Ask The Artist

Today in our Ask The Artist series we head to Poland, spotlighting TITANIUM — melodic, speedy power metal with symphonic fire, led by guitarist, founder and backing vocalist Karol Mania (also known for his guitar work in PATHFINDER). With a long-awaited new chapter finally taking shape, Karol steps in to […]

Welcome back to Ask the Artist, where we let bands talk about what shaped them. Today we turn to FRONTAL ASSAULT, self-described Weirdo Thrash maniacs from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, active since 2016 and proudly operating somewhere between razor-sharp death/thrash aggression and total unhinged fun. With the band just unleashing a […]

Welcome back to Ask the Artist, where we ask metal musicians the important questions — not about gear, not about charts, but about the strange little things that live behind the riffs. Today we turn to AMONGRUINS, melodic death metal blasters from Athens, Greece, who are currently gearing up for […]

Welcome back to Ask the Artist, where we let musicians step away from the promo grind and talk about the things that actually shape how they write, think, and feel music. Today we turn to ABSTRACTED, the progressive extreme metal visionaries from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2013 and known […]

New year, new rituals, new poison. So we’re back with Ask the Artist, where we stop asking musicians about their gear and start asking the important questions instead. Today’s guests are British symphonic black metal conjurers SIDIOUS, who are about to unleash their latest single “Cosmossuary” — a vicious, ceremonial […]

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 […]