FROM THE VASTLAND has always lived between worlds. The project, led by mastermind and frontman Sina Winter, carries the frostbitten pulse of old-school Norwegian black metal while drawing deeply from Persian mythology, ancient demons, corruption, tyranny, and the kind of stories that feel carved into stone rather than written down […]
Interviews
Ask The Artist: NEKRODAWN Choose SLAYER For The End Of The World
Today’s Ask The Artist feature goes straight into the blast zone with NEKRODAWN, a Swedish death metal unit from Dalarna built for the sort of listener who hears “subtle” and immediately reaches for a heavier guitar tone. Formed in 2022, NEKRODAWN have already carved out a vicious lane in the […]
Ask The Artist: VISCERA/// Forecast The Kind Of Weather That Ruins Everything
Today’s Ask The Artist feature belongs to VISCERA///, an Italian post-metal entity that has spent more than two decades turning heaviness into something unstable, hallucinatory, and deeply unhappy about the state of your nervous system. Formed in 2000 and split between Cremona and Piacenza, VISCERA/// began in goregrind territory before […]
Ask The Artist: SALLOW MOTH Choose STAR TREK Over Dystopia While Unleashing New Cosmic Horrors
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 […]
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?” […]