Ask The Artist

Let’s return to Ask the Artist, where we throw one good question at musicians and see what kind of truth crawls out. Today’s guest is Marc Anthony, drummer for Raleigh, NC melodic metal outfit Infinity Dream and traditional heavy metal band Widow — but this time, we’re stepping into a […]

For today’s Ask The Artist, we turn our gaze northward to Sweden and reconnect with one of the most quietly powerful names in progressive and melodic metal: WOLVERINE. A band that has always thrived in the space between melancholy and momentum, Wolverine have spent decades shaping songs that feel deeply […]

Tonight’s lantern leads us into the Greek catacombs of DISTORTED REFLECTION, the doom-metal channeling of guitarist/vocalist Kostas Salomidis, forged after his departure from SORROWS PATH. Formed in 2022, DISTORTED REFLECTION has followed a path most bands fear: total silence, no shows, no noise, no spectacle — just riffs, shadows, and […]

Today we’re kicking down the gates of Italy with Borys Crossburn, front-fiend of blackened thrash warriors BARBARIAN. These guys have been sharpening riffs for 16 years straight, turning heavy metal into something between a religious experience and a bar fight with a stack of old VENOM LPs. And now they’re […]

For this edition of Ask The Artist, we head down to North Carolina — the land of barbecue, backroads, and unholy riffs — to catch up with VALAR MORGHULIS, a death/thrash/groove metal hybrid that’s been quietly sharpening its blades for the past year. The band just dropped their brand-new Halloween […]

For this edition of Ask The Artist, we turned to Alessio Erriu, guitarist for the legendary Italian masters of melancholy, NOVEMBRE — a band that has spent over three decades crafting some of the most evocative and soul-stirring metal ever to drift out of Rome’s shadowed corners. With the group’s […]

For this edition of Ask The Artist, we turned to Jay Barnes, the growling force behind the North Carolina death metal juggernaut LUST OF DECAY — a name whispered with reverence (and disgust) across the underground since the late ’90s. With the band’s long-awaited new album finally on the way, […]

Halloween is around the corner, and what better way to set the mood than asking one of death metal’s underground legends about his favorite horror flicks? For this edition of Ask The Artist, we turn to Paul Zavaleta, guitarist, vocalist, and founder of DETERIOROT — one of the true cult […]

In this edition of our Ask the Artist series, we sit down with one of the true legends of the Swedish death metal underground: Sebastian Ramstedt. Known for his work with NECROPHOBIC and IN APHELION, Ramstedt has been shaping the sound of extreme metal for decades. With his new band […]