July15th –Agony On Earth (EP-review)
Today we are going to have a listen at Agony on Earth, the debut-EP of July15th. July15th is a jewel in the rough and so is the EP.
Below-The-Radar
Depresy – Psycold (Album Review)
Slovakia’s Black Metal Torch Bearers The Slovak formation Depresy might not be a household name internationally, but in...
KiaRa – Archangel (album review)
KiaRa is one of Imperial Age’s two female vocalists – beside Jane Odintsova. She released her first solo album “Storyteller” in 2020. In her own words, “the sound on this album [Archangel] is much higher quality and professional than on the first one album ‘Storyteller’. The music is also more mature.” I personally liked Storyteller for its roughness quite a lot, let’s see and hear about the progress now.
Rock & Metal Day’z – Behind the Curtain
While most visitors to concerts and festivals concentrate on the obvious only, the bands on stage, I often like to take a closer look behind. Who are the people working hard for it since we know, Pink is not there for our entertainment? What goes on backstage, who is in charge? How much work is behind a three days’ event? At least, who are those people who seem to play a role in front of stage as part of the audience? Here is a little insight from the Rock and Metal Day'z, Whitsun 2022.
Hotter Than Hell: M:O:A Festival 2022
Summer has come to the Hessian hinterlands and so have some 1200 metalheads to celebrate the M:O:A festival after two years break. A cosy metal festival with family atmosphere and cool music! Long life the small festivals!
Rock & Metal Day’z 2022
The early summer sun has burned the metalheads while they celebrated the first wave of festivals. You might now think of Metalfest Plzen or much bigger and more mainstream, Rock am Ring and im Park with 85,000 spectators as the first ones to come up. Cut the last two zeros. I’m talking about a much smaller, laid-back festival, the Rock & Metal Day'z at Oschersleben nearby Magdeburg.
Sijjeel – Salvation Within Insanity (Review)
There are myriads of ways to approach death metal. It can be fun and dumb or borderline progressive....
I wanted to die – Disturbingly honest insights into tormented souls with Sirkuit Preikker
Sirkuit Preikker is Samuli Peltola's mental health outlet. Living with mental disorders is living in hell. Samuli and the author share their own hells to crash the stigmata and inspire to speak openly of what it is: a disease.
Fresh Blood From the Taiwanese Metal Scene – Meet Mjatt Lee
Mjatt Lee is part of a circle of young musicians from the deep South of Taiwan who work on different musical projects together. One of them being Abyss of Gehenna, which has signed with the Ukrainian label Reality Fade for the release of their debut album. Another of these projects is a slam band Emasculated Vituperation which has signed with the Indonesian label Brutal Mind and is making a splash in the extreme world with their debut album.
The brutal death metal wunderkind – Meet Nikhil Talwalkar
A wunderkind he is, Nikhil, engaged in several projects such as Bludgeoned, Theurgy or Undeciphered. But then there also is his solo project Anal Stabwound and playing gigs with different jazz and rock bands.