually about overcoming hardship, finding inspiration and finding your own light in…
Turned to Stone Chapter 4: Higher Selves – Henry Art: Jalón De Aquiles Jimi wrote the whole album, and every member did his part so the songs could grow. When we talk about the album title, it’s one of Jimi’s lines from the song ‘following the sun’. Normally, he will pick a phrase from the…
Shadows Without Light Part Two – Tom Reynolds Art: Arif Suhaimi An idiot and talentless musician hoping no one finds out I’m a hack fraud. I think lyrics are important as a cathartic experience for the person writing them and the listener. My lyrics were just old crap at first because it was more about…
Rise or Fall – Kono Art: Velio Josto When I said that I am a typical Japanese person who does not have a very strong religious view, music might be my religion. I want to listen to good music and make good music myself because this is my purpose in life. So the most necessary…
When Sanity Becomes Insanity – Suffering Sights Art: Fernando JFL At the beginning, it was a little bunch of Suffering, Existential Realism and Death Mysteries; at that time, Luciano (vocals, guitars) was fully stuck into philosophical and cosmic discussions of our reality, by now, with the work of Francisco (Backing Vocals & Guitars) and Juan…
Exodus – Kopie von Doom Art: Mario Thieme Despite all of the circumstances, we see the ‘Exodus’ scenario as an unconditional will of humanity to survive and the inexhaustible hope for a better world. The instrumental music processes the whole thing to take the listener track by track even deeper on this journey of complex…
Liminality – Reed Reimer Art: Henrik Rosenborg Cthulhu Dreamt is a concept project created to tell a human story through an inhuman metaphor. Dealing with loss, tragedy, and depression in a world under Cthulhu’s gaze, the music becomes the soundtrack for the story. Founded by Reed Reimer in 2020 with members Jake Myslinski, Ben Larson,…
Disembodied – Abe Art: Edgar Roldan We write lyrics based on things we have witnessed or experienced for ourselves in our own lives. We find real life is the most brutal thing you can experience, and there are many evils in the world. Therefore, we like to base our lyrics on that. It makes the…
Slave Driver – Ronnie Vanderwey Art: Vladimir ‘Smerdulak’ Chebakov We have no general items in our lyrics. We like to make lyrics that have an interesting meaning for ourselves. I look upon lyrics as an essential completion to the music. I find it more of an outlet to write something close to the music. We…
The Return of the Shadow – Jyri Vahvanen Art: Kirsi Salonen I like to bathe in virgins’ blood and eat live bats. I also summon the powers from the ancient Gods and let my astral being ride the ghosts of the archaic dragons. Or… I just find a quiet place, some spare time and a…
Dark Dungeons Atelier – Stefan Castevet Art: Velio Josto We’re living more or less apart from each other, so the whole songwriting process is done at the desk. So whenever a cool idea pops up, we sit down, tab, or record and then exchange ideas. No candles, skulls or goat blood are involved. Music, for…
Harbringer – Charlie Leduc Art: Paolo Girardi Lyrics for the previous three full-length albums were written conceptually, with each release diving deeper into the mythos we aimed to create. Superficially, the lyrics are violent outpourings of enmity towards organised religion, wrapped in old-school infernal demonic worship. Beneath that, we created characters, worlds, languages and symbolism…
Summoning the Cataclysm – Shahab, Afraz Art: Ardha Lepa Azaab is a 5-piece death metal band based in Islamabad, Pakistan. The band was formed in 2016 out of love for both old-school and modern death metal. However, the band’s core has known each other for many years, with members playing together in various projects. Having…