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 band? Where is it from? Hello  Metal Music Midwest!  Thank you for the opportunity! My name is Cesare and i am both singer and guitarist for crownshard project. The name of the band is "Crownshard" and consists of four elements, guitar and vocals, guitar, bass and drums. We come from a small town near Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. 2- “Awareness” is your new EP, how long did it take to compose it? The songs were written in 2019 immediately after the release of the first EP "crownshard" in a short time. The hardest part was all the production that we personally followed. Unfortunately, due to the covid pandemic and various work commitments and also musical commitments related to other projects, the times were very long. 3- What musical influences inspired the songwriting? The songwriting was mainly inspired by...

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?   Two basses and a drum machine. No Guitar, No BS. MADE IN CHICAGO Where is the band from?   Karen: We’re based out of Chicago, Illinois   What musical influence inspires the band's compositions? Ivan: We listen to a lot of records on the road. Just recently we were listening to Lou Reed ‘Rock n’ Roll Animal’. There’s not one style of music that we draw influences on. You can hear everything from 1960’s teenage tragedy songs like ‘Leader of the Pack’ to modern pop music, lately we've been listening to a lot of the Swans, Godflesh and Devin Townsend to name a few. The group started in 2019, can you tell us how did you meet? Karen: Ivan and I were friends for quite a while. We actually played in the same band, just at different times. We both knew we were serious about music and due to a series of unfortunate ev...

Earsplit PR just sent news and are very excited to announce Evenfall Of The Apocalypse LP From Portland Death Metal Outfit Ascended Dead Nears May Release On 20 Buck Spin. Stream the new track below. Read on!!    “Inverted Ascension” is the incinerating new track from Portland, Oregon-based death metal collective ASCENDED DEAD. The song is the latest precursor of the band’s impending second LP, Evenfall Of The Apocalypse, which is nearing release on 20 Buck Spin.   ASCENDED DEAD returns like abyss winds surging skyward from the ninth circle of Hell. Their first new album since 2017, Evenfall Of The Apocalypse, heralds the dawn of the final march to extermination via barely controlled death metal chaos and form-destroying necromancy.   Uniting guitarist/vocalist Jon Reider, guitarist Ian Lawrence, bassist Kevin Schreutelkamp, and drummer Charlie Koryn, ASCENDED DEAD plays death metal the ancient way with an intrinsically malign pedigree and methodical cruelty sca...

Just got some great news. We have a wealth of music spanning several years here from the band Anthemon. Read on and get excited!  Legendary French symphonic gothic/doom metal band Anthemon released their whole discography first time ever on streaming services via Finnish Inverse Records . The band was formed in January 1997 and they disbanded in 2007. During their active time they successfully released one demo, one EP and three full-length albums and one demo recording 'The Aloïs Demos' which was never officially released because of split up.  Anthemon live picture from 2003 LISTEN Anthemon releases on streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/anthemon   The band members comment:   "More than 15 years after the demise of the band, ANTHEMON can see its music made available again, thanks to the initiative of Inverse Records, without whom we, the former members, probably wouldn't even have thought of offering it to the audience again. We actually failed to realise that th...

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 project? Where is it from? Hello, thank you for the interview opportunity. Dyoxidon is an industrial black/death metal project, whose origins begin roughly in 2009. The aim was to fuse black and death metal with industrial and harsh electronics, in a way that had not previously been done before. Currently, Dyoxidon consists of myself, Host_Revenant, writing all the music and recording it. To date, Dyoxidon has officially released two full-length albums and an EP. Dyoxidon has origins in both Colorado and Wisconsin. I am originally from Milwaukee, but much of the original, raw demo songs were composed in Colorado after moving there as a teenager. Eventually I relocated back to Wisconsin in 2015 and recorded a demo while there, but now I reside in Colorado again. All official Dyoxidon releases have been recorded in Colorado. 2- “The ...

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 band? Where is it from? We are an extreme metal band from Tyrol, Austria, currently promoting our latest and fourth full length album Pyrogenesis, which is out now through MDD records.   2- “Pyrogenesis” is your upcoming LP, how long did it take to compose it? There is no simple answer, because Pyrogenesis contains material and ideas, which have been around for years. However, the most consolidated effort of composing and recording took place between 2019 and 2021.  3- What musical influences inspired the songwriting? All songwriters in the band share a passion for heavy guitar-based music but that’s about it as far as common denominators in our influences go. We have a very divers situation in the band, which I think is an advantage and you can hear it too. There are no specific influences one could point to and say: that...

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 band? Where is it from? Hi everyone, I am Andy, the guitar player of Deimos’ Dawn. Many  thanks for that interview, I will give my best to answer your questions.  We are a German Thrash Metal band, located in Berlin. Everyone of  us is in the business since decades, mostly known our singer Marc  Grewe as former front man of the German Death Metal band Morgoth. We play a mixture of classic and modern Thrash, but clearly, we have  our roots in the classic albums of bands like Slayer, Sodom, Kreator or  Sepultura. 2- “Anthem Of The Lost” is your upcoming LP, how long did it take to  compose it? We wrote the first song during an instrumental session in 2017. That  was a song later called “The 4th Wall”. At that point we have not  decided to form a band, it was just a session among...

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 band? Where is the band from? We're BlindDryve, a four piece hard rock/metal band based in Albuquerque, NM. We've had many lineup changes. Daniel Gonzales (bass) is the founding member of the band. Mitch Palacio (guitar) and David Alvarado (drums) joined the band in 2021. Frankee Romero (guitar) is the flagship guitarist of BlindDryve, and has recently rejoined after a two year hiatus. This is the first time BlindDryve has had a two guitarist lineup. 2- “Space Between” is your upcoming single, how it was composing this song? Mitch started writing "Space Between" at home and brought it to practice. Daniel added a section and then lyrics were written all together with our former vocalist Chris Sandoval, who was the original vocalist. 3- What musical influences inspired the songwriting? There were really no musical i...