Interview with Genus Ordinis Dei Tommy Monticelli – guitars, orchestrations Interview by Kira Levine GenusOrdinisDei.com | Big Cartel | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Hello! Thank you for your time, hope that you’re keeping safe and well. Please state your name and position in Genus Ordinis Dei. Hi Kira, I’m Tommy…
Interview with AZARATH
Interview with AZARATH Bart – Guitars Interview by Rossy Maguire Facebook | Official Website Hey and thank you for your time to do this interview! To kick-off, what’s the meaning behind the band’s name AZARATH? Hello. The name was taken from the track titled Azarath: Watching in Darkness of the…
Interview with Keiser
Interview with Keiser Mikael Torseth – guitar, vocals Interview by Kira Levine Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram Hello! Thanks for your time, hope that you are keeping safe and well. Please state your name and position in the band. Hello! Thanks, yourself also, it’s nice to speak with you. My…
Interview with Ecclesia
Interview with Ecclesia Frater Arnhwald – Vocals Julius Accusator – Lead guitar The Witchfinder General – Rhythm guitar Frater Ignis Sacer – Bass Pater Hexenhammer – Drums Pater Walkelinus – Organ Interview by Kieron Hayes Facebook | Bandcamp Ecclesia’s debut album, De Ecclesiæ Universalis, made a great impression here at…
Transcendence – Interview with Miguel Perez and Kris Gonzalez AKA “Phantasm” and “Curse”
In celebration of Transcendence’s brand new album – Towards Obscurities Beyond – Metal Rules sat down with guitarist, Phantom (Miguel Perez) and bass player, Curse (Kris Gonzalez) to talk about how the new music all came together. Eager to talk about their music and keen to give credit where it…
Protokult – Transcending The Ruins
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020 Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Lee Carter It’s not often that you come across a band that neatly encapsulates the more po-faced nature of supposedly “traditional” or straight-forward metal with the boozy fun times of a party band, but here we are with PROTOKULT. It’s a bit…
Act of Creation – The Uncertain Light
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Black Sunset Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry The Uncertain Light is the brand new fourth studio album from the German death metal heavyweights Act of Creation. Born from the ashes of the nineties German band E605, guitarist Carsten Schluch didn’t hesitate to form a new outfit with…
Eleine – Dancing In Hell
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Black Lodge Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Lana Likhacheva Swedish symphonic metal band Eleine come to present their rapidly growing fanbase with their new epic full-length album, “Dancing In Hell”. The strong support of their label with online marketing and previous great releases alone almost ensured…
Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Metal Blade Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Anaal Nathrakh are a big name in extreme metal, and Endarkenment succinctly illustrates why. The album doesn’t represent a significant shift in their approach to making heavy music because it doesn’t need to. They’ve long since mastered…
Necrophobic – Dawn of the Damned
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Century Media Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Swedish death metal veterans Necrophobic have returned with their ninth studio album: Dawn of the Damned, a title I would find quite fitting given how the world has received a lot of damnation this year by a pandemic…
Slit Your Gods – Dogmatic Convictions Of Human Decrepitude
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Comatose Music Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Lana Likhacheva With their debut EP, ‘Dogmatic Convictions of Human Decrepitude’, Slit Your Gods are here to take the listener beyond the deceptive veil of cults and religions to the horrifying things a human being can cause to each other,…
DevilDriver – Dealing With Demons Volume I
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Napalm Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Dealing With Demons, Volume I is the eighth (ninth if we count 2018’s covers album, Outlaws ‘Til the End, also a Volume I) studio album from DevilDriver, one of the biggest names in modern US groove metal alongside…
Ecclesia – De Ecclesiæ Universalis
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Aural Music Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes French sextet Ecclesia are here with their debut full-length, De Ecclesiæ Universalis, a fervently fun slab full of heretics, witches and the ever-unexpected Inquisition hunting them down. The band is most often described as doom metal, and while…
Kneel – Ailment
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Raging Planet Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog “No formulas, no lame choruses or catchy tunes!” This is the boast that Portugese multi-instumentalist, Pedro Mau uses to describe Ailment – his latest releases under the Kneel banner. He elaborates by placing an emphasis on dynamic guitar riffs…
Amaranthe – Manifest
Reviewed: November 2020 Released: 2020, Nuclear Blast Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Swedish cinematic electro-metallers Amaranthe return with their sixth full-length studio album Manifest, after spending the best part of the last decade establishing themselves as a formidable, positive, and feverishly melodic force for sweeping heavy metal goodness. Now more than ever,…