The American deathcore band Carnifex from sunny California has returned after a two-year break with their latest full-length album Necromanteum, their ninth release. For 20 years, they have ...
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Hi! Can you share a pivotal moment from “Lifeless Birth” that represents Necrot’s musical growth? I would say the song “Cut the Cord” has a melodic chorus that ...
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Hail! How has your music and lyricism evolved since Aces Wild, and what themes do you explore in “Midnight Assassin”? Lyrically both albums follow a loose theme, with ...
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Hi! Congratulations on your upcoming album “Global Worming”! Could you share more about the creative process behind this record, especially considering the challenges posed by the pandemic and ...
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Hi Patrick! “Annihilational Intercention” is HELLWITCH’s latest album. Could you share the overarching theme or concept that ties the album’s songs together, and what inspired this particular theme ...
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Here’s a thrashy death metal/grindcore album that isn’t always great but has its good moments, and above all, a lot of energy. The little issues I have is ...
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The correlation between thrash and death metal is an interesting one. Not because the most brutal and early variants are easily associated with another, but rather how the ...
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UK’s Industrial Metal project BINARY ORDER set November 29, 2022 as international release date for the new album – Messages From the Deep. First Single ‘Violence’ is available here: Album tracklisting and ...
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Just in time for the kick-off of their nearly completely sold-out tour with Lorna Shore, cinematic extreme metal masters ABORTED have released ‘Infinite Terror’, their first single in partnership with ...
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While one-man bands are a dime a dozen in the bedroom black metal space, and similarly strewn about freely in stoner doom metal, for the longest time they ...
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This new Machine Head album has a pretty good dark groove. There are some heavy tracks, and some complex, odd ones, but they both work because of the ...
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Bloodbath are back, with a big, heavy, evil album that pays homage to old school death metal and horror movies, but still can stand on its own with ...
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Let’s talk about your new album. The main themes seem to be death, but also environmental damage and religious cults. Yes. I guess that fits into the usual ...
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Where to begin with this one. I think it’s safe to say that after the untimely death of lead vocalist, Dave Brockie, GWAR didn’t have to continue. They ...
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After eight years of silence mad Italian thrashers Evilspell have returned with their third full-length album Padre Vostro, making it even more Satanic and violent. It was released ...
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Whereas Thundersteel had put Riot back on the map with its unexpected take on speed/power metal, The Privilege of Power sounds much more confused and basically can be divided into three categories: ...
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War Party is quite a difficult album to pin down in my opinion. I find this ironic considering GWAR is at their most consistent style of playing, with ...
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Sometimes you just need to take a break in order to recharge your creativity. Such was with the case with Riot V, as their two post-Speranza albums weren’t ...
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If there was ever a band that needed a comeback, it was GWAR. After the bloated Carnival of Chaos and the horrid disaster of We Kill Everything, GWAR’s ...
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