Rites of Gore – Sentient Horror Art: Juanjo Castellano Rosado All I need is my guitar, a cup of coffee, and my DAW open in front of me. The writing process is like anything else in music, just a lot of hard work and attention to detail. I’ll begin conceptualising a new record by making…
Nations Divide – Scars of Atrophy Art: Gabriel Turner Byrne I was raised Catholic, and it was probably the best thing to educate myself about what happens behind the scenes. I am a full-on atheist now. I use a lot of what I grew up with to fuel the lyrics and point out the commonly…
Torment & Wonder The Ways of the Lonely Ones – Benjamín Machín Art: Stan W. Decker Our lyrics are mostly related to some personal experience or feeling. They may seem a bit dark or depressing at a glance, but the underlying message is usually about overcoming hardship, finding inspiration and finding your own light in…
Turned to Stone Chapter 4: Higher Selves – Henry Art: Jalón De Aquiles Jimi wrote the whole album, and every member did his part so the songs could grow. When we talk about the album title, it’s one of Jimi’s lines from the song ‘following the sun’. Normally, he will pick a phrase from the…
Shadows Without Light Part Two – Tom Reynolds Art: Arif Suhaimi An idiot and talentless musician hoping no one finds out I’m a hack fraud. I think lyrics are important as a cathartic experience for the person writing them and the listener. My lyrics were just old crap at first because it was more about…
Rise or Fall – Kono Art: Velio Josto When I said that I am a typical Japanese person who does not have a very strong religious view, music might be my religion. I want to listen to good music and make good music myself because this is my purpose in life. So the most necessary…
When Sanity Becomes Insanity – Suffering Sights Art: Fernando JFL At the beginning, it was a little bunch of Suffering, Existential Realism and Death Mysteries; at that time, Luciano (vocals, guitars) was fully stuck into philosophical and cosmic discussions of our reality, by now, with the work of Francisco (Backing Vocals & Guitars) and Juan…
Exodus – Kopie von Doom Art: Mario Thieme Despite all of the circumstances, we see the ‘Exodus’ scenario as an unconditional will of humanity to survive and the inexhaustible hope for a better world. The instrumental music processes the whole thing to take the listener track by track even deeper on this journey of complex…
Liminality – Reed Reimer Art: Henrik Rosenborg Cthulhu Dreamt is a concept project created to tell a human story through an inhuman metaphor. Dealing with loss, tragedy, and depression in a world under Cthulhu’s gaze, the music becomes the soundtrack for the story. Founded by Reed Reimer in 2020 with members Jake Myslinski, Ben Larson,…
Disembodied – Abe Art: Edgar Roldan We write lyrics based on things we have witnessed or experienced for ourselves in our own lives. We find real life is the most brutal thing you can experience, and there are many evils in the world. Therefore, we like to base our lyrics on that. It makes the…
Slave Driver – Ronnie Vanderwey Art: Vladimir ‘Smerdulak’ Chebakov We have no general items in our lyrics. We like to make lyrics that have an interesting meaning for ourselves. I look upon lyrics as an essential completion to the music. I find it more of an outlet to write something close to the music. We…
The Return of the Shadow – Jyri Vahvanen Art: Kirsi Salonen I like to bathe in virgins’ blood and eat live bats. I also summon the powers from the ancient Gods and let my astral being ride the ghosts of the archaic dragons. Or… I just find a quiet place, some spare time and a…
Dark Dungeons Atelier – Stefan Castevet Art: Velio Josto We’re living more or less apart from each other, so the whole songwriting process is done at the desk. So whenever a cool idea pops up, we sit down, tab, or record and then exchange ideas. No candles, skulls or goat blood are involved. Music, for…
Harbringer – Charlie Leduc Art: Paolo Girardi Lyrics for the previous three full-length albums were written conceptually, with each release diving deeper into the mythos we aimed to create. Superficially, the lyrics are violent outpourings of enmity towards organised religion, wrapped in old-school infernal demonic worship. Beneath that, we created characters, worlds, languages and symbolism…
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…