The story goes that Death Metal legends Deicide brought the raw material for new album “Banished by Sin” to Jeramie Kling (The Absence, Inhuman Condition) in Florida looking to the engineer for assistance in a return to the 90’s sound and live energy. Having done that they recruited famed mixing and mastering guru Josh Wilbur (Gojira,
The return of South African Thrash overlords Disarmageddon with a new album in “No Liberty” after a “will they, won’t they” hiatus is something to be thankful for, especially given the Old School quality of the record. An in house, DIY or DIE album that has wide ranging influences and consistency in lyrical themes, it’s
How do you balance playing in and writing for two successful bands? That just one of the questions that Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds puts to multi instrumentalist Chris Wiseman with Metalcore merchants Currents and Symphonic Deathcore brutes Shadow Of Intent both doing to well. It wouldn’t be The Downbeat Podcast if the
When American Metalcore masters Darkest Hour played Toronto a couple of weeks back it gave Belgian Jasper the opportunity to talk to vocalist John Henry. Everything from new album “Perpetual | Enternal“, from which setlist included no less than four fresh cuts, to what comes next. Spliced together with the interview itself is live footage
Who else would you expect but vocalist Lochie Keogh in the hot seat for an interview with Heavy New York about new album “Half Living Things” by Alpha Wolf ? The hard touring Australian Nu-Metalcore aggressors upcoming new album features a guest vocal appearance from Ice-T, which is just one of many talking points around
28 days after American Metalcore heroes Fit For A King premiered a live rendition of new single “Keeping Secrets” with footage from both legs of their Metalcore Dropouts tour with The Devil Wears Prada, Counterparts, Landmvrks, and Avoid, vocalist Ryan Kirby is in the hot seat to talk about with Heavy New York. The prolific
As the clock ticks down to the arrival of “The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams” for 5th April via Metal Blade Records and European headlining tour with support from Fallujah, Vulvodynia and Mélancolia, vocalist Jason Evans has been allowed out of rehearsals to talk all things Ingested with Heavy New York. An album that sees them
Featuring guest vocal appearances by Stephanie Mazor of Sede Vacante and Tommy Tuovinen of Damnation Plan, the second burnt offering “The Point Of No Return” from Finnish Melodic Death Metal act Northern Genocide is one that we can’t speak highly enough of. The band got around the able with Antichrist Magazine TV to discuss Humanity, Greed, Dystopia
The tenth studio album “In the Twilight Grey” from Swedish Blackened Death Metal masters Necrophobic is the subject of discussion between vocalist Anders Strokirk and Belgian Jasper in this new interview. Full of brutal metal songs, torn from unnamed obsidian horrors with a haunting atmospheric it’s colder and more biting than their more recent efforts.
Set to be distributed by Century Media on 22nd March, on the evidence of the pre-release singles alone, the new album “Unextinct” from Italian Technical Death Metal monsters Hideous Divinity could well be their finest hour. Naturally an interview with Heavy New York was on the tarot cards and song meanings and tour memories are
