Acid River – Hilton Theissen, Christian Mertens Art: Alexander Freund HMA: Do you have any creative rituals? Hilton: Writing riffs can feel like a deep meditation and spiritual on top, but not religious. We have our rituals by which we write songs together; it is a very constructive atmosphere and high-quality conversation between men and…
Dawn of Annihilation – Tom Kuzmic Art: Tata Kumislizer No rituals. This stuff is only for the weak. Whether you’re into the goat guy or the white-bearded one, we don’t care about religion. No jokes aside, we jam and come up with a riff, then another one we combine, look for significant drum parts, and…
Osculum Pacis – Stratuz Art: Eugenia Bathoriya Lyrics are generally associated with the emotional, spiritual and social environment of the human being who searches for answers to so many questions, as well as the need to express rebellion; we mainly seek to shake the mind of any person and awaken curiosity to seek their truth…
Violentopia – Rottenness Art: Velio Josto We are a Mexican-American band founded in the late 90s in Cancun, Mexico. The band has toured the world over the last 20 years and played alongside bands such as Suffocation, Cephalic Carnage, Malignancy, Brutal Truth, Fuck the Facts and many more. Rottenness recently released a new album, ‘Violentopia,’…
Engrossed in Decay – Aaren Pantke Art: Lucas Korte Any creative rituals? Usually just fire up a bowl/crack open a beer, and listen to other bands we enjoy. It’s not unusual for us to get nice and ripped before jamming out new ideas. However, that’s not to say it’s necessary. Otherwise no ‘rituals’, really; we…
Atma – Steffen Weigand Art: Sebastian Jerke There is no specific ritual. We go with the flow. We jam a bit and then work on the parts which feel good while playing. Then we add some parts from other jams and develop the songs step by step. The only criteria we have is: The song…
All Will Bow – Reign of Glory Art: Scott Waters We are Reign of Glory, a hard rock/heavy metal band that seeks to glorify the living God through our music and lyrics. We formed in early 2022 with Robyn Kyle Basauri (Red Sea, Die Happy) on vocals, Roger Dale Martin (Vengeance Rising, Die Happy) on…
No Man Isle – Mathias Jamtli Rye Art: Niklas Sundin The lyrics are often based on observations and reflections of actions, mentalities or desires that humanity and individuals suffer the consequences of again and again and never seem to learn from. For the last two releases, we gathered our ideas for songs and travelled to…
The Entropic Queen – Tommaso (Tommy) Monticelli Art: Tom Roberts Tom Roberts, the illustrator of The Entropic Queen cover art, was easy to work with. We just gave him some simple ideas, and he came out with that picture, and after a couple of changes, it was done. That’s why we hired him again after…
Blennoid – Blind Samson Art: Alex Thorfinn We are both Christians, and that is our worldview about life in general. As far as music, there is no deep philosophical stuff about what we do. We write heavy riffs. Like cool tattoos, you can get a cool tattoo that doesn’t have to have some elaborate backstory.…
Age Of Immortal Darkness – Charlie Murphy Art: Jois Cabe It’s really about me being in a creative mode and alone, and it just comes to me. There are no rituals involved. I don’t have any fixations. Overall, I am a very spiritual person in my life and music. Heavy music is an alternative type…
Nemesis Later – Evan Somnus Throne is a three-piece doom, stoner, heavy-psych, and sludge band whose members hail from all over the U.S.A. and haven’t ever settled down anywhere for too long. To keep it simple -– they’re from L.A. Somnus Throne love bands like Acid King, Black Rainbows, CoC, Bongripper, Electric Wizard, Thrones, Dead…
Portal Tombs – Fred Forsberg, Dadde Art: Stuart Lippincott Fred: Our music deals with the apparent nihilism of modern society, where no one believes in anything anymore and can’t envision a better future or a way out of our predicament. We’re trying to awaken what is a suppressed but highly potent feeling of emptiness, loneliness…
Phoenix Rising – Kings of other Wings We have a ritual; the two guitarists like to get together when they write, and they come up with some of the best-written stuff. They smoke and smoke and tell you how good it is, then they listen the next day and realise that they should have had…
…From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon – Kyle Shaw Art: Skaðvaldur Bio: Conjured in 2016, Obscene is a death metal quartet from Indianapolis, Indiana. Following their Sermon to the Snake demo in late 2017, they quickly caught the attention of Sweden’s Blood Harvest, who reissued the demo on cassette and digital formats in early 2018.…
Of Soil Unearthed – Deathcult Art: Stefan Todorović We deal with abstract, religious themes, or rather the many and varied excesses of a spiritual, sick mind. But we don’t limit ourselves too much within. We want to convey content in our lyrics that go beyond the usual scheme and allows listeners to express their ideas…
Convergence – Tommaso Cappelletti Art: James McCarthy When writing music, we’re only stuck to the riffs and the atmosphere we want to create. Strict philosophies can be a limiting condition in life; they don’t let you 100% appreciate all the shades of this world. We mostly started out of curiosity and because we were attracted…
This Darkness Feels Alive – Matias Bahamondes, Yoav Ruiz, Agustin Lobo Art: Paolo Girardi Overtoun is a Death/Thrash Metal band with a blend of progressive/Latin elements, founded in 2014 by drummer Agustin Lobo and guitarist Matias Bahamondes. After finding vocalist Yoav Ruiz-Feingold (Graviton, ex-Atheist) at Berklee College of Music in 2017, they consolidated their core…
Miserere – Jason Köhnen Bio: The Lovecraft Sextet is one of the many projects from multi-instrumentalist Jason Köhnen. Renowned for his previous projects Bong-Ra or The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. The Lovecraft Sextet was evoked after a void appeared with the ending of his other Darkjazz outlets, firstly TKDE and TMFDJC and then the short-lived The…
Constructing The Cataclysm – Jay Barnes Art: Armaada Art My name is Jay Barnes from Concord, North Carolina. I’ve lived here most of my life; I am 52 years old, born March 13th, 1970. I am the vocalist for Lust of Decay, Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement and Cesspool of Vermin. The only ritual I have before…