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 […]
Interviews
Sebastian Ramstedt (NECROPHOBIC, IN APHELION, ELDFÖDD) tells about the first metal band he heard. Stream new ELDFÖDD single “Possess, Bind and Devour” today!
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 […]
CHRIST AGONY, Cezary ‘Cezar’ Augustynowicz interview: “Music is not a race but a journey to be enjoyed at every stage”
This September, after a nine-year discography pause, CHRIST AGONY return with their ninth full-length album, Anthems. According to the press release, this “work that can compete with the trilogy of albums considered by many to be the pinnacle of the black metal pioneers’ earlier career: Unholyunion (1993), Daemoonseth Act II […]
Vincent Crowley (ACHERON, VINCENT CROWLEY) interview: “Society has just become a bunch of lazy, conditioned robots”
Meet a true legend of the American blasphemous underground: Vincent Crowley. Former Church of Satan priest, philosopher, writer, and of course, musician. After several dramatic farewells and resurrections of his infamous band ACHERON, Crowley launched a solo project under his own name — VINCENT CROWLEY — a more heavy metal-driven, […]
Robin Mazen (GRUESOME, CASTRATOR, DERKETA) interview: «Every my day is a Monday, every day is a Friday»
Robin Mazen is one of those rare women in metal who’ve spent most of their life on the road. A touring machine — she’s done it all: tour manager, merch seller, and bassist for GRUESOME, CASTRATOR, and DERKETA. She’s also worked as a roadie for bands like DETHKLOK, DARK TRANQUILLITY, […]
LORD BELIAL interview, Pepa: “I watch ‘The Walking Dead’ with my son and we discuss how we would handle the Apocalypse”
In a couple of days, on May 27th, after a huge pause (and another hiatus in the band’s history), new LORD BELIAL Rapture is going to be unleashed upon the world. I talked to the band’s guitar player Niclas ‘Pepa’ Green to find out how it is going in the […]
INQUISITION interview: “The Metal Scene is a festival culture, a party culture, a fun culture that cannot face the dark side and imperfections of humanity”
(Jason “Dagon” Weirbach, May 2021) Thinking about American black metal, INQUISITION’s name comes to your mind immediately. Having started in the 90s, this band has been going at a steady pace, creating its special shade of black: visionary, hypnotic, cosmic, occult, catchy, intense, with a uniquely refined feel of melody. […]
GUT interview: «Nowadays we shed light on the true abysses of humanity»
Although GUT band members are still listed by crazy names aka «Organic Masturbator of 1000 Splatter Whores» or «Torturer of Lacerated and Satanic Tits», all this funny silly porn past seems to be pretty much in the past for all of them. This May the band released unexpectedly serious and […]
BONDED interview, Bernemann: “I am not really interested in SODOM anymore. I just want to be focused on our own Band”
BONDED band came into the metal world somehow by chance. Suddenly being expelled from SODOM, Bernd “Bernemann” Kost and Markus “Makka” Freiwald decided to continue thrash metal attack on their own: their first album Rest In Violence will be out on Century Media on January 17. Yesterday the band presented […]
TAAKE interview. Hoest: «I wish more people had the balls to criticize Islam»
TAAKE mastermind Hoest is not fond of doing interviews, but I was lucky enough to get his answers and discuss a number of delicate topics.