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? 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...

  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, 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...

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? In 2015 Liquid Earth was born in a shipping-container on the outskirts of Vienna. The instrumental trio takes you on a journey through psychedelic soundscapes and heavy riffs. So grab a beer and prepare for take-off! After the heavy-psych band released their self-produced debut-album "Slow Grown" in 2018, their single "Teufelsmusik" was released on December the 4th 2020 via "Electric Fire Records". On October the 21st 2022 their second album “Teufelskreis” was released. 2- “Teufelskreis” is the band's new album, how long did it take to write? It took quite some time. From the first song we started writing and the time we held the LP in our hands it took almost 3 long years. A lot of things like the production of our vinyls were delayed due to the pandemic. 3- What mus...

To my readers please give a warm welcome to Anachronistic!! 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, thank you so much for this opportunity.  Anachronistic was born out of the idea to breath life to lyrics that I’ve been writing since around 2015-time frame. My name is Matt and I’m the vocalist and concept guy behind Anachronistic.  I grew up in the United States but have been in Republic of Korea since 2005.  I’m personally a huge hardcore and metal fan starting roughly 20 years ago. I decided to breath life into my lyrics but was on the search for the right idea after getting the support to put my idea into gear from my wife. As a fan of black, death, thrash metal, and old school hardcore, I decided that I would like to attempt to combine black metal ish riffs with a hardcore / punk vocal approach while keeping my real bu...

To my readers please give a warm welcome to Edge Of Insanity from Dallas Texas. Below is their exclusive interview. 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? Edge of Insanity is a Heavy Metal Revival from the era of where Heavy Metal all began. Where is the band from? Dallas Texas 2- Redemption is the band's debut EP, how long did it take to write?   Three months 3- What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? Black Sabbath, Judas Priest. The list truly is endless, but these are the big guns. 4- The group started in 2020, can you tells us how did you all meet? Gary (drummer) founded the band. Originally to be an Ozzy era Black Sabbath tribute band. He found Dan first, Stergas came aboard to be a second guitarist. By the first rehearsal with Stergas, as the sole guitarist, Edge of Insanity was established as an original band. A few months ...

 August 12th release date set; Pre-orders now available for limited-edition colored-vinyl reissue M-Theory Audio will reissue “Harsh Realities” from Pacific Northwest thrashers, BITTER END . The Seattle group's 1990 release – produced by Randy Burns (Megadeth, Kreator, Death, Nuclear Assault) and featuring cover artwork by Jim Warren (Loudness, Lizzy Borden, Heir Apparent) - garnered critical acclaim and a cult following for a thrash metal assault that bludgeoned ears with musical precision that appealed to fans of acts such as Megadeth, Forbidden, and Testament.  Originally released by Metal Blade Records, “Harsh Realities” is set to be reissued on August 12th by M-Theory Audio with a new interior 4-panel layout featuring lyrics, extra flyers and photos and new liner notes from guitarist/vocalist Matt Fox on limited-edition ( 300 copies ) radiation green with orange haze colored-vinyl. Pre-orders for the upcoming reissue are available now at Pre Order bitterendseattle ------...

 Arsantiqva performing live Chicago