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Najing Exclusive interview

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1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your band. Could you give us a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? HI! we Najing are an Italian instrumental post-metal trio from (Pisa)(Tuscany) composed by Marco Neri (bass) Marco Di Chiara (drums) and Andrea Turini (guitar) born in the summer of 2021. 2- Najing is the band's full album. How long did it take to compose and record? We composed all the songs in about 6 months and then recorded them live in April 2022 at Studio Saffa666 in Fucecchio (Italy) with the sound engineer Delio Nanni. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? We have various influences such as: Neurosis, Russian Circles, Isis, Cult Of Luna, Pelican and then move on to Motorpsycho, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai. 4- Can you tell us how did the members all meet? Initially we wrote to each other via social media Marco (bass) and Marco (drums) sharing a strong passion for th

King Potenaz exclusive interview

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1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music News and Interviews. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your band. Could you give us a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? Hello and thank you for this opportunity. King Potenaz born out of a series of jam sessions in 2019 in Fasano, Apulia, Italy, we began to write our own music by drawing heavily on the work of doom/stoner bands like Sleep, Electric Wizard, Kyuss, Monster Magnet and, of course, Black Sabbath. After a change on drums, the lineup solidifies into the current power trio formed by Giuseppe (me) (guitar and vocals), Francesco (bass guitar) and Piero (drums and synths). 2- "Goat Rider" is the band's debut full album. How long did it take to compose and record? "Goat Rider" is our debut album, excluding a 2-track demo released in early 2022, and was composed in about a year... due to our various work commitments we didn't have much time to play in the rehearsal room, in fact, we c

Uncommon Evolution Exclusive Interview

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1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music News and Interviews. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your band. Could you give us a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? We are a four piece band from a town in North West Montana called, Whitefish. We love to spend our time playing heavy tunes and fighting bears. 2- Fry is the band's fifth full album. How long did it take to compose and record? This is our fifth album and we call it, Fry,.. you know, because of the mushrooms. We tend to write songs constantly so it came together pretty fast, probably a few months. Then we headed on down to the Austin area in Texas and worked with the legendary producer, Machine (Lamb of God, Clutch, Fall out boy, Hed P, etc.) to get it all together. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? Between all of us, it’s a plethora of flavors. High on Fire, Slayer, Corrosion of Conformity, Dream Theater, Clutch, to classics like the Dead Kennedys, Rush, Frank Sina

Godzilla In The Kitchen exclusive interview and First album release

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1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your band. Could you give us a brief description of the group?  Where is the band from? Hi Metal Music News and Interviews! We are Godzilla In The Kitchen, a three-piece Heavy Psychedelic Band from Leipzig, Germany. We play and create instrumental rock and metal songs with differing complexity, some more heavy, some more light, and some progressive. Generally, our music invites people to dream, trance, and dance. 2- "Godzilla In The Kitchen" is the band's first full album. How long did it take to compose and record? We worked on our first album for around 4 Years. Due to our budget back then, the production had to be finished within few weekend, which left us very unhappy with the result originally in 2015. Later on, we took on the challenge to re-master the sound to where it mirrored our stage sound and experience and re-released it on vinyl in 2020. 3- What musical influences ins

Burn The Ocean exclusive interview

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1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music News and Interviews. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your band. Could you give us a brief description of the group?! Where is the band from? Hi, we are a Heavy Rock band from Genoa, Italy. Our music is heavily inspired by 90’s top bands like Soundgarden and Alice In Chains and also carries some influences from metal and stoner genres because of our musical past which is spanned through a twenty-plus years career in music.   2- “Modern Ruins" is the band's second full album. How long did it take to compose and record? It took us nearly four years because of the forced pause due to the pandemic and because of some line-up changes that heavily influenced the sound and alchemy of the band. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? I would say 90’s scene, metal as a general approach to aggressive sounds and stoner. 4- The group started in 2014. Can you tell us how did the members all meet? Emanuele and I met w

Heezer exclusive interview and new album Sungrinder

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Welcome, Could you give us a brief description of the group? Heezer is a band of four guys full of energetic stoner-rock . Where is the band from? South-Karelia, Finland "Sungrinder" is the band's (first etc.) full album. How long did it take to compose and record? We didn't have any songs ready, so It took us about six months to write and arrange all the songs. Recording the album took about 10 days in the span of four months. What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? We all have our own different influences and they all play a part in our music. I think you can hear bands like Fu Manchu, 1000Mods, Alice in Chains and Mastodon in our songs. The group started in 2020. Can you tell us how did the members all meet? Some of us have history together from other bands and how we got together was little bit by a mistake but basically we just started playing together and Heezer was born. The new album title is Sungrinder. Tell us the details about the conte

Mud Spencer exclusive interview

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Greetings and a warm welcome to Metal Music News and Interviews. Our readers are eagerly looking forward to getting acquainted with you and your band. Would you kindly provide us with a concise description of your group? Could you please tell me the origin of the band?   The band is from Cirebon West Java Indonesia 2- Kliwon is the band's second full album. How long did it take to compose and record?   The band's second album, Mud Spencer Kliwon, took nearly a year to compose and record. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? Various musical influences, from 1968-1973 heavy rock area to modern heavy doom psychedelia going through Eastern ethnic music from Ethiopia to Indonesia. 4 - The group started in 2019. Can you tell us how did the members all meet? The group started in 2019, I’m alone. 5 - Can you provide us with more information about the new album "Kliwon"? Specifically, can you elaborate on its content and the deeper meaning behind the

Parity Boot exclusive interview here at Metal Music NEWS and Interviews

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 1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music NEWS and Interviews. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your band. Could you give us a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? Parity Boot was founded by our singer/guitarist Thias in 1998. We released several Demos and won the Lower Saxony Part of Wacken Metal Battle 2005.  In 2009 we released our first Album “Into Nothing” and played a tour through Germany with Hantzel and Gretyl as well as several festivals. The band is now located in Hamburg/North Germany. 2- "Fast Forward" is the band's new album. How long did it take to compose and record? Fast Forward was written and recorded over several years, Thias works as music producer and engineer for all kind of projects and it was often difficult to find additional time for Parity Boot after the regular studio hours. An almost -at least these days- traditional cycle of one album every 1,5 years is kind of impossible for a small DIY band like us, especially wh

Stramonium exclusive interview and talks of the new album Elder Moon

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STRAMONIUM: 1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest. Thanks for taking the time to do the interview. Could you give our readers a brief description of the group? Where is the band from? Stramonium was formed in Milan in 2018. In the beginning, we realized we wanted to go back to 70's doom, proto-metal, and garage, following models like BLACK Sabbath, Pentagram, Mc5, and many others. Within a short time, the sound of the band took a very defined shape. The most noticeable thing is precisely the retro sound that is deliberately Lo-Fi, something that in modern doom happens not so often, this feature has led our band to be appreciated even abroad and to have the honor of playing with Pentagram for their 50th-anniversary tour. 2- Elder Moon is the band's debut full album how long did it take to write? Elder Moon is our first record, initially self-released on vinyl and only later it has been reissued and finally released by Argonata Records. The record came out very naturally af