Dark Millennium

Acid River – Hilton Theissen, Christian Mertens Art: ​​Alexander Freund HMA: Do you have any creative rituals? Hilton: Writing riffs can feel like a deep meditation and spiritual on top, but not religious. We have our rituals by which we write songs together; it is a very constructive atmosphere and high-quality conversation between men and…

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Amputate

Dawn of Annihilation – Tom Kuzmic Art: Tata Kumislizer No rituals. This stuff is only for the weak. Whether you’re into the goat guy or the white-bearded one, we don’t care about religion. No jokes aside, we jam and come up with a riff, then another one we combine, look for significant drum parts, and…

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Stratuz

Osculum Pacis – Stratuz Art: Eugenia Bathoriya Lyrics are generally associated with the emotional, spiritual and social environment of the human being who searches for answers to so many questions, as well as the need to express rebellion; we mainly seek to shake the mind of any person and awaken curiosity to seek their truth…

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Rottenness

Violentopia – Rottenness Art: Velio Josto We are a Mexican-American band founded in the late 90s in Cancun, Mexico. The band has toured the world over the last 20 years and played alongside bands such as Suffocation, Cephalic Carnage, Malignancy, Brutal Truth, Fuck the Facts and many more. Rottenness recently released a new album, ‘Violentopia,’…

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Molder

Engrossed in Decay – Aaren Pantke Art: Lucas Korte Any creative rituals? Usually just fire up a bowl/crack open a beer, and listen to other bands we enjoy. It’s not unusual for us to get nice and ripped before jamming out new ideas. However, that’s not to say it’s necessary. Otherwise no ‘rituals’, really; we…

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Evil In

Age Of Immortal Darkness – Charlie Murphy Art: Jois Cabe It’s really about me being in a creative mode and alone, and it just comes to me. There are no rituals involved. I don’t have any fixations. Overall, I am a very spiritual person in my life and music.  Heavy music is an alternative type…

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Somnus Throne

Nemesis Later – Evan Somnus Throne is a three-piece doom, stoner, heavy-psych, and sludge band whose members hail from all over the U.S.A. and haven’t ever settled down anywhere for too long. To keep it simple -– they’re from L.A. Somnus Throne love bands like Acid King, Black Rainbows, CoC, Bongripper, Electric Wizard, Thrones, Dead…

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Mass Worship

Portal Tombs – Fred Forsberg, Dadde Art: Stuart Lippincott Fred: Our music deals with the apparent nihilism of modern society, where no one believes in anything anymore and can’t envision a better future or a way out of our predicament. We’re trying to awaken what is a suppressed but highly potent feeling of emptiness, loneliness…

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Obscene

…From Dead Horizon to Dead Horizon – Kyle Shaw Art: Skaðvaldur Bio: Conjured in 2016, Obscene is a death metal quartet from Indianapolis, Indiana. Following their Sermon to the Snake demo in late 2017, they quickly caught the attention of Sweden’s Blood Harvest, who reissued the demo on cassette and digital formats in early 2018.…

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​​Deathcult

Of Soil Unearthed – Deathcult Art: Stefan Todorović We deal with abstract, religious themes, or rather the many and varied excesses of a spiritual, sick mind. But we don’t limit ourselves too much within. We want to convey content in our lyrics that go beyond the usual scheme and allows listeners to express their ideas…

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Miscreance

Convergence – Tommaso Cappelletti Art: James McCarthy When writing music, we’re only stuck to the riffs and the atmosphere we want to create. Strict philosophies can be a limiting condition in life; they don’t let you 100% appreciate all the shades of this world. We mostly started out of curiosity and because we were attracted…

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Overtoun

This Darkness Feels Alive – Matias Bahamondes, Yoav Ruiz, Agustin Lobo Art: Paolo Girardi Overtoun is a Death/Thrash Metal band with a blend of progressive/Latin elements, founded in 2014 by drummer Agustin Lobo and guitarist Matias Bahamondes. After finding vocalist Yoav Ruiz-Feingold (Graviton, ex-Atheist) at Berklee College of Music in 2017, they consolidated their core…

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The Lovecraft Sextet

Miserere – Jason Köhnen Bio: The Lovecraft Sextet is one of the many projects from multi-instrumentalist Jason Köhnen. Renowned for his previous projects Bong-Ra or The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. The Lovecraft Sextet was evoked after a void appeared with the ending of his other Darkjazz outlets, firstly TKDE and TMFDJC and then the short-lived The…

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