Sijjeel – Salvation Within Insanity (Review)
There are myriads of ways to approach death metal. It can be fun and dumb or borderline progressive....
Below-The-Radar
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.
The Guitar Battery – meet Míra Holly
Meet Míra Holly aka Amon, guitarist of the Czech EBM band Insanidroid. He took the opportunity of the pandemic pause to come up with a set of finest cinematic instrumental songs released under the alias of Míra Holly’s Synthwaver.
“The Only Limit Is Your Imagination” – Meet Kimmo Korhonen
Meet Kimmo Korhonen, main creative force of Solacide, but as guitarist known also from Waltari, Amberian Dawn or Barren Earth (live). He and Matti Jauhola founded Solacide as teenagers in 1996. But Kimmo tells us also about his other and former bands, how they work and what he learned from playing with them.
Lauri Ruotsalainen and Simo Niiranen – Music and Return of Distress of Ruin on the scene
The Finnish Modern Melo Death band Distress Of Ruin are back with their new emotional single "Solace Of The Night". Guitarist Simo and vocalist Lauri give us share some tales of the band's evolution and dynamics. And then Wolfheart gave a howling waking kiss...
Fantastic: Solacide’s New Album “Fall From Eternity”
Solacide's fantastic new album “Fall From Eternity” is inspirational, deep, and diverse. The band from Lahti takes us on a journey fighting our demons or battle with Vikings alike.
Celestial Guitar Work – Obligatory Human Destruction (review)
Obligatory Human Destruction is a modern Death Metal album in terms of combining groovy bass lines with sort of mechanic, metronomic drumming, somewhat static harsh vocals and layer over layer of amazing guitars!
Abstrakt: “Uncreation” (review & interview)
Abstrakt's second full-length album "Uncreation" is a baroque abundance of operatic soundscapes meeting Black Metal which merely the soundtrack for the outstanding lyrics!