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Q&A with Lady Owl from Pokerface
Deadly Thrash Metal from Russia. Every time I put on the latest Pokerface album, Game On, I’m actually surprised about the amount of aggression I hear and yeah, it’s a Thrash band so it’s supposed to be there but still. Lady Owl joined Pokerface in 2016 and took care of the vocals on Pokerface’s second full-length Game On. The band will hit the…
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Will you come to the sabbath with Psychedelic Witchcraft? Interview with Virginia Monti
Psychedelic Witchcraft’s music sounds exactly as what you expect with a band name like Psychedelic Witchcraft, vintage occult rock with a fuzzy low end. Throw in some acid rock and the divine vocals from Virginia Monti and the temperature will be elevated for sure. Psychedelic Witchcraft is a band that I follow since their debut album The Vision from 2016. Late…
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Making memories for the future, an interview with Maria Diese from Rampart
Bulgarian Heavy Metal band Rampart has a silent force that has not been very quiet since 2006, the year Rampart became active. Maria is the founder of the band and the vocalist. Four albums released and a new album is on its way. Hi Maria, recently you’ve been on the road with Anvil. How was…
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Besvärjelsen, Q&A with Lea about the debut full-length (and other things)
Besvärjelsen formed in 2014 by members from bands like Dozer, Greenleaf, Afgrund, Lastkaj and V. The band has strong ties with doom but it’s too easy to say it’s only doom as there can be influences from good old hard rock, folk, and progressive metal found. Besvärjelsen first EP was released in 2015 and yet another EP was released in 2016. The first full-length Vallmo will hit…
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Interview with Leecher’s Anett Horvath about Cellos, cover songs, and new music
Metal bands who don’t use the basics like guitar and bass are rare in the metal community, Apocalyptica can be considered as the fore-runners for cello metal and Hungarian’s own Leecher is the runner up when it comes to quality music done on cellos. Anett Horvath provides the vocals for Leecher since 2012 and the…
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Ignea, interview with Helle Bogdanova about the upcoming tour, Oriental vibes and mixing trip-hop with sludge
IGNEA is a Ukrainian symphonic metal band with modern vibes, blended with oriental and progressive elements combined with the voice from Helle Bogdanova who can sing and growls. 2017 was a good year for the band, 2018 will be better for them as they are currently working on dates for a European tour this year.…
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Interview: Jo Marie Smit from Testosteruins
Together with Heny Maatar from Tunisia forms Jo Marie Smit from South Africa the death metal duo Testosteruins and the band have its base in Sweden. The band is brand new and the debut EP Suffering Masculinity will be released in March 2019. The first released track Fuck Sharafuck! caught my attention and immediately I…
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Nathalie Markoch on NMK’s album, Iceland and maintaining health
Clean and extreme, Nathalie Markoch from Melodic Death Metal band NMK, can do both. As the vocalist and founder of NMK, she’s delivering some sick guttural sounds blended with a powerful clean voice. Hailing from Peru she started singing in a high school choir and developed her own sound through the years. 2018 started nicely…
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Witches, the first band in France with female guttural voices
An old interview that we put here for archive purposes This year Witches will celebrate its 30th anniversary. The band started in 1986 and I did an interview with Sibylle, the first female with a guttural voice in a French band, back in 1993 and I already liked the furious thrash Witches produced back then. And…
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