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...

Live performance photos of the band Gaunt playing live at LiveWire in Chicago IL as part of GroundZero productions. Featuring acts by Blood Of The Wolf, Lurid and Valdrin. Photos taken with Sony A6300 with Canon 24mm lens.

 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 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? Corndog: Hey everyone I’m Corndog, I play drums for the band. We are a horror metal band originally from the Yukon, but we are now based in Toronto. The band consists of me and my older brother, We’ve been playing together as The Animal Warfare Act since 2018, but individually we’ve both played music since we were like four.  Hopskotch: I’m Hopskotch, guitarist and vocalist. I was in a lot of bands as a teenager, but The Animal Warfare Act is definitely the band I always wanted to be in. We’ve released a couple DIY albums but are in the studio a lot these days working on some more professionally made releases. We’ll be dropping a whole bunch of new music over the next year or so. Our sound is mostly a nu-metal/metalcore hybrid and we get all theatrical with it too.   2- "Ano...

Live concert photos of Sacramentum live at Reggies as part of the tour coming thru Chicago. Visit the band here  metal-archives-Sacramentum/908 If you are interested in any of the gear that I used to film, you can visit my amazon store here amazon-artemorbid It is an Affiliate Store which means I get a small commission from any qualifying sales.

 Live performance photos of the band Crossspiter playing live at Reggies as part of the Sacramentum tour Chicago.

Blood Of The Wolf performing at Reggies as part of the Sacramentum tour coming thru Chicago. The band played third and played a short but devastating set. The gallery here are a few long distance captures by Andrea.  Camera used was Sony A6300 with Canon 50mm FD lens with a wide open aperture and auto settings for ease of use. You can visit Blood Of The Wolf here  metal-archives-Blood_of_the_Wolf/3540384209 If you are interested in any of the gear that I use, then you can visit my Amazon store front where I have most of the items listed. amazon-artemorbid

Lurid live performance photos at Reggies. Lurid is a BM from Chicago. Released the first demo in 2021. The set of photos here is from their most recent show at Reggies. This is part of the Sacramentum tour coming thru Chicago. Filmed and captured with Sony A6300 and Canon 50MM FD lens adapted. You can visit the bands Bandcamp here  luridbm.bandcamp There is also some short footage in the video below. Also, if you are interested in any of the gear that I used for this performance you can visit my Amazon store, its an affiliate store which means I get a small commission from any qualifying sales. Visit here  amazon-artemorbid

Melting Rot is a grindcore band from Aurora IL. Formed in 2017 and have released two EPs, A split and a Full Length. The photo gallery featured here are photos taken at Reggies on August 14 2023 as part of Sacramentum tour coming thru Chicago. The band played second on the bill. Photos were captured with Sony A6300 and Canon 50mm FD lens. They were then edited using lightroom with a few adjustments. There is also some short footage of their music featured below.  The weather was harsh as the show time approached several storms began to roll in and made it difficult for travel. Regardless of the rain which came down hard, many trooped it out and were there in time to see the performances. Each band played a short set to accommodate for time. The show was seventeen plus and the venue wanted to make sure not to run late. Everything ran very smoothly without any issues and all the bands brought their best to the stage.  I used PowerDirector to edit the video and audio. Audio was a...