Metal Music NEWS and interviews

  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?   Dan Lorenzo : Ron and I both live in New Jersey. Jimmy Schulman our bassist lives in NYC. Jason ...I think you live in Texas, right? ( laughs) Jason McMaster: Yes, I am from Texas. Born in Corpus Christi and moved to Austin in 1980. I joined Watchtower in May of 1982. Not long after,I became a big pen pal guy, writing to bands and fanzines, sending demos, tape trading and trying to get us exposure.That's how I first heard of Hades and later, Non-Fiction, was through singer Alan Tecchio, and of course that's how I met Dan, and Jimmy and even Ron.  About 9 years ago, Dan started sending me songs to collaborate with him on. Not until the last few years did we actually get serious about it, and release material.I have always thought that Dan wrote these big minor key riffs that rese...

 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 loyal readers please give a warm welcome to the band Mastic Scum !!   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?   Death Metal made in Austria! Mechanized brutality, ear-annihilating scum!   2- "ICON" is the band's 6th full album, how long did it take to write? Maggo: Harry came up with the first ideas in 2018 or 2019... they were still like a t-800 skeleton. very raw and brutal. we gradually covered the skeleton with human tissue and finally installed the skynet AI. this is how this unstoppable machine developed and it has only one mission. kill! 3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? Maggo: Fear Factory, Napalm Death and the daily scum 4- The group started in 1992, can you tells us how did you all meet? Maggo: brothers Harry and Man Gandler founded Mastic scum. I often met the guys at concert...

 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? Sascha: Fall Of Carthage is a german groove-metal band. That tag fits the most I believe. We are no fans of musical borders, putting our passion for music first, trying not to think about genres and trends. We experiment a lot, if it sounds and feels good we’re in.   2- "Drawn Into Madness" is the band's fourth album, how long did it take to write? Sascha: From the first idea to the final master, i think about 10 months or so. Not continuously though. Arkadius and I worked on the songs whenever possible.   3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? Sascha: This question comes a lot. We have many different influences not only coming from metal bands but all kinds of music and they change over the time as well. We’re open for everything that is inspiring.   4- ...

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 ...

To my readers please give a warm welcome to Wizzerd!!   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? Thanks for having us! We are a heavy rock’n’roll band from Kalispell, Montana. We have been described as boogie doom and magick rock before, which are good descriptors of the sound.   2- "Space‽: Issue No.001" is the band's 3rd full album, how long did it take to write? The album has been mostly totally written since around 2018. We began writing it a few years before that, then focused on our other material and touring before recording these songs. With a few touches and changes in the studio, we really spent about six or seven years on crafting these songs to their fullest potential. 3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? We take influence from a wide variety of music from all genres and eras. For "Space‽...

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? Hello and thank you for hitting us up. We are Vermocracy, a Melodic Death Metal band from Vienna, Austria. We play a style reminiscent of 90s bands like In Flames, At the Gates or Arch Enemy. Andi (guitars) and Roman (drums) started the band in 2017. Since then, Stella (guitars), Hannes (bass) and Michael (vocals) have completed the line-up. 2- "Age of Dysphoria" is your latest album, how long did it take to write? Immediately after we finished the recording of our first Album “Vermocracy” in 2020, we started to write new songs. Unfortunately, everything was very difficult due to the pandemic. Some of the songs were written in isolation and there weren’t many possibilities for direct interaction between the members over the course of a few months. Additionally, we used the time to find a su...

 To my readers please give a warm welcome to Deadly Vipers : 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? Hi everyone, we're Deadly Vipers, a band from Cabestany, south of France, next to the spanish borders. We play something next to Stoner Rock and heavy music.  We're four people in the band, Fred does vocals and synth, David is the guitar player, Thomas makes the bass and Rudy is the drummer. Each member is also involved in other instruments, so it's all free minded. 2- "Low City Drone" is the band's new full album, how long did it take to write? Low City Drone started to be created around february 2019 just before Rudy was in the band. Our first album came at the end of 2017 and it was time to make new songs. Few ideas of riff were in our mind but we always take a lot of time to get the songs to their final form...

 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...