Tetragrammaton – The Slayerking Art: Costin Chioreanu The Slayerking is the lizard whose snake ancestor offered the apple to Eve. It is about the serpent’s story; God cursed us to crawl after seducing her in Paradise. In the untold part of it, it grew its legs back and became a lizard seeking revenge. Since then,…
Terrorizer – Brandon Hunt Art: Brandon Hunt I’ve been one of the artists for the band so far in its lifetime. My background is in creative and digital art, so I jumped at the chance to make our first single artwork. ‘Terrorizer’ is about being a voice and rising to fight whatever injustices may come.…
With: Kyle Severn, Matt Sorg Art: J. Meyers HMA: What are your lyrics generally about? Chuck: Evil, or what one would interpret as evil, without the boundaries or opinions/ethics of faith. Over the centuries, less-spoken topics of occultism, demonology, and folklore/mythology were found worldwide. I’ll discover through research certain peoples and practices that are so…
Towards Extinction – Minkio We are regular guys trying to express ourselves and screaming about what bothers us. We don’t want to change minds or give an educational speech. We want to let out our rage because we are tired of seeing all the bullshit that this world is living now and how this new…
Hollow – Byron Hawk Art: Andy Pilkington The album doesn’t follow one storyline. The lyrics run the gamut from fundamental misanthropy to trippy psychedelic horror. My lyrics tend toward misanthropy, and Kevin’s tend toward psychedelic horror. I often take scenes from daily life and the bad things people do to each other and turn them…
Gutricyde – Bret Smith Art: Sdenzil Budon I wouldn’t say metal is a ‘cult worship’ necessarily. It’s a form of extreme expression. In my observation, most of us that are into the extreme genres have or have had some trauma of some kind in our life as a child or even as an adult. I…
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: Mark Cooper 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…