The man, the myth and the legend that is Ola Englund talks to the man he calls a pioneer of the future of Metal in Buster Odeholm. The Humanity’s Last Breath guitarist is also the drummer in Vildhjarta as well as having his fingers in the pies of producing, mixing and mastering. Then we have
The man, the myth and the legend that is Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds is joined by Counterparts and END vocalist Brendan Murphy for the latest episode of The Downbeat Podcast. Hotdogs, the rebranding of Twitter to X and both of his bands are topics of conversation with “A Eulogy For Those Still
“The Killchain” by Bolt Thrower, “Crime Divine” by Dismember and “Wolverine Blues” by Entombed. These are the guitar covers which French Death Metal outfit Breeding Chaos have offered up to introduce you to their World but it’s their debut EP “Diffraction Matters” where the magic really happens. Unveiling that in February, the band applied the
While American Progressive Death Metal act Revocation were in Toronto, Belgian Jasper took a moment to chat with guitarist and vocalist Dave Davidson about life on the road, new music and Cannibal Corpse. The bands current album “Netherheaven” is fast approaching 14 months old and so another record about confronting Lucifer could be on the
It has to be said that in 2023 it feels strange to be talking about a debut EP in “The Devil Has Evolved” from Cambridge riff merchants Akkadian, if for no other reason than we’ve been listening to them since 2019. Formed in 2018, the outfit spent their early years shaping their sound to ensure
Splicing together an interview with Unearthed frontman Trevor Phipps with live footage from the Toronto Canada stop of the bands run with Revocation, Ethenos and High Command, Belgian Jasper proves that he has more to his armoury than his inquisitive mind. The Metalcore heroes are celebrating 25 years together with new album “The Wretched, The
As the 10th Anniversary tour of the seminal Party Deathcore album “About That Life” from Attila keeps crushing venues globally, frontman Chris Fronzak dropped into the studio with Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza for the latest episode of the Garza Podcast. The discussion goes from writing songs with a deck of cards and being misunderstood
Continuing a series of… shall we say eclectic(?) covers from Avant-garde Metal trio Imperial Triumphant which has already seen them let fly renditions of “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead, “A Night In Tunisia” by Dizzy Gillespie and “Jacob’s Ladder” by Rush, “Motorbreath” by Metallica has entered the room. While a covers album hasn’t as yet been announced, the
Returning for a second conversation with guitarist duo Joel and Andi from Helve means we get to chalk something from our epically long bucket list – an interview about writing and recording in the dark and cryptic genre that is Post-Metal. They released their masterpiece of a debut album “To Be Forgotten” via Ripcord Records at
A second interview with multi instrumentalist and studio guru Matt Crawford, one half of Cambridge Groove centric Metal act Crowborn is available for your coffee machine reading as we plunge into the dark waters of the writing and recording of their debut EP “It Just Is“. The master of strings, Crawford also recorded, produced, mixed
