Riding high on the crest of the wave of their Progressive Metal magnum opus “Ecdysis“, a second for Napalm Records and fifth in all, Moldova’s finest export Infected Rain have released a live album titled “The Devil’s Dozen” via the label. Previously streamed during the Great Plague Years, it is just part of the conversation
It has to be said that Revocation, Skeletal Remains, Morbid Angel, Vitriol and Crypta have had to endure some terrible luck on their current tour together. A tornado destroyed a venue they were due to play at, tragically taking the life of a fan while crushing Crypta’s RV and putting them back $60k. That’s before
While on tour with Enslaved and Black Anvil in Canada, Insomnium guitarist Markus Vanhala joined Belgian Jasper at the Saulter Street Brewery in Toronto to sink a pint or two of Paradox IPA. The conversation flows from the bands new album “Anno 1696” to the tour as both have been very well received however it
After 43 years of playing trailblazing Thrash Metal you could excuse them if Overkill wanted to rest on their laurels and tour their existing material without any desire to write anything new. However that simply isn’t on the agenda for them and new album “Scorched” proves there is still plenty of fight left in the
Making their mark in Black Metal with their debut “Beneath The Crimson Eclipse“, Imperial Demonic have risen from Belfast in Northern Ireland while worshiping second wave acts like Dark Funeral, Dissection and Dimmu Borgir. Speaking to Belgian Jasper about how everything happened, the interview finds them discussing everything from Cheesy influences to emotional connections and
Rising Belgian Symphonic Deathcore purveyors When Plagues Collide have just given us a brutal new offering “An Unbiblical Paradigm” and so a conversation with the legendary Belgian Jasper was never in doubt. Aside from talk of the new album, the rise in prominence of the genre and the emotional weight and depth of the material,
24th February is the date that Century Media are licking their lips about the prospect of because it’s the date that the ninth album, “Anno 1696” by Finnish Metal Meloncholic Masters Insomnium finally see release. A concept record based upon a tale inked by bassist Niilo Sevänen, it has already seen a string of singles
Following 2019’s very well received album “Empath“, Progressive Metal Mastermind Devin Townsend continues to do no wrong with new album “Lightwork” and it’s companion piece “Nightwork“, a collection of b-sides, demos ans experiments from the recording process. The living legend sat down with Belgian Jasper to discuss both records as well as Graspop Metal Meeting,
Candlemass vocalist Johan Langquist is the man in the hot seat as Belgian Jasper quizzes the Swede on “Sweet Evil Sun“, the Epic Doom Metallers new Napalm Records offering. The conversation also goes into the 40th Anniversary of the bands existence and their legacy, the inspiration of Iommi and Black Sabbath and how they choose
When former Revocation and 3 Inches Of Blood pairing Justin Hagberg and Ash Pearson released “Give In To Despair” as new project Ritual Dictates two years ago it had everything you’d expect from them with Death, Thrash and Grindcore influences in the melting pot. Their sophomore album “No Great Loss” however is an entirely different
