Here is an interview with the German Trash metal act Cripper. When I heard the band's second album I felt that I had to talk with this band. So here we go, here comes the past, present and future of Cripper. I think all fans of thrash metal are gonna love Cripper and their music.

Interviewed by Anders Sandvall
Thanks to Bjorn at CMM Gmbh for setting up this interview.
Thanks to CMM Gmbh for providing promo pictures of the band.

The Jalometalli Open Air Metal festival has gained its status as well as place on the Finnish festival map. Although there are plenty of metal oriented festivals arranged all around in Finland, the Jalometalli festival has found its own style and approach in the metal festival offering in Finland. It doesn't rely on the current hot names on the market like Volbeat and so on, instead the festival offers a more interesting line-up mostly consisting of old school thrash metal and of course death and black metal by having bands which have either never or rarely visited Finland. Especially several 80s thrash metal legends such as Whiplash, Agent Steel have never been seen on the soil of Finland. Now it is about time. Therefore the Metal-Rules.com team made a real assault at Jalometalli by witnessing plenty of killer bands and seeing the general atmosphere and here is the result.

                           Article by Niko Karppinen, Arto Lehtinen, Luxi Lahtinen

                                                     Pics by Arto Lehtinen

Crimson Cult is a German act that has released its debut album this year. I had a short talk with guitarist/keyboard player Guenter Maier about this new band. Maier and bass player Alex Hilzensauer were members of the band Stygma IV before they formed Crimson Cult and this interview concerns both Crimson Cult and their brand new debut but also a look back on what Maier has done in the past.

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Thanks to Christine Stephan at Dockyard1 for help with making the interview possible
Thanks to Pinky at Agentur Digital for the promo pictures of the band. All promo pictures are taken from the band's homepage.