There can’t be many people on Planet Metal who can name more than one Armenian-American Heavy Metal band. 5 albums, 4 Grammy nominations, 1 Grammy award and a wealth of critical acclaim later and quite what System Of A Down are doing in 2020 remains anyone’s guess. Back in the day however, it was a
When we reviewed “From Filth To Filth” from Filthy Crook, one thing came to mind. Headbanging. Their EP is so groove laden that it will have even the hardest of Metal Heads cracking a smile as they listen to it. So we asked them about the influences behind it and this is what they said… “After
Following the huge success of their platinum selling debut album “All Killer No Filler” and big single “Fat Lip” in 2001 it was back to the drawing board for Canadian Pop Punks Sum 41. Taking their sound and injecting more aggression in the form of Melodic Hardcore, Horror Punk and Thrash Metal and filtering out
Swedish Avant-garde Metallers Avatar are a band who have some incredible ideas… And some really unhinged ones. Back in 2012 the band recorded their fourth studio record “Black Waltz” and when it came to shooting a music video for the title track, the makeup artist gave frontman Johannes Eckerström the now infamous Clown Face that
A Swedish Avant-garde Black Metal band from Stockholm Sweden, Terra Tenebrosa was formed from the ashes of former Post-Hardcore act Breach in 2009. It was two years before they were ready with their nightmarish first studio album “The Tunnels” which appeared in 2011 before their second, “The Purging” surfaced in 2013. That album takes the
Little did we know at the time, but the sixth studio record from San Diego Californian Metalcore Monsters As I Lay Dying would be their last for some 7 long years after its 2012 appearance via Metal Blade Records. Produced by Descendants drummer Bill Stevenson with recording split between The Blasting Room in Fort Collins
One of the corner stones of the Swedish Black Metal scene, Bathory took their name from the Hungarian Princess Elizabeth Bathory. Formed in 1984 and having a 20 year run, their fifth studio record “Hammerheart” stepped away from the genre with the Viking Metal elements of Amon Amarth present in the sound as the band
Described by many critics as being among Death Metals elite, Decapitated are Poland’s biggest export into the World of Technical Death Metal with their fourth studio album “Organic Hallucinosis” released in 2006 to acclaim. The only album to see vocalist Adrian “Covan” Kowanek at the helm, it saw the band tour North America with Suffocation. However in
A Melodic Death Metal quintet with Progressive and Doom Metal influences, Insomnium formed in 1997, with a song writing axis of bassist and vocalist Niilo Sevänen and guitarist Dr. Ville Friman creating music around lyrical themes that portray darkness, pain, sorrow and loss. It was 2006 before the bands third studio album “Above the Weeping
1998 saw the release of the third critically acclaimed studio album from Swedish Progressive Death Metal titans Opeth. Recorded the summer prior to its release with producer Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity) and In Flames vocalist Anders Fridén at Studio Fredman In Gothenburg Sweden “My Arms Your Hearse” was the first album to
