Yellowtooth hail from Michigan City, Indiana in the US. They feature a quite common line-up of a drummer, a bassist/vocalist and a guitarist/vocalist, and like many before them, they deliver a solid musical punch to the ear of anyone brave enough to listen to their newest album, Crushed by the Wheels of Progress. The album…
Doom metal has always been a fascinating genre too me. It has the capacity to drag you into a melodic world that transfers you to another plane of existence, while simultaneously having the capacity to validate all the stereotypes people that don’t like the genre will throw in your face. The American band Caveat seems…
Det skal sies at det er mange forskjeller mellom Norge og Australia, alt fra skattepolitikk til prisen av melk, men en ting jeg har langt merke til etter fem år i ‘the land down under’ er at konserter er dyre og det er sjeldent at man ser mange band turnere sammen. Det var derfor med…
Finnish quintet Graveyard Shifters are ready with their debut EP, Brainwashed by Moonshine. It is a five track musical journey into a world where punk, hardcore and fast-paced hard rock inspired riffs all live side by side. Sadly, this interesting sound doesn’t always play well with the vocals, which lean more towards a metalcore-ish sound.…
There is something so amazingly frustrating about heavy metal. It can deliver majestic, generation defining material just as easily as it can deliver contrived, uninspired cliché after cliché. It is a genre that can be painstakingly serious one moment, then childishly playful the next. Not to mention that within this one genre you can have…
Austria’s blackened death metal pioneers Belphegor are back with their 10th studio album, ‘Conjuring the Dead’, a 10 track dose of brutality, death and destruction that extends the wobbly career of this darkened quartet into its third decade. The tracks provide a decent mixture of the different styles seen in black metal and death metal,…
Russia and death metal are hardly two things that are often found in the same sentence. In fact, there’s remarkably few metal bands that seem to make an impact on the world stage coming out of that region in general. At this stage it would be easy to launch into a ten page essay as…
French deathcore quintet The Walking Dead Orchestra are ready with their debut album Architects of Destruction and it’s an understatement to say it could’ve used some work. Aligning themselves with bands that think deathcore’s only purpose is to blend tapping drums with screeching guitars and mumbling vocals, the band offers a 12 track album that…
American thrash giants Death Angel are back with a fresh studio effort in the shape of The Dream Calls for Blood, their follow up to 2010’s Relentless Retribution. The album consists of 10 new tracks, taking the listener on a tour de force through the band’s hard hitting, fast flicking, gut wrenching brand of thrash…
Sticking with their pattern of releasing a new record once every other year, the American quartet Red Fang is back with Whales and Leeches, pulling the title of the album from a track off of their 2009 debut album Red Fang. For the sake of order, 2011’s Murder the Mountains fill the gap between the…
Ever since 2011’s Sons of the North, UK powerhouse Black Spiders have made people across this weary land yearn for more of their mix of hard hitting stoner metal and classic rock. This Savage Land kicks off with a cannon to the face in the shape of ‘Knock you out’. It’s the perfect opener, injecting…
"The Water" is a three track EP by the British Alt. Rock duo Blood Red Shoes. Clocking in at a little under ten minutes, the three tracks offer heavy riffs (think The White Stripes) combined with catchy choruses. The tracks offer some basic variation, with the opening track "Red River" peaking out as the EP’s…
I received an album late last year by a band called Oceans of Night. When I say received, I actually mean to say that I requested this album from the bands headmaster Scott Mosher. This album has been lying in my desk drawer ever since it dropped into my mailbox all those months ago, and…
(…this article is in English…)EVILE slapp sitt tredje album "Five Serpent’s Teeth" på slutten av fjoråret og i den forbindelsen gjorde Eternal Terror to intervjuer med lead gitarist Ol Drake. Det første ble gjort av Matt Coe og dette ble publisert i midten av oktober i fjor. Det andre ble noe forsinket grunnet misforståelser og ting og tang, og kommer først nå. Det er Ole-Kristian Solberg, vår mann på den andre siden av jordkloden som har stått for spørsmålene denne gangen.
Coming at you like a dog out of hell’s gate, the opening track for Strength Approach’s “With or Without You” sets the tone for what is too come: eleven tracks of gut bursting, neck twisting hardcore, worthy of a spot on even the most trend obsessed metal head’s playlist. With a musical landscape reminiscent of…
Med store forventninger og stor konsert lyst hånd i hånd dro jeg den lange veien fra Sandefjord til Drammen, Buskeruds navle, for å se Valentourettes, et band som er satt sammen av tidligere support band til avdøde Joachim ‘Jokke’ Nilsen. De spiller kun Jokke sanger som en hyllest til mannen de spilte med før i…
Hailing from Europe’s forgotten pearl of Malta, Nomad Son delivers heavy, drony guitar driven doom metal with keyboards tastefully added as instrumental relief, helping to drive the music out of predictability and repetition. The band specialises in two very distinct sounds, the first being the classic doom sound of slow, drawn out guitars with steady…
The Ritual is ready with their debut album ‘Beyond the Fragile Horizon’, continuing the always popular sound scape metal meets melody. It starts of with the album’s namesake ‘Beyond the Fragile Horizon’, an instrumental which fades into “Hysteria and Madness”, a song capturing the bands two faces without really living up to its full potential.…
Recorded as part of the ‘Alone I Play’ tour in 2008, ‘Live at the Union Chapel’ gives fans a chance to hear rarely played tracks as well as live favourites performed by the voice of Korn, Jonathan Davis. The supreme recording quality of the album gives very few hints that it is a live album…
The American progressive pioneers in Dream Theater are back with their eleventh full length studio effort, “A Dramatic Turn of Events”. The album opens quite melodically with a double shot of controlled musical episodes in the latest nine track saga by the American five-piece. The instrumental diversity on “On the Back of Angels” and “Build…
The American shredders in Warbringer are finally ready with their third album. Fans have waited over 2 years for the world to be torn asunder and Earth never stood a chance. Pushing the throttle way to the floor, the album hits you harder than three tons of bricks getting thrown in your face. The opening…
With a catchy blend of rock, folk rock and what might best be described as a sophisticated attempt at country G.U.S’ “Save Yourself” captures the listener right off. With lyrics containing clear cut and obvious political statements about a passive aggressive society the title track “Save Yourself” imprints itself as a highlight. The highlight marker…
Expectations is a major part of the music industry. Looking at a album cover, reading the title and artist/band name will in most cases give you some indication to what you might expect from the album. “A Star-Crossed Wasteland” by In This Moment would lead most people to expect some form of progressive metal, perhaps…
In 2010 Italian ‘horror’ metal band Blood Thirsty Demons released their fourth studio album “Misanthropy”; simultaneously they released a re-issue of their 2005 effort “Let The War Begin”, adding on two bonus tracks as extra incentive. Without any knowledge of the quality of the original album, and thereby no knowledge about what is different between…
Without being too stereotypical, Germany has one major affiliation for yours truly when it comes to metal and that is heavy, fast paced metal. Kreator and Tankard carries the torch for those with a taste for speed, with Scorpions and Gamma Ray bringing up the rear with some radio friendly sing a long tracks (there…
Shift is an exciting chapter in the musical underground of Melbourne’s dark, gloomy streets. Having taken on the task of releasing 4 EP’s back to back, “Watch It Burn”, the sequel to 2010’s “Faceless”, marks the halfway mark for these Australian metal heads. The EP delivers six tracks which mixes together aspects of thrash, hardcore…
Iwrestledabearonce, the American metal band with the original name, is back with their second full length effort, “Ruining it for everybody”, the follow-up to 2009’s “It’s All Happening”. Mixing together several musical genres the American five-piece creates a musical landscape fitting somewhere between pop based synth and modern metalcore insanity. With modern day metalcore as…
Funeral has been making dark, mystical funeral doom metal since 1991 and is currently back in the metal spotlight with “To Mourn is a Virtue”. Finding the right words to describe this album proved quite difficult. Attempting to provide the reader a visual image of how Funeral creates a dark, ominous world of death, despair…
(…this article is in English…)Anders Eek er bandgrunnlegger, komponist og trommeslager i det norske doom metal bandet FUNERAL og i forbindelse med at det russiske selskapet Solitude Productions i disse dager slipper "To Mourn is a Virtue", tok Ole-Kristian Solberg, vår skribent på den andre siden av jordkloden tak i Funeral og sendte over noen spørsmål til Anders. Her får du info om denne reutgivelsen, den kommende fullengderen til Funeral og lovnader om mer musikk fra FALLEN.
Being one of the torch-bearers for nu-metal carries with it a lot of expectations and responsibility towards your fans. One of the bands that embraces this responsibility and lives up to every expectation is American nu-metal behemoth Korn. “III: Remember Who You Are” is their 9th studio effort and it’s the follow-up to the 2007…
Tune the instruments, crank the amps, dim the lights, cue the music. Enter the musical mayhem that is Dååth! From the anticipation that creeps inside you at the start of “Genocidal Maniac” to the exploding madness that proceeds it, the self-titled 4th album by the American metal five-piece Dååth is a treat for anyone eager…
Neal Morse, the former front man of Spock’s Beard and lead anchor in the super-group Transatlantic is back with his 17th (!!!) release as a solo artist. The album “Testimony II” is a continuation of the 2003 concept album “Testimony”. The album, dealing with Morse’s new found faith as a born again Christian, consists of…
“Hysterical Psychosis” is a 2010 album by In All Senses, it leads its listeners into a state of calm anticipation with “Last Breath” before “Red Line” awakens its victims in some kind of after life. With rapid, crying guitars, fast paced drums and lead vocals belching out the lyrics in any way possible “Red Line”…
If you are looking for the most delicately orchestrated alternative rock you could ever imagine then look no further. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead do not simply make music, they create it as the guitars mixes casually with the drums while at the same time the voice of lead singer…
Mose Giganticus creates a delicate mixture of synth, rock and metal. After the slow and enduring opening notes of "Last Resort", a song that grows on you the more you listen to it, the album finds an early highlight in "The Left Path". The song has a strong opening riff that follows the song through…
Lesbian Bed Death, originally a sociological term coined by Pepper Schwartz in the 80’s to explain why lesbian couples have less sex than hetrosexual couples, now a fast paced, hard rocking tornado of energy from Stoke-on-Trent. With a start that would kick-start even the most paralyzed rock’n’roller into overdrive, Lesbian Bed Death’s D"esigned By The…
The American metal five-piece by the name of Kylesa has been making heads bang and bodies move since 2001, now they are back for more with their fifth studio album "Spiral Shadow". Trying to live up to the high reviews off last years "Static Tensions" Kylesa has made yet another powerhouse of an album. It…
Following a highly acclaimed debut album Triptykon keeps their fans on edge with 2010’s "Shatter" EP. With an opening track that could soundtrack Armageddon itself, "Shatter" sets the mood with the sound of destruction that’s to come. With a constant riff that’s heavy as lead "I Am The Twilight" gets some of the blood pumping…
With an opening track that screams stadium sing-along, "Time To Burn", the title track promises a certain quality of metal, a type of old fashioned style metal present in classic Maiden, Kiss and Scorpions songs. Therefore my expectations were huge for the continuance of the album. Sadly the next couple of songs scream Bullet For…
Defender’s "Avalanche pour l’amour" (or Avalanche for love in English) might be the most obscure piece of metal ever created. When I first put Defender into my CD player I had zero expectations, zero thoughts about what to expect from a band which hadn’t made music together in over 20 years. From the beginning of…
Several countries have certain qualities you think off whenever you here their names, for me the name Sweden reminds me of metal. Hard, intense straight forward metal. The latest band to add their name to the mix of what is already an impressive country roster is Facebreaker with their new album "Infected". It starts off…
Lock up your daughters and hide your sons, the calamity circus is coming to town and it leaves a trail of chaos and destruction in its path. General Chaos, a band consisting of 5 German metalheads, came together from several other bands to make metal, the end result was "Calamity Circus", a 32 minute long…
When Linkin Park first burst into the music scene world wide with their 2000 album “Hybrid Theory” it was with intensity and a desire to prove themselves. This made them one of my favourite bands at the time, though in later years they have given up on that intensity in search of commercial success. On…
Etter en snau måned uten konserter var det endelig tid igjen for litt harbarka metal som eneste hensikt i livet er å ødelegge flest mulige trommehinner, i hovedfokus på det som skulle bli en fantastisk kveld med metal fant vi legendariske Napalm Death men før britene skulle rive Amplifier scena i filler var det de…
Når jeg så at The Black Dahlia Murder dro med seg Unearth på co-headliner turne i Australia var jeg ikke vanskelig å be, det at den landa midt i eksamen perioden min var bare et pluss fordi det fungerte som en siste motivasjon før jeg begynte med eksamenene mine. Før de to Amerikanske bandene skulle…
Jeg har nå vært i Australia i snaut 4 mnd og 2 av dem har jeg tilbrakt i Perth og på de 2 måndene har jeg ikke vært på noen konserter, men da Converge inntok Perth med Genghis Tron på slep da ble det fort slutt på konserttørken! Stedet var Amplifier Bar, datoen 16. mars.…
Det greske death metal bandet Cerebrum slapp sitt debutalbum "Spectral Extravagance" i august i fjor. Å slippe et debutalbum er normalt ingen stor greie for tiden, siden alle og en hver spiller inn og slipper album i hytt og pine. Men Cerebrum har ingen fast trommis og fikk i stedet med Nile trommis George Kollias på albumet. Ingen dum reserve det og etter at bandet tok kontakt med oss, ble det til at Ole-Kristian sendte over noen spørsmål til bandets gitarist og grunnlegger Jim Touras.
Britiske ANNOTATIONS OF AN AUTOPSY ble dannet for 4 år siden og er for tiden aktuelle med sin andre fullengder kalt "II – The Reign of Darkness". Det kan virke som om gutta fra Lowestoft, en liten by helt på østkysten av England, har truffet spikeren midt på hodet med sin death metal. De skrev under for Nuclear Blast i fjor og fikk en fin prioritering der på nyåret. Eternal Terrors Ole-Kristian Solberg har tatt tak i bandets gitarist Jamie Sweeney for å finne ut litt mer om dette britiske death metal bandet.
I Norges musikkundergrunn finnes det et overflod av band fra alle mulige sjangere, noen bra og noen dårlige. Et av de beste banda innen metal sjangeren som jeg spår en lys framtid er Nilogic. Nilogic er en gruppe med 4 mannfolk fra Sandvika som håper å forbløffe publikum med sin unike individuelle lyd og minneverdige konserter. Jeg fikk muligheten til å slå av en prat med bandets bassit, Isak. Her er hva han svarte på spørsmålene jeg hadde til han.
Etter at AT THE GATES tok en reunion turne i 2008, som også inkluderte Bergen og Hole in the Sky, har bandets gitarist Anders Björler jobbet med å få gitt ut en At The Gates DVD. Denne er nå ferdig og blir å finne i butikkene fra og med februar i år. Det blir en trippel DVD som blant annet inkluderer bandets Wacken reunion gig i 2008, en 130 minutters dokumentar om bandet og haugevis med bilder og tidligere uutgitte ting. Total spilletid er på rundt 5 timer og her kan du lese hva Anders selv sier om DVD-en og andre tanker rundt AT THE GATES.
