2015 ~ Metalhead Spotted

Spiraller released new single

Russian Industrial metal band "SPIRALLER" released new single "RAGE" that was held on the threshold of release of full-length album

According to Collide, Norwegian session guitarist Per Valla has left ABBATH, the band led by ex-IMMORTAL frontman Olve Eikemo (a.k.a. Abbath).

Valla explained in a statement: "After having played as session guitarist with ABBATH since May this year, I have recently decided that it is time for me to leave the band for personal reasons. I thank the guys for bringing me along on such an awesome ride, and for all the new friends I made in the process. I wish the guys the best of luck in the future."

Valla will continue to play with VREDEHAMMER, which is scheduled to release a new album, "Violator", on February 5, 2016.

French drummer Kevin "Creature" Foley announced his departure from ABBATH last week. Foley attributed the split to "personal reasons."

Playing drums for ABBATH on the band's upcoming "Decibel Magazine Tour" will be Gabe Seeber of THE KENNEDY VEIL.

ABBATH's self-titled debut album will be released on January 22, 2016 via Season Of Mist.

MEGADETH's animated video for the new song "The Threat Is Real" can be seen below. The track was released last month as a 12-inch single as part of Record Store Day's annual Black Friday bonanza. The effort also includes the title cut and a cover of FEAR's "Foreign Policy", both of which are taken from MEGADETH's forthcoming fifteenth studio album, "Dystopia".

"Dystopia" will be released on January 22, 2016. The follow-up to 2013's "Super Collider" was recorded earlier in the year in Nashville, Tennessee and was produced by MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine. The CD was mixed by Josh Wilbur, who has previously worked with LAMB OF GOD, ALL THAT REMAINS and GOJIRA.
"Dystopia" marks the recording debut of MEGADETH's new lineup, featuring founding members Mustaine (guitar, vocals) and David Ellefson (bass) alongside LAMB OF GOD drummer Chris Adler and Brazilian guitarist Kiko Loureiro, best known for his work with ANGRA.
"Dystopia" final track listing:
01. The Threat Is Real
02. Dystopia
03. Fatal Illusion
04. Death From Within
05. Bullet To The Brain
06. Post American World
07. Poisonous Shadows
08. Look Who's Talking (iTunes bonus track)
09. Conquer Or Die
10. Lying In State
11. The Emperor
12. Last Dying Wish (iTunes bonus track)
13. Foreign Policy (FEAR cover)

"Black Viper" has inked a worldwide management deal with GlobMetal Promotions . The band released last month their highly anticipated EP "Thrash to Fuck!", that GlobMetal is going to promote.

"Black Viper" is a young thrash metal band born in Berja (Spain) during summer of 2014 and composed by Jonathan Cruz (drums), Javier Villalobos (bass and vocals), Jorge Sánchez (guitar) and Ramón Salmerón (guitar). After a year of covering songs of consolidated bands like Megadeth in provincial events, they released their first album in digital and physical format in late 2015, an EP titled "Thrash to Fuck!", which consists of four of the first songs of the band, lasting approximately eighteen minutes.

Jedi Will Die has inked a worldwide management deal with GlobMetal Promotions . The band released last month their debut album " Between Despair And Fear", that GlobMetal is going to promote.

Jedi Will Die was formed in 2012 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia by Alexander Koshmanov and Eric Komarov. The band released 3 singles in 2013 ("Time To Live", "All Gone Mad" and "Fighting With Myself") and after few changes in the lineup in 2015, the band released their first album - "Between Despair And Fear".

After over 2 years of releasing their last album "Age of Calamity" Sceptre is back with a bang with their new single "Hate Infested",a smashing new track commemorating their 17 years in existence and introducing Gary and Ronojoy to the lineup. There's clearly a hint of newer energy with the old school attitude in the structure and lyrics,while thoroughly retaining the Sceptre feel out and out. And this seems to be just the beginning.

This is our blood, sweat and tears put into one video. -Aniket Waghmode, Drummer

- Abhimanyu Watve

When some one tells you about black/folk metal at first a landscape will click automatically in your imaginary such as burly warriors shouting from the top of the distant mountains, the sound of a thousand soldiers marching on to the mountains singing battle hymns, their footsteps pounding like drums, and a hundred bards gathering their instruments to play a tune that will turn this battle into folklore, while wood sprites and faeries help them compose their melodies. While some excellent ,unique band attempting to sell their flavor of the month band to potential listeners, there are some that simply exist outside of pre-existing molds. Some challengers exist, such as Nechochwen, a phenomenal addition to the Black metal roster.

On this year West Virginia based US black/folk metal band Nechochwen unveiled their third full length album entitled “Heart Of Akamon” via Nordvis Produktion record label with 43:45 min running time . This new album consist with 8 tracks . Nechochwen are classified as Folk Metal, but whereas most music in that genre is inspired by Celtic or Nordic heritage, this band showcased themes in native American heritage. The band don’t describe woodland scenes. They formed out of a collective desire to explore the heritage of the eastern woodland Indians of North America .Their new album connecting with people of similar ancestry through eclectic and atmospheric guitar music that tells a story . They have crafted a rich folk atmosphere that rivals the well established European black/folk scene.Nechochwen was formed in 2005. In before they had released two full length album entitled “Algonkian Mythos” in 2008 and “Azimuths to the Otherworld” in 2010. Now I am straight going to the point about this new album .

When I was spinning their latest studio effort for the first time I was overwhelmed and this album sounds so authentic,mature and truly epic. This is triumphant sophisticated,neoclassical,orchestral black metal. Nechochwen delivers distinctly experimental, atmospherically remarkable form of black metal with a little bit of the folk leanings.This bands each and every musician did fantastic job on this album in radiant way . This whole album reflects the grand diversity of sound brought together on this album . It is really not easy to describe their musical style . A natural synthesis of dissonant sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity Despite the often atmospheric black metal assaults with a lots of segments of slower tempo too where Nechochwen combines folk, delicious acoustic passages with cavernous drum thrashes, intermingled,atmospheric guitars and those effective immense even some clean voice.Black/folk metal can create a wide variety of soundscapes. Nechochwen was able to manage combining black metal with beautiful and vast setting of the Native American heritage,dazzling acoustic passages and Native American instruments like lalawas, flute,hand drum and floor tom.

well,their latest opus opening track is “The Serpent Tradition” . This track starts with absolutely stunning ethereal sounds capes consist with atmospheric slow build, majestic acoustic guitars sound followed by melodic,choppy riffs and a wall of blackened blasting drums and clean vocals.Later the song returns to the sonic assailment and the musical style transformed into a whirlwind of guitar noise laced with aggression,deliberate cadence and progression,folk seasonings. Their whole composition and musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere with sour ,dissonant riffs work . Their whole composition and musical style is impeccable also borrow great atmosphere with unconventional instruments. Their distinct style infused me by a lot. In this album traditional native American folk instruments like lalawas,native american flute,hand drum and floor tom added native American folk metal flavor to Nechochwen’s black metal soundscape and this album borrow the vibe of strong, powerful ,complete and gorgeous atmosphere. Traditional folk instruments create a sort of equilibrium between melody,beauty and ferocity. Honestly saying after a multiple listen this album just blew me away with their atmospheric, the multi-layered,traditional folk musical style. Each and every single member have exudes tremendous effort in radiant way on this album with excellent diligence and nailed it. I highly appreciate and embrace this album.

This album is filled with a slew of cadence, catchy, dazzling,shimmering, slow but powerful riffs work . As well bass line up is whopping, anemic, strong ,rumbling, slithering . Drumming,percussion line up is militant, pounding ,solid,clattering and powerful . In each track delicious, gorgeous, soaring riffs,bass lineups matched in well manner with traditional folk music . The most striking thing you’ll notice about the sound of Nechochwen is flute work, exquisite acoustic guitar works ,traditional folk instrumental work,drumming lineups and extremely well symphonic,rhythmic swells. This whole albums sound deliver a dissonant, melancholic,atmospheric,melodic black metal with emotion and pure energy. “Heart Of Akamon” endures beauty of black metal. This whole album take you on such scenic journeys with their hymns to nature,Tribal rituals,native American traditions from beginning to the end. This album indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship. This album have a hypnotic, hallucinate effect on the listener .I owe their natural sounds. vocals low pitched screams ,rousing battle voice, howling ,immense even some clean voice emerged on this album in a well manner and intertwined perfectly with their unique,atmospheric black metal laced with melodic,native american folk metal musical accompaniment also embedded perfectly. I really worship this band and they have their own unique identity.

Each song have an energy ,fluency and draw a beautiful native American folklore landscape .Each and every single track is mind blowing. I personally Cherish all of them. Here I want to mention a track especially “October 6, 1813” and “Kišelamakong” because those aforementioned tracks are flawlessly acoustic oriented with beautiful composition. Album artwork is Pretty neat,solid and portray the native American history.Overall “Heart Of Akamon” whole album is Spectacular,engrossing ,significant and remarkable . This album sounds so authentic,epic and a truly remarkable sonic journey from beginning to end . Indeed this album is such an true gem of this year . Outstanding another one release of this year so far . The US bruisers still possess all the necessary skills and hard-won experience to put younger,newcomer challengers in their place.If you looking for something different, epic this black/folk album will take you on a journey into another universe and rekindle your love for black/folk metal. Submit your sense to this beauty.

My Rating – 4.9/5

Album Review done by Souvik Basu. Published on 10.10.2015

Latest on Arch Enemy

Arch Enemy has announced via Facebook they are going to be performing at the 10^th anniversary for the Loudpark festival that is taking place in Japan October 10. The current lineup which consists of Michael Amott, Daniel Erlandsson, Sharlee D’ Angelo, Jeff Loomis and Alissa White-Gluz will be performing in the festival. Previous Arch Enemy members Johan Liiva is going to them on stage since his departure 16 years ago. Christopher Amott which is Michael Amott’s younger brother will be joining Arch Enemy at LoudPark.

Posted by Rose F.

Death metal is always appreciated and preferred for metal heads there is no doubt about it . In the matter of metal music today the underground is full of newcomers who bring enthusiasm and fresh ideas but you have to admit that which bands are putting furious,evil,blasphemous music since late 80’s/early 90’s era their musical style,composition,lyrics structures everything’s are full of reverence . Nowadays a lots of modern death metal is shiny, flashy, and in addition, purely cutthroat and fully influenced by late 80’s/early 90’s musical era and borrow the vibe which is really appreciable. Death metal does not stagnate in a constant form. Some challengers exist, such as Purtenance , their new album is brilliant addition to the death metal roster.

Well, Two years since their last studio effort “Awaken From Slumber” Nokia based Finnish death metal quartet Purtenance unveiled their third full length album entitled “...to Spread the Flame of Ancients” via Xtreem Music in the beginning of September,2015. This new album is consist with total 11 tracks with 46:18 min running time. Basically Purtenance was formed in 1989 as Purtenance Avulsion. Later they have changed their name as Purtenance in 1991. In before they had released Two full length album entitled “Member Of Immortal Damnation” in 1992 and “Awaken From Slumber” in 2013. Already they are experienced and well renowned in underground music because of their astounding,critical acclaimed,heavy, darkened,old school death metal musical style, hard work,well skilled performance and flawless efforts. Now I am straight diving into one of my most anticipated death metal release of this year.

This new albums whole composition,production is extremely filthy and relentlessly unforgiving . I was interiewed them a few days ago and now I’m reviewing New Purtenance album,to be honest this is more challenging for me haha. At first listen “...to Spread the Flame of Ancients” floored me with their dreaded amalgamation which leads to a hammerin old School blunt force trauma with heavy,twisted riffs, hyped pedal thrusts.Always I lookin for this type of harshest slabs of death metal.This whole album enthralled me with their Unrelenting ,powerful,blasting ,overarching,chromatic, chaotic,rugged, critical acclaimed death metal sound and dense musical style and this new album rekindle my affection,obsession for proper old school death metal. This bands each and every musician exudes tremendous effort in radiant way on this album with excellent diligence and nailed it. They have injected technical riffs works, dark and dirge vibes into aural bashing,furious,fast death metal with strangulated riffs work simultaneously that burns with oppressive fervor. I applaud this new addition and cite them.

Their heavy,ultra-fast sounds and disparate styles all combined in one bold, enlightened display of unbound creativity. Despite the often fast ,furious,cacophonous, heavy and barbarous form of death metal assaults laced with a lots of segments of mid-paced,fast tempo too where Purtenance combines intricate,tricky riffs work,vicious,dirge vibes with cavernous drum thrashes,aforementioned all aspects enriched this album that is very powerful,strong and excellent all at the same time along with a good balance of death metal music, melody and brutality with strangulated ,filthy,thick,groovy riffs work and those effective rasps,relentless growls simultaneously.

I personally appreciate their new albums songs framing style.well, this albums opening track starts with slow,groovy,dense,traditional,old school death metal music with some grandoise growls and a wall of spectacular drums with aggression,deliberate cadence . From this new album we get ultra-fast, oppressive death metal. This album is filled with a slew of twisted , traversed ,chugging, groovy,intricate, blitzkrieg,menacing ,complex riffs line ups. As well bass line up is shifting, chaotic,distorted,rumbled and punchy . Drumming,percussion line up is pummeling,dodgy,punishing,frantic,blast beating and rabidly insane . There are a slew of individual breathtaking ,subtle nuance,cadence,morbidly delicious, ominous riffs,solo and drumming sections which sound briefly something exotic . In each track intricate,spectacular riffs,bass lineups matched in fantastic way. This album indulge strong songwriting and brilliant musicianship . Every instrument is clearly differentiated & represented excellently in each and every single track .Tempo changes are excellent and complicated . Vocals deep rasps, gruff growls , vigorous, crucial, immense , aggressive voice intertwined in a good manner with their utterly savage,merciless,onslaught,violent, vitriol ,uncanny deeply rooted old school death metal sound with a lots of dark,dirge accompaniment and embedded perfectly . I really worship and embrace this new album.

Their latest efforts each song have an energy ,fluency and dominating power. Stand out tracks are all of em . album artwork is mystique,atrocious,indelible. overall “...to Spread the Flame of Ancients” whole album is undeniable,precise,Spectacular,engrossing ,significant, elegant.This album is epitome of death metal. Purtenance have the misfortune of inheriting a genre that peaked, attracted infiltrators and imitators. This pure unadulterated death metal album is one of the best release of this year so far.From now on I’ll Keep my eyes and ears peeled for more excellent news from the Purtenance camp in the near future. This whole album is tight,straightforward with aggressive sound that carries Purtenance’s signature style and unique composition. I am pleased to say that Purtenance’s latest addition strides infinitely higher due to it’s strong increase in quality within literally every characteristic latest album. I am pretty damn sure Purtenance can continue their stride in the future. Purtenance provide another unblemished addition to this collection with this complete masterpiece, and thus can be accredited with the contribution to this intriguing and thriving, if not overlooked movement within extreme metal music.

My Rating – 4.8/5

Album Review done by - Souvik Basu. Published on 26 th Sep,2015

Shrap impressed me with its powerful sound that grooves your soul to core. Hailing from the city of joy and also the roots to many revolutions, Shrap made me feel the essence of the city in their songs. I loved the way how the band is angry and the way you could relate to it and even you get the sensation of getting angry at some random things. I think that’s the best character in the EP, the power to connect with the listener and make him feel the vibe the record carries.

We Shall Rise EP, kicks off with Intro and it sort of sets up your mind to expect something heavy coming in your way. Torture fades in with sirens echoing in the imaginary town which gets replaced by some powerful riffs in few seconds. Torture is quick, aggressive with the power to make your head nod to the intense groovy sound. Next is F**k Them and it’s my favorite from the EP. The song is raw, groovy and takes you back to early Sepultura days. This song will make you punch in the air for sure. I had it on repeat mode for a long time, trust me. The band as whole is a package of aggression; I absolutely love the vocals in the song particularly along with those groovy breakdowns. The EP wraps up with title track We Shall Rise.

So if you haven’t checked the EP yet you should definitely dig in and I am listening to F**k Them again. It’s so intense.

Review by - Adwaita Smashhead Chakma

On this year Finland based doom/death band Hooded Menace will release their fourth full length

album” Darkness Drips Forth”. Hooded Menace Front man Markus Makkonen unveiled

about their upcoming album, bands history and many more. Already they are experienced and well renowned in underground music because of their astounding, critical acclaimed, heavy, claustrophobic misery ,enigmatic musical style.

Earlier this fantastic doom/death metal band Hooded Menace served up some devastatingly

sacrilegious, rotten, phenomenal death metal album, EP. So recently I’ve interviewed Hooded Menace Vocalist Markus Makkonen. I was very keen to interact with him and I’ve tried to enlighten on their upcoming new album and tried to explore more about his bands. Check out the full interview below. Interview done by Souvik Basu.

1. Hello, how are you doing today?

Markus - Hi Souvik. All good here. Taking it easy just.

2. Hooded Menace was formed in 2007. From 2007 in each and every single year Hooded Menace

gifted us Full length album, EP, Split, demo’s, Can you give me a brief history of how the band got

together? Had you been in any bands or musical apparition before Hooded Menace?

Markus - Hooded Menace was born out of Lasse Pyykkö's need to get back and active with metal. He was in a band called Phlegethon in late 80's, early 90's.. HM was his return to all things heavy and murky, in that sense. From there things just kept growing. Now we're releasing the fourth Hooded Menace -album already. I haven't been in the band that long. Jumped abroad in 2012, around the time the previous full-length, Effigies of Evil, was out.

I had been recommended to Lasse for the vocalist slot in his grind/death band, Vacant Coffin, by a mutual friend. That never happened, but out of the blue, got an e-mail from him, asking if i could fill in for Hooded Menace's live-vocalist in a Madrid-show. A couple of years earlier i had been totally into Hooded Menace's album Never Cross the Dead, running around telling everybody how great that record was, so it would've been foolish to say no, really. From there, one thing led to another.. Not too long after Madrid-show, Menace's live bass player quit and Lasse asked if i'd like to handle that department too. Soon HM turned into a proper band, rather than a studio project it had been in the beginning and found myself playing bass on the new Hooded Menace -release of that time, Labyrinth of Carrion Breeze -Ep and still doing the live vocals too.. It has been like this for a couple of years now. That line up just sticked. So, this is how i got to be in the band.

- My own musical background comes from the Finnish metal demo scene of mid/late 90's. Been playing in various bands, with various styles, for 20 years now. The first "bigger thing" to happen to me was joining the Oulu-based death metal unit Sadistik Forest, in which i still am a member too.

3. what bands inspired the direction that Hooded Menace took and motivated you? Writers? Visual artists? Movies? Books?

Markus - Hooded Menace has been drawing from the source of horror films from the very beginning. Especially the 70's European horror flicks. That element of gloominess and horror will always be a part of our music. It is our concept. In the beginning it was coming more directly from certain cult classics, but these days the theme is there still, but in more abstract form.

Musically, we have been described of being somewhere in between Black Sabbathy doom and Autopsy-like death metal. I think those parts are still there. Maybe with a growing influence from British death/doom pioneers.

4. There are two basic ways of looking at music. In the first, there is a mechanism to the arrangement of certain tones ,musical style. in the second, a narration occurs where a story is told or a poetic function completed. In your view of compositions, which is more important? Where were you when you first thought the project had long term potential for you?

Markus - All music in Hooded Menace is written by Lasse. He is the soul of Hooded Menace, in that sense. We, the rest, are rather the performers, if you want to put it that way. I suppose, Lasse seeks for the improvement as a songwriter and emphasizing of certain moods, with his music for HM.

5. What for you is the significance of the name, “Hooded Menace”?

Markus - It comes from the Blind Dead -movies, really. where the hooded, bearded and eyeless undead suck the life our of their helpless victims... heheh. So, it suits a metal band well...

6. If you could tour with other bands in metal, who would you pick if you were looking for bands similar to Hooded Menace?

Markus - Winter would be one, definitely. They pretty much defined our kind of music with Into Darkness -album, back in the day. Guys from Asphyx are fantastic people and we keep on bumping into them at festivals here and there. That would be a killer tour too! Total crushing of the helpless!! We're going to tour with Mourning Beloveth this December. Looking forward to it also.

7. Hooded Menace released their debut album in 2008. From 2007 Hooded Menace shaped the style of dom/ death metal music in a well manner. How do you maintain this consistency yet keep developing with each album? How do you write your riffs, songs? What is the most difficult part about composing songs as you do?

Markus - You really would need to ask Lasse about that, but as far as I see it, he avoids of making the same record twice. Rather, he keeps on evolving and opening new doors with his music. Darkness Drips Forth will be, once again, a different bag of bones, when compared to previous Hooded Menace albums. A different angle to the same thing, maybe.

8. Do you have a preference for type of equipment? In your mind, how important is equipment to the production of music?

Markus - It is pretty double-edged, really. Yes, you need certain level of equipment to work without distraction from the poor gear, but we are definitely no tech freaks or hi-fi geniuses.. We rather keep to the stuff we like, even there might be better quality equip available for doing the same thing. The tool has to fit the purpose, i think, and our music does not especially demand any state of the art technology.

9. well, now I’m going to the main point about new album “Darkness Drips Forth”. Already we have saw the new album artwork released and the Official album teaser from upcoming album “Darkness Drips Forth”. To be honest the artwork is wicked. I’m super amped for the manifestation from upcoming album and obviously for the whole album too haha well, When were these tracks written, and how does Hooded Menace go about the writing process?

Markus - Thanks man! Glad that you liked the cover. It was done by Justin Bartlett and it definitely is different from your regular metal cover, for sure. The material for Darkness... has been coming for a year, or year and a half, I think. Lasse writes all the music first, band hears the demos, and then we all start to look for suitable lyrics for the music. Finally, the rest of us learn our bits and pieces and we start to rehearse the new material as an band. It's mainly like is, if you put the long story short.

10. What's going on as far as lyrical themes on new album ?

Markus - It is the "suffocating horror"-feel still.. Definitely in more abstract form this time. Rather than writing some specific spook-story, we wanted to achieve maybe a style that will make each listener to find his/hers own view of the concept. It is definitely more like an painting, than a short novel, this time.

11. How did you get into this chaotic , multi-layered ,ultra-dense, monolithic death metal musical style laced with blackened, gloomy atmospheric vibe form of music and kindly explain about this music genre according to you?

Markus - Hahah! That is a nice way to put it! What struck me with Hooded Menace in the first place, back in the day when i was still "just" a fan, was the brilliant combination of two musical styles i adore - doom and death metal. The Sabbathian riffs are there, but it still has that Obituary/slow Morbid Angel -feel to it. Don't know what makes that kind of music seep out of Lasse's mind, but to me it sounds killer!

12.How would you describe the sound of the new album to someone who hadn’t heard it, and what distinguishes your music from any other act in the same genre?

Markus - Darkness Drips Forth is the most extreme Hooded Menace release, by far. It has our slowest and heaviest stuff in it, but also it has a strong emphasis on melody too. It really goes from extreme to extreme... Four songs and almost 45 minutes of melancholy and yet heavy music. Like Crowbar playing Bathory, if you want to put it that way.

13. Do you guys have any official videos coming out soon?

Markus - At the moment, I really do not know yet. The length of the songs, does set the difficulty level for a music video pretty high. Don't know really. It depends a lot of Relapse Records.

14. How do you explain the album title “Darkness Drips Forth”. what it means and the album art and how it coincides with the lyrics, themes?

Markus - The theme of "dripping death" occurs in the lyrics. It probably describes also the best the gloomy, doomy feel of the music too. Like something black oozing from your speakers and raining down (slowly) from the skies. Dripping darkness is also maybe a metaphorical way of putting things into perspective, where everything veers slowly towards it's natural end. It is really metaphorical and abstract with this one. Maybe listeners can come up with better description, after hearing the album and reading the lyrics! The album art, is once again based on our concept with the Blind Dead. Just like on every Hooded Menace album. Yet, it maybe has a little bit more deranged feel to it, this time.

15. Who came up with the album cover? I personally cherish Hooded Menace’s each and every album artwork because those are truly indelible, remarkable, appreciable too.

Markus - It is of Justin Bartlett's doing. We wanted to work with him, as he has definitely his own style, that stands out from your regular guy, definitely. We told him one or two main guidelines, but he took it from there.

16. What's the first gig you ever went to? Have you been to any killer live shows lately?

Markus - My first show? Hmm... That must've been some local punk show in

Finland

in mid-90's! When living in middle parts of Finland, like i was and when most of the bands coming from outside our country did only Helsinki back then, the supply was mainly just local bands. Luckily enough, i got to see Amorphis and Sentenced quite a many times. I saw Nightwish when they were a demo band just! But yeah, it was mainly Finnish bands only. One of the first ones from outside of

Finland

was Norwegian black metal band Covenant.

We played Jalometalli festival just recently. Got to see quite a many cool bands there. Shining, Candlemass, Tyranex, Saxon, Obituary... My definite favourites were Finnish legendary thrash band A.R.G. and the young devil-worshipping bunch Bonehunter.

17. In before you guys performed a lots of gigs so, Which show was the most memorable to you so far? Do you get a good crowd response? Did you get offers to play in other countries or anything like that?

Markus - The crowd thing in doom is very funny, at least to me, when i got to the scene after playing grindcore and death metal for quite some time... I mean, had seen just people going nuts, moshpits and such and then... BANG... you're fronting this way cool band and all you see is people standing and slowly swaying along to the music.. At first show, I was like... what... do they not like it?! Where is the pit?!? After the show, people came still telling how they had liked the show and appreciated it, but it took definitely a couple of shows to get used to it. Doom fans rather listen, than go mental, I suppose.

- There have been a couple of really cool ones we have done with HM. Hellfest being one, for sure. I mean, being in the same bill with Napalm Death, Asphyx, Candlemass, Kiss, Morbid Angel, Hypocrisy... it was just something truly awesome!! Maryland Deathfest was great too! We do not play that often, so each gig has it's own story to it, really.

18. Do you study other bands music to come up with ideas?

Markus - I suppose you will have try to cut that down, as the influences will sneak out even if you wanted them or not.

19. Appreciate your howling scream, hoarse ,snarling, sneering , deep rasps , deep lung-burning roars, immense voice. how do you prepare your vocals before the studio or especially for live performances? Did any band in particular inspire you in the shrieking department?

Markus - Death metal/extreme metal vocals are something I have been able to do naturally, well, as long as I've tried. I don't have any special care-taking or warm up to it. Just plunge into it. Can keep the voice intact on tours and will not have to force anything. This is why i do the live vocals in Hooded Menace. We, the rest of the band, keep forcing Lasse to do the studio-vocals still, as he really has an unique sound to it. It has the cobwebs!! Hahah! But he does not like it at all, so out of practicality, I do that part live.

In Sadistik Forest i do a lot of that low growl/high scream -thing. I don't know if anybody in particular inspired me to do it that way, but have always appreciated guys who can do a variety of things with their voice.. Like Dani Filth, Burton C. Bell and Glen Benton (especially early days). Steve Tucker has been an influence to me and of course Corpsegrinder... Nick Holmes... Started doing death metal as a kid, when somebody said that my grunts sounded like Chris Barnes.. So, he too. Definitely.

20. Is there a difference in the band’s sound as compared to the EPs and full length album you’ve released in the past?

Markus - Now? Well... We had a different studio environment this time. We went to England, instead our regular hide-out in Finland, to work with Chris Fielding (Napalm Death, Electric Wizard etc). Especially, we wanted to get bigger sound to bass and drums and i think we did that.

21. Relapse Records has been a great supporter of extreme metal, you’re signed to them now. How did this happen?

Markus - Don't know the facts, as i was not in the band when the deal was done, but as far as I’ve gathered, they contacted HM (amongst a couple of other labels) after our deal with Profound Lore ran out and well.. they had the best offer. Relapse is also know for their work with extreme bands, just like you said, so they do know how to market and work with our kind of thing.

22. What do you do as individual band members to relax, when not working on music? Do you have jobs or business?

Markus - When playing something as marginal as death/doom metal, it is really hard to get by, just by the music itself. I have a job outside the bands, to survive. Never been a very career oriented person, so as long as the work provides me enough money to survive AND it makes playing metal possible, I'm 100% ok with it. Never wanted to be a attorney, doctor or anything.. Was not motivated enough as an student for that, but luckily enough, I've always found a job somewhere, that takes a long haired metal guy onboard. Music is basically my time off... If not playing, at least listening to it with extreme passion. You can't take that away from me, really. Way of life kind of an thing.... The same goes for all of us, I suppose.

23. What albums are you listening to lately or just the bands and albums in general you're really digging right now and tell me about your anticipated album of this year?

Markus - Just recently, I've been listening a lot the new albums by Bell Witch, Ghost and Arcturus. New Paradise Lost is a splendid record too! Of the albums to be released yet, I’m looking forward the most for new My Dying Bride, maybe. Want to listen the new Grave Pleasures album, and Public Image Ltd also. Oh, and I've heard that the new Amorphis one will be way heavier than their previous ones, due the Tales from the 1000 Lakes -shows they did, so will check that one out for sure.

24.last one question, what are your future band goals & tell us something about upcoming tour. Lastly, a lots of teenagers aim to be full-time musicians. Many of them might be without any proper guidance, any words of wisdom for them?

Markus - Well, Darkness Drips Forth is out at October 30th. We play the official album release show in Turku, the next day, at Finnish death metal festival Turun Kuolema. In December we head out to Europe for 10 shows, with Mourning Beloveth. Starting from Hamburg, ending to Eindhoven Metal Meeting. It will be pure doom-mayhem, I guarantee that!

Will be cool to see where this album will take us after that. Hopefully to some new locations again. Sadistik Forest is also recording the third studio album as we speak. Will be doing my bass lines for that, very soon. There's also a old school death metal project with guys from Satanika coming.. So, a lot is on it's way.. Hope you like it!!

As far advices go, i might not be the best guy to give them, but i suppose the main one is to be patient. Very few today, if any, will have the overnight success. It takes guts to grind your way to bigger and bigger stages... A lot of blood, sweat and beers.. But don't give up! If you want it badly, things will happen for you. Sooner or later. Wanting it, is the key, i think.

25. That's all I've got right now. best of luck for upcoming release .This album is one of my anticipated release of this year. thanks a lot for enduring this torture haha. Any final thoughts, comments for the readers? If I forgot anything, please insert it in here.

Markus - Thanks for the well-though questions bro! Let's keep it extreme!!

Interview done by Souvik Basu. Published on 05/09/2015

Finland's purveyors of chaos and wrath, Purtenancefrontman Ville unveiled about their upcoming album, bands history and many more.On this year Finland based old school death metal band Purtenance will release their third full length album. Earlier this old schoolrotten death metal band Purtenance served up some devastatingly sacrilegious, rotten, phenomenal death metal album, EP.

So recently I’ve interviewed Purtenance Vocalist Ville. I was very keen to interact with him and I’ve tried to enlightenon their upcoming new album and tried to explore more about his bands. Check out the full interview below. Interview done by SouvikBasu.

1. Hello, how are you doing today?

Ville : Thanx for asking, I'm fine. I just went back to work after summer vacation and I must say Purtenance have had keeping me very busy during my holiday.

2. Purtenance was formed in 1989 as “Purtenance Avulsion” and later changed their name as “Purtenance”from 1991,Can you give me a briefhistory of how the band got together?Had you been in any bands or musical apparition before Purtenance?

Ville : First I have to clarify something. I'm not part of the original line-up, just because I was 9 years old when Purtenance started!And I was 11 when "Member..." came out, so I have basically grown with that album playing in my stereo's! Harri is my cousin,so that's why I'm here now. But what I do know from the beginning of Purtenance is something like this: Harri and Juha were friendsand shared the same kind of taste what comes to metal, so they started to play together and grappedTimoHayrinen for vocals (and bass at first!).They played and practiced constantly until came time to make a demo. So they went to record demo with TimoTolkki (yes, the one and only)and soon after that changed their name to just Purtenance and started to write material for "Member..." and other members joined them,like Toni Honkala for instance. They played some local shows and few somewhere else, with names like Amorphis, Sentenced, Beherit,Convulse and other's just to name couple. Purtenance was basically their first real band! But when it came time to "grow up", which means in Finland,you go to military service, Purtenance went on hibernation, just to awake again in 2011! I've used to play drums in a punkrock band but it was just a hobby.

3. what bands inspired the direction that Purtenance took and motivated you? Writers?Visual artists?Movies?Books?

Ville : Amorphis, Sentenced and other legendary Finnish bands sure had their influence to Purtenance,but for some reason all Finnish bands tend to have their own unique style, if you compare to Swedish bands,they have their HM-2 sound in almost all of them. At least bands from that era. Horror movies, Lovecraft, Chris Moyen, H.R Giger and many other'sall have had their art to give inspiration to the chaos of Purtenance. I personally have been drawing inspirations from the works of Tolkien and Terry Pratchett,so that's why I might have slightly crazy ideas for lyrics etc. And my musical background have punk and hardcore in it, so there might be some echoes from there too.

4. There are two basic ways of looking at music. In the first, there is a mechanism to the arrangement of certain tones, musical style.In the second, a narration occurs where a story is told or a poetic function completed. In your view of compositions, which is more important?Where were you when you first thought the project had longterm potential for you?

Ville : It all starts from the soundscape. It lays the foundation for songs to grow. Stories build up from there, they rise to their high when all our membersgives their twisted essence to the plot. I think old members never actually thought that Purtenance would survive through the times.But for some odd reasons here we are still playing and enjoying what we do!

5. What for you is the significance of the name, “Purtenance”?

Ville : The name itself have no deeper meanings. It just happened to pop in someones eye and seemed suitable for death metal band.So sorry, no supernatural or occult or blasphemous or anything like that in the name! For myself, Purtenance stands the fact that Harri have started this, with his friends,long time ago and that I do respect a lot and thank the opportunity that I can be part of this now.

6. If you could tour with other bands in metal, who would you pick if you were looking for bands similar to Purtenance?

Ville : Ouch, though one, Incantation would be very great band to play with or even tour! But we donÕt do this for living, you know, so big or long tours are not in our plans.

7. Purtenance released their debut album in 1992. After that a huge gap Purtenance unveiled their sophomore album in 2014 and the third one will release on this year.From 1992 Purtenance shaped the style of old school, rotten death metal music. How do you maintain this consistency yet keep developing with each album?How do you write your riffs, songs? What is the most difficult part about composing songs as you do?

Ville : We are simple people with limited talents. It is the way we have always been. We just in somehow seem to find ourselves writing this kind of music and it is all four of us nowadaysthat came up with songs that have very similar formulas in them as old ones but still they all have something uniqueness in them.Juha writes most of the music (we all write something to every release) and rest of us just brings our own spices to the mix.

8. Do you have a preference for type of equipment? In your mind, how important is equipment to the production of music?

Ville : With good tools you can achieve lot. But with decent equipment and with practise you can survive. We are not rich people that have lot of money to spend on equipmentso we use what we can afford. But in the end it really does not matter how good your equipment is, as long as you have good songs and music to release the magic is there.Of course if we would follow trends, which we don't, production should be super polished with squashed dynamics like most modern day acts have. We are just not in to that.

9. well, now I’m going to the main point about new album “...to Spread the Flame of Ancients”. Already we have saw the new album artwork released and the manifestationfrom upcoming album “Invocatio”. To be honest the artwork and track both is wicked. When were these tracks written, and how does Purtenance go about the writing process?

Ville : Album art is yet again done by the great Chris Moyen. He once again had total freedom to do whatever he wanted and the results are filled with that dark and morbid artthat he has almost trademarked. Big thanks to him again! The whole album was written during 2014 and 2015. All songs spawned from ideas that we all had. We just arranged them together.We all wrote some music to new album but Juha brought most of new music to it. I did almost all lyrics, Harri wrote lyrics for couple of songs, but I edited them to fit to songs and tomy singing. After the songs were written we played them through again and again to find that final form of them.

10. What's going on as far as lyrical themes on new album ?

Ville : There is lot of occultistic stuff in there. Dark stories of mystic things that reflect modern life through metaphores. I tried to write about things in a way that I haven't previously done.Some of tunes just gave so much inspiration to write about and rhytmic elements spawned words in to my head. Of course loose all around theme circles around Ancients, what of course isstraight from Lovecraftian novels and stories. I even (once again) wrote one songs in finnish language, cause it just seemed more fitting to that song, I also wrote the music to that song.

11. How did you get into this rotten, old school, heavy form of music and kindly explain about this music genre according to you?

Ville : Death metal is the must straight forward style of metal with what you can express yourself in it's boundaries. Brutal, truthfull, sincere, crushing way to release your own visions.When I was younger I listened lot of more "easier" music, but when I got older I started to search something more extreme. Then I found death and black metal, and for some unknownreason death metal inflicted fierce flame in to my soul. Maybe it is it's heaviness compared to any other genre. Black metal also is close to my heart, but it is it's musical side, notthe philosophical in most cases.

12.How would you describe the sound of the new album to someone who hadn’t heard it, and what distinguishes your music from any other act in the same genre?

Ville : Heavy with echoes from the past. I don't know if we are that different from any other, but at least we try to keep ourselves honest for what we are doing. We don't do decisions basedif something would sell or not. We do what we wan't to do.

13. Do you guys have any official videos coming out soon?

Ville : Aaah, we have been planning something but in this case we just haven't decided yet should we do video or not. We have couple of ideas but there is no certainty will we ever put them on use.

14. How do you explain the album title “...to Spread the Flame of Ancients”. what it means and the album art and how it coincides with the lyrics, themes?

Ville : It is sort of word play with many different meanings. It can be seen that we are old band that still have the flame of death metal burning in us and we wan't to share it too. Or it can beseen as a title for the loose theme and story behind some lyrics, Lovecraft again, anyone? I wan't to give people change to find the meanings by themselves and not try give too much answers already chewed.

15. Who came up with the album cover? I personally cherish Purtenance’s each and every album artwork because those are truly indelible, remarkable, appreciable too.

Ville : As said, Chris Moyen did the artwork again. And if we can decide he will be making our album cover's forever. If we ever make any more albums that is. He has kept that constant high level on hisart through the years and we own him so much for helping us to have that visual side to our music that seems to fit every time perfectly.

16. What's the first gig you ever went to? Have you been to any killer live shows lately?

Ville : It seems that my first live show experience have been lost in time (or at least from my memory!). But last killer show I saw was when AnaalNathrakhwere in Tampere, supported by Mörbid Vomit!Even thou AnaalNathrakh played super fast and memorable show, Mörbid Vomit played some new songs from their upcoming album, and I must say they were the best thing that night! Just wait that album!It won't let you down, I guarantee!

Ville : Well to this day, we haven't played that many shows, but two shows have been most memorable. Our first show in 20 years at Steelfest Open Air in Hyvinkää, Finland and Ritual Zombi Fest atMadrid, Spain.Both in 2013. They might not been our best shows, what comes to performance, but still they were something so unbelievable, that they can't be forgotten. Usually we have had decent response from the crowds, nobody have beaten up us, yet! From time to timewe get requests to play outside of Finland, but to this date, nothing has ever really happened. We don't know why, 'cos we don't even ask that much from coming to play, but for some reasonsthese things just don't seem to happen, even that the promoters and fans really would like us to play in their places.

18. Do you study other bands music to come up with ideas?

Ville : Simply, no.Cause that would just end in, us taking too much things from them. We of course listen music a lot and we can't help if our subconsciousness takes influences, with we try to do our musicjust by ourselves. What really can't be done, because Black Sabbath have already made all the best riffs.

19. Your vocals style is raspy, aggressive,tortured and raw. appreciate your vocal style. how do you prepare your vocals before the studio or especially for live performances?Did any band in particular inspire you in the shrieking department?

Ville : I don't prepare! We just have rehearsals so often that my voice is practiced there already. TimoHayrinen might have the voice that I have listened and drawed influences the most. After all,I must have had listened "Member..." at least thousand, if not more, times! Or do you mean the screaming stuff? I have listened lot of Norwegian black metal through the years, so from therecomes that.

20. Is there a difference in the band’s sound as compared to the EPs and full length album you’ve released in the past?

Ville : Well of course there is. It is partly because we have different members now and different amps, guitars, pedal etc. We also play with different tuning than guys used to play back in the days.For some reason we still manage to sound slighty the same, no matter what year it is, or at least we think that it is like that.

21. XtreemMusic has been a great supporter of extreme metal, you’re signed to them now. How did this happen?

Ville : Story that has been told so many times but here it is again... Dave originally released "Member..." through his Drowned Productions. Guys kept in touch with him and in 2011 when Dave heardthat Juha and Harri started to play again together (I have been playing with Harri since 2006 in a different group), he proposed that if he would release "Member..." again for it's 20 yearof existence and that if Purtenance would rise from the grave he will make a contract with us. So we released "Sacrifice..." in 2012 and "Awaken..." in 2013. "... to Spread..." is actuallyour last album within this deal, so we have to see what future brings to us...

22. What do you do as individual band members to relax, when not working on music? Do you have jobs or business?

Ville : Somethings is just best to keep private, but yes, we all have our day jobs. Purtenance does not bring food to our tables!

23. What albums are you listening to lately or just the bands and albums in general you're really digging right now and tell me about your anticipated album of this year?

Ville : Lately I have been listening lot of Tau Cross. I'm a huge Amebix fan and especially enjoyed their last album "Sonic Mass" and when I heard that Rob Miller has a new band,I was really excited! For this year I'm really waiting Mörbid Vomit's debyt album!

24.last one question, what are your future band goals & tell us something about upcoming tour. Lastly, a lots of teenagers aim to be full-time musicians.Many of them might be without any proper guidance, any words of wisdom for them?

Ville : We don't have any plans after confirmed shows this year and 2016 spring. We have to sit down and think what we are going to do... We are really waiting the Finnish Death Metal Maniacs Festthat is happening next week,TimoHayrinen will perform with us for the first time in 20 years and probably for the last time ever! Well we don't do this for living, but couple of good tipscould be that never stop believing in yourself, always respect others, don't talk shit about others and lastly, if you don't know something, ASK nicely and you will have answers.

25. That's all I've got right now. best of luck for upcoming release. This album is one of my anticipated release of this year. thanks a lot for enduring this torture haha.Any final thoughts, comments for the readers? If I forgot anything, please insert it in here.

Ville : Thank you and hopefully you don't disappoint to "...to Spread the Flame of Ancients". Haha! I will end this like we always end interviews, STAY TRUE, STAY BRUTAL!

Interview done By - Souvik Basu. Published on 02/09/2015.

On this year US based death metal band Flesh Consumed will release their thirdfull length album. Earlier this well known brutal death metal band Flesh Consumed served up some devastatingly sacrilegious, rotten,slam death metal album,EP and demo. So recently I’ve interviewed Flesh Consumed Vocalist Corey Athos. I was very keen to interact with him and I’ve tried to enlighten on their upcoming new album and tried to explore more about his bands. Check out the full interview below.Interview done by SouvikBasu.

1. Hello, how are you doing today?

Corey: I am doing great! Just working on a Flesh Consumed re-release of “Mutilate, Eviscerate, Decapitate”.

2. Flesh Consumed was formed in 2005,Can you give me a brief history of how the band got together?Had you been in any bands or musical apparition before Flesh Consumed?

Corey: Well actually the band started in 2003 disbanded then reformed in 2005. I wanted to start a brutal death metal band in the vein of Skinless meets Morbid Angel. I gathered musicians and started Flesh Consumed. I disbanded FC but eventually was jamming with drummer Alex Cortez and we started jamming some heavy stuff and I mentioned Flesh Consumed and that I had riffs, that’s how Flesh Consumed started. I played in an experimental band called Xenogeneic, death metal band, and a thrash band.

3. what bands inspired the direction that Flesh Consumed took and motivated you? Writers? Visual artists? Movies? Books?

Corey: Morbid Angel, The Beatles, Skinless, Gorguts, Immolatioin, etc.. HP Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Dali, Zig, Jaws, Hellraiser, The Hellbound Heart, HP Lovecraft, Lavey, Aleister Crowley, etc.

4. There are two basic ways of looking at music. In the first, there is a mechanism to the arrangement of certain tones ,musical style.in the second, a narration occurs where a story is told or a poetic function completed. In your view of compositions, which is more important?Where were you when you first thought the project had longterm potential for you?

Corey: Both are very important if you want to take in the album in its entirety or review albums. The only long term potential Flesh Consumed has for me is the chance to express myself musically without paying. I see no big sums of money or livings from Flesh Consumed in the future and that’s perfect.

5. What for you is the significance of the name, “Flesh Consumed”?

Corey: I was vegetarian and thought it was a clever name for a vegetarian. It represents a lot more to me now. Basically it represents my life. When I see the name Flesh Consumed I think of my life because almost all the huge evenst that have happened; divorce, jail, mental and physical problems, rehab, many members departing etc Flesh Consumed has been the only one that’s been there for me.

6. If you could tour with other bands in metal, who would you pick if you were looking for bands similar to Flesh Consumed?

Corey: I would love to tour with Coathanger Abortion and maybe GWAR.

7. From 2003 in each and every year Flesh consumed released 2 albums,somedemos,EPscompilationetc and shaped the style of music.How do you maintain this consistency yet keep developing with each album?How do you write your riffs,songs?What is the most difficult part about composing songs as you do?

Corey: I do not maintain consistency, I write what I want to hear and don’t really care if it sounds different or what people will say. If you listen to our albums or EPs none sound similar to one another and neither will this new one. I use to sit and write and record with an 8 track. Now I just use Guitar Pro. Nothing is difficult in composing for me. I’m confident in my writing, I do push the envelop in self development but it usually comes fairly easy.

8. Do you have a preference for type of equipment? In your mind, how important is equipment to the production of music?

Corey: Huge! I do prefer mainly Marshall but I no longer consider myself a guitarist but still have specific tastes in everything from recording equipment to mics. When it comes to my voice Shure Beta58.

9.well,now I’m going to the main point about new album.Already we new album artwork released and to be honest the artwork is wicked.Will wait for a manifestation from upcoming album. When were these tracks written, and how does Flesh Consumed go about the writing process?

Corey: I usually write everything but when Shaune joined on guitar I had him write “Hymn…”. I really look up to that dude and thought it would be great to musically document the Shaune/FC era.

10. What's going on as far as lyrical themes on new album ?

Corey: Hate, Supremecy, Dominion.

11. How did you get into this Brutal,heavy form of music and kindly explain about this music genre according to you?

Corey: I was in 5^th grade so about 9 and I discovered a used Grave cd in the used section at our local record store. I was intrigued yet scared of it. I had to turn the cd over because the cover was to scary. After a couple days I gathered the balls to listen.

12.How would you describe the sound of the new album to someone who hadn’t heard it, and what distinguishes your music from any other act in the same genre?

Corey: Listen.

13. Do you guys have any official videos coming out soon?

Corey: Not soon but we have a Drug Induced Psychosis and Chamber of Torture video on youtube from Ecliptic…

14. How do you explain the album title, what it means and the album art and how it coincides with the lyrics,themes?

Corey: Basically this album is made to empower people who are beaten in this world. This is saying fuck you to those people who bring you down, Leeches. The cover is the kingdom I have built in my head signifying that I am powerful and will not be stopped.

15. Who came up with the album cover? I personally cherish Flesh Consumed’s each and every album artwork because those are truly indelible,remarkable,appreciable too.

Corey: I came up and oversaw the album art. Dee realized it. Art is a huge part of music in my eyes. It’s the first thing people experience when they go to purchase a cd or vinyl, cassette whatever.

16. What's the first gig you ever went to? Have you been to any killer live shows lately?

Corey :I don’t remember the first gig I went to actually. I haven’t been to a show in 5 years. I live in the mountains in a church basement, insomniac, hermit with my studio bands and record label. 5 hours away from any shows.

Corey: We do get many offers. I use to be a very violent vocalist, one show I hit someone while singing and broke through both bones in my arm. Jumped on stage and sang the last 4 songs then drove an hour to the hospital. The crowd was scared.

18. Do you study other bands music to come up with ideas?

Corey: I study everything. Knowledge is everything.

19. Your vocals style is raspy, aggressive and raw.appreciate your vocal style.how do you prepare your vocals before the studio or especially for live performances? Did any band in particular inspire you in the shrieking department?

Corey: Thank you very much!! That means a lot! I drink water and do a couple verses then go on stage. Studio, room temp water or vitamin D milk sometimes. I try to use my natural voice, don’t have many vocal influences. Inspirations, yes.Influences, no.

20. Is there a difference in the band’s sound as compared to the EPs and demos you’ve released in the past?

Corey: Of course, listen to them. Completely different, every recording.

22. Unique Leader Recordshas been a great supporter of extreme metal, you’re signed to them now. How did this happen?

Corey: Erik said he would sign us so we signed. Simple.

23. What do you do as individual band members to relax, when not working on music? Do you have jobs or business?

Corey : I don’t really relax, if you know me you will laugh because it’s true. I own a record label Obscure Musick and am a Senior Pharmacy Technician but not at the moment.

24. What albums are you listening to lately or just the bands and albums in general you're really digging right now and tell me about your anticipated album of this year?

Corey: A lot of the bands on my labels material at the moment. Im looking forward to all those albums.Plus a new morbid angel whenever thatll be.

25.last one question,what are your future band goals & tell us something about upcoming tour. Lastly, a lots of teenagers aim to be full-time musicians. Many of them might be without any proper guidance, any words of wisdom for them?

Corey: Just have fun. In death metal you don’t earn much except experience so get out, see places.. you can get drunk at home.. go check out the scenery because you may never come back.

26. Thats all I've got right now.best of luck for upcoming release .This album is one of my anticipated release of this year.thanks a lot for enduring this torture haha. Any final thoughts,comments for the readers? If I forgot anything, please insert it in here.

Corey: I just want to thank you for one. Did your research and produced a great interview. Too many zines have cookie cutter interviews..thank family/fans/friends.

Interview done by - Souvik Basu. Published on 1/09/2015

Earlier this year Melodic Death Metal band Disarmonia Mundi announced they were mastering and producing a new record at the Metal House studio .Throughout the year Disarmonia Mundi gave updates about their upcoming album Cold Inferno which was released June 9, 2015. The band members consists of Ettore Rigotti (drums, guitar, bass, keys and clean vocals), Claudio Ravinale(unclean vocals). Cold Inferno has Bjorn “Speed” Strid (vocalist of Soilwork) guest vocals on some of the songs. Speed was on Disarmonia Mundi's previous albums such as Fragments of D-Generation, Mind Tricks and the Isolation game. Christian Älvestam former vocalist of Scar Symmetry also does guest vocals in Disarmonia Mundi's album Cold Inferno. Every record Disarmonia Mundi released has been jaw dropping, there were small clips of some there new songs posted on their Facebook before the album came out. Every clipping that was posted got great feedback from the fans. I listened to Cold Inferno, I would give the album a 5/5, one of the best Metal albums released in 2015.

Links: https://www.facebook.com/DisarmoniaMundi?fref=ts

My Rating: 5/5. Review done by Rose F.

An Interview with Karolina Kotwieja

Karolina is an aspiring vocalist from Poland, she currently lives in Belgium where the Metal scene there is bad ass. Every year Belgium has some of the biggest music festivals such as Alcatraz and Graspop. I have known Karolina for quite some time now via social media, her talent for unclean vocals is amazing and she is by far one of the most talented vocalists I know. She also is one of the biggest rock/hardcore/ metal junkies out there. Some of her biggest musical influences are Angela Gossow (previous vocalist of Arch Enemy), Winston McCall (vocalist of Parkway Drive) and Johan Liiva (previous vocalist of Arch Enemy, vocalist of Nonexist). Down below is the interview I did with Karolina, also check out her vocal cover of Parkway Drive’s song Karma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqOv1KA8M_k

Metalhead Spotted: Can you tell a brief history about yourself musically? At what age did you start unclean vocals?

Karolina: Since I was 3 years old it was my dream to be a vocalist. I growl for 3 years now.

Metalhead Spotted: Who are your musical influences?

Karolina: My first biggest influence was Angela Gossow and later I discovered Winston McCall, Johan Liiva, Chris Breetzi, Chris Barnes. But i think Angela is that one who had big impact on me.

Metalhead Spotted: What is the Metal Scene like in your area?

Karolina: At the moment I live in Belgium and there are so many hardcore bands what is cool because I like hardcore.There’s where I come from are many great death metal bands like Thunderwar, Hybris, Hazael, Decapitated and my favorite polish band Vader.

Metalhead Spotted: If you were to describe yourself in one simple word, what would you say ?

Karolina: I am stubborn. I think in a good way it's pretty much common with being very ambitious. Sometimes it annoys me that i am very ambitious because it costs lots of time to do what i want the best but after all it's worth it!

Metalhead Spotted: What advice would you give to other people that either are trying to do unclean vocals or wanting to learn?

Karolina: Don't give up, never. It'll be a long journey but after a few years of practice you'll reach a sound you want. And practice of course. People are learning things through the whole life and if you want to be good at doing something you have to practice all the time.

Metalhead Spotted: What band would you want to open for and why?

Karolina: There are so many bands I would like to open for but I think the most important to me are Arch Enemy, Parkway Drive, Heaven Shall Burn, Architects and of course The Ghost Inside.

Metalhead Spotted: I have seen all of your vocal covers, you have an amazing talent for unclean vocals, if you had the choice to audition for any band if your own choosing who would it be?

Karolina: Well, thank you so much. If I had a chance to choose it would be Arch Enemy, because I feel very comfortable covering their songs and I know all of their lyrics.

Metalhead Spotted: Is there anything you would like to add?

Karolina: If there is someone who wants to start a band and searching for a vocalist or just needs guest vocals or something feel free to message me on my Facebook page, and thank you Rose for a great interview.

Interviewed by Rose F.

Links: https://www.facebook.com/carolzmeetsgrowl?fref=ts

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCadDJ1Bs-97qjoDHKzCNloA