Firescorched – Tommy Talamanca Art: Paolo Puppo Within the band, we are all practising agnostic atheists. We don’t believe in God or Satan. Life itself is constant waves between two phases: happiness and sorrow. No artist would write, paint or compose anything during the stage of happiness. I can talk about myself: I’m a ‘fatalist’:…
Bit Meseri The Incantation – Spectrum Mortis Art: Khaos Diktator Design Our record revolves around Mesopotamian culture. Our idea was to investigate and inquire into that culture and civilisation. The curious thing about this process was to see how it is easy to establish parallels between that culture and the current one despite the physical…
Seraphic Punishment – Maul Art: Jason Barnett Maul is a five-piece Death Metal band from Fargo, North Dakota. Since 2017, ‘Midwest Death’ has blended elements of brutal death, sludge, doom and hardcore to bring an energetic and often described as an unhinged live performance. Many of my lyrics are taken from a personal space, emotions/traumas,…
Mankind Recall – Lorenzo Orrù Art: Gaung Yang Inspiration comes from watching movies and animes and reading and searching for inspiration. My experience as a vocalist started back in the nineties; I started playing with friends, imitating Max Cavalera and then Mick Montaguti of Electrocution. One day our drummer came in with a CD which…
Blackfire – Rebecca Tovey Art: Lu Agudelo Bio: Formed in late 2012 by vocalist/guitarist Nico Cattoni, Raptore hailed from Buenos Aires, Argentina and released their first demo in 2014. In 2016, they released their debut album, Rage N’ Fever, which allowed them to tour South America and open for such bands as Exciter and Enforcer.…
Abysmos – Bar-gal Art: Gonzalo Santana Abysmos refers to the sensation of terror our mind faces when we place it before non-existence, the concept of death. This cosmic horror is an ancestral feeling exclusive to human beings (who made us create the gods to be able to resist the knowledge of our destiny). It provokes…
The Sibylline Age – Jason Schultz Art: Mark Erskine Idol Throne typically writes about fantasy topics and fantasy worlds. The music lends itself to this type of imagery. Although the other lyricists in the band and I have written about self-reflective and personal topics in other bands/projects, the lyrical push here has remained story based.…
Self titled Fate’s Hand with band Art: Paolo Girardi With the roar of parting waves and the call of a thousand ravens, Australian heavy metal thunders into a new being bearing the ever-ominous moniker Fate’s Hand. Expect less, and your life is forfeit. Fate’s Hand draw the first sword. Creative rituals? When the ideas come,…
The Woods will End you – Brotality Art: Paul Stier Before Bryce sits down to create, he likes to complete the day’s work, ensure he has an organised space, and then start riffing out with an amp turned up really loud. Reece likes to put on orchestral soundtracks when writing lyrics to eliminate distractions. We…
III – Alex Risberg Art: Negative Crypt Artwork, Francesco Bauso Bio: Formed in March 2020, 10,000 Years have slowly but surely built a name for itself in the heavy underground as they’ve worked swiftly according to the tried and true method of the early days of the Black Sabbath. Since their inception, 10,000 Years have…
Of Boötes Void Death Spell – Reincarnated Art: Festering Phlegm Each individual has their own beliefs, and society should be secular. Doom metal is a way for us to express our grievances towards the world we live in. We don’t dabble in narcotics, so we can’t relate to that aspect; we generally seek inspiration from…
Needles of Rust – Mårten Hansen Art: Björn Gooßes Bio: This Ending was formed in 2005 and has released three albums that have received positive reviews. After the release of the 2017’s album, ‘Garden of Death,’ This Ending embarked on a European tour with label mates Ablaze My Sorrow in 2017. This Ending has also…
Fire It Up – Thunderor Art: Daniel Porta Bio: Thunderor is an 80s-infused heavy metal band formed in 2020 by Skull Fist band members JJ Tartaglia and Jonny Nesta, plus Oscar Rangel (ex-Annihilator) on bass. Together they deliver hook-driven anthems to the calibre that has come to be expected by a Canadian power trio. Since…
Buried Realm – Josh Dummer Art: Pär Olofsson It comes down to practice. Whether that means learning new vocal/guitar techniques or improving the production, songwriting, etc., the music has to move me and keep me excited and inspired. So, it’s important not to become bored by repeating myself. The lyrical metaphors could lean slightly on…
The Last Mirror – Edu Art: Rodrigo Pereira Salvatierra Ataraxy emerged in 2008 from the clogged-up sewers of Zaragoza, Spain to deliver uncompromising and dark death metal. Having worked with different labels such as Memento Mori, Dark Descent Records or Me Saco Un Ojo, the band is now supporting the release of their third full-length…
Effigies of Obsolescence – Søren Willatzen Art: Alexander Gjerdevik Skjøtt Chaotian is a Copenhagen-based death metal band which was founded in 2017 by Søren Willatzen (vocals/guitar) and Andreas Nordgreen (vocals/drums). The band released the two demos ’Where Gods Excarnate’ and ’Festering Carcinolith’, which garnered Chaotian lots of interest in the death metal underground circles, which…
Grand False Karass – Matthew J. Ratcliffe Art: Frederic Leighton (RIP) Feeling that much of metal has lost its capacity to confront, challenge and offend, which I feel were some of its vital elements, I write with the intent to do just that, drawing on philosophy’s ability to critique any point of view, but mainly…
Echoes of Despair – Vicente Payá Art: Daemorph Bio: Unbounded Terror was formed in 1991 (Mallorca, Spain) by Vicente Paya, driven by the emerging death metal scene around the world in those years. Thus, at the end of 1992, the band released their first album (and it was probably known as the first Death Metal…
With: Brian Magar, Rebecca Magar Art: Rebecca Magar HMA: Tell us about the album title and lyrics. Brian: The album title ‘Of Fire and Sorcery’ is taken from the last vocal line delivered on the album (minus the ‘Iron Spider’ bonus track). All of the lyrics revolve around the Warlock pictured on the cover (some…
Multiplicity – Andrew Stout Art: Darcy Kelly-Laviolette Apeiron Bound was quietly formed in the summer of 2018 by Andrew Stout (composer/guitarist) as a one-man project to unleash his musical creativity. From there, he started his collaboration with producer and fellow musician John Galloway (Hallowhymn / Phantom Wave Audio) to further expand upon the instrumental side…