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...

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...

 Today, apocalyptic doom cult Rigor Sardonicous premiere the new track " Caelum Ardere Vidistis " at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's long-awaited seventh album, Praeparet Bellum, set for international release on January 23rd, 2023 via Memento Mori. Hear Rigor Sardonicous' "Caelum Ardere Vidistis" in its entirety exclusively HERE. True purveyors of aural torment, Rigor Sardonicous are one of the cultest bands of the American death metal underground. Formed in 1988, the long-standing duo of bassist Glenn Hampton and vocalist/guitarist Joseph Fogarazzo remain one of the darkest and creepiest bands calling "death metal" home. Aided by their ever-trustworthy drum-machine, Rigor Sardonicous are utterly lifeless and excruciatingly slow, almost daring the listener to find any "fun" in their all-devouring void of inertia. You could almost qualify their music(k) as doom-death,...

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. We are basically a guitar / drums / bass trio coming from Bilbao, Basque Country. A formerly heavily industrialized and nowadays service-focused little city located in Northern Iberian peninsula, 120 km from the "French" border. We started back in 2016 and have two releases till date: Conteiner EP (2018) and Light Demolator (2022). All of us have been involved in the underground music circuit for 20+ years: playing in bands, booking DIY gigs, doing some occasional artwork for gig posters and albums... 2- Light Demolator is the band's debut full album, how long did it take to write? The album composition began in 2019. So it's been almost a couple of years until we entered the recording studio. The pandemic situation, and its consequent lack of live activity in that perio...

To my readers please give a warm welcome to Deimoon!!! 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? Deimoon are two people – Chag and P.T. – playing music which could be described as kind of Doom & Gothic Metal with other influences. We are truly European band – Chag is located in East France, P.T. is Polish located in Germany. 2- The Nocturnes - First Act: The Hour of Wrath is the band's debut album, how long did it take to write? Our first EP is 4 track long. I took us some 5 to 6 months to have them written. Recording and production took some time as well. We are in two different locations which makes it a bit difficult but we manage. 3 - What musical influence inspires the bands compositions? Our music is highly inspired by British Doom Metal of the 90s but not only. In our music we combine also different elements from electronics ...

  photo by Cindy Tang Watch TUSCOMA’s “The Importance Of Being Vogue” HERE .   Wellington, New Zealand black/avant metal trio TUSCOMA will issue their third album, Gu-cci, in late June through Landmine Records, the label formed by members of Blindfolded And Led To The Woods. With the record’s release date closing in, the band presents “The Importance Of Being Vogue” through an official video, which today makes its premiere through Decibel Magazine.   TUSCOMA’s Gu-cci was recorded by Evan Pope at Studio 11b in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand, mixed by Chris Johnson at Electric Bunker in Boston, Massachusetts, mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York, and completed with photography by George L Clarke and design by Kurt and Olga Williams.   The video for Gu-cci’s second single “The Importance Of Being Vogue” was directed and edited by TUSCOMA bassist Craig Leahy, with cinematography handled by Stellar Reid. Guitarist/vocalist Kurt W...

Canadian Doom/Punk/Psychedelic band Slowpoke release a new video - "Live In Argentia" which premiered May 31st via Doomed & Stoned and can be found here: doomedandstoned In the summer of 2021 St. John’s Doom/Punk/Psychedelic band Recorded Slowpoke Live in Argentia with the help of Johnny Rawkhard, Rick Hollett, Glen Tizzard and Rick Tizzard, and Stephany Donahue. Slowpoke Live in Argentia features live performances of “Stony Iommi” and “Slumlord” against the back drop of an abandoned bunker off the Argentia airstrip in Argentia Newfoundland. We hope you enjoy watching it half as much as we enjoyed making it. Special thanks to Arts NL and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for providing funding for this project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music Gear recommendations via Amazon Affiliate  #bands #artemorbid This post contains affiliate links which means if you buy from the links I wi...

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 In was the first half of 2020, in the mid of omnipresent lockdowns spreading all over the world when two DEIMOON masterminds – Chag and P.T. – run into each other in the virtual space of internet. The first was looking for somebody to play a guitar solo on his cover of PARADISE LOST track “I am Nothing”, the latter was hanging around searching for some music soulmates in doom. What followed were two PARADISE LOST covers: “I am Nothing” and an instrumental track “Angel Tears”. Common love to melancholic music as well as special chemistry between the two led to the idea of composing own tunes. The distance of some 700 km was bridged by the technology and the lockdown times were well used. Especially creative were nights of the full moon when the most touching melodies were crafted. The artistic base of DEIMOON is rooted in doom metal of the 90thies, enriched by modern elements and personalized by the influences of the two creators. The EP called “The Nocturnes, First Act: The Hour o...