Swedish Death Metal act Degradead has recently released their debut album called TIL DEATH DO US APART and for the first time the band is interviewed here in metal-rules.com. The object of my questions was singer Mikael Sehlin and here is what he had to say.

Interviewed by: Anders Sandvall

Promo pictuers taken by: Gustaf Sandholm Andersson
Promo pictures provided by: Sound Pollution
Thanks to Joakim Stabel at Sound Pollution for setting up this interview

Alan Nemtheanga

from PRIMORDIAL

Interview by HannTu

Questions by Lord of the Wasteland and Hanntu

All live pics and words by HannTu

Nightwish

and Pain

The Astoria, London

26th March 2008

Live pics by Asif Salam and HannTu

Review by HannTu

It’s a pretty weird pairing – the immensely popular, symphonic goth rockers Nightwish on the same tour with oddball industrial techno metal band Pain. The man behind Pain is of course the multi-talented Peter Tagtgren; founder of Swedish melodic death band Hypocrisy, former vocalist of Bloodbath, one time drummer for Malevolent Creation, studio owner and producer extraordinaire, and a whole slew of other side projects. I was pretty damn excited to interview him, but I wasn’t going to attend the show originally, until a last minute photo pass turned up.

The commercial appeal of Nightwish is impossible to overstate. Three consecutive nights in London is extremely rare – Iron Maiden play two nights regularly, but the Unholy Alliance 2006 (Slayer, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God) and this year’s Black Crusade Tour (Machine Head, Dragonforce, Arch Enemy) are the only two that I can think of offhand. Trivium and Annihilator might have done three London nights last year. Some people I spoke to turned up to all three nights, which is pretty impressive. The signing session in Zavvi (formerly Virgin Megastores) earlier in the day was packed with people eager to get stuff signed and close-up shots of the band. One girl even brought her guitar to be signed!

Jeff Waters of ANNIHILATOR

Interview by Shaq

Back in December I had the opportunity to spend some time talking to metal legend Jeff Waters about everything from the good ol' days to today, from spandex to the age of the internet and everything in between.  After years of no recognition in his home continent, Annihilator's latest record, simply titled METAL, is being given a legitimate North American release. 

Evergrey
NightInGale

Nosturi Helsinki

The 21st of March 2008

Having a metal gig before the easter break with two Swedish metal names, NightInGale and Evergrey, appeared to be both interesting and temptating because of the line-up. Both bands definitely enjoy a more true fan based following in Finland. Above all, NightInGale definitely draws some expected interest from the progessive genre, but of course Evergrey has the fan-legion of their own.