Metal Music NEWS and interviews

 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? Hey! After Infinity is a new Finnish heavy/power metal band. Our music is a nice combination of heavy riffs, catchy melodies and symphonic orchestra with some unexpected twists here and there. 2- "A Game of Chess" is the band's upcoming single. How long did it take to compose and record it? We started writing songs for the upcoming album in 2021. Once all the songs were ready and demoed, we recorded most of the instruments in the summer and autumn of 2022. The last recordings took place in the spring of 2023, and we went into mixing. A Game of Chess was the third song we mixed, and soon after it was finished we decided to master and release it to give people the first taste of AI! 3- What musical influences inspire the band's compositions? We love how Dream Theater combines heavy...

 1 - Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, thanks for taking the time to do the interview, could you give our readers a brief description of Grandiosa Muerte? Where is the band from? Thank you for having me in the powerful Metal Music Midwest. I'm Max, founder of Grandiosa Muerte. In the shape of Hermes the band was born in Heredia, Costa Rica, as a personal need to exorcize myself from mental and spiritual struggles amplified during the pandemic With over 25 years of experience as a Metal musician and 15 years as a producer in the Metal and Rock genres, I realized it was time for my solo project. Thus, I take on all conceptual, lyrical and musical responsibilities, as well as producing and promoting Grandiosa Muerte. 2- Egregor is the band's debut album, how long did it take to write? The process started somewhere between 2017-2018 and ended in January 2021. 3- What musical influence inspires the band's compositions? I can say the musical spectrum influencin...

Polish act Atrocious Filth have announced a second album “OVV” will be available in vinyl format via Moans Music and Fabryka Hałasu . This follows a limited local-only run of the LP in the band and label’s home country.  Listen to OVV via Bandcamp or Spotify Watch a music video to the track "L", filmed at Olsztyn Puppet Theatre:  While the band may be little known in the wider music world, Atrocious Filth’s history goes back to the early 90s and could be considered a hidden gem for aficionados of heavy, pummeling and experimental music. The band was founded in 1991 in Olsztyn, Poland by the late ex-Vader drummer Krzysztof ‘Docent’ Raczkowski, Sławomir ‘Małeg’ Jóźwiak (bass) and Andrzej ‘Andzia’ Choromański (guitar). The band’s debut album, “100% Jesus”, was released in 1994 on cassette and only 14 years later on CD.  Following a nearly 20-year break, the band returned in 2016 with a fresh line-up and a new EP “Moans” with a new present-day sound, but continuing the atmo...

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/DzsQTocxc6c The Finnish hippie metal superstars Egokills are back - bigger, badder & more dangerous than ever! The latest Egokills banger is called Life’s a Party and it is a reminder of what life’s about in these dark times. The song comes with a movie quality music video, directed by the bands long-time friend Timo Lepistö and shot by Anthony Putkonen. The video portrays the band in its natural habitat, partying around their own camper van. Vocalist Janne Selo plays the main part. Selo has also written the song. The banjo riff at the beginning is played by Egokills’ own guitar virtuoso Niko Viita-aho when the band happened to find a real banjo from Fantom Studio. “The spring is in the air and I can hear the internal banjos playing. Life’s good!”, Janne Selo comments. Third Egokills album is ready and will be released in fall 2023. Matti Lötjönen acted as the executive producer and Olli Anttila produced the vocals. The release party of Life’...

 Hello readers, today I present the band Even In Death from San Antonio TX. Be sure to listen to their latest music and visit their official band links below! Established in 2013, Even In Death hails from San Antonio, Texas and storms the front line with bone crushing riffs and powerful grooves, tackling subject matter which takes the listener through an aural journey of fury and aggression. These well established musicians have a range of musical influences including progressive metal, groove metal, and a hint of metal core, resulting in a satisfying dose of face melting metal.  Led by veteran front man Sean Nations  a fixture on the Texas Metal scene for years and has been a member several acts that have toured both regionally and nationally. Sean brings a dynamic presence to Even in Death both on and off stage with his powerful vocal style and charismatic persona.  The guitar duties are handled by the duo lead guitar attack of Anthony Carrillo and James Garza bot...

To my readers, please give a warm welcome to Vredesblod! 1-Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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? Thank you very much for this interview. Vredesblod is a heavy metal band from Sweden. We try to combine classic heavy metal with a contemporary feel. The vocals are in Swedish, which separates us from most other bands, it also gives the lyrics a much more personal meaning to us. The band consists of Magnus Hultman on vocals, Kjetil Lynghaug on guitars, me (Peter Svensson) on bass and Marcus Rosenkvist on drums 2- “Ruiner” is the band's first album, how long did it take to write? The music for the album was written by Kjetil over the last couple of years. The lyrics were written by me, most of them were written quite fast after we decided to start Vredesblod. However, some lyrics are almost 20 years old, since none of my other bands sing in ...

 1-Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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? Stéphanie: Chaos Rising is an all-female international collaborative metal music project that I created in 2019. It’s an open project in constant evolution with women artists and musicians from all over the world. 35 women have collaborated on the 20 songs of our double album that will be released in October. We produce songs across metal subgenres. Recently new musicians have joined us and we continue working on new songs. Catherine: I am in Switzerland (originally from the UK) and Stéphanie is in France, but we have members from eighteen countries and we are very proud that the project is so international.   2- "The Singles" is your latest album, how long did it take to write?   Stéphanie: The project started in 2019 and we released one new song each month. This was a very fast pro...

To my readers plese give a warm welcome to the music of Krilloan Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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? Hello! Its we who should thank you. We are Krilloan and we play high-octane, full speed, power metal - straight from the heart! Our sound is rooted in the harder type of powermetal of the ninties based on guitars rather than keyboards. The group is a international one and its based around me (Klas Holmgren) in Sweden. I write the basic structures for the songs and play the rhythm guitars. Then we have Steve Brockmann in Germany that handles the lead guitars, Alex VanTrue in Portugal on vocals, Marco Toba in Argentina that plays bass and then David Lanas from Ecuador on drums. So you can say that we are everywhere 😊 2- "Stories Of Times Forgotten" is the band's first release, a  EP with 5 tracks.  How long did it take to writ...

To my readers please give a warm welcome to Gia G 1 - Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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?    BOSTON MA  2- "band GIA G  album Cosmic Wave  EP  name" is the band's (first etc) full album, how long did it take to write?     GIA G.     EP. came  is 3 song EP called Cosmic Wave , released Jan 25th 2022.  took a few months to to do , along with 2 music videos ,  Cosmic Wave and Reminiscing   3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions?   Many ,  From Van Halen , Jeff Beck, Joe Satriani , Steve Vai , Alan Holdsworth , Ledzepplin , Queen ,  Yngwie Malmsteen, Paggini ,  Ozzy , Ronie James Dio , Iron Maiden ,Metallica , Tool,  The Beatles , Elvis , The  Eagles,  Aerosmith ,  Many ect  4- The group started in (YE...

To my readers, please give a warm welcome to the band Bury The Kingdom 1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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? Bury The Kingdom is from all over but we work out of Oklahoma USA! 2- “Bury The Kingdom” is the band's first EP, how long did it take to write? Our songs and the process has been a lifelong journey so that is a commitment of a lot of time. Our EP is a message to the world. Intense music but, a wake up call to the people. 3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? We have many influences but mainly its social issues that drive our lyrical content. 4- The group started in 2021, can you tells us how did you all meet? We met during the course of playing the scene in our hometown. The shutdown led to us sharing tracks back and forth remotely and the results led to this 4 song EP. 5- The new album title is BURY THE K...

To my readers, please give a warm welcome to Black Reuss Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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? I have to thank you for your interest in Black Reuss and taking the time.  I currently live with my family in the Principality of Liechtenstein.  After playing and touring in bands for almost 30 years, I had enough and took a break. As time went on, I felt more and more that something was missing in my life. Music makes me feel good and is a perfect balance for my life. So in 2017, I started writing one song after another, trying different sound designs as well. Until in 2019, I found a way to realize what's inside of me. And that is Black Reuss. Black Reuss is 100 percent my own music that comes from deep inside me. So I worked for three years on how to get to that sound, and developed the Tetralogy concept that I'm implementing now. Sty...

  Hild - Violent, Swedish Metal 1- Hello and welcome to Metal Music Midwest, first off, 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? Hild - Thank you for your interest! HILD is a thrash oriented band centered around the valkyries of Nordic myth. Each song a channeling of their respective traits and energies. Eventually the theme will broaden obviously, there are not all too many valkyries left to sing about haha! It's perfectly fine listening to it as just high energy metal band to get your blood going. But it is based on my personal beliefs and spiritual practices.  There is more to it to anyone interested to find out. Some other musical influences than thrash naturally came seeping in along the work.  We just call it by the slogan "Violent Swedish Metal". So, obviously, we are from Sweden!  2- ValFreiya is the band's first full album, how long did it take to wri...