Conjuring isn’t for the faint of heart. When you start playing around with supernatural forces and calling upon entities beyond our understanding, you risk letting something you can’t control or comprehend loose upon the world. Mess around with forces from beyond and you just might end up with a scenario on your hands that looks…
Extreme metal is meant for the nighttime. Ok, so there’s obviously nothing wrong with blaring Celtic Frost at any time of day but the night just feels more appropriate for anything and everything extreme. Face it, your black Cause of Death T-shirt looks way cooler when it’s not 80 degrees and sunny out. Sure, outdoor festivals are…
It’s been a long wait, but the first Lord Mountain LP has finally been unleashed upon the world. The Oath, released on January 20 of this year, builds on the promise that Lord Mountain displayed way back in 2016 when they released their self-titled debut EP. Fans who dug the band’s first output will not be disappointed…
Sometimes a record comes along that is both firmly rooted in a genre and that transcends that genre. It’s a tough task to make something that is readily identifiable as death metal, for instance, but that also includes elements and ideas that are pretty far afield from what you’d normally get with a typical release…
People find inspiration everywhere. A brush with death could be the push you need to make a grand change. Maybe something as simple as a nice walk in the forest gave you the motivation to write something haunting. Even just experiencing someone else’s art can be the impetus that a lot of people need to…
Going it alone can be tough, especially when you’re a band. Writing, recording, and performing music is an onerous enough task when you have partners around you, let alone when all the decisions fall on your shoulders. There certainly are benefits, like not fighting over creative directions and figuring out how to split revenue, but there’s…
It’s always a Hell of an exciting time when a band you really dig releases new music. As soon as that album gets announced, you circle that date on your calendar and now you’ve got something to look forward to, something to get you through the day and give you some kind of light at…
There are some places around the world that just seem to breed great music. Whether it’s the climate, the attitude of the natives, the local water…some places just seem to be hotbeds for creativity. Anyone that loves extreme music (or Hell, music in general) knows that New Orleans is one of the strongest scenes for pretty…
The music that stays with you, that actually lives as a part of your life, that shit comes from the heart. It’s probably a real “duh” statement but you have to put your heart and soul into something to make it last. How many disposable pop albums that all sound the same are released in…
The best music doesn’t give a fuck what you think. That shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone reading a zine that tends to skew towards the more extreme side of metal. It’d be pretty damn near impossible to make a killer death metal album if you were worrying if this lyric or that idea…