Crystal Gates

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…

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Saturna

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…

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Suffering Sights

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…

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Cthulhu Dreamt

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,…

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Dead Head

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…

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Vulture

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…

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Deformatory

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…

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The Slayerking

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,…

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Titan Rage

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.…

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Shed the Skin

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…

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MNRVA

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…

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Gutricyde

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…

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