Kingdoms to Hovel with Rozel Nikolaj Leaño, Jayson Gonzales, Andrei Alemania, Jonathan Miranda Art: Ov Exvn Infërnvz Nullification is a death metal quartet formed in the fall of 2021. We hail from the province of Laguna, Philippines. HMA: How would you describe your music? Jayson: Our music is the willingness to push intensity beyond, and…
Dystopian Syndrome with Jonny Warren Art: Jonny Warren We are probably best summed up as a death/thrash metal band with influences from heavy metal, doom, black metal, prog, classical and hardcore. It means bringing something fresh to the table while maintaining a deep connection to the old school, especially the 80s sound when everything was…
Shantel Amundson with Shantel Amundson Art: Daniel Hart, Festering Wounds ‘Ash of the Womb’, the sophomore full-length from California’s Illudium, was born in the fiery pandemonium of the burning season of 2020 when huge tracts of the sunshine state went up in flames while skies glowed orange at night. The many layers of dark and…
Carry on with Samuel Georgsson Art: Andy Dahlström Music makes out a vital part of ourselves for all four of us in Grande Royale. It’s like a need, almost equally important as breathing, that drives us forward and makes us try to get along with each other while writing, rehearsing, recording and performing our music.…
Excess by Apophis Art: Misanthropic-Arts Death metal bursting with energy and excellent guitar work has always been a trademark of Apophis. Heavy melodies, dark and melancholic, yet aggressive at times, as well as impressive growls and screams, are typical for APOPHIS and hit straight into the metal heart. The groovy drumming, charged with thundering double-bass…
Give us Life with Space Chaser ‘Give us Life’ came together after we decided to scrap everything we had done so far and started from scratch again. Our goal was to create a mix between the old school thrash sound we grew up with and the more modern approach you hear from many younger bands…
Exitivm by Patrick Mameli I compose all the music, and the process is straightforward. The rest of the band used my compositions and structures to fill in their parts. Their parts are improvised and make the composition to life. The album is called Total Destruction in Latin (Exitivm). It kind of describes the times we…
A Valediction with Steffen Kummerer ‘A Valediction’ has been planned from scratch as a record we want to reproduce life, piece by piece, song by song. Therefore, the writing altered slightly, and we had the stage and fans in mind while composing and arranging the 11 songs of the album. I have led the band…
Dark Connection with Anton Kabanen Our new album Dark Connection 2021 circles around cyberpunk themes with influences coming from the 80’s and the 90’s cyberpunk anime, the artwork of Hajime Sorayama and the film ’Blade Runner’. The main focus is on the relationships between humans and humanoid robots. Apart from cyberpunk, it also contains three…
Necro Sapiens with Baest Necro Sapiens 2021 came about when everyone was in lockdown in Denmark. We decided to bury ourselves in the rehearsal space, playing as much as possible. After almost six months of this, we decided that we would try to record the songs live, so we would get the groove and sound…
Anno Bestia Chrysallis with Dinko Dimov, Kiril Kirilov The project Bestia Ater is the work of Kiril Kirilov (vocals and lyrics) and Dinko Dimov (songwriting, musical arrangements, bass, additional vocals). Kiril Kirilov is known for being the founder and main vocalist of Hyperborea (1997-2016) and featuring as a vocalist for the bands Past Redemption and…
Orgasmic Glory with Jo Steel The songs were composed and recorded in a few days. I played all of the instruments and vocals. Heidi wrote the lyrics, and I adjusted them a bit. I then send the songs to Tanza to complete the vocals and Brennan to do all the lead parts. I have no…
Alteration Through Possession with Vicious Knights Vicious Knights is an old school death/thrash metal band screaming from Thessaloniki, Greece. The band was formed in 2016 by Antonis ‘Harvester'(Guitars/Vocals) and Liakos (Drums). Panos (Bass Guitar) entered the band a few months later. This 3-piece of a total maniacal band, has already unleashed, on CD, their first…
Colosseum with Sakis Prekas ‘Colosseum’ is the most challenging album we have made yet and is the smoothest. We did not put much thought into it. We wanted the music to be placed on the record exactly as it came out from us. This came up to be very challenging at specific points though we…
Feast at the Forbidden Tree by Black Mass Black Mass is a metal band from Boston formed in 2012. They have been going strong for almost a decade by combining thrash and other elements, including black metal, horror movies, punk, and just straight-up rock and roll. We’re still just sifting through our many influences, whether…
Imperial Congregation with Daniel Olaisen Blood Red Throne is a Norwegian death metal band that has been around for almost 25 years, released ten albums and toured most parts of the world several times—formed by me, Daniel Olaisen. Old-school and groovy death metal with modern production. Imperial Congregation is our 10th full-length album and by…
Brutal Onslaught with Tony Rolandelli Zach Weed (guitars) and I already had been writing a bunch of songs together. We usually write our songs through guitar pro, but then Covid hit. Shows were getting cancelled, so we figured we might as well jump into the studio and take advantage of the downtime. It was hard…
Liberation From A Brutalist Existence with Brent Ericson Wanderer is a Minneapolis based quartet formed as a quintet in the winter of 2013. Drawing influence first from the likes of The Chariot and Norma Jean, and more recently from Converge, Trap Them, and Baptists, they create a maelstrom of heavy, agile, and uncompromising metal/hardcore hybrid.…
Ritual with Anatoly Pakhalenko Let’s start with the fact that our band Nytt Land is a little more than a creative team, no matter how banal it may sound at first glance. If you study the biography of the Nytt Land, for example, on the Wikipedia page, you will find that our creative team is…
Power of the Chosen One with Gustavo Acosta There are many stories regarding creating our latest release, Power of the Chosen One 2021, but 99% of them can (and should) be shared only on a table with some beers and laughs due to the sensitive content of most of them. In any case, this album…