NIGHTBEARER are a new star in the death metal firmament. Enjoy this conversation with vocalist Michael about death metal (of course), fantasy literature and misspelled band logos.
Hey, what exactly were the reasons for the founding of NIGHTBEARER ? Please tell us who’s in the band responsible for what? And what about Schlachtung!, does the band still exist, will you maybe return with new recordings and some more live appearances in the future?
NIGHTBEARER started basically as a two-piece side project of Dome and myself besides our other bands --Despised, Schlachtung!, Bloodwork, speaking for myself, and Despised, Hate Force One & Legion, speaking for Dome – without any bigger ambitions to play live or record more than one EP or so. After knowing each other quite a time and after doing the songwriting for Despised together, we realized that both of us had some old school death metal riffs and ideas in the closet and that it would be a shame not to use/record them. So we decided that we would finish the songs together, Dome would record the instruments and do mixing and I would take care of the lyrics, the vocals, the concept, promo, social media etc. To go full speed on stage we recruited fellow musicians from Hate Force One (Manuel, Florian) and Despised (Christian).
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Sunday, August 26, 2018
INTERVIEW APOKALYPTIC RAIDS
APOKALYPTIC RAIDS from Brazil is a band that gained cult status in some parts of the scene. Now they released their new album called „The Pentagram“. Reason enough to do an interview with vocalist and guitarrist Leon Manssur.
Man, 20 years are really transforming. Best experiences were
certainly travelling around the world and meeting and playing to new people.
Worst experiences might be about a shit part of the „music business“. Hopefully
I can stay away more and more from that shit.
I have no nostalgia of the old days. It was great then, it
is great now. I make it. Great is where I am now, I will make it great
whenever. Of course it is different with regards to technology. Things are much
faster now. But the things that are human, like greed, passion, so on, these
never change.
Current line-up is stable with me, Leon Manssur on the
guitar and vocals, Vinicius Canabarro on the bass, since 2003, and Pedro Rocha
in the drums from 2001-2007 and 2013-now. Vinicius is also singer in Atomic
Roar, a band already on their third album now. Pedro is from Farscape and
Whipstriker. He is a professional drummer/teacher and has a lot of bands and
projects aside of metal.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
INTERVIEW JASON NETHERTON / "SEND BACK MY STAMPS"-FANZINE ARCHIVE / MISERY INDEX
Hey Jason, first of
all, how are you doing ? Some months ago I found your fanzine archive (look here), which is
really great ! So I think you are a very busy man, playing with Misery Index and running this fanzine archive, furthermore you published this book about death
metal history called „Extremity retained-notes from the death metal underground“-so
are you somekind of workaholic ?
Haha, no its just a labor of love; I’ve been dedicated to metal since I was a kid, and extreme metal since I was a teenager, so although it takes up most of my spare time, its never a burden. In fact all of my projects (band related and fanzine archive) are kind of like part-time projects now. Aside from real work, I do what I can when I can. Lately the fanzine archive has slowed down a bit, but I have not forgotten it. Once things settle down I will get back into it more actively. Right now I try to add one zine a month, and I already have a few hundred in there, so its growing slow and steady (but probably not as fast as some people would like, I know).
Haha, no its just a labor of love; I’ve been dedicated to metal since I was a kid, and extreme metal since I was a teenager, so although it takes up most of my spare time, its never a burden. In fact all of my projects (band related and fanzine archive) are kind of like part-time projects now. Aside from real work, I do what I can when I can. Lately the fanzine archive has slowed down a bit, but I have not forgotten it. Once things settle down I will get back into it more actively. Right now I try to add one zine a month, and I already have a few hundred in there, so its growing slow and steady (but probably not as fast as some people would like, I know).
Labels:
Archive,
Black Metal,
Death Metal,
Extreme Metal,
Fanzine Archive,
Fanzines,
Grindcore,
Metal History,
Misery Index
Thursday, August 2, 2018
REVIEW ELÄNDE "DÖDENS RIKE"
ELÄNDE is a Swedish three-piece black metal band from Gothenburg which exists since 2010. Before the release of their current album named "Dödens rike" they released a demo and an EP.
Most prominent member of this band is for sure Trish, who plays drums in ELÄNDE, I think some people know her through a lot of bands and projects such as DödsÄngel, Djevelkult or Skitliv. Besides ELÄNDE, she actually plays for example in Urarv, an avantgarde black metal band in which Aldrahn, well known through Dodheimsgard /DHG, does vocals and guitars. But enough of that namedropping, I only mentioned this to point out that ELÄNDE consists of well-experienced scenesters and musicians.
Most prominent member of this band is for sure Trish, who plays drums in ELÄNDE, I think some people know her through a lot of bands and projects such as DödsÄngel, Djevelkult or Skitliv. Besides ELÄNDE, she actually plays for example in Urarv, an avantgarde black metal band in which Aldrahn, well known through Dodheimsgard /DHG, does vocals and guitars. But enough of that namedropping, I only mentioned this to point out that ELÄNDE consists of well-experienced scenesters and musicians.
Labels:
Ancient,
Black Metal,
Craneo Negro Records,
Djevelkult,
DödsÄngel,
Elände,
Gothenburg,
Graven,
Skitliv,
Sweden,
Swedish Black Metal,
Throne Of Ahaz,
Urarv
Saturday, July 7, 2018
ROMANIAN SCENE REPORT
To be honest, I don't know much about the (extreme) metal scene of Romania. Like most people involved in extreme metal I have listened to Negura Bunget and Dordeduh and of course I know (very metal related) the story of Dracula (Vlad III Draculea), that lyrically inspired countless metal bands. But after that I have reached the end of my knowledge concerning Romanian metal. Mihai ”Coro” Caraveţeanu of Axa Valahă Productions wrote a really interesting scene report and I can't express how grateful I am for these deep insights !
Hi! First of all I’d like to say I’m honored
that someone invited me over to write about the Romanian metal scene, I did
that several times before in this life, but my last attempt happened more than
a decade ago, when I thought there was still hope that something will change
here for good. As most of you most probably know already, Romania is a country
in the Eastern Europe, with a tragic past, including more than fifty years of
different totalitarian regimes, the longest being the harshest communist regime
behind the Iron Curtain, a dictatorship built on fear and a spiral of silence
that affected and still affects the nation as a whole even three decades after
it was supposedly finished. It happened in the final days of 1989 when the
dictatorship was over, the dictator executed, with his execution broadcasted on
the national television and with more than 1000 collateral victims of the single
bloody revolution from all the social and political movements which happened in
the East around the same time.
ROMANIAN
SCENE REPORT
A
dark letter from the land of Dracula
Labels:
Axa Valaha Productions,
Black Metal,
Bloodway,
Cronos,
Death Metal,
Disinter,
Doom Metal,
Dordeduh,
Gothic,
Grimegod,
Mercy's Dirge,
Negura Bunget,
Psycho Symphony,
Romania,
Sincarnate,
Taine,
Ultimatum
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
REVIEW EKPYROSIS "DEATHTRIPS"
At the Magoth-gig last saturday I met the guy behind The Crawling Chaos Records who sold some stuff on his distro table. We talked about black metal in general and Ildjarn in particular and he advised me a band named EKPYROSIS, whose latest release is published by his label. To be honest, until then only knew the Italian death metal band of the same Name ( I found out that there are some other bands called EKPYROSIS). On their newest release named "Deathtrips", that is only available on tape (limited to 150 handnumbered copies and as digital download here), you can hear six tracks with a duration of 18 minutes. EKPYROSIS are labeled as avant-garde black metal, and I don't totally disagree, but hearing the term avant-garde within a black metal context I think to bands such as newer Dodheimsgard / DHG, Arcturus, Fleurety or Ved Buens Ende, and all these examples sound totally different, much more progressive, more complex and technical.
Friday, June 22, 2018
REVIEW ATROCITY "OKKULT II"
Since "Okkult" and the following EP "Masters of Darkness" Germany's ATROCITY are back on the path of creating more extreme sounds. In my review for the EP (here-review written in German) I looked back at the entire discography, and believe me, I am far away from being an uncritical listener, and yes, there has been some releases by ATROCITY I really didn't like.
Labels:
Atrocity,
Celtic Frost,
Death Metal,
Germany,
Massacre Records,
Therion
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