Darko Etinger – singer and guitarist of Infernal Tenebra

Interviewed by Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack for setting up the interview.
Thanks to Massacre Records for providing me with promo pics.

Infernal Tenebra is a Croatian death/thrash act that I got really interested in when I heard their debut album NEW FORMED REVELATIONS. I hooked up with Darko Etinger, singer and guitarist, in order to get to know him and the band a bit better. It’s not everyday I come across a band from Croatia and we ended up talking about the brand new album, the bands past, present, and future, and how the metal climate in Croatia is doing. Read the rest of this entry »

Singer Monica Primo – My Black Light

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band

My Black Light is a new Italian goth metal act that late last year released their brilliant debut album HUMAN MAZE and because of the great album I felt it was time to hook up with singer Monica Primo in order to get to know the band better. The music of My Black Light isn’t the ordinary Goth music instead they have featured some really interesting progressive influences so if this sounds like something you may like then check out the interview.

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Bandleader/singer R.D Liapakis – Mystic Prophecy

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Daniela, webbattender for Mystic Prophecy for making the interview possible

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band

RAVENLORD is the name of the seventh Mystic Prophecy album. I got in touch with bandleader R.D Liapakis (he’s also the only remaining original member in the band) to talk about the new excellent album, the line up changes and the past present and future of Mystic Prophecy. Read more about this great Greek/German heavy metal act down below.

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Guitarist/bandleader Rex Zeco – Nightqueen

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Massacre Records for promotional pictures.  

FOR QUEEN AND METAL is the debut album from the goth/fantasy act Nightqueen that comes from Belgium. I hooked up with guitarist and bandleader Rex Zeco in order to talk about the brand new album, about the band, the past present and future. If you’re into goth music with female vocals and fantasy influences be sure to check out Nightqueen.

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Freddy- lead singer and guitarist of Necronomicon

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing promotional pictures of the band.

Freddy is the only remaining original member in the German thrash metal act Necronomicon who released their debut album back in 1985.  Freddy and I talked about the bands seventh album that came out at the beginning of the year called INVICTUS. Besides the new album we also talked about guest appearances on the new album and about the bands past, present, and future. Be sure to check out Necronomicon if you’re into thrash metal the slightest.

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Singer Maike Holzmann – Voices Of Destiny

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing promotional pictures of the band.

This is the second time I had the opportunity to interview the young German goth metal act Voices Of Destiny. This time around I had the pleasure to talk to singer Maike Holzmann. Amongst a lot of things we talked about was of course the brand new album called POWER DIVE but also about the bands plans for the future as well as how it was to record the new disc. I spoke to Holzmann at the same time as they were out on tour supporting Epica and naturally we spoke about the life on the road.

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Guitarist Theo – Descending

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing me with promo pics.

The Greek thrash metal act Descending has a new album out, it’s their second one called NEW DEATH CELEBRITY and sounds great. The album was released at the end of last year and I thought it was about time for the band to be featured in metal-rules.com. The guitarist Theo and I talked about the new album that was recorded in Sweden by the famous producer Fredrik Nordstrom. Of course we talked about a lot of other things which you can read about below. If you like thrash metal, be sure to check out Descending.

 

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Michael Ehré – band leader/drummer Love.Might.Kill

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up this interview

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band.

Single pictures on the band members are from the bands website.

Here comes an interview with band leader/drummer Michael Ehré from the new band Love.Might.Kill. Last year the band released their debut album BRACE FOR IMPACT. During the interview we talked about the new band, the line-up, and of course about the new album. I also dug a little deeper in Ehrés background as a drummer. The music of Love.Might.Kill will appeal to any fan of melodic heavy metal.

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Marco Kern master mind / singer, guitarist – Garagedays

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing the promo pics.

Garagedays is the name of the Austrian band that recently released their brilliant debut album DARK AND COLD to the metal masses. I hooked up with band leader and master mind Marco Kern in order to set the record straight regarding the bands past present and future as well as DARK AND COLD as the recording process that took them to Sweden. Garagedays has also been out as support act to the band Master and the music of Garagedays ought to appeal to fans of heavy metal. 

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Days Of Anger: Alex Jonsson – singer/bassist

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up this interview

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band.

Alex Jonsson from Days of Anger was kind to do this shorter interview with me and metal-rules.com. The band is a new Swedish thrash metal act that involves members from the bands Scaar and Fatal Smile. Their debut album was released at the beginning of 2011 and down below you can read about what me and Alex talked about.

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Guitar player Erwin Suetens – Fireforce

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for making the interview possible.

Thanks to Masacere Records for the promo pictuers on the band

Fireforce is a an act from Belgium that recently launched their debut album MARCH ON to the world. I met up with Erwin Suetens, one of the guitar players, to have a chat about the band and the new album. The bands music can be categorized as power metal and MARCH ON is jammed with every element a great power metal album needs. Read the interview if you you’re curious on how the Belgian metal-scene is doing.

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Guitarist John Ricci from Exciter

 Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for making the interview possible.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing promo pictures of the band.

A while back I got the opportunity to talk to the guitarist John Ricci from the legendary Canadian act Exciter. Exciter’s new studio album is called DEATH MACHINE and was released late last year, so to talk about that album was a given. Besides that, we also handled issues like band-members and the past present and the future for the band. Take a look at what Mr Ricci had to say.

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Singer Helena Iren Michaelsen  from Imperia

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for setting up the interview.

Thanks to Massacre Records for providing the promo pics.

Imperia is the name of a great goth metal act that recently released their brilliant third album entitled SECRET PASSION. I was given the opportunity to hook up with the bands singer Helena Iren Michaelsen (ex- Trail Of Tears) and we sat down to talk about the new album, the label and her thoughts on performing live as well as some more personal questions about Helena herself. If you’re into goth metal, make sure to listen to SECRET PASSION really soon.

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Vocalist Mario of Katanga

Interviewed by Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Tom Hack at Massacre Records for making the interview possible.

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promo pictures of the band

Katanga is a German goth metal band with both female and male lead vocals. I had the pleasure to talk to male vocalist Mario a while ago. We talked about the bands newly released second album MOONCHILD as well as the line-up changes the band have gone through, why the band sings in both German and English and how he looks upon the bands future amongst other things. If you like Goth metal I suggest you take a closer look at the music of Katanga.

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Singer/Guitarist Gabul from Mammutant

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to: Tom Hack for setting up the interview

Thanks to Massacre Records for the promotional pictures of Mammutant

Just when you thought that Gwar and Lordi was over, Mammutant shows up to stir things up. Mammutant play "light industrial metal" but there’s more to them than that, read on…

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