From the fog-soaked depths of Transylvania, Romania, PUTRED crawl back with new filth. The slow-decaying death metal cult has unveiled “Devorat de Întuneric”, a brand-new track taken from their upcoming third album Blestemul Din Adânc, due out this March. Before we descend into the darkness, we asked one simple question […]
Interviews
Ask The Artist: Polish Power Metal Force TITANIUM Define Heavy Metal in Five Essential Songs
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 […]
Ask the Artist: Iowa’s Weirdest Thrash Unit FRONTAL ASSAULT Are Under Attack
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 […]
Ask the Artist: Athens’ Melodic Death Force AMONGRUINS Embrace the “Advent of Chaos”
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 […]
Ask the Artist: Brazilian Progressive Wizards ABSTRACTED and the Art of the Impossible Song
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 […]
Ask the Artist: SIDIOUS Mix the Perfect Black Metal Cocktail
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 […]
Ask the Artist: Marc Anthony on Stealing Songs in His Head, Slow Seduction, and Living in the Shadows
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 […]
Ask the Artist: WOLVERINE’s Thomas Jansson on a Fractured World — and Finding Light in ‘Anomalies’
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 […]
ELLENDE interview: “Pain in the chest, but still alive and appreciating life”
With their sixth studio album Zerfall arriving on January 2nd via AOP Records, Austrian atmospheric black metal project ELLENDE, led solely by multi-instrumentalist and painter Lukas Gosch (L.G.), continues its ascension through the bleak and the beautiful. Zerfall — translated as “being shattered”—explores the process of slowly and painfully rebuilding […]
Ask The Artist: Into The Doom-Mind And Paranoia With Kostas Salomidis (DISTORTED REFLECTION)
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 […]