The journey of Essex Metallers Hellforged began in a rehearsal space that evolved into a stage and while others are taking the slow boat to China with the steady waterfall of singles and music videos, this quartet came up with a different plan. Polish the material until it can be played to perfection and then
More precisely Avatar frontman and unhinged mastermind Johannes Eckerstrom talks to Joshua Toomey and Chris Akin of KnotFest about the fan reaction to the bands latest offering “Dance Devil Dance” as well as why the band decided to form their own label and go independent from here on out. There is even time to give
Having completed a largely sold out first ever European tour trek in January with Angelmaker, Enterprise Earth and To The Grave in tow, guitarist Chris Wiseman and drummer Bryce Butler from Symphonic Deathcore titans Shadow Of Intent spoke to Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds in the latest episode of The Downbeat Podcast. It’s
Continuing to stick like Gorilla glue to their mantra “No trends, no scenes, only death“, having unvieled a cover of “Satanic Speed Metal” by Destroyer 666 yesterday, North Carolina Blackened Death Thrash merchants Krvsade have shared an interview. It’s like… a commercial for an old school exploitation movie on VHS in style and finds them
Having accumulated over a million Spotify Streams for 2020 EP “Memento Mori” and fought their way to the final of Metal 2 The Masses for a chance to play Bloodstock in 2022, it was only a matter of time before Welsh Metallers Eulogy committed a debut album to tape. Titled “Rebirth” the record arrived at
Having embraced the EP format as their own South Dakota Metallic Hardcore heavyweights Earth Groans have been dropping them with alarming regularity. Frontman and multi instrumentalist Jeremy Schaeffer took a break from his regular duties to speak to Heavy New York about the bands latest offering “Tongue Tied” as well as the format, lyrical process
While they sharpen up their blades in the rehearsal space and prepare to do battle at Metal 2 The Masses for the chance to play the New Blood stage at Bloodstock Open Air Festival, we took a moment to have a casual conversation with Essex Metal act Hellforged. Their debut EP “Live at Stag Studios”
The sources that bands are inspired to write music by never cease to amaze and going back to the original Ghostbusters movie to re-animate the corpse of Gozer seems to have kept the almighty Whipworm up until the small hours. We spoke to mastermind Travis Weinand about the duo’s latest burnt offering, a masterpiece of Thrash
Hardcore Vs Metal, lyrical inspirations, upcoming album #20 in “Scorched” and a deep dive into the bands catalog are all on the cards as Heavy New York talk to Bobby Blitz from legendary American Thrash powerhouse Overkill in this latest in their long running line of high quality interviews. The new album will see the
“We Are Revolution” from Thrasherwolf may not be a new album but it’s still prime real estate when it comes to the UK Underground Thrash Metal scene. So ahead of their plans for 2023 the band talked about not only the record, their writing process and history of the band but upcoming shows and new
