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
Another day another interview with Revocation? Well they’ve got an astounding new album in “Netherheaven” out now, one which was four years in the making, so they’ve got a lot to talk about! Conceptually the band explore the allegorical and literal aspects of Hell as they dig deeper into the darker, more diabolical side of
Guitarist and songwriter Olavi Mikkonen from Amon Amarth sat down to discuss the bands twelfth studio record “The Great Heathen Army” with Belgian Jasper in this new interview. Also on the cards, their next Global touring campaign which will start with a co-headlining tour of Europe alongside Machine Head and Swedish Melodic Death Metal supergroup
