#4 Inside the Darkness

Edition for true metalfans

#4†30.05.2019

AMORPHIS IN BOGOTA REVIEW ENSLAVED IN BOGOTA REVIEW AURA NOIR IN BOGOTA REVIEW ISKALD IN BERGEN REVIEW PESTILENCE IN ROME REVIEW STEELFEST REVIEW HELVETIA BLOOD FEST REVIEW News•Reviews•Interviews•Exclusive

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CREW A special thanks to...

Plekvetica.ch and Roland Moeck for provided pics and review (Helvetia Blood Fest) Ole Grung for review and interviews and Zeela Garvik for pics (Iskald/ Skaur/Vinterbris) Luca Lottini for Pestilence review Diego Molina for Aura Noir, Enslaved and Amorphis shows reviews Helmuth Lehner (Belphegor) for his TOTAL support Evgeny-Destroyer Editor-in-chief, design https://www.facebook.com/ evgeny.dubovskoy Mail: destroyerr78@mail.ru WhatsApp: +79180242178

Olga «Blackie» Schneider Editor, interviewer, text corrector https://www.facebook.com/ olga.metalheart Mail: olgaschneider.1997@gmail.com Inst:https://www.instagram.com/blackie_metalheart/

...and especially to these people for the interviews Andy Gillion (Mors Principium Est) Martin Gerloff (Horrizon) Woewrb and Sevoragis (Hatespirit)

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Editor’s brief

Hails to everyone!

This is our forth issue and our webzine is continuing to grow. We decided to concentrate on reviews this time, since festival season is opened. We would like to say our traditional thanks to everyone who helped us and remind you guys that we’re always searching for cooperation with any interesting people and bands. We’re still on fire, and now we have got just incredible inspiration. Stay tuned and remember to contact us. Have a great summer and take everything you can from it!

Sincerely, Olga Schneider, editor

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CONTENT Mors Principium Est Interview with Andy...............8

News from hell..........................................4

Aura Noir in Bogota review.....................36 Enslaved in Bogota review......................40 Amorphis in Bogota review...................44 Pestilence in Rome review...................50 Iskald - Skaur - Vinterbris live at Bergen (interview with Iskald and Vinterbris inside)...............................68 Steelfest, Hyvinkää, Finland..............74 Helvetia Blood Fest in Luzern..........78

Hatespirit Interview with Woewrb and Sevoragis...............12

Horrizon Interview with Martin........16

Best metal releases..............20

Inside The Darkness reviews............86

Metalheads are wait it............90

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World Metal News Tuska Open Air is a hard

rock and heavy metal festival in Helsinki. Celebrating it’s 20th anniversary in 2017, the festival is one of the most established in the scene. With an undeniably rich history of metal bands, Scandinavia has become the unofficial home of the genre, with Tuska acting as it’s Mecca.

Spread across three stages over three days, the festival curates a lineup that balances established stars with young up-and-comers. Suvilahti is a disused power plant to the north-east of Helsinki city centre. Its industrial backdrop perfectly complements the hard edge of Tuska.

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Friday, 28.06.2019: Goatburner Pahan Ikoni Wheel Alien Weaponry Brymir Power Trip Anneke Van Giersbergen Medeia Marko Hietala Cult Of Luna Swallow The Sun Arion Battle Beast Anthrax Dimmu Borgir Amorphis 4

Saturday, 29.06.2019: Sata Kaskelottia Mustan Kuun Lapset Warkings Visions Of Atlantis De Lirium’s Order Loudness Fear Of Domination Maj Karma Stam1na Delain Heilung Lost Society Kvelertak Sick Of It All Opeth Slayer

Sunday, 30.06.2019: Kaiser I Revolt Dark Sarah Palehørse Rytmihäiriö Jinjer Leverage Halestorm Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes Behemoth The Hellacopters

This year sees DARK TROLL FESTIVAL celebrating its 10th anniversary.

What distinguishes this festival from others?

It’s atmosphere: Even if you’ve never been here before, the festival feels like home. This is one of the best festivals in Germany. DARK TROLL FESTIVAL always has an excellent line-up of Black, Folk and Pagan Metal bands from both Germany and abroad. Being the 10 year anniversary, DARK TROLL FESTIVAL will be celebrating with many of the favourite bands from recent years.

THURSDAY May 30 Time Band Barbarossa Pipes & Drums 14:00-14:40 Ad Cinerem 15:05-15:45 Lucifer’s Child 16:10-16:55 Lagerstein 17:20-18:10 Sear Bliss 18:35-19:25 Odroerir 19:50-20:50 Sun Of The Sleepless 21:15-22:15 Finsterforst 22:40-23:40 1914 00:05-01:05

FRIDAY May 31 Time Band Isgalder 14:00-14:40 Mord’A’Stigmata 15:0515:45 Valkenrag 16:10-16:55 Nodfyr 17:20-18:05 Waylander 18:30-19:20 Waldgeflüster 19:4520:35 Saor 21:00-22:00 Kampfar 22:25-23:35 Sarkrista 00:00-01:00

SATURDAY June 1 Time Band Vera Lux 14:00-14:40 Tulsadoom 15:05-15:45 Sol Sistere 16:10-16:55 Romuvos 17:20-18:05 Himinbjorg 18:30-19:20 Fejd 19:45-20:45 Winterfylleth 21:10-22:10 Mgła 22:35-23:35 Enisum 00:00-01:00

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World Metal News

The 22nd edition will take place at the Freilichtbühne Friesack again.

After many years of celebrating the event during the first weekend of July, organizers will have to break with this tradition and move with the date to the last weekend in June (27.6.-29.6.2019).

There are various reasons why, the most important reason is that there will be more free accomodations around Friesack.

Organizers are already in negotations with bands, expect the first announcements soon.

The ticket price will be the same as in the last years.

Complete Line up: ALBEZ DUZ (Germany) ARS VENEFICIUM (Belgium) AZAGHAL (Finland) CARONTE (Italy) CURSE UPON A PRYER (Finland) DRUDENSANG (Germany) FRANTIC AGGRESSOR (Germany) HELLFIRE DEATHCULT (USA) KRATER (Germany) KYY (Finland) NASHMEH (Persia) NEKKROFUKK (Poland)

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NEMESIS SOPOR (Germany) NOCTURNAL BREED (Norway) PANZERFAUST (Canada) PESTKRAFT (Spain) POSSESSION (Belgium) SABATHAN (Belgium) SAMMATH (NL) SISYPHEAN (Lithuania) TAAKE (Norway) THE COMMITTEE (International) TOTALSELFHATRED (Finland) UADA (USA) URN (Finland)

THE FESTIVAL Gamrocken, which is arranged by Medborgarskolan, takes place 31/5-1/6 2019 in Grängesbergs Folkets Park.

The festival area is the second oldest Folk Park in Sweden. Gamrocken is currently the only Swedish 2-day metal festival held outdoors entirely focusing on death metal, black metal, grindcore and similar harder styles of music. A total of 30 national and international acts on 3 stages during 2 days!

THE STAGES Stage 1 (mainstage outdoors) This is the largest stage in the park. Outdoors but everything, including the audience, is protected by a huge roof. Stage 2 (mainstage indoors) Indoor stage located in a large rotunda. Stage 3 (small stage outdoors) Outdoor stage located in the park.

Final list of all 30 confirmed bands for Gamrocken 2019: HYPOCRISY (swe) UNLEASHED (swe) - exclusive Swedish festival show ASPHYX (nl) - exclusive Swedish festival show VOMITORY (swe) - only Swedish festival 2019 AZARATH (pol) VALKYRJA (swe) - rare Swedish festival show BIRDFLESH (swe) EVIL INVADERS (bel) GODS FORSAKEN (swe/nl) - first ever Swedish show ENDEZZMA (nor) - first ever Swedish show THIS ENDING (swe) A CANOROUS QUINTET (swe) FRANTIC AMBER (swe) INTERMENT (swe) LIK (swe) NIGHT CROWNED (swe)

FERAL (swe) UNCANNY (swe) - exclusive show, first since 2008 DEFIATORY (swe) OMNIZIDE (swe) MEADOWS END (swe) OF FIRE (swe) PATRONYMICON (swe) WRETCHED FATE (swe) MARA (swe) KARMANJAKA (swe) HORNDAL (swe) INFERIOR (swe) FUEL FOR NIGHTMARES (swe) FAYENNE (swe)

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Mors Principium Est• Melodic Death Metal from Finland

Interview with Andy

Interview by Olga Schneider

The beginning of this year was really intense for you, and of course I mean 70000 Tons of Metal. Tell us a little bit more about this experience.

partying in international waters for 4 days… what could possibly go wrong? I vlogged the last two times we played so you can check out the

ration between the bands and the fans, everyone is just there to drink and party. Every band plays twice. We had the pleasure of opening the whole

Melody is the most important part of music 70000 Tons of Metal is insane and most likely my favourite “festival” to play. 5000 metalheads 8

experience on YouTube.

It’s a really bizarre concept but it somehow just works. There’s no sepa-

event this year but our second set was at 4am on the pool deck which was quite an experience!

Since festival season is coming, are you planning any live shows for upcoming summer?

We have only one booked so far - which I’m leaving for any moment (Ragnarok Festival in Germany) - but I guess that’s not technically a summer show. It’s a real shame but so far we don’t have anything else booked.

There are talks about various tours but we can’t say too much on that just yet!

We haven’t heard from you so much since 2017.

How does the band feel now and what do we have to wait from you in the near future? Probably another portion of new material?

I’m working on writing a new album. It’s getting there, but there’s still a way to go. I think we’re hoping to get a new album out for everyone in 2020.

It’s an interesting one because it will be our 7th album, but for me as the main composer it will be my 4th. I really felt like the first album I wrote for the band (… and Death Said Live) back in 2012 was just

trying to keep the band together and pushing forward with new material, but keeping the same signature sound. The follow-up album, “Dawn of the 5th Era” was very much just polishing that sound. Then with

our latest release, “Embers of a Dying World”, it was about keeping the sound, but also trying to give a bit more and evolve a little to give the fans something new and not just to write the same album over and over again. I really have no idea what this next album will sound like because I feel like we will need to evolve that sound once again in order to not keep writing the same riffs etc.

You joined the band in 2011. Was it easy to get into a quite famous band which, however, was being reorganized at that time? What kind of difficulties did you have to meet during that process?

I found it easy to get along with the guys and we made friends quickly which was great.

They flew me to Finland to meet them and it just took off from there. I did, however, find writing that first album very difficult.

The main reason was that I had to adopt the style of the last song-writer who had left the band.

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I had to really study the band’s sound and make it my own and I was very hard on myself to get it right. I guess it paid off because the response for that album was incredible and there wasn’t a backlash from fans. Peo-

table. It’s only natural when someone else takes over writing duties that the style will change a little. I’ve always been able to compose in all kinds of different genres – I do that for a job when I’m scoring films or com-

about your experience in your previous projects?

I’ve been playing in bands and writing music since I was 10 years old. Before joining Mors Principium Est I was in a band called “Shadow Law” in The UK. We

ple were just happy that the band hadn’t given up.

How do you feel your personal influence on the band, on its sound, atmosphere etc? Can you affirm that you brought something completely new? If yes, what is that?

While it was really important to retain the band’s familiar sound, I definitely think I brought something new to the

posing for video games or various projects, so it wasn’t so hard to adopt the band’s sound and make it my own. But I do think I’ve introduced a bit more orchestration and a lot of inspiration from places that metal composers usually wouldn’t take inspiration from. I think I have quite a classical approach to composing.

Tell us a little bit more

made a great album which I recently re-released onto Spotify, but unfortunately, at the time that we tried to release it, the band just fell apart and it wasn’t to be. Mors Principium Est came at the perfect time for me really.

What’s your opinion about Finnish school of Melodic Death Metal and its tendencies nowadays?

I think The Finnish know exactly what they’re doing when it comes to Melodic Death Metal! It’s funny to think that I’m writing this music and I’m British - in fact I recall our old drummer, Mikko, asking how it is possible that a British guy can write this stuff haha.

There’s plenty of great Finnish melodeath bands out there for sure and I’m always drawing inspiration from them.

Since Mors Principium Est sounds very different from all these bands, what did spare the band from being like a lot of them?

I think our sound is unique but it’s hard to say why. I think it’s probably mostly down to the amount of melody we incorporate into the music. It’s always been that way and I personally always write with a

very melody-focussed attitude. I think a lot of metal bands are almost

afraid to do so, but at the end of the day, melody is the most important part of music.

A bit trivial question, but what bands inspire you to

create your own music?

I listen to such a diverse range of genres and bands that my inspiration comes from all over the place – it’s really hard to pin down. I guess Symphony X, At The Gates, Children of Bodom, Protest The Hero, Dream Theater – any band with great melodies and guitar playing.

A traditional question. What would you like to say to those who are reading this interview right now?

I would like to say thank you for your interest in the band and all your support, whether it’s coming to shows, buying merch, or just listening to our music. You guys are keeping the band going and at this time in the music industry we need as much support as we can get!

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Hatespirit - Black Metal from Oulu , Finland

Interview with Woewrb and Sevoragis

Interview by Olga Schneider

Woewrb, you are the leader and the founder of Black Metal band Hatespirit. Tell our readers about your project. What or who influenced your decision to create the band?

Woewrb: Hails.

Hatespirit is a Black Metal band from northern Finland and so far we have released two full-length albums. I would describe our materials with the words such as raw, wild and hateful. Our lyrical emphasis being more on nature than religious or occult themes. To put it simply, the original source of inspiration for establishing this

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band, could be said to be the call to decide to record this album? of the wild nature in my heart and Maybe you did not wish to hurthe music of bands such as Ild- ry and worked all details that the album sounded jarn, Vordr, Ă˜delegger, ideally or you just did not want to hurry with realization of the first work?

W: The music and lyrics Darkthrone, Burzum, Gorgoroth for the first album were writetc. In addition I just wanted ten during the years 2013-2015. another way to express myself. Still, we were not that active as a The first album Blood & Po- band in those years, until Kalmo etry was out only 3 years lat- joined Hatespirit as our vocalist er after the band’s formation. in the autumn 2015 and soon afWhy did you take so much time ter that we recorded our songs.

sked a ly s u io c s n o c r e v e n e I hav rld to be born into this wo

The original idea was to release these materials as our first demo cassette but when Altare Productions suggested to do a limited vinyl release, we just couldn’t refuse this offer. All our recordings have been spontaneous efforts (what comes to the sound quality and how the songs are recorded) than something too much planned in advance.

Did you have some experience with metal bands before creation of Hatespirit?

W: There has been other bands and releases in which I have been involved, but because they do not have anything to do with this band.

I see no reason to advertise them in this context. I hope you understand my point?

Not so long ago, at the end of 2018, the second album Ageless Wilderness was released. What is the concept of this album and whether it differs from the first album as in the plan of musical component and in lyrics?

W: I wouldn’t say it’s a concept album, but you can find a thin red line that connects the lyrics to one another and finally to the album’s title. Ageless, because the law of nature is creation through destruction and wilderness is a symbol for the different aspects of nature that modern man has tried to deny in himself and the world for too long because of a judeo-christian influence. The lyrical themes of the “Ageless Wilderness” album are about things like natural mys-

ticism, wilderness, barbarism, forests, winter, blood, poetry (of the fallen warlord), nostalgia, the wild hunt, intoxicants, revenge and transcendence. I would say that this new album is a bit tighter and more thoughtout package in every way.

You have two active bands - Hatespirit and Serpentfyre.

They formed approximate-

ly at the same time. Tell us whether they have a similarity and in what they differ from each other? Kind of you characterized your bands?

W: I’d say that the concept of Hatespirit is more about the extensive and gloomy forests, and all that is hidden there. In the darkness... In our subconscious...

In our blood and heritage... It’s also about our connection with the Earth and its cycles and what we are as men. Where-

as the concept of Serpentfyre is more about that specific moment when the wanderer raises his gaze into the eternal nightsky and beholds the moon and the stars in all of their splendor and feels a connection with something greater than himself. However, these are two different bands and created for different purposes in mind...

In your texts it is heard and is obviously allocated the misanthropy. What is it, a tribute to a genre or it is close personally to you as the author?

W: I can only speak for myself. I don’t look at this world in the same way as most people do. Still, I would say that it’s only a natural reaction to living in a totally fucked up world. I have never consciously asked to be born into this world. The masses of flesh are enormous but never knowing the true spirit. It’s not only a tribute. I have had these kind of thoughts already years ago. I have just channeled them into my art because I think going to prison is not that interesting.

My favorite author what comes to misanthropy and anti-life attitudes is the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran (1911-1995).

I would recommend his books for all those who are interested.

Sevoragis: Mankind just would do a whole lot better without the majority of current human populace on this Tellus.

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Hatespirit - Black Metal from Oulu , Finland

Way too many of us are sleeping a deep deep slumber with no recollection of the origins of our enslavement and in most incarnated individuals the spark for man`s true evolution just doesn`t seem to ignite and will not for a long long time, if ever.

As advertising we would like to specify reference for metalheads where it is possible to chack out your creativity and to buy your albums (both bands). Show us your references with comments if it is possible.

W: Both Hatespirit albums are raw and hateful black metal with a punkish vibe and the tracks are shorter and more straightforward (with a few exceptions). Serpentfyre is traditional black metal and has so far released “Of Darkness & True Light” demo tape, “Bestial Mysticism” full-length album, split EP with Dolentia and “Illuminating Ruin” EP is the latest release from 2017.

All support to these two fine record labels: Altare Productions https://altare.pt/ and Nykta Records https://nykta.gr/ 8. Is it pleasant to you to perform in clubs, to participate in festivals? Tell about the most interesting of your gigs.

Whether gives to you a live performance certain experience for further improvement?

W: With Hatespirit we have

played three live gigs so far and they have been successful in my opinion. I think it all depends

on how you see these live situations and what doing them gives to you personally. It’s the attitude that determines. Of course the more you play live should affect your performances, but as we have seen with some bands this is not always the case. There are always some stories to tell even if you don’t go that far. Like having a free ride home by the local cops, after having ring too many doorbells on your way to backstage which was already closed... Ha ha!

S: Live performances gives an unique experience. Through playing live for an audience you get to channel your intentions and that driving inner/outer Force which enables and makes you do and play this kind of

music in the first place. Whether the audience is receptive or not, it doesn`t matter. Everything always has it`s effect. If even one person got some right kind of stimulus from the performance, it was not a gig wasted.

Just as long everyone keeps true to themselves and play the gig as their own personal “ritual”.

As for live settings a small indoor venue is always best for Black Metal, where the artist and audience are up close. Daytime gigs in large outdoor stages just ruin the mood.

Did you perform outside Finland and whether is in plans to hold a tour, maybe as a support band of some your favorite band?

W: No tours or gigs abroad up to this point, but the goal is to play elsewhere than just in Finland in the future. At the moment we are re-creating our line-up of the band.

Because our latest guitarist left the band some time ago.

What can you tell about development of Black Metal scene in Finland? Is it possible to claim that now we have a certain surge of interest to bands of Black metal as locally, and all over the world in general?

W: It seems to be striving forward and there are many new releases coming, but I am not too interested in any scenes.

I think most people are more interested about buying some limited “cult” vinyl releases than they are interested in anything else related to BM. Because it’s just “good” music for them.

S: Never have been much of a “scene-man”. New bands and music keep churning out from all over the world and some new gems are to be found every once a while. Black Metal is still quite marginal amongst the music listeners of the world. It is so and probably should be so (because of referring to question 6 here). Only few get the true idea behind all this.

Finland has had it`s share of great BM bands for a long time and seems still to be one of the largest contributors, even though small in geographic and demographic scale.

But as everywhere, music has it`s same potential to change or not to change humans as before.

It´s still the inner Lives of every individual and how they are spent that counts.

It’s difficult to compare and put in one row modern creativity and classics of a genre, but nevertheless if to try what from new albums in your opinion is worthy this row?

W: I can mention some of my favourites. Warloghe “Womb of Pestilence”, Vordr all fulllength albums, Phlegein “De-

votion”, Numinous album and EP, Satanic Warmaster “Carelian Satanist Madness”. There are others, but these came to mind first...

S: Some great stuff has come from the germanic neofolk artists, such as Forndom and Wardruna. Highly recommended. As for metal music Finland`s Fatherland and Horns from CHILE have left a lasting impression. Deletere from

Canada left some tingles. Not black metal, but the synthwave genre and the music like of Xurious have really hit the spot.

I hope, both of your bands are long-term projects and you still will please us exit of new albums in near future. What in general plans for the future?

W: The plan is to finalize the new Serpentfyre album and get it released next. I have also start-

ed writing the third Hatespirit album and before that one EP release should be out sooner or later. Also to play more live gigs and to follow the true path, that is found only in the self, unique.

S: Keep doing what the Great Unknown bestows upon as.

The spiral of time unravels itself constantly and only it will tell the future. A new string player is needed for Hatespirit.

The next Serpentfyre album is being recorded and hopefully released this year.

At the end of interview your words for our readers.

W: Thanks for the interview. I will end this with a quote from our latest album: “Ageless wilderness The realm of passion Of ancient fire And the hidden folk Of the rocks The chill breath Of the north wind Under the stars and moon Gazing into the endless night Spit on the face of humanity” S: Thanks for the interest.

Horrizon - Melodic Death Metal from Germany

Interview with Martin

Interview by Olga Schneider

Ok, let’s begin with your distant past. When the band was just formed, you were inspired by bands like Hammerfall and Amon Amarth, b u t however y o u created your own s o u n d which as we can hear hasn’t any influence of those bands. How did

you move away from that?

When we started in 2005, we first covered “The Dragon Lies Bleeding” (HammerFall) and “Death

we used to be really bad musicians looking for songs that we liked and we were able to cover. :-D On our first album “Time for Revenge”, I can only find one single riff that reminds me of Hammerfall: the chorus of “Journey to Valhall” is quite similar to the beginning of Hammerfall’s “Renegade”.

My personal experience is that MDM is a type of Metal that really works on stage.

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in Fire” (Amon Amarth).

I guess the only reason for doing that was the fact that

But that’s it.

But as you said, I also don’t think that we’ve ever sounded like one of the bands. When we released “Time for Revenge”, our first album, lots of online magazines claimed the opposite, but I think they just read the band info - that said we had covered songs of the bands before - instead of listening to the album.

As we can see, you took quite a lot of time to get your first album released.

What was it connected to?

Well, we founded Horrizon in 2005, but I have to admit that our skills regarding our instruments were not that good. On the one hand, I was somehow able to write songs, but on the other hand, I really sucked at playing the songs properly.

It just took time to reach the level that was necessary for me to record the songs the way I wanted them to sound. When Peter, our guitarist, joined the band in 2008, we became much more professional and I had become a much better guitarist, because I had

joined a Tech-Death Metal band as a guitarist, which had improved my skills a lot. Peter had his own home studio and he was (and still is) very good at composing keyboard lines

for our songs, which made all the songs sound way better.

His influence was very important for the development of Horrizon. When all the songs for the first album were written also Peter’s songs -, we started recording them, but as our former singer Marco had left the band, I decided to record the vocals for the album. Later, I decided to become the singer of the band and look for a new guitarist, because I really couldn’t get along with playing and singing simultaneously. I still can’t. :-D Well, all these circumstances caused the delay, but I am happy it took so long. Otherwise, the result wouldn’t have been the same.

What kind of difficulties have you ever met as a band which was created at the time when Metal was already formed so well with all those genres and popularized?

It’s always been very hard to reach a certain popularity which is, for sure, due to the fact that there are thousands of bands in each country. That’s one of the downsides of the internet.

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We hope that our new label Massacre Records and the release of our third album will help us become more popular and give us the chance to play at bigger festivals or bigger stages in general.

Now your new album is on its way. How is it going with that at the moment?

At what phase is creative process being right now?

We are almost done with everything. All instruments and vocals are recorded and the instruments are also mixed and mastered.

All that is left is the mixing of the vocals and the final mastering.

We might finish the mastering by the beginning of June. “World

of Pain” will probably be released in September or November of 2019.

Can you probably do some spoilers and tell us a little bit about the upcoming album? What it will be dedicated to? How can you characterize the sound etc?

The album is sort of a concept album, so the title “World of Pain” somehow indicates what the lyrics are about. I don’t want to reveal more details about the lyrics right now. Regarding the sound, I can say that “World of Pain” is simply better than our previous albums.

Unlike the last times, we only recorded our instruments at Peter’s home studio,

but this time, we mixed/ mastered the songs at the studio of the guy who was our keyboarder before we started using keyboard backing tracks instead. He does a great job!

You’re planning several gigs this summer as we can notice. Will you play only your old stuff live or you’ll also show some of your new material to the world?

Yes, after more than a year, we are finally back. Last year, Josh (guitar) and Felix (drums) left the band, but fortunately, we could find new members who live close to Peter’s home town. Before, every member lived very far away from each other and our rehearsal room was in the middle of nowhere.

We’re glad this has changed. Franz, our bass guitarist, is the only one who needs more than two hours to get to the rehearsal room. :-D At our first show in Worms on May 5, we already played three songs from “World of Pain”. We will also play them at our next show in Koblenz on June 1. Our goal is to play at least five of the new songs at the next shows in September.

As for Melodic Death Metal in general... Sweden was the country that gave birth to this genre, developed it and made it popular. Nowadays MDM is also being developed so well in Germany, it’s getting more and more bands in Germany and each of them has its absolutely unique sound. What do you think, what was the reason for that tendency?

I don’t know why this is happening, but my personal experience is that MDM is a type of Metal that really works on stage. It’s melodious and straightforward, but still hard. There are lots of traditional or Brutal Death Metal bands that have to struggle with the fact that the audience doesn’t really understand what is being played. When riffs are too fast

and not melodious at the same time, it’s quite hard to figure out a certain song structure, especially live. That’s at least what I experienced with my Tech-Death band, and what I can see at concerts of smaller Death Metal bands.

Our audience was always watching us, but I didn’t have the feeling that they really enjoyed watching us, because it was really hard to figure out what’s “happening” on stage.

Playing shows with Horrizon is much more fun, as you can see most people bang their heads or even freak out. It’s a totally different experience.

Don’t get me wrong! I really

like Death Metal. It’s definitely not worse than MDM. I‘m just saying that I have the impression that „normal“ Death Metal works way better on stage when the audience knows the songs that are being played, which makes it harder for unknown bands of that genre.

How did your sources of inspiration change with time?

Honestly, I can’t even tell what sources of inspiration I have. Since I listen to many types of Metal, I think it’s simply a mixture of many bands I listen to. By the way, I would never name bands again when being asked about our inspiration/ influences. Do you remember what I told you about the reviews for our first album? :D A traditional question.

What would you like to say to our readers and crew?

We really appreciate your support and it’s a great honor for us to have fans all around the world who listen to our music. We really hope to get the opportunity to see all of you guys at our concerts and have some drinks with you! :-)

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Comprising 12 monstrous heavy metal anthems that bulge with irresistible melodic hooks, bursts of thrilling savagery and moments of spinetingling dynamic drama, Berserker is the result of the huge surge of creativity and a collective desire to keep moving forward with no compromise.

Berserker is an album full of trademark Amon Amarth.

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Line-up: Johan Hegg - Vocals Ted Lundström - Bass Johan Söderberg - Guitar Olavi Mikkonen - Guitar Jocke Wallgren - Drums

You can listen all album here:

Amon Amarth released their 11th full-length Berserker May 3, 2019.

Tracklist: 1. Fafner’s Gold 2. Crack the Sky 3. Mjölner, Hammer of Thor 4. Shield Wall 5. Valkyria 6. Raven’s Flight 7. Ironside 8. The Berserker at Stamford Bridge 9. When Once Again We Can Set Our Sails 10. Skoll and Hati 11. Wings of Eagles 12. Into the Dark

Månegarm is a Swedish Viking/ pagan metal band that started up in Norrtälje, Sweden, in the end of 1995. Being one of the first bands to incorporate traditional instruments like violin and flute but also female vocals in the music, Månegarm is a pioneer and one of the longest lasting band in its genre.

On Fornaldarsagor, Månegarm invite us to a journey through long-lost ancient times. Eight new tracks breathe new life into sagas and tales from a pre-christianized, pagan era that made Scandinavia into what it is today – and those sagas have now been

wrapped in exciting viking metal.

Line-up Erik Grawsiö - Vocals, bass Markus Andé - Guitar Jacob Hallegren - Drumms Fornaldarsagor released April 26,

2019.

Tracklist 1. Sveablotet 2. Hervors arv 3. Slaget vid Bråvalla 4. Ett sista farväl 5. Spjutbädden 6. Tvenne drömmar 7.

Krakes sista strid 8. Dödskvädet

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Lineup Jeff Becerra - Vocals, Songwriting, Lyrics Emilio Marquez - Drums Daniel Gonzalez - Guitars, Songwriting Robert Cardenas - Bass, Vocals (backing) Claudeous Creamer - Guitars With the majority of the album written by founder Jeff Becerra and his partner in crime Guitarist Daniel Gonzalez, the new tracks manage to hang on to what all metal-heads hope for with their favorite artists; a consistent sound.

It is a guarantee that fans will know immediately upon listening to “Revelations Of Oblivion� that this is in fact, the familiar sound of POSSESSED. Crawling out of a pale inferno of creation, life, loss, and injury, the ensemble has returned to reignite the flame of true Death Metal.

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REVELATIONS OF OBLIVION Tracklist 1. Chant of Oblivion 2. No More Room in Hell 3. Dominion

4. Damned 5. Demon 6. Abandoned 7. Shadowcult 8. Omen 9. Ritual 10. The Word 11. Graven 12. Temple of Samael Revelations of Oblivion out May 10, 2019

OFIDIANS MANIFEST ‘Ofidians Manifest’ represents Kampfar anno 2019. 25 years on from their foundation, only willing to release new music if they felt it would surpass all they had done before, it is a condensation of the immense struggles of the last few years.

Everything that has been hidden behind the music and the live performances is laid bare, though told in the only way the band can portray themselves, through songs. It is immensely honest yet wrapped in their own folklore, the snake tongues splitting every truth into two deeper truths, every word sung dominated by the weight of all those sung before.

Tracklist 1. Syndefall 2. Ophidian 3. Dominans 4. Natt 5. Eremitt 6. Skamløs!

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Lineup Dolk - Drums, Vocals Jon Bakker - Bass Ask - Drums, Vocals Ole Hartvigsen - Guitars Ofidians manifest out May 3, 2019

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Latest releases Tracklist 1 Cathedrals of Mourning 2. The Faustian Alchemist 3. Blackened Call 4. Acheron 5. Nam Gloria Lucifer 6. The Crowned Daughters 7. Dark Mother 8. The Werewolf Bride 9. Pantheon of the Nightside Gods 10. Nuns in the Purgatory 11. Maleficarum

PANTHEON OF THE NIGHTSIDE GODS With nine tracks and a Hailing from running time of 53 minutes, the abysmal forests of the mystic North, the album boasts a wellBelzebubs have with progressive twists and matured band that is not afraid possessed a stealthy cinematic soundscapes. to explore hitherto unknown cult status throughout Accompanied by a new depths. Mixed & mastered by their existence. drummer and a three-record- industry legend Dan Swanรถ, Originally summoned deal with Century Media, Pantheon of the Nightside Gods together in 2002, the Belzebubs finally feels fit to also features a fierce roster band has succeeded in take on the (under)world. of guest talent, including the creating a thrilling blend The band originates from likes of Desibelius, ICS Vortex, of melodic black metal, the web comic of the same Skvllcraft <and more. guttural growls and name by Finnish artist J.P. vivid solos, forged Ahonen.

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With a career spanning over 20 years, six full-length albums released and hundreds of live gigs performed worldwide, Stormlord is one of Italy’s most celebrated extreme metal bands.

The year 2000 saw Stormlord moving to Scarlet Records for the release of their “The Curse of Medusa” EP, and, along with 2001’s second album “At the Gates of Utopia”, these established Stormlord as top metal contenders across the Italian boot, earning them appearances at many major festivals in the process.

The sixth album, «Far», has

been released on May 24th 2019, anticipated by the successful single «Leviathan», and sees the band’s triumphant return to Scarlet Records.

Tracklist 1. Leviathan 2. Mediterranea 3. Far 4. Sherden 5. Crimson 6. Cimmeria

7. Invictus 8. Romulus 9. Vacuna 10. Levante Lineup Cristiano Borchi Vocals Francesco Bucci - Bass, Vocals (choirs, backing) David Folchitto - Drums Gianpaolo Caprino Guitars, Keyboards, Effects, Vocals (clean, backing) Andrea Angelini Guitars Riccardo Studer Keyboards

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Germany’s Bethlehem have shaped extreme music for the last 28 years as one of the forerunners of socalled depressive or suicidal black metal.

After an experimental phase, the group continued on its abrasive path with «Bethlehem» (2016), introducing a new line-up with front w o m a n Onielar (Darkened N o c t u r n Slaughtercult), whose punishing p e r f o r mance have,

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by now, become another trademark next to founding member Jürgen Bartsch’s unfailing inventiveness.

«Lebe dich leer» («empty yourself by living») bears witness to that: Each song differs from the next, telling its own story while weaving together a sonic cloth of sheer terror. Album released May 17, 2019.

Tracklist 1. Verdaut in klaffenden Mäulern 2. Niemals mehr leben 3. Ich weiß ich bin keins 4. Wo alte Spinnen brüten 5. Dämonisch im ersten Blitz 6.

An gestrandeten Sinnen 7. Ode an die obszöne Scheußlichkeit 8. Aberwitzige InfraschallRitualistik 9. Bartzitter Flumgerenne Line-up: Jürgen Bartsch - Bass, Keyboards, Electronics Florian «Torturer» Klein - Drums Karzov - Guitars Onielar - Vocals

Italian grandmasters of orchestral death metal Fleshgod Apocalypse are finding spontaneity rewarding on new album, Veleno. Over the past four albums – previous album, King (2016), floored fans and critics alike – the Francesco Paoli-led trio have planned every step, discussed every note, and ensured every salutation to Paganini, Bach, and Mozart was met with an equally brutal death metal equivalent. On Veleno, which is Italian for ‘venom,’ they needed a change of approach (and pace).

To achieve this, Fleshgod Apocalypse distanced themselves from distraction – lineup changes, tours, and the frustrations of dayto-day life – unboxed the songwriting process, and let the inspiration flow

freely. On Veleno, they’ve matured, blended more efficiently their musical vision, and walked away with 11

songs that sound like a new band with an insatiable prey drive.

Tracklist 1. Fury 2. Carnivorous Lamb 3. Sugar 4. The Praying Mantis’ Strategy 5. Monnalisa 6. Worship and Forget 7. Absinthe 8. Pissing on the Score 9. The Day We’ll Be Gone 10. Embrace the Oblivion 11. Veleno Lineup Paolo Rossi - Bass, Vocals (clean) Francesco Paoli - Vocals, Guitars, Drums Francesco Ferrini - Piano, Orchestrations

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In the year marking the 10th anniversary of their reunion, AntropomorphiA have delivered an extreme metal opus that more than maintains the high standards upheld over the course of their storied career.

Further building on the monstrous sounds of 2017â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sermon Ov Wrath, Merciless Savagery lives up to its name, attacking with unrepentant ferocity and holding nothing back.

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Released April 5, 2019.

Tracklist 1. Merciless Savagery 2. Requiem Diabolica 3. Womb ov Thorns 4. Cathedral ov Tombs 5. Apocalyptic Scourge

6. Wailing Chorus ov the Damned 7. Luciferian Tempest 8. The Darkest Light 9. Unsettling Voices Lineup Ferry FDA Damen Vocals, Guitar Jos van den Brand - Guitar Jeroen Pleunis - Bass Marco Stubbe - Drums

Defragments Of Insanity’ is t h e r e - r e c o r d i n g of Necrodeath’s second album ‘Fragments Of Insanity’, originally released in 1989.

This new version succeeds in keeping the original brutality and dark mood of the album intact, yet with the very distinctive approach of the current line-up of the band, the longest-standing in Necrodeath’s illustrious career.

Defragments Of Insanity’ follows the release of ‘The Age Of Dead Christ’, the latest collection of original material for Necrodeath, the 11th in their

career, 33 years after their inception into scene.

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Tracklist 1. Choose Your Death 2. Thanatoid 3.

State of Progressive Annihilation 4. Metempsychosis 5. Fragments of Insanity 6. Enter My Subconscious 7. Stillbirth 8. Eucharistical Sacrifice Lineup Peso - Drums Flegias - Vocals Pier Gonella - Guitars GL - Bass Album released April 5, 2019.

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Tracklist: 1. Initiatio 2. Architect 3. Tide of Plague 4. Mind Transformation 5. Asmodeus 6. Zikkurat 7. The Great One! 8. Gates of Blood 9. Invocation 10. Forgive My Longing, Satan!

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Strength Beyond Strength (Requiem to Dimebag Darrell) Lineup Casurus - Guitars Sahabial - Keyboards Sulphur - Guitars Iskaald Nazhdaak - Bass Swarm - Drums Demether Grail - Vocals

THE GREAT ONE The band A R C A N O R U M ASTRUM was founded in 2006.

In the beginning the musicians positioned themselves as black-metal band.

But at the moment their music has transformed to experimental blackdeath metal.

Conceptual Russianlanguage lyrics, “tasty”, bright, melodic sound and a hurricane of energy of live performances – these are the basics of Arcanorum Astrum’s

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success, and they don’t leave indifferent anybody!

Release date: May 1, 2019

IN SPLENDOR BELOW With a history tracing back to the epicentre of melodic death metal in Sweden, OCTOBER TIDE have come a long way and have generated a spark that is strongly felt in the energy of the scene. «In Splendor Below» is the latest addition to their vibrant discography of guitar-driven, emotive death/doom metal art.

Album released May 17, 2019.

«In Splendor Below» album was mixed and mastered by Karl Daniel Lidén at Tri-Lamd studios (Bloodbath, Katatonia, Breach, Craft). It was produced by Alexander Backlund from Nailvillage Studio (Thenighttimeproject / Letters From Colony) and October Tide. Tomarum av Christine Linde created the cover artwork.

Formed in 1995 by Katatonia m e m b e r s ,

J o n a s Renkse (Blo o dbath) and Fred Norrman, October Tide spawned two, now-cult releases, «Rain Without End» (1997) and «Grey Dawn» (1999), before going on hiatus for over eleven years. In 2009 Norrman parted ways with Katatonia, and resurrected October Tide, consolidating the band’s reemergence with a new album titled «A Thin Shell», feat.

Tobias Netzell of In Mourning on vocals.

Since then, the band evolved through two more studio albums, «Tunnel Of No Light» (2013) and «Winged Waltz» (2016), both of which featured exceptional guitar work, on top of October Tide’s emotional touch on death metal.

Lineup Bjarni Einarsson - Drums Þórir Garðarsson - Guitars Garðar S. Jónsson - Guitars Ólafur Guðjónsson - Vocals Sigurgeir Lúðvíksson - Bass Tracklist 1. I, the Polluter 2. We Died in October 3. Ögonblick av nåd 4. Stars Starve Me 5. Our Famine 6. Guide My Pulse 7. Seconds 8. Envy the Moon

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Ascensions Fall Black Metal band from Australia released the fourth Full-length album Her Majesty Dethroned March 27, 2019.

The album is a plethora of Symphonic and Melodic black metal entries with the addition of dark and heavy Blackened Death Metal arrangements accompanied by Black Metal shrieks and Death Metal growls.

Line-up Liam Mohor All instruments, Vocals Tracklist 1. Arrival of the Iron Crown 5.

Arise the New Highness 6. Lands of the Cursed North 7. Northhammer 8. Feeble Screams from the Sacred Chambers 9.

Lands Where Shadows Roam

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The Prophet Melodic Death Metal band from Russia released the fourth Full-length album Essence March 27, 2019.

Tracklist 1. Essence (Intro) 2. From the Endless Vortex 3. Defeated by the Demons 4. Emerald Eyes 5. Blackword 6. Dreamside Areas 7. World of Pain 8. Flying 9. Time 10. Grand Deliriozo Part I 11. In the Dying Sunset

Nordjevel Black Metal band from Norway released the second Fulllength album Necrogenesis March 29, 2019.

Tracklist 1. Sunset Glow 2. Devilry 3. The Idea of One-Ness 4. Black Lights from the Void 5. Amen Whores 6. The Fevered Lands 7. Nazarene Necrophilia 8. Apokalupsis Eschation 9. Panzerengel

Lineup DezeptiCunt - Bass Doedsadmiral - Vocals Dominator - Drums Destructhor - Guitars, Vocals Lineup Doctor - Guitars, Vocals (backing) Bathone - Bass Raziel - Drums Jo Sound - Guitars

Ellende Atmospheric/Melancholic Post-Black Metal band from Austria released the third Full-length album Lebensnehmer March 29, 2019.

The band’s name comes from a Middle High German adjective originating from the West Germanic *alja-landja-, which can be translated as «being out of the (/one’s) country». In the sense of «exiled», this took on a negative connotation over time, reflected nowadays in modern German elend, i.e. «miserable».

Ellende is strictly Lukas Gosch’s solo-project. All other people involved are session/live musicians only.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Augenblick 3. Die Wege 4. Ein Stück Verzweiflung 5. Der Blick wird leer Line up – 6. Liebkosung des Eiswinds Matt Themelco - Drums 7. Du wärst eine schöne Chris Themelco - Guitars (lead), Leiche Vocals 8. Atemzug Joao Goncalves - Guitars, Line up – Vocals (backing) Lukas - Guitars (rhythm Keswick Gallagher - Keyboards & acoustic), Bass, Drums, Nathan Mesiti - Bass Vocals, Piano, Songwriting

Orpheus Omega Melodic Death Metal band from Australia released the fourth Full-length album Wear Your Sins March 29, 2019.

Formed in 2008, Orpheus Omega is a 5-piece Melodic Death Metal band from Melbourne, Australia. Their formative sound was based on the early Gothenburg melodic death metal movement but has evolved over the years into a truly unique entity within and outside the Melodic Death Metal genre.

Tracklist 1. Lighthouse 2. In Time 3. Suffer 4. When Hope Gives Way to Reason 5. Insinerate 6. Unblinking 7. Swim in the Black 8. Wash It All Away 9. Distorted World 10. Wear Your Sins

Devourer Black Metal band from Sweden released the third Full-length album Dawn of Extinction March 30, 2019.

Devourer is a Swedish black/extreme metal band from Sandviken, Sweden, founded by multi-instrumentalist John Falk in 2002. Their music is full of cold emotions and aggressive atmosphere and the lyrics revolves around death, the human psyche, a misanthropic view of the human collective along with occult and esoteric topics.

Tracklist 1. The Sculpting Hands of Doom 2. Beast of Famine 3. Nihil 4. Redemptive Suicide 5. Evighetens Bila 6. Narconemesis 7. Conjuring the Cleansing Inferno 8. Of God’s Ruins Line up – John Falk - Guitars, Bass, Vocals Fredrik Håf - Vocals

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Xaon Symphonic Death Metal band from Switzerland released the second Full-length album Solipsis April 12, 2019.

XAON. An elusive name born amidst Switzerland’s highest mountains.

Never quite fitting in any of the numerous galleries metal has to offer, drifting through the extremes whilst juxtaposing finesse and vehemence from an unworldly orchestra, endlessly exploring the vast echoic gloominess of the human mind.

Lineup Vinc - Guitars (lead), Songwriting, Samples Rob - Vocals

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Ravenpath Symphonic Death/Black Metal band from Germany released the second Full-length album The Raven’s Wisdom March 30, 2019.

Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Harbinger 3. MyPrivacy.com 4. No Warning 5. Is It Worth 6. Left Behind Massive Walls 7. The Tale of Spectator and Conspiracy 8. The Raven’s Wisdom 9. A Change in the Darkness 10. Ray of Hope 11. Past of the Future Lineup Daniel - Drums Marcus - Guitars Torsten - Guitars, Bass Marcus - Piano Ronny - Vocals Rico - Bass

Clouds Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal band from United Kingdom/ Romania released the fourth Fulllength album Dor II April 5, 2019.

The music is dedicate to departed ones, loved ones who now, are no longer amongst us.

Dor II including guest vocals from Kathrine Shephard (Sylvaine), Kayla Dixon (Witch Mountain), Caleb Bergen (Sleepwalkers) and Mihai Ilie (Abigail (Ro)).

Line-up Alex Costin - Bass Luca Breaz - Drums Xander Coza - Guitars Indee Rehal-Sagoo - Guitars Daniel Neagoe - Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keyboards Irina Movileanu - Violin Tracklist 1. Buried in Sand 2. Unravel 3. Closeness 4. Hollow 5. Shadows

Deiphago Black/Death Metal band from Philippines released the fifth Full-length album I, the Devil April 30, 2019.

DEIPHAGO are arguably the most violent band on the planet, as well as one of the most envelope-pushing.

HELLS HEADBANGERS is proud to present DEIPHAGO’s highly anticipated fifth album, I, The Devil, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Lineup Sidapa - Guitars Voltaire 666 - Vocals, Bass Erick Mejia - Drums

Cirith Gorgor Epic Black Metal band from Netherlands released the seventh Full-length album Sovereign April 5, 2019.

The band’s name is taken from The Lord of the Rings.

«Cirith Gorgor», called the Haunted Pass, is the point where the mountain ranges of the Ered Lithui and the Ephel Dúath meet to the northwest of Mordor. Formed in 1993 in the Netherlands. Playing brutal yet sophisticated black metal ever since. No trends, just hatred and ideology!

Formed in 1993 in the Netherlands. Playing brutal yet sophisticated black metal ever since. No trends, just hatred and ideology!

Lineup Levithmong - Drums Marchosias - Guitar Satanael - Vocals Waldtyr - Guitars - Bass Valefor - Guitars Tracklist 1. Funeral March for Modern Ades Numen Man Symphonic Black/Death 2. Hellbound Metal band from Italy 3. Sovereign released the first Full-length 4. Luciferian Deathsquad album War May 10, 2019.

5. Deathcult The sound built around 6. Legio Luporum simple, but very direct 7. Dominion rhythms, as well as classic 8. Manifestation of Evil Black/Death Metal riffs, 9. Blood and Iron composed in a modern way.

Dark Legacy Symphonic Death Metal band from Sweden released the second Full-length album The Rejects March 29, 2019.

The history of Dark Legacy goes back to 1996. Musically Dark Legacy went into darker territories and the sound can describes as symphonic death/black metal.

Lineup Jens Fredriksson - Bass Jonas Hoffman - Drums Mikael Dagobert Keyboards, Guitars Daniel Tjernberg - Vocals Daniel Reese - Guitars (rhythm) Mikael Tjernberg - Vocals

Vargrav Black Metal band from Finland released the second Full-length album Reign in Supreme Darkness April 26, 2019.

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

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Aura Noir “7 Dates Of Hades Tour” in Bogotá

Review from 7 Dates Of Hades Tour 2019 of Aura Noir that passed in Bogota Colombia on March 22. The author is our friend and great photographer Diego Molina of Colonia Records from Bogota, Colombia.

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Event Lemmy Blasting Place: Date: Review & Records

organized by: Productions and Store Records Ace of Spades March 22th Pictures by Colonia (Diego A Molina)

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

Aura Noir band of black / thrash metal from Norway, integrated by Apollyon, Blasphemer and Agressor, would be presented in Bogota at the start of one of the weekends with the most programmed events in the capital of the country.

The presentation of the Norwegians takes place in the framework of their tour «7 Dates of Hades Latin American Tour 2019», tour that began in Brazil in the middle of the month and toured Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.

† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

Live on stage Reviews Three years since his last performance in Bogota, we would have to wait for the return of Aura Noir, who for this opportunity would present us his most recent LP «Aura Noire», work released in April of the previous year under the Indie Recordings label; his show would start precisely with two cuts of this work, «Demoniac Flow» and «Dark Lung of the Storm», followed by the theme «Deep Tracts of Hell» which gave to think that they would give a short review for his entire discography.

Finally, the Norwegians would like the assistants in Ace of Spades, with a show that would last about an hour and a half and include some of their classics, among them «Black Metal Jaw», «Black Thrash Attack», «Sons of Hades» and «Destructor» theme with which his presentation would be closed.

Complete setlist: 1.

Demoniac Flow 2.

Dark Lung of the Storm 3.

Deep Tracts of Hell 4.

Fed to the Flames 5.

Sons of Hades 6.

Black Metal Jaw 7.

Shadows of Death 8.

The Obscuration 9. Heart of Stone (Motörhead cover) 10. Black Thrash Attack 11. Schitzoid Paranoid 12. Hades Rise 13. Snake Encore: 14. Destructor

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The opening of the show would be in charge of Despair, local band of thrash / death metal from Boyacรก and Sursum Corda who would put the share of death metal of the day, which would be spent by a lot of rain generating chaos in the streets of the city something larger than what we are usually used to on a weekend.

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

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Enslaved («Latin America Tour 2019», Bogotá March 25)

Review from Latin America Tour 2019 of Enslaved that passed in Bogota Colombia on March 25. The author - Diego Molina of Colonia Records from Bogota, Colombia.

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Bands: Enslaved (Norway), Twilight Glimmer (Colombia).

Event organized by: Backline America Corporation Place: Ace of Spades Date: March 25 Review & Pictures by Colonia R e c o r d s (Diego A M o l i n a )

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The band from Norway, Enslaved, will perform for the first time in Colombia, on Monday, March 25 at Ace of Spades giving a blunt discharge of their viking/progressive metal.

Within the framework of its «E Tour», the group would open a quota of its tour for Latin American lands, which they would call «Latin America Tour 2019», where they would show their most recent LP «E»; nevertheless, the Norwegians knew the debt that they had with their fans, reason why its set list of 12 tracks, would be a revision of the majority of its discography, giving emphasis in its work «Frost» of 1994.

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

Live on stage Reviews The show would start with the theme «Ethica Odini», followed by «Roots of the Mountain», giving us to understand what was said before, they would show us the themes that have made them great within their genre.

One of the most emotional moments of his presentation, about half of the show was with the songs «Loke», «Fenris», «Jotunblod» and «Isöders dronning» that we listen to continuously,

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all extracted from his work «Frost». .

From his most recent work, we could listen to the songs «Sacred Horse» and «The River’s Mouth»; the closing could not be better with the theme «Allfǫðr Oðinn» extracted from his debut EP «Hordanes Land» of 1993.

Complete setlist: 1.

Ethica Odini 2.

Roots of the Mountain 3. Ruun 4.

The River’s Mouth 5. Loke 6. Fenris 7. Jotunblod 8.

Isöders dronning Encore: 9. Havenless 10.

Sacred Horse Encore 2: 11. Isa 12. Allfǫðr Oðinn

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The opening show was in charge of the local band Twilight Glimmer, who from Pereira would give to the public of the capital a discharge of death metal and the sample of its more recent EP ÂŤUnbreedÂť.

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

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Amorphis («Queen of Time Tour», Bogotá April 23)

Review from Queen Of Time Tour of Amorphis that passed in Bogota Colombia on April 23. The author - Diego Molina of Colonia Records from Bogota, Colombia.

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Event summary: Bands: Amorphis (Finland), Majestic XII (Colombia), Charm Designer (Colombia).

Event organized by: Lemmy Productions, Blasting Store Records and Backline America Productions.

P l a c e : Ozzy Bar Date: April 23 Review & P i c t u r e s by Colonia Records (Diego A Molina)

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On Tuesday, April 23 we were at the presentation of the melodic/death/progressive metal band Amorphis, which is close to turning 30 on the scene.

The band from Finland would perform for the second time in Bogotá after almost three years, this time as part of their «Queen of Time Tour» tour, which would include previous dates in Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and South America. the end of his tour after his presentation in the capital would be in San Salvador and Mexico.

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

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A blunt show lasting almost an hour and a half, would start with the song «The Bee», the same track that introduces us to its most recent production «Queen of Time» released almost a year ago under the label Nuclear Blast, work that As expected, I take most of his setlist chosen for the night ... finally there were 5 songs belonging to this production, these are: «Daughter of Hate», «The Golden Elk», «Wrong Direction» and «Heart of the Giant «, which add to the aforementioned.

However, the Finns would please all the generations present, performing their most important pieces as they are «Black Winter Day» theme with which they would close their first part of the show and that added to «Against Widows» and «Silver Bride», They would imply that nothing would be saved. The closing after a short pause occurred with the tracks «Death of a King» and «House of Sleep»; so in this way we can apply an old saying and that the one that is good repeats.

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Complete setlist: 1.

The Bee 2.

The Golden Elk 3.

Sky Is Mine 4. Sacrifice 5.

Against Widows 6.

Silver Bride 7.

Bad Blood 8.

Wrong Direction 9.

Daughter of Hate 10.

Heart of the Giant 11.

Hopeless Days 12.

Black Winter Day Encore: 13.

Death of a King 14.

House of Sleep

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

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The opening of the event was in charge of the local bands Majestic XII and Charm Designer, who from 7 o’clock at night, were responsible for putting the audiences waiting for Amorphis.

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† Hellfest † Wacken Open Air † Tuska † Brutal Assault † Summer Breeze † Rock Fest † Rock Am Ring † Rockest † Download Festival † Resurrection Fest †

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Pestilence live at Traffic, Rome, Italy March 15, 2019 REVIEW By Luca Lottini

A few months ago on the internet, I have read a news that I didn’t expect, in fact, since February 8th last year I didn’t really believe I could see them again this year. However… so it was!

Pestilence returns to Italy!

For this new Italian tour they planned five gigs from Rome to Milan passing through Cagliari, it is rare for a band of this caliber

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to perform in Sardinia!

However, go on this way!

Three other bands will accompany Patrick and his companions:

the Dutch death/black metal sextet Bleeding Gods, a death/ groove metal quartet from Bulgaria named Grimaze and for three

dates, including that in Rome by the roman thrash/death quintet Hellretic.

The Italian dates are part of their Reduced to Ashes tour Consuming Impulse, 30th Anniversary, a tour completely dedicated to the songs of their second album Consuming Impulse and that runs from February 21st to March 29th 2019, touching our country as well as various others European countries.

As I mentioned, in this tour all the tracks of the historic

We dedicate a few more words and not only due to patriotism to my fellow citizen Hellretic, in fact, they are a Roman thrash/ death metal band that was born in 2014 from the ashes of another band called

Consuming Impulse, will be revived.

That album released under the label Roadrunner in 1989, is still considered an absolute masterpiece of death metal.

Having reached the finish line of the thirty years since its publication, the Dutch band’s record will now return to its entire set list, and honestly, I can’t wait to have the chance to hear this great death metal product again live. Although many consider it only a commercial operation,

Opium Populi by the efforts of two guys the guitarist Piero Sorrenti and bassist Simone Curatola.

During the time joined the band first Lorenzo Pezzopane on the second guitar, then Demetrio Lo Buono in

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I like the idea of being able to listen to old concerts that I haven’t had the chance to see, even if in any case with a different atmosphere and a different band.

The band of Patrick Mameli after last year’s amazing live, returns to the TrafficLive for another concert not to be missed for lovers of old style death metal ... and not only.

No Sun Music, along with Traffic Live, have organized the tour in collaboration with Nihil production.

the growl voice and then Andrea Miazzetto on drums. They form the current lineup. Furthermore, to support the vocal parts of Demetrio’s growl, the bassists Simone is used for back vocals in scream mode.

Their live activity begins in November 2017 and, in March 2018, in the occasion of the third live; the first EP is released, entitled Lights Out, which contains an instrumental intro and four unreleased tracks.

For this concert, which is undoubtedly the most prestigious

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The music that the Roman quintet offers is an old style thrash/death metal that I, personally found adequate as an accompaniment to a concert of a band like Pestilence.

Among the songs that I could listen to, the most convincing ones seemed to me definitely the last three, maybe they needed to warm up a bit; in fact, in fact their performance on stage has improved as the live went on.

I reached the Traffic live with some minutes of delay as I was making the ticket, I began to listen to the music coming from inside. The concert was about to begin!

So I run inside just when Hellretic begin their concert with the previously unrealized song Body.

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turn the evening will take.

Then, immediately they have switched to the tracks of the recent ep and here is Three Evil Mothers, the opening track of the ep. In this song the drums base in duet with a nice guitar riff introduces

throughout the song by precise guitar lines, although in my opinion the volume is slightly too low.

Going on with the songs of the ep, here is the title track, Lights Out that leads us to rhythms that are still sustained but certainly less fast than the first.

The guitars march well and lead us to the catchy guitar solo in the middle of the song. The bass also makes his own job to give the sound that purer death metal vein that certainly does not hurt.

Overall, Lights out is a song with a more melodic vein, especially in the refrain that is very catchy even for newcomers of the genre.

It is now the turn of Devil’s rejects where the rhythms return to be rougher and heavier, the rhythms are faster syncopated, the guitars still granitic, they are us into Demetrio’s accompanied by a rude deep and powerful but pleasant drums the growl, which will vocal impact in the continue accompanied growl is very deep.

by Simone’s scream The combination of in a very convincing the syncopated rhythm combination. The two with the instrumental voices are accompanied parts is certainly very

pleasant.

We momentarily leave Lights out, when Demetrio introduces us the drummer Andrea. He starts the track Hellretic also with a rough and syncopated rhythm where we still find the scream backing vocals pleasantly combined with the growl even if the volume of the microphone to my ears turns out too low, with a nice drum solo followed by another one played by the guitar. At the end of the song, Simone wanted to thank the TrafficLive, where they also played last year when their album was released.

Thus, we come to another unpublished song, the last of the evening, it is their last work, the song Imago Mortis, which is strongly influenced by the horror films of the eighties, a slower beginning that flows after a few seconds, in a rhythm more brutal, but not fast anyway. A song made up of slowdowns and accelerations of rhythm a little different from

the previous ones, that proposes another beautiful guitar solo and with a refrain that remains in the lead.

After the greetings to

the public, Demetrio announces the last song saying that thirtytwo years ago, in fact, the house came out two and the last piece is just Evil Dead where our passion for horror movies, which in any case affects

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them written, is more evident. In fact, the song is a tribute to the horror saga Evil dead (La casa) in particular to the second chapter of the saga. The last piece of this concert brings us back to a more death/ metal rhythm, a nice little punch in the stomach, load and compact, it can also count on another very pleasant guitar solo, and noteworthy is the repetition of the refrain in growl and scream that really gives the head.

The concert is well structured and pleasant although the brevity of the set (less than half an hour) and some slight flaw in the sound check and despite the fact that the sound proposed may seem ÂŤoldÂť to the ears of younger listeners.

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T h e R o m a n t r a s h d e a t h sters are followed on stage by a quartet f r o m S o f i a , they are called Grimaze, they also, unfortunately, unknown to me. As I did for Hellretic, I want to draw a very brief history of this interesting quartet.

Grimaze are a young band from Bulgaria who, although young, can already boast numerous concerts, both at home and abroad, sharing the stage with important artists.

So far, since their birth in 2013 they have produced an ep with the title Grimaze in 2016 (2016 was also the year in which their intense live activity also began) and a fulllength album Planet Grimaze in 2018. The current line-up includes the charismatic singer

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Georgi Ivanov, Melina Krumova, on guitar, Nedy Miladinov on drums and Phillip Kolarov on bass.

All the members of the band are musically very gifted. Notable that the guitar parts are entrusted to the mastery of the talented Melina Krumova. It is unusual to see a girl on the guitar (and as the only guitarist, too) in a mixed band.

However excellent choice! Like the band that preceded them, their concert also included eight tracks including an intro and an outro that is almost completely about the last job.

It is almost 9.00 pm and Melina Krumova appears on stage first,

beginning to arrange her amplification, the group has not planned any decoration for the stage, leaving only the music to create the right atmosphere and the right involvement of the audience, then other components arrive that seem very quiet, safe and determined.

At 9.05 pm, all the components are all in their positions... Let’s go!

Some drummer’s piercing screams serve as an unusual opening for the exhibition that continues with the devastating Disobey the primitives, in which the young Bulgarians begin to show off their grit and their musical talents and which opens with a substantial bass line supported by a furious singing, a very precise guitar with a final piece

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After a short break, the singer presents

the group: “We are Grimaze!” In addition, announces the next track Inner engineering that begins with a violent drum solo and followed by a brutal scream in growl mode, the tribal rhythm, as some suggestions of the previous song remember me Sepultura of Roots era.

The audience, actually not very numerous (we are unfortunately used to seeing few people at the performances of support groups), but follows with interest and supports the rhythmic rhythm of the song and then lashes out on the violent accelerations.

The drummer is great! The audience

applauds satisfied.

The fast Endless Life Force follows without pause, and like the previous one, it offers well-crafted riffs, the people of the band accompany with grit and a practically continuous and very engaging head banging.

The public appreciates Georgi’s vocal performance and applauds loudly.

A short pause and here is the granitic Survival of

the Fittest probably the most convincing song of their performance and the one that seemed to me the most successful overall, from the musical point of view, as well as for the impact on stage. Here the sound seems to me less impulsive but more reasoned, balanced and also includes a very pleasant guitar solo. In which Melina

shows off her musical skills. I like his style!

Even that industrial feeling that somehow recalls the older Fear Factory.

Now it is the turn of Change, the only track that is not present on the last record, it is a new song that will be part of the next album, which seems to be set along the lines of the previous production.

About half an hour has passed and ours are ready for the closing song. Georgi announces therefore: «we have got one more song for you… it is called Bleeding Earth».

Which starts with an instrumental intro that is interrupted, by the vocal intervention of the singer who shoots other roars in the ears of the listeners. Here is the end ... an outro?

So it is written in the setlist even though it seems to me more reprise of the last song, anyway, beyond this, Grimaze thanks everyone and seem very satisfied with the welcome given to them by the audience, and the audience as well, who in the meantime had slightly increased, returns back its satisfaction with screams and applauses.

An essential but, at the same time, overflowing concert full of mid tempos and very well played,

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although perhaps it lacked a bit of originality, but this is a personal opinion. Analysing in more detail, can be easily seen an unusual combination of music ranging from old-school death metal, with references to groups like Obituary and Asphyx.

It is articulated along with more modern and technical sounds that are of American metal groove (Pantera).

It often happens that recently, the lesser famous bands don’t know how to break away from their models, but this does not happen to the Bulgarian quintet that behaves very well and rarely does trivial things and which, as I have already mentioned, is decidedly based on average times. A show that has had a so reminiscent for devastating impact example of Gojira, and that has great (the bass player of precision. the group wears Certainly, a place the French band’s that is still not very T-shirt) and with crowded does not heavy rhythmic and help a performance cadenced parts that but Grimaze have refer to the sonorities continued to split

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for as long as they were allowed about 35 minutes, perhaps a longer concert would have shown this certain let’s say monotony, which I m e n t i o n e d earlier. However, the performance s e e m e d convincing and the talent of the drummer and the precision and technical quality of Melina that were a

great surprise for the evening are certainly noteworthy.

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exhibition, as well as the corpse painting of the musicians, the bass and one of the guitars that are airbrushed

Bleeding gods were chosen as the main supporter group for this tour.

The band was founded

in 2012 in Utrecht by the guitarist Ramon Ploeg.

Their artistic activity of the band begins with the demo Blood Symphony in 2013 and followed by two full lengths Sheperd of Souls in 2015 and the recent Dodekathlon 2018, on which their setlist is based.

The band is formed by Mark Huisman on the voice Ramon Ploeg and Rutger van Noordenburg on the guitars Jessica Otten on the bass Daan Klemann on drums and David Gutierrez Rojas on the keyboard.

With their image much

more markedly based on black metal with a beautiful face painting reminiscent of the last Marduk, Bleeding Gods, they will be the Pestilence companions for much of this tour.

As it was easy to understand from the moment they entered the stage with the arrival of the Dutch sextet the atmosphere changed radically, in fact, the group offers a death metal style with influences ranging from symphonic black metal to thrash that feels the fascination of groups such as Nile, the Behemoths or the Dimmu Borgir. In this

with a horror theme show off.

From the comparison with the previous bands that have practically not focused on the visual impact, the contrast is remarkable, we immediately notice the greater visual impact that the group has with flashy banners to cover part of the amplification and another large one at the bottom of the stage with the name of the band.

Just a shame that the stage of the Traffic is not big and moreover it also had to host the material of other three bands and the form of sextet makes

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the exhibition a little contracted due to lack of space, however ours do not seem bothered by these limitations and they proceed on their way.

Once the last sound details are setted, the exhibition can begin.

Now everyone is in position and finally the concert begins on the notes of the intro (there will be other instrumental parts to mark various moments of the concert), the drummer (strangely he is still a drummer to be protagonist on the scene).

It is 9.55 pm, the melodic and mysterious intro accompanies the movements of the drummer who gets

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up lifting a skull with an eloquent gesture as if he wanted to offer it to the public while a voice recites a sort of evocation, (unfortunately, the content of the text is not understandable to my ears!). At the end of this short show, the band starts to play, starting with the song Bloodguilty that is the track that also opens the album. It has a robust and energetic sound system in which the orchestration and the keyboard line play quite clearly together with guitars.

It is interesting to note that at the halfway point the territory of the progressive is touched, before a fuzzy guitar solo stratifies the grandeur.

Excellent the refrain as well as the vocal impact.

After a brief presentation, the notes of the second track Beloved by Artemis start immediately, it begins with a thumping drum and sustained by heavy guitar riffs in an epic and monumental atmosphere given by the keyboard parts looming over the rhythmic texture, until

it is sharply broken by a short guitar solo. At the end of the song, Mark with his grim expression screams to the audience in Italian: Grazieeeee!

A second instrumental intro introduces the listeners to the second part of the show, which includes another couple of songs.

Here is Saviour of Crete, which has a more cadenced rhythmic pattern than the previous

ones, the bass line is more evident, and it seems to me that on this track the vocals of Mark Huisman is particularly at ease.

Bleeding Gods are not as wild as for example,

Grimaze but they still manage to make a great impression on the public.

Another long solo punctuates the structure of the song, with violent accelerations that accompany us until the end of the track and immediately another scream: “Thanks Rome!” At this point, another mysterious and obscure evocation resonates within TrafficLive and Mark adds over “... Let me see some chaos!”

At this point, a melodic and very evocative instrumental part opens and transports us in a persuasive way to the next song; it is Birds of Hate, perhaps the most aggressive song that Bleeding Gods presents to us this evening. It consists in a muscular Herculean line of drums, which denotes a powerful thrash inflection. It is unusual to hear thrash influencies in a product of this kind that forms the basis for many of the heavier sequences.

Within the song, the voice of Mark Huisman seems particularly at ease in dealing with this type of style: «Grazie Roma!” he repeats again at the end of the track and just before the beginning of

the new intro that will open the third part of the concert.

A new monumental keyboard intro here too with an evocative voice introduces us

to the third part of the concert with the track Tripled Anger.

In this song, the thrash metal influence is most

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noticeable, which, in my opinion, serves to highlight the great work of guitar riffs. The song clearly approaches the style of Dimmu Borgir with an insistent keyboard, throughout the song, certainly pleasant combined with a drums section that produces decisive and devastating accelerations, here towards the middle of the song when it slows down and a persuasive and mysterious melody takes its place accompanied by an evocative voice to return, in the final part, to the initial fury.

I m m e d i a t e l y afterwards, without any pause, it is time for Hera’s Orchard, that has a decisely more bland rhythm and an interesting rhythmic section along with exquisitely crafted guitar solos, among which, one is used as the ending of the song.

Here towards the end, Mark Huisman screams inviting the public to keep the time with their hands and the audience clap the hands following the drumbeats.

At the end of Hera’s Orchard a new intro (or perhaps it is better to mark it them as interludes?), takes

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us to the next song that Mark presents screaming: “This is ...

From Feast to Beeeeast!”

Here is precisely the song From Feast to Beast that closes the performance, and the one in which the most melodic parts seem to me to be decidedly more…, there is the keyboard to lord it alternating with harder sections, in which we find decisive rolls, more thrashy and more powerful.

The orchestration and the instrumentation perfectly match each track, following, “charging” and chanting the great adventures of the

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demigod.

Here is the end and again, Mark thanks the audience: “Thank you Romaaa!

Thank you so fucking much!”.

The Dutch sextet has already repeatedly trod the stages of half of Europe and immediately proves to have great familiarity and a very involving stage presence as well as being endowed with an enviable musical cohesion.

I didn’t even know them except by hearsay, so I didn’t know what to expect from their performance, but I was significantly impressed

by the Dutch band’s concert.

Sore point for the sound performance, which has improved only towards the end and that has not allowed the public to fully enjoy the guitar solos and the keyboard of David Gutierrez Rojas, which is a little sacrificed, from the sound setting of the first tracks.

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It’s always a pleasure for me to review Pestilence! I do it this year, like I did the previous year with great interest and, as I did for the previous bands, I would like to remember the salient stages of the band’s career, (even if there would be no need for it) Pestilence were originally formed in the Netherlands in mid-1986 as a thrash metal band. They later became a death metal band and incorporated more jazz and fusion influences into their music.

After making two demos, they present the historic first full length Malleus Maleficarum followed a year later by the superb Consuming Impulse and then Testimony of the ancients, in 1991

and, Spheres in 1993.

Pestilence broke up then in 1994, when the band members decided to dedicate themselves to other projects, after many years of inactivity under the initiative of Patrick Mameli and Patrick Uterwijk the band re-joined in 2008 to realize three more albums, Resurrection Macabre in 2009, Doctrine in 2011 and Obsideo in 2013.

Shortly after the release of the seventh album, the band decides to split again, in 2014.

But it is only two years later, however, that Patrick takes up the project again, this time alone and calls to him several musicians, until the realization of another album Hadeon in 2018, that is the last one for now (a new

album is announced in 2020).

During their career, Pestilence changed their line up numerous times and currently, in addition to Patrick Mameli, voice and guitar are drummer Septimiu Hărşan, guitarist Calin Paraschiv and new young bassist Edward Negrea who arrived just at the end of the previous year. All of them are member of the Romanian brutal/ death band Necrovile.

The Dutch singer and guitarist of Italian origins (and the only original member left in the band), is one of the symbolic musicians of the death metal scene of the early 90s, which pushed this genre towards a complexity, a technical development and unespected mixes

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with prog, fusion and jazz, which contributed to the proliferation of the genre and to create multiple branches and facets.

The concert coincides with the release of a new reprint of Consuming Impulse under the Hammerheart Records label sponsored by the group and enhanced by the recovery of the original artwork, albeit modified.

However, we come to take care of the concert.

It starts with a long work of sound check where all the instruments are carefully tested for a better sound performance.

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impatient.

He wants to listen to the concert. The tension is high, in the meantime, other people have arrived, and the public is much more numerous even if the place is not completely full.

Finally, we are ready to start.

Here a few m i n u t e s passed after 11.00 p.m., a slight delay compared to the programmed schedule, all the members are in their position, we can start!

Inside the Traffic, we begin to listen to the first notes of the intro (Proliferous Souls), with the members of the back who give their backs to the public.

The short instrumental track of Consuming Impulse, in this occasion,

is used as an intro. But suddenly, at the same time the members of the band turn to the audience and take their positions for the real start of the concert, which, as mentioned before, includes all the tracks of Consuming impulse.

The songs of the album are performed in the order in which they are placed in the album, except Proliferous Souls that is not the first track on the album.

After Proliferous Souls, without any pause, they continued with Dehydrated, the fast and very heavy song starts to unleash the crowd. The heavy

beats of a very precise drumming section begin to resonate inside the TrafficLive; a short slowdown and then again the pounding rhythm traveling with a guitar solo (to tell the truth a little too low in volume).

Patrick is very tight and in the end, he screams in Italian: «Porca puttanaaa» (can be translated in English with “holy shit”), then asks for a little more volume on the speaker, (there is a black need) then in Italian: «Siamo arrivati!»

(We have arrived) and continues: “As you, all know we are playing the whole album Consuming Impulse and we are playing chronological order, which the next song is called The Process of Suffocation.

Decisely more evident with his remarkable thrashy and very fast riff (as in the song that preceded it), one of those riffs according to now, with a more adequate volume and me. The rhythm of the song is one of those that give to the head! Patrick’s voice is not like that of Martin Van Drunen but it stands up to comparison.

At the end of the conception, Patrick thanks the public

again in Italian with a: «Grazie!”

Then he drinks something from a milk / fruit juice brick (it is not clear), even if some people of the audience would prefer that he drank beer, and had

no qualms about to saying it!

After a short pause, Mameli continues to present the following songs: “this next song is about curing disease, curing disease through Suspended Animation.

It starts again with the hammering sound.

This is a violent and frantic track, which, however, is endowed with light touches of the keyboard that

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prove to be perfectly apt and functional.

The central part has a more melodic mood while not losing the angry vocation, the rage, that pervades the whole track, still very fast and very technical solos not only Patrick but also Calin makes us feel what it is made of!

Even after this song, Patrick does not fail to thank the public again screaming in Italian «Grazie!»

Shortly afterwards, he introduces the next track: «This song is about soldiers coming back from what fuck with their minds ... a little bit crazy about these guys ... the song is called The Trauma.

In this song after a quieter start, we find sounds closer to the more classical death metal. The song turns out to be a powerful punch in the stomach, not only for the lyrics but also for the melody.

The people is very satisfied attending to this concert!

Here, again the frontman is talking to the public saying: “So how have you been Rome? Yeees we were here last year as well do you remember?

Yes you do. I see some faces that I recognize and some new faces...

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This next song is about the Chronic Infection.

Another serie of hammerblows begins to pour down on the ears of the listeners, a beautiful drum solo introduces to another song with a rather death mood, the bass is particularly tight even the drums don’t miss a beat. Patrick and Calin continue to churn out solos at sidereal speeds. The suffering and choked voice of Patrick seems to me particularly suitable for this (master)piece.

At the end, Patrick does not fail to thank (again), the crowd: «Thank you ... thank you! ...

From the audience rises one: «Dai Patrizio!» (Go Patrick) he smiles and continues with a lower voice: «the next song is about spiders, these spiders who crawl your skin and mouth when they come out ... swezy (?) Your pain ... let them out of your fucking body” It is the legendary Out of the body that starts with the unmistakable riff of the most famous song

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of the album. This song has a power as well as an extreme speed of execution of the tight and branched rhythms that also adapt to the themes of that very visionary album.

The audience always responds with more energy following the rhythm of the song with a rhythmic head banging, it seems to me that someone else is still entering the club! Solos, solos and more solos was among the things I wanted to hear this evening and I was abundantly repaid and is not over yet, the bonecrusher beat, although not too fast, has taken virtually every one of the listeners.

The audience is completely unleashed: «Thanks!»

Again, Patrick screams joking with the audience

by proposing a sort of quiz: «Any of you guys knows what song comes next ... Does anybody know what song comes the next?

What comes after Out of the body? No one answers and Patrick continues to the public: «Wow ... you loose the quiz ... I win» some second after, someone from the back of the hall screams Echoes of death! Moreover, Patrick satisfied; «Yes, very good the next song is called Echoes of Death».

A new turn towards a sound more death but always with the same cleanliness and precision the sharp and a bit awkward song of Patrick violently hits the ears of those present to notice the extreme precision and concentration of Edward Negrea

the young Romanian bass player diligently follows the line of all the songs.

At the end of the track, Patrick continues to greet the public for coming at the concert.

Often Patrick likes to interact with the audience talking to them: «Thank you!

How you guys is doing? Are you ok, having a good time or what? Thank you for coming out tonight supporting all the bands supporting first death metal school ... «cause that is all about right? We love it «...»

Yeah! «The audience replies enthusiastically and Patrick continues with thanks:» First I like to thank you, my friend, Carlo ... but you man ... Roberto Toderico ... yes ... and my girlfriend i love you

and know it alright? Next time I get my tattoo right.

I really love these kind pauses especially, in a concert like this where the tension is always very high and is not too affected by these short moments of irony.

Therefore, we have to c o n t i n u e with the next song... I hope you will like it... Check it out...”

And here it is, after Echoes of death it’s my favourite song of the album this is Deify Thy Master, not only me but also even other people that I find in the front row can’t contain the enthusiasm!

Patrick also looked at us realizes that we like it, surely even on stage they eared me screaming the refrain of this song that I know by heart.

I am totally taken by every single note and practically can’t get the lucidity necessary to review this song... but I try it anyway.

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hit the heads are the granitic power and the hyper speed of the execution of the tight rhythms and the drum snare that I already had in the brain before the song began shelling my head… Other people around me also sing the refrain... the stopover arrives, behind me the people moshes hard but luckily not in a way too frantic or aggressive. We are at the end: “Thank you!... screams the Dutchman “The last song of the Consuming impulse album, the song in called Reduced ... Reduce to what?

Reduce to ... Reduced to Ashes!

Pestilence proposed, as in other shows, massive and powerful sounds, even if at least at the beginning, slightly

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The members of the group appear in great shape, just like their leader Mameli who shows off a total black look with a long blonde braid.

The sound of Consuming Impulse that is reproposed

by Pestilence this evening is however still rooted in that of the beginning, however, the undeniable thrash thrust, still borrowed from the previous album Malleus Maleficarum, is here reinforced by an increase in execution speed.

Moreover, a greater care in song writing, as well as unexpected melodic openings that recall the following two masterpieces.

The concert is basically divided into two parts, the first includes the songs of Consuming Impulse, while the second includes encores, other classics that are extracted from the following, epic

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album Testimony of the Ancients. The decision to play songs taken

by Testimony of the ancients does not have convinced someone, but because of it is my favourite album, it was fine for me.

The public that has now become numerous makes itself felt and sees with pogo of all respect.

Here is the first song from the album The Secrecies of the Horror, with its mysterious intro and its mind-

blowing riff, followed

by Twisted Truth that Patrick presents as a sexy song and dedicates to the women present this evening.

Subsequently, an unexpected hit, the only one taken from a post-reunion album, I am talking about Horror Detox from the album Resurrection Macabre leading us to the very last song, the evil and melancholic Land of Tears. Here Septimiu Hărşan’s drums and the young Eduard Negrea’ bass, are played at cosmic speed, while Patrick’s unmistakable and strangled growl puts a seal to a concert, in which the intensity of the music does not show its age at all, except in Patrick’s experience.

It gives us all the power, brutality and the visionary creativity of the horrific death metal of his golden age and that, after tonight’s performance, confirms his unrepeatable topicality.

The somewhat ungraceful growl of Patrick Mameli manages to fit perfectly above all on the sounds

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of Testimony of the Ancients and perhaps even better than on the modern interpretation of Consuming Impulse.

The riffs of the two guitarists are bombs full of virtuosity as can be seen in the final Consuming Impulse song and the first part of the show.

To conclude, a monumental concert as it was in the expectations, a satisfied audience, though not very numerous (and those who did not come wrong did.

Even the members of the group seemed satisfied with the outcome of the evening Calin Paraschiv also showed a dazzling smile. the show Patrick

was entertained, as he used to do, with the audience for a chat, not forgetting a few photos with his fans

and praise ... and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not over here next year is expected the release of a new album and in two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time will be the 30th anniversary of the release of Testimony of the ancients ....

We are already waiting!

and a few autographs, another show of 10

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Review and interviews by Ole Grung. Photos by Zeela Garvik.

Skaur are the selfproclaimed founders of “Nordnorsk Svartmetall” (Northern Norwegian Black Metal), and have been around since 2003.

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They started o u t as an underground one-man project, but got their break when “Nordnorsk Svartmetall” (Northern

Norwegian Black Metal) was released. The album created the whole genre.

They are a pair of devoted musicians creating, with an additional guitarist and

drummer whenever they’re on stage.

They’ve made three albums so far, with number four in progress.

The band is wearing their official tee for the occasion, a black one with logo on the front, and a picturesque scene from a northern lakeside with a creature lurking under a full moon.

The crowd cheer as the first riff is struck.

Vocalist Normann is fiercely throwing screams at the audience, accompanied by a cacophony of guitars. Once the slower section start, people are bobbing their heads and headbanging is imminent.

An imrovisation by the solo guitarist Ivel.

“Nordland” shows off their more melodic side, as soaring

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o v e r t o n e s accompanies the otherwise brutal assault.

It has a part where I instantly recognise the musical theme from “Nordlandsk julesalme”, a cherished folk hymn.

The crowd cheers and salutes the band.

“Skillingsvisa”, he screams at the crows, before emitting a high-pitched squeal: Another song implementing a folky style and the crowd joins in to play some air guitar.

Their cover of Forlatt’s “???” is a lot lower paced than their other material, yet the piercing screams of the vocalist sounds like a tortured soul in perpetual agony.

After the concert, they hug a few devoted fans at the front, who have travelled a thousand miles to see them.

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their first album as a pioneer project on Indie Recordings, which sparked a huge interest in the scene.

It lead to them performing at the Inferno Metal Festival, which is one of the biggest metal stages in Norway, and one that has housed numerous legendary bands over the years.

When the follow up arrived in 2008, they went on their first i n t e r n a t i o n a l tour, celebrating the success of the album with a legendary c o n c e r t at Hovefestivalen.

Tight riffs are played right from the start; it’s another band that holds nothing back.

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An amazing

vocalist who serves up fierce screams over the intense double drums.

They’re not afraid to pull insanely high paced drums sections in the middle of songs like “The Atrocious Horror”, just because they can.

They interact well with the audience, and people have come far to see them. The screams of the vocalist are hagg a r d , dragged a n d v i c i o u s .

U n derway there are n u m e r o u s m o m e n t s where they expand on the songs to let the crowd take part in the show, especially on the mellow part of “Lysene Som

Forsvant”, which sets the crowd ablaze.

Their self-titled song is given an extralong intro, to let the mood settle before the vocals start.

“Natt Utover Havet” is perhaps the song that gets the most attention, and it’s catchiness is hard to ignore.

proper recording of our songs. We actually wrote the last song on our first album on

ITD: Where did you get the name from?

Iskald: There was a fellow we went to school with who came up with the idea, and we just went for it.

There were no other bands with that name at the time.

ITD: How did you get from album one to number two?

Iskald: The first album was a result of us playing as a cover band. One day we just figured we should do something of our own in addition to that. We had the advantage of a free practice room at our local school.

We recorded at a mates house, and our first demo (Lokes Dans/The Shadowland) got a good review. It was at that time we decided it was time to do a

Our first album also was well recieved, but we decided to start all the way from scratch on our follow up. We went to Berlin to meet people, and were pretty nervous about

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the whole ordeal.

That album resulted in out first tour.

ITD: What’s next for Iskald?

Iskald: It’s all about

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meeting the right people.

It’s hard to attend the big festivals, because of the expense of travelling thousands of miles from N o r t h e r n N o r w a y .

We are three or four inbred bands who cover eachothers material, so we have to arrange our own venue to land a gig.

ITD: What are your inspirations for writing lyrics?

Iskald: It’s a combination of life, and norse mythology.

We write about half of the material in Norwegian and English. The last album is a more personal record, which speaks of the hardships of life. But at the same time, there is hope.

ITD: What is your favourite song to play live?

Iskald: “Innhøstinga” is fun to play and performs well live.

Setlist: The atrocious horror No amen Ruin of mankind Iskald Natt utover havet Forged by wolves When hell freezes over Lysene som forsvant Innhøstinga Dommedag

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I like the fact that the vocals are being preferred in the s o u n d palette in stead of the drums.

My kind of black metal. Two albums and an EP are out so far, the latest slowing the pace a

little compared to the first ones.

They’re pulling all stops from the very start; a pulsing, ear-pounding

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sound triggers the whole venue into a headbanging frenzy.

we know and love. By the end of the first song, the venue is packed with people headbanging, nodding and otherwise having a good time.

The only bad thing about Vinterbris is the shortage of material.

Even though they play a cover song, I’m just aching for more!

The drums are super tight, and the guitar Exclusive Interview: shreds like a razor ITD: What a fantastic through my eardrums. show! I had a blast

The band is playing around, soloing and enhancing parts of the songs, but always returning to the core

watching you, such energy, such presence!

Vinterbris (vocalist Henrik Skaar): Thank you!

We try to develop the sound with each release. We touch upon rock’n’roll, and hesitate to confide ourself with a specific genre.

ITD: I noticed you’re playing with a Drudkh tee tonight...

Vinterbris: Drudkh is one of our great inspirations.

We experiment a lot with different equipment; trying to make a sound that no one’s tried before. In a way, we play classical music, but in a new wrapping. On the topic of equipment, I must say that we spend a lot of time searching for rare and used gear on Finn.

One time we decided on a Marshall amp, and drove into Sweden with an electric car to get it. It took five charges before we were there!

ITD: Where did you get the name from?

Vinterbris: I like to sleep in cold temperatures, and a winters day I had the window open. The snow flew. It was the contrast between the icy wind and the warm breeze that made me choose the name. It’s actually the name I’m going to use on my home brewed beer once that’s finished. But that’s another story.

ITD: How did you get from album one to number two?

Vinterbris: After the debut “Vinterbris” in 2011, we felt ready for

something new.

The Danish band Sunken, which we knew well, told us they had a contact with Nordavind Records in Portugal. The road from there was short to a new recording, which was signed on Ivans 25th birthday. We had a

couple of songs ready at the time, and recorded it together with producer Tore Ninja at his home on Paradis, Bergen.

ITD: What’s next for Vinterbris?

Vinterbris: We are currently writing, and are recording a full-length album at NRKs studio at Minde. Quite to contrast to our first album, which was recorded with a Cube 30 at home.

ITD: What are your inspirations for writing lyrics?

Vinterbris: I write most of the lyrics myself, but in a way we all participate.

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Martin has been with us for two years, and he has wrote some songs.

Martin and Ivan (drums) has known each other for 18 years. We had our first concert at 1880 (a youth club in Bergen), UKM 2009. Nine years ago, that makes me 17, and we had played together only for a few months. Growing up in the city of rain, Bergen, with poor clothing has inspired me to write about the hardships of life. Our latest song, for the time being called “Estrangement” (named after the Drudkh album), is about the hypocrisy in all we do.

Showing no interest in the environment while consuming infinite amounts of everything.

You have to think about how to care for what you have, and appreciate the opportunities given.

You have to think about the consequences of what you are doing. In Absurdum is a highly experimental recording, in which we challenge ourselves.

ITD: What is your favourite song to play live?

Vinterbris: “Ash Alite”, the second track off “Solace”! Black Metal mixed with Rock’N’Roll.

Setlist: Acts of Penance Edges Fathoms Estrangement Sacrificy of Bathory Ash Alite

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Steelfest open air, Hyvinkää, Finland May 17-18, 2019 REVIEW By Olga Schneider

Hallo zusammen!

Now I’m more or less back to reality, so I’m ready to tell about STEELFEST OPEN AIR 2019 in details. By the way, that was my first trip to a foreign Metal festival.

So it was a true hellish trip: Nizhny Novgorod-MoscowSt. Petersburg, where our travel group united and went to

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Hyvinkää (fukk, I coulnd’t remember the name of the city for half a year! So, it’s ca 40 km driving from Helsinki)...

Only 7 hours driving, so there we are! And since a regular school was equipped as a hostel during the festival,

We also had to wait before settling until their classes ended.

Life will never be the same XD As for the city, it was so incredibly small and s i l e n t , some kind of virgin b e i n g defiled by L u c i f e r once a year.

Since the passage to any event of this magnitude is inevitably connected with the control of all that you carry, the first thing that really sunk into the soul is incredible politeness of the guards. Our Russian security dudes definitely have something to learn from these guys.

As for the festival area itself, it was not so huge, there was a big openair stage and an hangar. The most part of everything takes place in the open air: most of the territory of the fest is grass where you can lie around the clock, a few tents with food and drinks, some tents with merch and things like that.

Regarding the prices, by the way, nothing

special, everything was completely OK. As for the first day, there was actually nothing to do, the most interesting

things were expected by the evening. By 8 o’clock we headed to BELPHEGOR sign session. I must be honest, my hands vere simply shaking.

And yeah, this was

just incredible feeling to finally meet the frontman of my favorite band while we had communicated

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via Internet for one and half year. The dudes’ performance itself was devilishly enchantingt: sound, their behavior on s t a g e , feedback from the audience ... Yes, I saw with my own eyes what happened 3 years ago in Moscow, so here we can say that we also made up for that time. Since the dudes performed on the open stage and started at 21.45, it was still very light outside, but that didn’t affect the atmosphere. Everyone who has ever been at Belphegor gig at least once knows that they turn each of their performances into a true ritual, and they don’t have to use a bunch of scenery and everything else for that. By the way, the very famous bone sculptures could not be brought there, due to some security rules, according to Helmuth’s words.

I highly appreciate the fact that we managed to talk after the show, and...

Just incredible grateful for his kind words, for his support and everything in general.

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They don’t have any special show, and even any scenic images, the «come out and play» dudes.

But how to play, this is a completely different thing! Watching their technical game, seeing this fire in their eyes is a pleasure! It seemed that they decided to include in the setlist everything only the best of their c r e a tivity.

A f t e r a truly hardcore night in the hostel we walked through the ciry and went to the festival area again in the afternoon.

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of band who were the most «important» for me.

GAAHLS WYRD. You should check it out only on a closed area or on an open one just in the dark, otherwise half of the perception would instantly

disappear.

Music that gets you into trance, and it would be good to sleep while listening

to it :3 Without the specific mood it also wouldn’t be the same.

Gaahl himself was really great as a performer and he also seemed to be a nice guy.

A S P H Y X .

True fukking b e a s t s ! ! !

They simply exceeded all my expectations.

Their live performances are just a fukking bunch of pure evil energy.

Masters and true fans of their craft.

Everything was just a l i t t l e bit spoiled by my condition that wasn’t still treated a f t e r Belphegor gig (but this is only my own f a u l t , LOL).

VITAL R E MAINS. T h e same as for Asphyx.

Stunning communication with the audience.

And attention to details, including the pring on the singer’s t-shirt «I kill priests».

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NARGAROTH. Initially I decided to see them because I was no more than just curious, since about 8 years ago I had been listening to them a lot, and then it kinda camled down in me a little bit. I repent: I underesti- m a t e d t h e i r p o w e r ! They souded much better live, the atmosphere canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be described with any words.

So, studio Nargaroth and Nargaroth live are kinda two completely different bands.

M A R D U K .

Disappointed, to be honest. Really.

Many thanks to Vizit Travel agency, this trip would be impossible without those guys, and a special thanks to Oksana Rage of Teodolit. I just love you, and you know

that.

And yeah, sleeping on the desks was priceless! :D

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Helvetia Blood Fest took place in Schüür, Luzern on 27 April. The members of Swiss web resource Plekvetica shared with us their impressions of the past festival.

The author of review and photos - Roland Moeck Original review: http://plekvetica.ch/event-details/helvetia-blood-fest-2019/

Helvetia Blood Fest 2019 presents Metal Storm Concerts with W.A.R., Marduk, Asagraum, Valkyrja and Asgard at Schüür Lucerne.

This event gave a local Band the chance to open the first HELVETIA BLOOD FEST 2019.

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ASGARD from Lucerne gave the audience the first impression of what should be followed that night. Black Metal played from the darkest heart. Frontman Thulus gave a blasphemous performance. Asgard played two songs (Wings of Asgard and War at

Last) of their latest release “war at last”. The Audience really dig the songs. Let’s see what Thulus (vocals), Nero (guitars), Abaddon (drums) and Wotanskrieger (bass) will come up in the future. They really deserve a bigger audience.

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Live on stage Reviews Next on the billing was The troupe of Dutch Hannah van den Berg lasting impression. Playing back to the early Norwegian the songs and gave them a Their setlist includes Transformation, Black Triangle Temple, sun Prayer, Carreid by Lucifer’s Wings.

ASAGRAUM black metal artist aka Obscura left a atmospheric black metal roots. The audience dug big welcome. the following tracks: Leviathan, Daar Warr Ik Sterf, Black

You should listen and buy to their release Potestas Magicum Diaboli – for many one of the best dutch black metal albums. For me the surprise of the evening and I really hope to see them soon again.

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VALKYRJA played really old school Black Thrash paired with Scandinavian Black Metal which was well welcome by the audience. The sound was very good and they played the songs very well. For me something was missing, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t catched me like Asagraum did.

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The veterans in Swedish Black Metal –Panzerdivison MARDUK in the current show with Morgan, Mortuus, Devo and Fredrik offered a lesson at its best. Rude and pitiless, the songs of the meanwhile very well filled Schüür were popped around the ears.

Mortuus is a beast on stage – raw energy Black Metal at his best.

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W.A.R. - veni vidi vici Vorphalack, Xytraguptor, Drop and Zorrac played the first two SAMAEL’s albums, «Worship Him» and «Blood Ritual,» and the audience celebrated them. It would be like taking water into Lake Lucerne to take on the two landmark albums, even though it would have been easy in the rain that night. A one-time journey back to the beginning (the two releases are almost 30 years old) and you could tell the band that they had the pleasure to relive those beginnings. A unique piece of Black Metal history.

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Worship him, Into the Pentagram and Blood Ritual were my favorites on the albums and that night. No many words from Vorph were needed as introduction. Lucky for those who were there to celebrate the Rite of Chtulhu.

The Helvetia Bloodfest 2019 was a success - many thanks to the Lucerne metal club ÂŤMetal Storm ConcertsÂť you guys rock.

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A m o n A m a r t h’s new album Berserker which was released at the beginning of May r e a l l y made lots of noise among M e t a l community. Yeah, it literally flooded news feed and all... I was their big supporter for many years when idea.

I was a bit younger, B u t but there was a time nowadays it’s a bit later when they too popularized and there totally disappointed me. are so many bands who try They became a copy of to exploit this topic just to themselves last years, Review by Olga Schneider the same lyrics, the same riffs, all this shit become popular. with mighty warriors But ok, this spread kinda and all that was launched broke me and I decided to

by Manowar so many check it out. And you know... years ago. I’m not trying You definitely get some double to say anything against feeling while listening to that. this topic, but I hold the On one hand, the same lyrics opinion that no one will and nothing new. If some do it better now. This years ago their lyrics was topic was actual two-three really dedicated to the events decades ago, that was a of Scandinavian mythology thing that united people with all their cruelty and at and was kinda common the same time pathos, now

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it’s more kinda mix of Heavy Metal and some Alco Folk Metal. The dudes just repeat what they’ve been doing last years, and it’s ok in some respects.

Ther e are a lot of supp orters of such things in this world, it’s simply done for relaxing your brain and sometimes for raising morale.

On the other hand, you probably don’t give a fukk about lyrics in this case if you get focused on music.

Yeah, as for the music... That was their rebirth!!! They didn’t produce such power since 2011.

So this album is highly recommended to those who appreciate epic hight quality music and don’t think so much about lyrics.

the last month’s releases shall broke this fukking stereotype apart.

Belzebubs was originally introduced in 2016 as a comic on the website of the American online metal magazine Metal Injection, but there was and still is so few information about the creators and all... But on the other hand, the very first album Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods released in April made lots of noise and was instantly spread everywhere.

Nowadays, Metal bands don’t get so known in such a short period, and if

dedication.

Even if the music was made on behalf of a fictional band, it’s not just an addition.

This is really high quality made stuff. Yeah, the sound isn’t anything special for this genre in fact, it’s just typical Melodic Black Metal. But the it really atmosphere... You happened to can really feel it from that band it definitely the very first seconds.

Eternal cold, vaults of gothic buildings Review by Olga Schneider and magic... Black magic. Sometimes hopelessness that promised to be something however gives you truly interesting. It could seem a shiver. Just incredibly that it was the band’s... Specifity powerful thing. Nothing that made it so famous at more to say, you guys just once, but who actually gives have to check it out. a fukk nowadays? There’s really nothing surprising in this idea. 21 century... And it’s really hard to surprise strict audience. There’s definitely something more...

And first of all, big respect to the creators for their incredible

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What’s your first association when you hear something about fictional Metal bands? Many of you will probably say that it’s Dethklok.

But one o f

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Shazak is a brand new traditional Black Metal Black Metal band from and... Probably Melodic Tunisia inspired, as Death Metal. Yeah, you they affirm, by bands like Emperor and Dimmu Review by Olga Schneider Borgir.

The dudes contacted us some weeks ago in occasion of their can definitely find some of very first single called its elements in this music.

Through the fields of Vocals is typical for Black fire. I was very skeptical Metal, raw Black Metal first, just because all we riffs intertwined with know what is the most forceful Death Metal ones part of brand new and traditional symphonic Extreme Metal bands elements. for lyrics, there’s nowadays. FUKK! I’ve As never been so wrong definitely nothing special, but it does not interfere before.

Despite the fact that with perception. During the band is so young, all this time you’ll be the music sounds as if concentrated on music for the dudes have already sure. Yeah, you can really released some albums feel very strong influence and know a lot of their of the bands mentioned own strengths and before, but at the same weaknesses. Is sounds time there’s not any feeling like a good mix of that Shazak are trying

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to seem to be like those bands. Nowadays, it’s a big trouble: a lot of new bands lose themselves trying to copy some Metal monsters, and the feeling of this fine line is realy needed.

In the end, I just wanna say that it’s always pleasant to find some new Metal bands who are already able to play high quality music, and it’s a double pleasure when they find us.

growing up in that with every new album.

Veleno sounds like a much more mature work of the band than the previous ones. It seems that they’ve finally found something they were searching for so long.

This is an epic and notable record which is felt by the correct consolidation of the beloved formula.

The formula brought to perfection.

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F l e s h g o d doubts Apocalypse... that it They definitely need should be no introduction and someting granit would be needless diose. So, some days to tell their history ago it was finally shown to here. Associations are the world. much stronger that The biggest difference from words, and this band their previous album King is highly associated is its smooth turn from with harmony.

This is always Review by Olga Schneider an incredible balance between brutal and lyrical, harshness and melody, intense crushing towards Metal and symphonic rhythmic harmonies and music. the neoclassical melody As for their new album that we could hear from called Veleno, there was the band earlier. And at so many words before the the same time, they’re still release, and it sounded able that balance between really promising. And brutality and orchestral of course, there was no things, and they’re definitely

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HATE has consistently been one of the top billed bands stemming from the powerful Polish Extreme Metal movement. But Hate’s story from their very early days has never been a simple one. From the early days of Daemon Qui Fecit Terram and Lord Is Avenger, the journey has been to digest the world around and attempt to break bread with a reality wherein there are no restrictions. Where there is no ground to keep you grounded and no church to keep you unthinking and busy. The first two albums, joined by the third, Cain’s Way, carried the band through the 90’s, wherein they made a name for themselves both in the national underground and abroad.

Line-up: Adam the First Sinner Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Samples Pavulon - Drums Domin - guitar Tiermes - bass (session) Auric Gates of Veles will be released on June 14th, 2019.

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Over the course of 30 years, Darkthrone has become a staple of the global Black Metal genre, forging a legacy as one of the most influential bands in its illustrious and often infamous history.

Fenriz enthuses «Old star – again we are here with THE RIFFS! A while after our previous ARCTIC THUNDER album it became apparent that we would continue in that same style, BLACK OLD HEAVY METAL with slow thrash, classic doom and slow death metal.

As many have focussed on the 70s sound over the last 20 years, the mix on our new album has ended up being more 80s than ever. The songs are more metal than ever! Ted’s songs have alot of black metal in them, faster and slower but also doomier parts and reocurring parts. My songs are more linear written, it’s an ancient 80s underground trick, with breaks, all slow heavy or slow thrash, classic doom or slow death.»

Lineup Fenriz - Drums, Vocals (additional), Bass, Guitars (additional), Lyrics Nocturno Culto - Vocals, Guitars, Bass Will be released on May 31th, 2019.

ENTHRONED, a name Black Metal fans are no strangers to. Over the course of the last 25 years, they have pushed the boundaries of black metal and the deepness of the Left Hand Path philosophy further within.

The quintet has channeled that dedication into their newest record; a dark and crushing black metal album where cold riffing, blood chilling atmospheres and ritualistic drumming are keys to forging their most mature and accomplished opus to date.

Lineup Nornagest - Vocals (lead, choirs) Neraath - Guitars (lead), Keyboards Menthor - Drums Norgaath - Bass, Vocals (backing) Shagãl - Guitars (rhythm) Will be released on June 7th, 2019

Abbath is a black metal band formed in 2015 by former Immortal guitarist and vocalist Abbath Doom Occulta after departing from Immortal earlier in 2015. The band released their first album, Abbath, on January 22, 2016, and played live for the first time at Tuska Open Air 2015.

On October 6, 2016, Abbath announced on their Facebook page that they are working on their second album, planned for a 2017 release.

On July 11, 2018, King ov Hell have left the band due to conflicting views on lyrical concepts of the upcoming album.

Emil Wiksten also left the band shortly after.

On 14 March 2019, Abbath announced their second studio album ‘Outstrider’ will be released on July 5, 2019 and a new line up that recorded the album and will perform live was revealed which included drummer Ukri Suvilehto, guitarrist Raud and bassist Mia Wallace.

Polish extreme metal veterans Vader will release the new EP titled, Thy Messenger, on May 31st via Nuclear Blast Records.

VADER are currently re-arming themselves; after an armistice of more than two years, the «Thy Messenger» EP will bring back the thundering dark clouds of war in May, and it’s only the harbinger of an even greater, more monumental thunderstorm, that will rise in the sky in late 2019.

The EP contains five tracks with the power for infernal destruction, among them a heavy cover of the classic JUDAS PRIEST song ‘Steeler’, and a new version of their uncompromising song ‘Litany’.

The band comments: «We decided to record the new EP because we knew that the full length new album won’t be released before the end of 2019. The EP includes three new tracks - mostly really vicious and aggressive tracks, even for VADER. ‘Emptiness’ is more groovy in the main riff but really heavy at the end. All the songs are fast and short, but pretty intense, I guess. We’ve also added a new version of our classic title track from ‘Litany’. Another bonus is the absolute classic cover of ‘Steeler,’ which was always one of my all time favorite PRIEST songs.»

Will be released on May 31th, 2019.

The German Pagan/Black Metal band Varg has earned a name in the scene and a huge fanbase over the years. The band has always been able to score points through their live performances and their skillful mix of pagan and black metal with classic heavy metal bonds has been the subject of much controversy but has also brought them sold out halls. After their last album ‘The End of All Lies’ (release via Universal), Varg now released their debut album ‘Wolfszeit II’. The album has not been available for years and is constantly in demand by fans. Instead of just pressing a reissue of the album, the band has decided to completely re-record the album. The result is - according to the band’s own announcements - the fattest production Varg ever made. And indeed, the old songs come in the new sound robe incredibly authentic but also incredibly bold. Varg return to their roots with a new lineup around the two founding members Fenrier and Freki.

Lineup Fenrier - Drums Freki - Guitars, Vocals Garm - Guitars Morkai - Guitars

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