Metal’s roots can be traced back to the 1960s, when the wave of psychedelic rock bands wanted to get a little louder. In its early days, the genre was associated with heavy blues bands such as Cream and Led Zeppelin. This changed with the emergence of bands like Blue Cheer, Vanilla Fudge, and Leaf Hound,…
Symbology Of Shelter by Daniele Noise Trail Immersion, born in 2013 in Turin (Italy), are five 23-25 years old guys who aim to combine their love for the dark sound of New Wave of Black Metal with dissonances and chaotic structures of Mathcore/Hardcore; the whole thing is mixed with the more introspective and eerie atmospheres…
Blood ‘n’ Spikes By Sodomic The Power From Hell started in the early 2000s at first with the proposal that just releases records like the main influence of the band the “Bathory” and was like this for the next 10 years releasing some cult albums like ’The True Metal’ and ‘Sadismo’ , the band started to…
Venom Prison have released a video interview featuring artist Eliran Kantor – the creator of their captivating album artwork on both Animus and Samsara. The video was shot in Germany on Venom Prison’s recent European tour with Fit For An Autopsy; vocalist Larissa Stupar sat down with Eliran to discuss his work. The band comment:…
The fall of Humanity by Sonia We are Psychoneurosis from Poland. Our music is fast, short and loud!!! Short description this is grindcore love it or hate it. The longest song takes 1,30 minutes so as you can see, ballads are not hahaha ‘The fall of Humanity’ we recorded in a few months with small…
On September 6th, Finnish melodic metal titans Sonata Arctica will release their tenth studio album, called Talviyö (which means Winter Night), which includes eleven new tracks. “We were speaking about having an album cover made from a photo, and luckily managed to find the award-winning photographer Onni Wiljami who actually hails from a village not too far from our hometown. His pictures…
Fils De Dieu by Eklesjas’tik BerZerK In 2005 Sektarism was formed by eminent members of the Apostles of Ignominy brotherhood. Malhkebre and Sektarism musical approaches and visions differ, yet come together in the idea that salvation can only be found in self-abasement and suffering. In this, at least, Sektarism can be compared to those confraternities…
Partisan by Tom Angelripper These are the first songs composed for the ‘Partisan’ EP with the new line-up and I am very satisfied with the result. We wanted to offer the fans the new direction, the improved sound and songwriting and we also promoted the successful Headbangers Ball tour in Europe. It is very important…
Geometria by Tamás Kátai Thy Catafalque was born in 1998 in Makó, Hungary with János Juhász (guitar) and Tamás Kátai (keyboards, programs, vocals), playing black metal in the very beginning. They released their first album one year later and their fifth one, ‘Rengeteg’ was released by Season Of Mist in 2011. By that time the…
Year Two by Gage Sifuentes ‘Unto the Wolves’ is a hard rock/metal project. The music typically has a heavy edge and transitions between different variants of hard rock and metal. The feel of the music is riddled with driving rhythmic guitars, a crisp bass, hard-hitting drums accompanied by melodic but aggressive vocals. In addition, most…
Post Mortem by David Vandegoor Splendidula was formed in 2008 in Genk (Belgium). The self-titled debut album ‘Splendidula’ was recorded in 2013 and released on June 22th 2013. After some serious line-up changes the music evolved to a mix of Post, Sludge & Doom metal, with some additional grunts for a heavier sound. The current…
Crossover Thrashcore Metal band, formed in 2008. Santiago, Chile. Influences: Motorhead, GBH, Crumbsuckers, Kreator, D.R.I, Agnostic Front, Sepultura, Cro Mags, Testament, Razor, Toxic Holocaust, Misfits, Suicidal Tendencies, Ratos de Porao, S.O.D, Ludichrist, Overkill, Exodus, Discharge, Vio-lence, Sin Dios, Sodom, Nuclear Assault, Soziedad Alkoholika, Pantera. Dezaztre Natural was formed in 2008 in Santiago de Chile, by…
Old school metal veterans MEMORIAM are set to unleash their third album, Requiem For Mankind, on June 21st, 2019 via Nuclear Blast Records. Frank and Karl discuss enlisting the legendary artist Dan Seagrave once again to create the art for their new offering and how Karl introduced the idea of doing a trilogy of albums.…
I’d like to say that I studied fine arts, but the truth is my studies had nothing to do with art. I started to be interested in photography in 2000-2001, and this led me to leave my job to follow my dream. I have taken several courses in photography, digital painting and video, and at…
Cults, Crypts and Corpses by King of Nothing In times when the majority tend to categorize music by coming up with the most bizarre tags and shoving it all the way through pigeon holes, Mentor’s blasphemous and straightforward emanation of heavy music’s essential traits appears like a spit in the face. Enforcing the idea of…
Against the Odds By Juli Bazooka Spanish Thrash metal champions Crisix released their last album Against the odds this April via Listenable records and toured all year starting with sold out Full metal cruise, series of headlining shows across Europe, summer festivals as Hellfest, Alcatraz, Download, CMOA, Rude, Mise Open Air, Kutten Fest, Metal Scar,…
Great Escape By Justin Greaves I can tell you that it’s been very surprised at the response, I never expect anything but this time there seems to be a good vibe around it. It’s the album that I needed to write, like some kind of cleansing process. It comes from a place of resignation, where…
Self-Extinction by Pablo Selnik and Àlex Reviriego Inhumankind is a project by Pablo Selnik (flute) and Àlex Reviriego (double bass), two of the most active, original and fearless musicians on the Barcelona scene. After several years working on projects of such diverse styles as modern jazz, metal, contemporary composition or drone, and being key members…
Soul Of Ruin, Body Of Filth By Doug Corey Hailing from Erie, Pennsylvania Abjection Ritual started life as the project of sole member D.C. in 2014. After two self-released Malignant records unleashed the debut full length ‘Futility Rites’ followed in 2018 by a second full length ‘Soul Of Ruin, Body of Filth’. ‘Soul Of Ruin’…
Memory by Brod Wellington Ivan was formed in the midst of 2015 from a mutual desire to create thoughtful and otherwise heavy music by Brodric Wellington and Joseph Pap, who had previously worked on similar music in their teenage years together. Enlisting the help of another; they set to creating their debut release ‘Aeons Collapse’…