Heathen Hearts with Jere, Lauri Art: Gogo Melone Heathen Hearts is a metal / hardcore band from Kotka, Finland. Founded in the summer of 2021, the band consists of experienced musicians with different backgrounds who found common ground in what they call” northern hardcore”. The music is a mix of metal and hardcore with melodic…
Till Birth Do Us Part with Sermon Turkey’s Doom Death Metal band Sermon was founded in 1997 in Izmir. In the same year, the band recorded their first demo containing two songs, ‘Cosmic Prisoner’. In 1999, the band developed their musical skills further, recorded their second demo, ‘Sea of meanings’, and released it under the…
No Light with Total Recall Total Recall was born in 2019. The founding members Luca (Pigo) (K-Aagain, Samaritan, Embrace Destruction), Stef (K-Again, Traces of You, Die Trying), and Danny (Embrace Destruction) were already veterans in the Hardcore/Metalcore scene and decided to start to write music together after their common friend and brother Massy passed away…
From Insanity’s Ruin with Past the Fall UK-based metal ingenues PPast the Fall are a formidable display of modern metal braggadocio, refined classicism and subtly progressive flair, a distinctive and unprecedented blend of nails-hard musical elements and a newfound sense of subtlety and exploration setting the band apart from just about everything else. HMA: Can…
Art: Henrik Rosenborg The music for Precursor is introductory to a few of the musical themes and ideas explored further in the next chapter of the Cthulhu Dreamt project: the TTRPG. The songs run the gamut from death metal to choral arrangements, acoustic tracks, to electronic re-imaginings. We like to plan the concept and then…
Sextinction by Errol Chaining together the most potent aspects of various influences from the darkest catacombs of rock and roll and the occult, New Skeletal Faces create their own unique, aggressive sound and experience. Live, New Skeletal Faces lead a powerful ritual, compelling the gathering to submit to their nefarious, uncompromising, high-energy live experience, which…
Sword & Sorcery Vol. I with Nick Rocha We, The Cimmerian, are a doom/thrash power trio from Los Angeles, CA. David Gein plays guitar, David Morales is over on drums, and then you have me, Nick Rocha, on vocals and bass. As mentioned, doom/thrash describes it well. It also allows us to explore everything within…
Power Dive with Luke Lethal, Klay MensanaArt: Doomsday Graphics Acid Blade is a powerful Heavy Metal band from Dresden, Germany, risen out of the ashes of the previous project Angel Blade (demo published by Dying Victims Productions in 2019). However, this is a much heavier and more dynamic band, with influences ranging from 70s Hard…
What do James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause and folk-rock legend Bob Dylan have in common? A pair of sunglasses and a leather jacket. Sunglasses have long been associated with hardening a man’s looks — and the image is often accompanied by hard rock guitar in the background. For example, Tom Cruise popularised the Ray-Ban Aviator in 1986’s Top…
When thinking about metal music, we all have a fair idea of what to expect. There are various associations that the style of music has, with its hard-hitting music and head-banging just part of the expectation when listening to a track. While music is all about the sound that is made, there is no denying…
Metal songs and commercials have actually gone hand-in-hand on occasion. While many may find the songs from the genre that are usually created to be a little “too much” because of their style, they do appear to have worked perfectly well for some brands when advertising the products or services they want to sell. To…
Molten Husk with Joscha Bauer Art, layout: Joscha Bauer Cover photography: Nicolas Wefers Band photography: Sulphurous Visions Following up the critically acclaimed ‘Bonds Of Euphoria’ LP, Abest has come back swinging with an even more unruly mix between metal and hardcore. ‘Molten Husk’ is their most forward-thinking work yet, finding the band breaking through the…
Ruthlessness with Aeternus Prophet Art: Cold Poison Hailing from the lush and mysterious city of Fastiv, under the guise of dark hooded cloaks, Aeternus Prophet has unleashed over a decade of sonic destruction as one of Fastiv’s longest-standing black/death metal outfits. Circling the Slavic nations under a name written in the dead imperial language to…
Live to Regret with Aittala Art: Mariano PuglieseArt: Mariano Pugliese The music of Aittala (pronounced ‘EYE-tah-la’) crosses many metal genres; it’s hard to put it into just one category. The sound infuses elements of classic heavy metal, doom, progressive, power, thrash and hard rock, with lyrics drawing inspiration from the darker side of the human…
Dusk // Dawn with Virtue In Vain Virtue In Vain is a progressive metalcore band based in Cardiff and London. The four-piece have established themselves as one of the strongest upcoming bands following the release of their debut EP and extensively toured the UK, followed up with the release of their second EP ‘Dusk //…
Frozen Summer by Misery Lane Misery Lane started as an idea and has grown into so much more. We are a multi-genre metal band that uses dark and melodic rhythms with aggressive and expansive drumbeats to cross the boundaries of labels and open the door to a new musical experience. Founded in October 2020, Misery…
God Emperor with Erik Collier, Darryl Dewitt HMA: How would you describe your? Undrask: We call our music melodic death metal, though we’ve been called a number of genres/subgenres. Melodeath suits as well as any, so we’re sticking with that. As far as meaning, it’s an outlet, a drive, a necessity. We all feel compelled…
Bedsore / Mortal Incarnation Split with Bedsore Art: Manuel Tinnemans Bedsore is the shape that Jacopo Gianmaria Pepe and Stefano Allegretti gave to their multifaceted musical concept, oneiric and atmospheric, raw and violent. In 2018 the first demo saw the light, finding the first success and exhuming the band from the vault; in the same…
Breathe with John Merchant, Todd Long After drawing attention to themselves in 2020 with their debut EP, ‘Headed West,’ and full-length feature ‘No Saints in the City’, the duo of singer-songwriters John Merchant (former Dutch Henry songwriter and guitarist) and multi-instrumentalist Todd Long (previously with The Verve Pipe) aka Ghots of Sunset, are set to…
Sentence with Emile Duputié Art by AMMO Bio: Riding across Europe since 2011, Beyond The Styx is inspired by a dark and violent musical universe. At the crossroads between Hardcore, Metal and Thrash crossover, the French quintet has unleashed the crowds on more than 250 gigs alongside renowned bands such as Terror, Nasty, and Malevolence.…