Metal Music NEWS and interviews

 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! Thank you for having us! We're Roberto (lead singer), Andrea (bassist), Stefano (drummer) and Matteo (guitarist), four people from Northern Italy with a strong passion for metal music. We started out as a band in 2017 and we have just released the second full-length album. 2- "Tearing Your Soul Apart" is the band's upcoming EP. How long did it take to compose and record it? We spent around a year composing songs. As for the recording, it took us two weeks and the album was produced at Audiocore studio, near the city of Parma. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? Well, we actually all have different tastes concerning our musical genre. Therefore, some of the bands that inspired and influenced us are Pantera, Sepultura, Machinehead, Lamb of God, Decapitated, and ...

  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? Yes of course, We are Helgrindur a Pagan Metal band from Germany City: Solingen (the city of the sharpest blades and knifes) in north Rhine Westphalia. For now, we are four members  -Beast on Vocals. Gia Rhythm guitar (my twin brother). Flemming Lead guitar and me Alessandro (Alex) drummer. Our Story is me and my Brother had the idea back in 2010 to start a Pagan oriented Metal band where we can make songs about old fantasy and mythological stories. First we had some Folkish influences with some “traditional instruments like Back pipes “. But we quickly figured out, that the Folkish metal aspect wasn’t good for our musical feeling or our musical direction 2011-2013 we released our Demo Songs (homemade ). In 2017 we released our first Album “Von Einst” which means from the past which was also self-m...

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? We are a metal band formed in 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. 2- "Alterego" is the band's upcoming single. How long did it take to compose and record it? "Alterego" was a project that took some time to come together. First riffs were recorded 2 years ago then it went through several phases of composition and refinement before we hit the recording studio. The recording process itself was spread over a few months to ensure we achieved the sound and quality we wanted for this track 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? Our music draws inspiration from a wide range of musical influences within the metal genre. Bands like for example Lamb of God or In Flames have been inspirations for us to some level. We also incorporate elements from other musical styles and experiences f...

1) Hello and welcome to Metal Music News and Interviews. Our readers are excited to get to know you and your music. Could you give us a brief description of the project?   Where are you from? Hello Metal Music New and Interviews, I'm happy to answer your questions! The project was born as an experiment, I found myself with ideas that I could hardly included in projects with my bands, so I decided to put myself into a solo song. I'm 29 years old and I'm from Modena, Italy 2) "Cloud" is the first full album. How long did it take to compose and record? The main theme of the song is from even 10 years ago, but obviously all the rest of the song is very recent. I composed this song at the end of 2021, then took a few months to try to understand if I was satisfied with it.  June 2022 i was go to the studio and in 2 days we completed everything. It actually took me a short time to compose it, when I'm inspired I'm very fast. 3) What musical influences inspire th...

 Interviewees: C: Carolin Koss (vocals) A: Alexander Meaney (guitars) T: Tuomas Talka (bass guitar) S: Sami Heiniö (drums) 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? T: We are Orbiter, a doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland. Our musical direction relies heavily on building dynamics between massive riffs and hazy calm soundscapes, spiced with hypnotic vocals. 2- Hollow World is the band's first full album. How long did it take to compose and record? T: The composition phase for this album lasted from spring 2020 to spring 2022, so two years in total. The first song we got ready was Under Your Spell, which I made with Carolin already in May 2020 and it became sort of ready in one go. The last song that got ready was actually the opening track of the album, Silence Breaks. This got ready just a few weeks before the studio, some time pres...

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? Ego Planet is a heavy rock band based out of New Jersey that came about from some demos I was working on over the pandemic. I got into a great rhythm over the lockdown of writing 2-3 instrumental demos a week for fun just to keep my guitar chops up. After sitting on the tunes for awhile I teamed up with Jarrett Mead (vocals) and Steve Iannettoni (drums) to record our first singles/full length and Ego Planet was born!   2- "Ego Planet" is the band's debut full album. How long did it take to compose and record? Our debut album will be self titled. It took us roughly two years to write, record, mix/master and self fund.  3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? For the musical side of things I draw from a wide variety of bands. A lot of classic metal meets modern m...

1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music News and reviews Thank you Metal Music news and Interviews for having us. Panic Attack! plays bipolar beach thrash punk infused with hard-core and acid jazz. We live in Norway and our music has a flow that suits our surroundings with a sound that matches a skateboard ride to the beach. 2- "Don't Stop" is the band's new full length album. How long did it take to compose and record? We released a demo in 2016 but really this album has taken seven or eight years because it just kept getting better and better. We were also able to cover two songs from the band OFF! called Panic Attack and Black Thoughts. OFF! is a huge influence on our band.  Keith Morris and Dimitri Coats were awesome enough to let us cover their songs on the album although they are not on the digital streaming platforms but they are on the physical formats, 13 songs in 28 minutes. At the end we were able to get Mastered by Maor Appelbaum! That dude is a total legend a...

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? Leaden Fumes comprises three talented musicians hailing from Basel, Switzerland. Our music is heavy and slow, with a touch of experimentation. As a trio, we believe we can best express the kind of music we create. Despite our seriousness towards music, we enjoy bending the rules of genres. Humor plays a crucial role in both our music and lyrics. 2- "Kanashibari" is the band's latest album. How long did it take to compose and record? It's been about a year since we started working on new songs while waiting for our first album to be pressed. We've been fortunate enough to have the inspiration and creativity to keep the music flowing. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? I'm not sure. I don't really think about it that way. Our musical tastes differ, so wh...

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 description of the group?  Where is the band from? Greetings! We are Void Cruiser, an alternative heavy rock band from Helsinki, Finland. Void Cruiser was founded in 2011 and developed its sound through stoner rock, grunge, and heavy rock towards more post-rockish, and shoegaze sound in recent years.   2- "Call of The Void" is the band's third full album. How long did it take to compose and record? Well, altogether it took around four years. We released our previous album “Wayfarer” in 2017 and started to compose the album pretty soon after that. A lot was going on in members’ lives and we reorganized the group by getting a new member so it took time to get ourselves together. The actual recording session took only several days. 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? There are so many and they have changed a bit du...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

 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: 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...