FROM THE VASTLAND has always lived between worlds. The project, led by mastermind and frontman Sina Winter, carries the frostbitten pulse of old-school Norwegian black metal while drawing deeply from Persian mythology, ancient demons, corruption, tyranny, and the kind of stories that feel carved into stone rather than written down […]
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Ask The Artist: NEKRODAWN Choose SLAYER For The End Of The World
Today’s Ask The Artist feature goes straight into the blast zone with NEKRODAWN, a Swedish death metal unit from Dalarna built for the sort of listener who hears “subtle” and immediately reaches for a heavier guitar tone. Formed in 2022, NEKRODAWN have already carved out a vicious lane in the […]
Ask The Artist: VISCERA/// Forecast The Kind Of Weather That Ruins Everything
Today’s Ask The Artist feature belongs to VISCERA///, an Italian post-metal entity that has spent more than two decades turning heaviness into something unstable, hallucinatory, and deeply unhappy about the state of your nervous system. Formed in 2000 and split between Cremona and Piacenza, VISCERA/// began in goregrind territory before […]
Ask The Artist: SALLOW MOTH Choose STAR TREK Over Dystopia While Unleashing New Cosmic Horrors
Today’s Ask The Artist feature is a particularly fun one, because if there’s one band that treats death metal as a laboratory for biological disasters, dimensional anomalies, and deeply questionable life choices, it’s Texas progressive death metal entity SALLOW MOTH. The project, spearheaded by the absurdly prolific Garry Brents (also […]
Ask The Artist: THÆTAS Picks An Unhinged Death Metal Cult Classic You Need In Your Life
New York City’s THÆTAS have never been interested in taking the easy route. Their music twists through dissonance, technical precision, brutal death metal violence, and avant-garde weirdness with the confidence of a band that knows exactly how far off the map it wants to travel. Today, guitarist Patrick Hawkins answers […]
Ask The Artist: SARCASM Worship the Madness of POSSESSED While Unleashing “Plunged Into A Paradox”
Sweden has always known how to weaponize darkness, and SARCASM remain one of the underground’s most criminally overlooked masters of melodic extremity. Blackened death metal, cosmic atmosphere, razorwire riffing — these maniacs have been twisting the genre beyond simple “Swedeath” labels for decades. Today, vocalist Heval Bozarslan answers a sacred […]
Ask The Artist: ANGELCRYPT — Bombs, History… and a Certain Album We’d Gladly Erase
Today’s descent into melodic devastation takes us to the war-scarred shores of Malta, where ANGELCRYPT forge steel, fire, and history into crushing riffs. Representing the band, guitarist/vocalist Shawn Mizzi steps into the void with today’s question: “If you could remove one thing from this world forever, what would it be?” […]
Ask The Artist: Finland’s SOULFALLEN Mix Vodka, Darkness and Dead Stars — And It Sounds Glorious
Today’s Ask The Artist is something special. After years of silence, Finland’s melodic death / symphonic metal force SOULFALLEN are finally stirring again — and if you know their legacy, you already understand why that matters. Formed in 2003 and long revered in the underground for their ability to fuse […]
Ask The Artist: DEATHSTORM — “If You’re Not Used to the Riff, This Will Hurt”
Today’s Ask The Artist entry comes in fast, loud, and absolutely unforgiving. Austrian death-thrashers DEATHSTORM are back with “Mount Eerie,” the second single from their upcoming fifth album Cascophonies, set for release on May 22, 2026 via Dying Victims Productions. Active since 2010, DEATHSTORM have built their name on relentless, […]
Ask The Artist: ARCHAIC OATH Conjure a Volcanic Wasteland of Blackened Death
For today’s descent into the abyss, we turn to Belgium’s rising blackened death metal entity ARCHAIC OATH — a fresh name forged by seasoned hands from acts like Hemelbestormer, Marche Funèbre, Lhaäd, and Rituals of the Dead Hand. Though newly formed in 2025, this duo isn’t crawling out of the […]