Promoting metal as art and culture

Damned To Downfall

Embrace Your Extinction with Marcus Dahl Art: Jesus Lhysta Damned to Downfall delivers a soundtrack to the downfall of humanity by combining Death Metal with Industrial and Black Metal to breathe new life into a genre that has become more predictable than extreme. Damned to Downfall is brought to you by the creative force behind…

Mordkaul

Dress Code: Blood with Tommy Goffin Art: Timur Khabirov The story behind the name can be discovered in this video Mordkaul’ The Beginning’. A dark and evil mood, an infernal drive, and incendiary vocals on top are how Mordkaul likes to forge their killer songs. The members of this Belgium-based band share a mutual passion…

Phobetor

Through Deepest Fears and Darkest Minds with Marc Dyos Art: Brian D’Agosta Formed by vocalist Debora Conserva in 2018, Phobetor’s drive and vision were to mirror the anguish and chaos of life, to capture its essence and reflect it into the hearts of the masses. 2020 saw the release of their debut album ‘When Life…

Ghastly

Mercurial Passages with Ian J. D’Waters, Andy Gordon Art: Riikka Pesonen Ghastly was formed in 2011 by Ian J. d’Waters and Gassy Sam as a side project. A demo, ‘Death is Present’, was released the same year, and it gave enough feedback for Ghastly to make a 7″ and led to the making of a…

La Merde

La Vie En Noir with Thomas Art: Carl Mithralion Praya-dubia La Merde has been creating music since 2018. Born out of a love for classic neofolk bands, they decided to build upon this musical heritage with a distinctly personal touch. Many of our songs could be seen as short narratives, glimpses into the lives of…

The Heretic Order

III with Lord Ragnar Wagner Art: Lord Ragnar Wagner Our music is metal with a dark feel to it, a soundtrack to the lyrics which are short stories of the occult and the dark side of human history; I always thought that we don’t need science fiction to scare people; humans have done a very…

Rabid Hood

Rabid Hood is a melodic hard rock band from Vestland/Norway. The band has extensive experience in the metal and rock n’ roll stage with members from Helheim, ex-Taake, Trelldom, Nattverd, Aventyr and Spitfire++. Spiteful is produced by Beau Hill Music Production (Alice Cooper, Europe, Ratt, etc.). We wanted to start a new melodic hard rock…

Venomized

Death Row with Kevin Kross Art: Roberto Napolitano I started the project in November 2017 because I wanted to learn to scream and write a Death Metal album myself for the first time. And I wanted to push myself on my bass playing, which I have been playing since 2007. After that, I needed a…

Coffin Rites

Human Erase with Coffin Rites Art: Justin Boehne, Gnarwhal Design Solutions Coffin Rites is a Minneapolis-based death metal band currently touring and promoting their latest album, Human Erase, on FTWNU2 Records. The band derives its sound from influences across the death, thrash and black metal spectrum. The band has shared the stage with acts such…

Colossus

Degenesis with Colossus Art: Jesus Lhysta Colossus started with a vision I had for some material initially planned for something else. It was originally supposed to be the next Deaden album, but things fell through with the other members, so I reworked some of it and changed the vision musically and lyrically. I recorded the…

Artillery

X with Michael Stützer Art: Martin Helgren Artillery plays melodic thrash metal with elements from the hard rock in the 1970s and the metal elements from the 1980”s. It means a lot to me to play the same music I listen to. Also, the possibility to play all around the world with metal’s best fans…

Crypt Crawler

Future Usurper with Marco Ieritano Art: Juanjo Castellano Rosado Crypt Crawler pulls old-school death metal vibes and traditional tones together with a modern approach. Created in 2018, Crypt Crawler already has two albums and an EP. They write well-crafted death metal with intelligent concepts and themes within their lyrics. It’s a brutal, dirty, grimy blend…

Endseeker

Mount Carcass with Ben Liepelt Art: Markus Grasseck With Endseeker, we’re playing old-school-based death metal in the Swedish flavour. We’re highly influenced by the Stockholm sound of the 80s and 90s but always spray in some stuff from other influences. We’re not strictly limited to a specific genre but try to cross some borders and…

Eleine

Die from Within with Madeleine, Rikard Art: Nestor Avalos Madeleine: Our music is heavy, melodic and empowering. Our music means everything since it’s written from our core. We released our latest album’ Dancing In Hell’ in November 2020, and it turned out to be a great choice to continue with the planned release we had…

Kardashev

Liminal Rite with Kardashev Art: Faith Veloro Our music is a blend of atmospheric death Metal and shoegaze with lyrical themes spanning sci-fi, pain-filled storytelling, and the human condition. ‘Liminal Rite’ explores and amplifies our tendency to depend on the past and examines how nostalgia has become a means of self-medication that has only been…

Redemptor

Agonia with Michał’ Xaay’ Loranc Art: Michał ‘Xaay’ Loranc Redemptor was formed in 2001 by Daniel Kesler (Only Sons, Sothoth, Sceptic). The initial line-up has recorded two demos. The debut album, None Pointless Balance, was recorded in 2005, while the band played many concerts, paving the way for a new chapter of their activity. 2007…

Knoll

Knoll / Autolith with Jamie Eubanks, Knoll Knoll is an extreme metal band from Tennessee, currently embarking on their third U.S. tour supporting their sophomore album, Metempiric. Frontman James Eubanks writes to expand on the artwork and concept of the band. At its core, we play extreme music. We find a home in grindcore and…

Misfire

Sympathy for the Ignorant with James Matthew Nicademus  Art: Alkoholtrus Our music is thrash metal our way. Chunky riffs, slamming bass and drums, lyrics that speak. It’s exciting music to listen to.  The creative process starts when someone has an idea. A riff usually will bring out a hook that is then turned into another…

Noéta

Elm with Noéta Photos: Aron Mattsson Layout: Alexander Trinkl, Irrwisch Something dark, melancholic, and at times even sinister haunts each of the eight tracks collected on Noéta’s sophomore full-length, ‘Elm’, which is lyrically based loosely on emotions connected to the eponymous poem by the celebrated American writer Sylvia Plath. The music of the Swedish duo…

Aziola Cry

The Ironic Divide with Jason Blake Art: Micka Klauck I would describe the music that I write as progressive instrumental metal. I tend to write in odd time signatures and use a darker pallet as a basis for most of the songs. I enjoy the challenge the music brings and the excitement of playing it…