Category: Interviews
5Q5A – Brutally Deceased: Catching Czech Sunlight
Originally written by Ian Chainey Some bands love their influences. Then, there are the bands that live their influences, that are wholly shaped by their influences. Brutally Deceased, a collective of Czech grinders and growlers …
5Q5A – Helcaraxë
Over the course of their decade-plus existence, New Jersey’s Helcaraxë has tooled around with their death metal formula here and there, but the one thing that has stayed constant is the bombast. Plain and simple, …
5Q5A – Lvcifyre
Lvcifyre is heavy like a nightmare is heavy. Theirs is not a heaviness entirely born of volume or of sheer violence, though both are certainly present, and in spades. Their heaviness is more made of …
5Q5A – Shroud Of The Heretic: Rising From The Pit
Originally written by Ian Chainey We often dissect how something sounds without really imparting how it feels. Sure, sometimes, that’s all the music asks of us. In most genres, you can get away with clinical …
5Q5A – Prizehog
originally written by Erik Highter It’s an oversimplification to say that “unclassifiable” bands always slip through the cracks, but it’s too often the sad truth. Even in this day when nearly everything is available to …
The European Answers – An Interview With Pestilence
originally written by Juho Mikkonen For our final interview of this series, we invited Patrick Mameli of the almighty Pestilence to discuss a little bit about Consuming Impulse, a timeless death metal masterpiece that …
5Q5A – Dead Instrument
From the land of Kierkegaard and King Diamond comes Dead Instrument, a grindcore four-piece that peddles perfectly blistering blasting. Think the hyperactive razor’s edge of Discordance Axis meets the turbo-charged attack of Yacøpsæ, duking it out in …
Harbingers Of Pain, Possessors Of Power – An Interview With Whiplash
originally written by Juho Mikkonen Not many underground metal albums have been able to establish such a cult following as Whiplash’s 1985 full-length debut, Power and Pain (featured in the ninth installment of you know …