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 […]
Interviews
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 […]
BESEECH interview: “If you are depressed, or want to be, look no further”
Swedish gothic metal veterans BESEECH are finally breaking a decade of silence with a brand new studio album. Titled Future Present Past, the record is set for release on August 28th, 2026 via Despotz Records, marking their first full-length since My Darkness, Darkness. With the atmospheric single Boundless Space already […]
NARGAROTH interview: “We live against our fate. I don’t want to participate in this anymore”
NARGAROTH return this June with their eighth full-length album Apocalyptic Steel, out June 26th via Season of Mist. Originally recorded in a single weekend back in 2014 and left forgotten on a hard drive for years before being revived, the album arrives like a delayed detonation — something buried in […]
Interview with Gatto Panceri 666 (NANOWAR OF STEEL): “The Machines May Take Our Jobs, But They’ll Never Take Our Bad Ideas.”
Italian masters of absurdity NANOWAR OF STEEL have spent years turning heavy metal clichés, pop culture, history, and pure nonsense into an art form of their own. What began as a parody project evolved into one of Europe’s most entertaining cult bands — equally capable of sharp satire, ridiculous concepts, […]
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 […]