Interview with Roni S. (vocals and bass) & Tuomas K. (vocals and guitar) Interview by Demitri Levantis Follow the band: www.facebook.com/lieinruins/ lieinruins.bandcamp.com/ With the release of their third studio album, “Floating in Timeless Streams” coming this month, I caught up with Finnish death metal group, Lie In Ruins to…
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Interview with Jaded Star
Interview with Maxi Nil (Singer/songwriter) Interview by Demitri Levantis Follow the band: www.facebook.com/jadedstarofficial www.instagram.com/jadedstarofficial/ jadedstar.bandcamp.com/ With the release of their second album “Realign” on the horizon, I caught up with Greek melodic metal group, Jaded Star to discuss what the band has been up to this year.
Interview with SATAN’S FALL
Interview by Jack Merry www.facebook.com/SatansFall satansfall.bandcamp.com www.hrrecords.de www.facebook.com/hrrecords We were lucky enough to have a chat with Miika Kokko and Tomi Mäenpää of Finnish heavy metal band SATAN’S FALL about their brand new debut album ‘Final Day,’ the ongoing global pandemic, what TV they’ve been enjoying, and everything else in-between!
Interview – Hearts and Hand Grenades
Interview with Stephanie Wlosinski (Lead vocals and bass) Interview by: Rebecca Bush Hearts and Hand Grenades: Website / Facebook Hearts and Hand Grenades are a new hard rock band from Buffalo, New York. We talk to singer Stephanie Wlosinski about the band’s journey thus far and debut album ‘Turning…
Satan’s Fall – Final Day
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, High Roller Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry SATAN’S FALL are a Finnish heavy metal band formed on the icy streets of Helsinki that are about to unleash a debut album that will warm the hearts and souls of any metalhead unto the world. Entitled Final Day,…
Jaded Star – Realign
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Noble Demon Rating: 2/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Realign is the second album from Greek melodic metal act Jaded Star. Melody is certainly the way to describe these Greeks as they don’t seem to employ anything with a particularly extreme or hefty punch in their output.…
Incursion – The Hunter
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, No Remorse Records Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Beandog Given this is the band’s debut release, you would be forgiven for making the assumption Incursion were a newcomer to the American revival of traditional, swords and sorcery themed heavy metal. You would only be half right. Incursion…
When Frames Collide – Quattro (EP)
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, X-Ray Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry WHEN FRAMES COLLIDE is a short-lived Melbourne rock band featuring Andy McLean from AUSTRALIAN ROCK ROYALTY on vocals who graced the stages of a number of intimate venues in 2019, playing to loving crowds before disappearing to record, never to…
Lie In Ruins – Floating in Timeless Streams
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Dark Descent Records Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Demitri Levantis Finland’s death metal institution, Lie In Ruins, have returned with their third album “Floating in Timeless Streams.” It is an album that I can best describe as a harrowing experience put to music, detailing the darkness and…
Interview with Eleine
Interview with Madeleine Liljestam – lead vocalist Interview by: Svetlana Likhacheva Eleine Facebook / Youtube Off the back of Eleine’s powerful new album, Metal Rules tracked down the band’s central figure, Madeleine Liljestam, and spoke to her about the inspirations and the meanings of the new record. You are…
Chalice – Trembling Crown
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, High Roller Records Rating: 2.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes According to their bio, Finland’s Chalice have spent the last 5 years composing the songs present on Trembling Crown, their debut full-length. This only makes it all the more a shame, then, that the album is so…
Hypervolume – Conceive
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, self-released Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes Chicago-based duo Hypervolume are just about to release their debut full-length, Conceive, and it’s an absolutely solid slab of stoner doom swagger. For their first offering, Hypervolume present us with an album dominated by confident, rumbling bluster and thick,…
Time Rift – Eternal Rock
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Dying Victims Rating: 4/5 Reviewer: Jack Merry Hailing from Portland, Oregon, TIME RIFT stay true to their name, break the space-time continuum, and manage to deliver a debut album in 2020 that would be right at home in the annals of hard rock history; sometime around 1973-1974,…
Genus Ordinis Dei – Glare of Deliverance
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Eclipse Records Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Kira Levine Hailing from Crema, Lombardy (Italy), Genus Ordinis Dei are a symphonic death outfit who will unleash their third album, Glare Of Deliverance, on the 4th of December. They are signed to Eclipse Records. The ten tracks act as…
Kaunis Kuolematon – Syttyköön Toinen Aurinko
Reviewed: December 2020 Released: 2020, Noble Demon Rating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Kieron Hayes There’s a particular subdivision of metal that I tend to think of as “melodeath-doom”. Seems pretty self-explanatory, a merger of melodic death metal with death-doom, or more generally, melodeath that has a strong melancholic leaning. While maybe not…