“We don’t like writing songs that fit a genre box, or limit our creativity. We write on instinct, together in a room, and allow for the mistakes and errors to guide the creative process just as much as the moments of intention.” ~ Negative 13
Comprising drummer Colin “Dark Shopanovic” Alley and multi instrumentalist and vocalist Aki Streeter, Misanthropic Planet are a Black Metal duo hailing from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in Austria. Fuelled by themes of misanthropy, hate and darkness alongside a fair amount of self loathing and an unhealthy set of introspective thoughts, their debut album “Demon’s Underworld Trance” landed
“Like many people, I’ve struggled with negative emotions for as long as I can remember – I put it down to my late ADHD diagnosis. When you are in a bad state of mind, it’s very hard to not feel like you are cursed in some way – that no decision you are forced to
The playwright William Congreve once wrote “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak“. A sentence often miss quoted as “Music soothes the savage beast“, its a reminder that one man’s sow’s ear is anothers silk purse and some beasts are more savage than others. Aurora, Colorado
“Internal Revolution is a kind of summary of the band’s activity from 2017 to 2024. These are nine very diverse songs with different tempos and atmospheres. We wondered for a long time if and how we would record these songs and how we would release them: singles, EP or maybe a full album…? Finally we
Having already accumulated 108k streams on Spotify and YouTube alone across just a handful of singles, we think its fair to say that Brighton Alternative Metal quartet Sypha are a band riding the crest of a wave after just twenty four months in the game. Building on that, the summer of 2024 saw them reach
There is nothing quite like a DIY or DIE approach that pulls on the heart strings when it comes to the Underground Metal scene. Who needs a fancy studio, expensive producer and shinny new equipment to record their cryptic writings when learning the craft and doing it all on a laptop in your back bedroom
Originally conceived in 2023 as a Black Metal project with Thrash and Speed Metal leaning riffs, Veenlijk (or “Bog Corpses“) evolved with the addition of members with past lives in the Dutch Punk and Post-Hardcore scenes. Deciding to push the sonic boundaries of their genre of choice rather than restrict themselves, the four piece embraced
Originally a one man project born of the mind of guitarist, bassist and songwriter Riccardo Silla in 2022, Dark Reflection grew from man to beast as he was joined by drummer Lorenzo Domizi (Emperial Abyss, Bothers), the growler and producer Mauro “Ulag” Mancinelli (Deathcvlt, In Lacrimaes et Dolor, OsseltioN) and guitarist Mike Rossi “The Unholy”
“’Arimortis’ is a term of Latin origin which indicates the end of a war, the moment in which the fallen are honoured and altars are erected in their name (‘arae mortis’, the altars of death). Even today in some parts of Italy the term ‘arimo’ is used to declare the end of the games. We
