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Welcome and Introduction to Metal Music Midwest

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Metal Music Midwest features several metal bands from around the globe. Featuring promos provided by ClawhammerPR, AgainstPR, Transcending Obscurity, Asher Media, FuturePR and several others. Album releases, concert events, single song streaming, concert photography, concert videos, festival promotion, zines and other music related topics. Would you like to be featured on here? Send me an email at wakingkhaos@yahoo.com and I will get you details. Bands featured in this video can be viewed in their entirety at the following links Carcass live - Video Nervosa live -  Video Immolation live - Video #heavymetal #Chicago #Clawhammer #music #promo #bands

Featured artist Chris Krueger

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 1) Hello and welcome, please tell our readers a little about yourself? Where are you   from? What is your current occupation?   My name is Chris Leone and I am a horror artist from New Jersey but friends like to call  me Chris Krueger. I also play heavy metal guitar.   2) When did your interest in drawing begin?  
 I just drew naturaly when I was a child and as a teen. I was something that I just did. I  have a lot of relative that are artists and musicians. 3) Your style of art sometimes features dark and atmospheric themes, is there a point in time when that became your dominant form of art? If so, what band or artist inspired you first?   I am very inspired by bands like Danzig, King Diamond and Black Sabboth. As far as artist I like Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Simon Bisley. I’ve actually met Boris Vallejo at an gallery in NYC. 4) When exactly was the creation of your Art page, how has it helped by promoting your work? I created my facebook art page about 9 years ago. I’ve do

Featured Artist Raven Moonla Exclusive Interview

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1) Hello and welcome, please tell our readers a little about yourself? Where are you from? What is your current occupation? Hello.  My name is Raven Moonla, and I hail from Jackson, TN.  I currently work as a professional artist as well as owning Metal Devastation Radio, Metal Devastation PR, and the Tennessee Metal Devastation Music Festival with my husband, Zach Moonshine.     2) When did your interest in drawing begin?    I have always had an interest in drawing, but I remember really becoming passionate about it in the 4th grade.  I had an awesome teacher who was a great artist, and she really encouraged me. 3) Your style of art sometimes features dark and atmospheric themes, is there a point in time when that became your dominant form of art? If so, what band or artist inspired you first?    Yes, some of my art is dark and atmospheric, but it always has a bit of whimsy and mysticism as well.  I have always been super into fantasy movies and art, and when I was a child, I was obses

Feature Artist Jon Billman exclusive interview

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  1) Hello and welcome, please tell our readers a little about yourself? Where are you from? What is your current occupation? Hello,   My name is Jon Billman and I currently live in Hainesville, Illinois. I have been a painter for 11 years now. I also play bass in Chicago based bands. Recently I've played with Disinter, The Suffering, Earthen, Cold Bearded Killers, and others. I also work for U.P.S. 2) When did your interest in drawing begin? My interest in painting began 11 years ago. My friend is a painter and I asked where I could get supplies. The next day I went to Michael's Store and started experimenting with acrylic paint on canvas. 3) Your style of art sometimes features dark and atmospheric themes, is there a point in time when that became your dominant form of art? If so, what band or artist inspired you first? Much of my art is dark and atmospheric. I have always been influenced by horror movies and album covers from bands like Black Sabbath, Venom, Bathory, Slayer,

Exclusive interview with Welcome To Pleshiwar and their album Apostasi

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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? Hello and thank you for providing a platform for Welcome to Pleshiwar. We are very happy about this and it is incredibly important for the underground. We come from Hessen, which is a federal state in Germany. Originally we all come from Kassel, but in recent years we have scattered to different places within this region.  The band Welcome To Pleshiwar resulted from the fact that we have all played in other bands and we mixed a few members for Welcome To Pleshiwar who were all up for a good dose of 90s death doom. 2- "Apostasy" is the band's upcoming album. How long did it take to compose and record it? "Apostasy" is the first full album, but in 2022 we released the EP "Unsolved". It took about a year from the initial ideas to the final mastering by Andy Claasen. 3- What mus

Terreur Nocturne Special interview and album Solitude Post-Mortem

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Terreur Nocturne Règne (bassist), Oneiros (singer), Macchabée (guitars and art) & L'Aveugle (drums, sound engineer) 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 band? Where is the band from? Règne : Hello, thank you very much for your invitation! To describe our band briefly, I would say Terreur Nocturne was created in 2019 by our singer Oneiros in Marseille, south of France. It is a Melancholic Black Metal band exploring the Oniric Realm where Night Terrors take shape. Onéiros : Indeed, I suffer from this parasomnia called Night Terrors my nightmares are really intense and they cause stressful and creepy sleepwalking episodes. Terreur Nocturne allows me to expiate it through depressive and melodic black metal music. 2- "Solitude Post-Mortem" is the band's new album. How long did it take to compose and record it? Règne : It took us almost two whole

Crowdead interview and release of their new EP

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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! 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

Helgrindur talks about their latest 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? 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-made. Unti