Describing it as their most personal album to date, Evile vocalist, guitarist and mastermind Ol Drake sits down with Belgian Jasper to discuss his bands new burnt offering “The Unknown” just before it drops via Napalm Records on 14th July. 82k of Spotify streams alone for the title track before the album is unleashed is
Joining a long line of high quality albums to be released via Nuclear Blast imprint label Blood Blast Distribution, “Cosmic Warfare” from Canadians Atavistia is a mighty fine piece of work. Combining a wide range of influences from Scandinavian Folk to Melodic Death and Black Metal while having a guest appearance from Aether Realm vocalist
Having dropped their tenth Studio album “Dealing with Demons II” via Napalm Records, American Groove Metal Kings Devildriver put forward guitarist Mike Spreitzer to chat with Belgian Jasper about it. Topics of conversation include their co-headlining tour with Cradle Of Filth, his relationship with vocalist Dez Fafara and a guilty pleasure in Steel City Rock
Ahead of the bands album release show and North American tour, Belgian Jasper sat down with Raider vocalist Angelo Bonaccorso to talk about the Melodic Death Thrash masters work “Trial By Chaos“. Topics of conversation also include the Kitchener Waterloo scene, the bands love of both Death and Thrash Metal and what happens next after
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,
