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SAT ABOUT 50 feet away from James Hetfield, as he was stood in the middle of The Round in San Francisco’s brand-spanking-new Chase Center, sans his trusty ESP but flanked by a full orchestra, belting out Unforgiven III… It was an image, a moment and a night that I’ll never forget; S&M2 was a stark and welcome reminder that, almost 40 years in, there’s still no one that does things quite like Metallica. As we catch up with metal’s biggest band ahead of the official home release of that iconic gig, there’s a lot to talk about. After all, the world is a very different place from the one they played in on that night in September 2019: James has since been through rehab, the world has come in and out…

SAT ABOUT 50 feet away from James Hetfield, as he was stood in the middle of The Round in San Francisco’s brand-spanking-new Chase Center, sans his trusty ESP but flanked by a full orchestra, belting out Unforgiven III… It was an image, a moment and a night that I’ll never forget; S&M2 was a stark and welcome reminder that, almost 40 years in, there’s still no one that does things quite like Metallica. As we catch up with metal’s biggest band ahead of the official home release of that iconic gig, there’s a lot to talk about. After all, the world is a very different place from the one they played in on that night in September 2019: James has since been through rehab, the world has come in and…

STEPHEN HILL WRITER Steve was so excited to discover genre-smashing trap-metaller Backxwash that he literally rang up Editor Merl to demand we cover her, so it was only fair he got to write her big New Noise feature. Remember where you heard about her first (to be clear: it was from Steve). RICH HOBSON WRITER This month The Man Who Knows No Pitch Too Ambitious has been busy getting Jesse Leach from Killswitch to make us a killer mixtape and hanging in the studio with young doom metal heroes Pallbearer. Apparently they’ve gone pop punk. We’re absolutely gutted. TINA KORHONEN PHOTOGRAPHER While lockdown meant that photoshoots haven’t exactly been in abundance of late, Tina’s kept grinding by hosting seminars and putting together kickass shoots depicting some of her best metal chums on their own doorsteps. You can’t keep…

STEPHEN HILL WRITER Steve was so excited to discover genre-smashing trap-metaller Backxwash that he literally rang up Editor Merl to demand we cover her, so it was only fair he got to write her big New Noise feature. Remember where you heard about her first (to be clear: it was from Steve). RICH HOBSON WRITER This month The Man Who Knows No Pitch Too Ambitious has been busy getting Jesse Leach from Killswitch to make us a killer mixtape and hanging in the studio with young doom metal heroes Pallbearer. Apparently they’ve gone pop punk. We’re absolutely gutted. TINA KORHONEN PHOTOGRAPHER While lockdown meant that photoshoots haven’t exactly been in abundance of late, Tina’s kept grinding by hosting seminars and putting together kickass shoots depicting some of her best metal…

PARKWAY KISS THEIR NERVES GOODBYE

SEPTEMBER MARKS FIVE years since Parkway Drive released the album that’d elevate them from metalcore heavyweights to future festival headliners. “This isn’t just another album,” frontman Winston McCall told Metal Hammer in our exclusive cover feature, and he wasn’t kidding – Ire dropped on September 25, 2015 and was a landmark record for the quintet, trading in their hallmark mix of metallic riffs and hardcore brutality for full-on heavy metal thunder. A badass album needs a badass magazine cover, so we decided to cover the band in buckets of blood, give them a chainsaw and let them run around some woods in deepest Australia for an Evil Dead-themed photoshoot with Hammer snapper Kane Hibberd. The results, much like the album, were fucking groovy.…

PARKWAY KISS THEIR NERVES GOODBYE

PARKWAY KISS THEIR NERVES GOODBYE

SEPTEMBER MARKS FIVE years since Parkway Drive released the album that’d elevate them from metalcore heavyweights to future festival headliners. “This isn’t just another album,” frontman Winston McCall told Metal Hammer in our exclusive cover feature, and he wasn’t kidding – Ire dropped on September 25, 2015 and was a landmark record for the quintet, trading in their hallmark mix of metallic riffs and hardcore brutality for full-on heavy metal thunder. A badass album needs a badass magazine cover, so we decided to cover the band in buckets of blood, give them a chainsaw and let them run around some woods in deepest Australia for an Evil Dead-themed photoshoot with Hammer snapper Kane Hibberd. The results, much like the album, were fucking groovy.…

PARKWAY KISS THEIR NERVES GOODBYE

DOWNLOAD’S BACK!

AS METAL HAMMER went to press this month, we were greeted by the massive first line-up announcement for Download 2021. With this year’s festival being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rock and metal fans were keen for something tangible to look forward to at Donington Park next year, and with more than 70 names now added to 2021’s bill, the majority of next year’s event is now in place and looking pretty damn good. Many of the bands planned for 2020’s incarnation of the festival have returned to the line-up for next year, not least rock’n’roll legends Kiss, who’ll finally get to play their final European shows on their extensive farewell tour, including one more stop at Donington to headline the Friday night. Also returning to the bill are metal…

DOWNLOAD’S BACK!

DOWNLOAD’S BACK!

AS METAL HAMMER went to press this month, we were greeted by the massive first line-up announcement for Download 2021. With this year’s festival being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rock and metal fans were keen for something tangible to look forward to at Donington Park next year, and with more than 70 names now added to 2021’s bill, the majority of next year’s event is now in place and looking pretty damn good. Many of the bands planned for 2020’s incarnation of the festival have returned to the line-up for next year, not least rock’n’roll legends Kiss, who’ll finally get to play their final European shows on their extensive farewell tour, including one more stop at Donington to headline the Friday night. Also returning to the bill are…

DOWNLOAD’S BACK!

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

TRIVIUM ARE THE KINGS OF STREAMING Their epic livestream was the best thing metal has produced in lockdown so far. Other bands: consider the bar set. DRIVE-IN GIGS DIDN’T WORK OUT Skindred were amongst the bands to have their drive-in tours cancelled this month. Booo! Hopefully we can find a way to safely do gigs soon. COREY TAYLOR IS DOING A SOLO ALBUM And it’s finally coming out! Yes! Also, apparently he has a wrestling belt now. NIGHTWISH HAVE A CRAB NOW It’s called Tanidromites nightwishorum in honour of our favourite Symphonic Finns, and it was kicking about in the Jurassic era. Metal. ZAKK WYLDE IS FINALLY GOING FULL SABBATH And you can find out what we thought of his Zakk Sabbath album in this very issue SOCIALLY DISTANT MUSIC VENUES ARE NOW A THING Although it’s gotta be said, the…

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

TRIVIUM ARE THE KINGS OF STREAMING Their epic livestream was the best thing metal has produced in lockdown so far. Other bands: consider the bar set. DRIVE-IN GIGS DIDN’T WORK OUT Skindred were amongst the bands to have their drive-in tours cancelled this month. Booo! Hopefully we can find a way to safely do gigs soon. COREY TAYLOR IS DOING A SOLO ALBUM And it’s finally coming out! Yes! Also, apparently he has a wrestling belt now. NIGHTWISH HAVE A CRAB NOW It’s called Tanidromites nightwishorum in honour of our favourite Symphonic Finns, and it was kicking about in the Jurassic era. Metal. ZAKK WYLDE IS FINALLY GOING FULL SABBATH And you can find out what we thought of his Zakk Sabbath album in this very issue SOCIALLY DISTANT MUSIC…

10 THINGS WE LEARNED THIS MONTH

WHO’D WIN A BATTLE ROYALE?

“IF WE KEEP FOCUSING ON OLD MUSIC, THAT’S NOT GOING TO GET US ANYWHERE” REBA MEYERS THIS YEAR HAS been one for the books for Code Orange. Seeing their latest album release almost shatter beneath them from an unexpected lockdown, they had to act fast. Launching themselves into the digital world at rapid speed, the Pittsburgh natives proved that they’re prepared for anything – especially when it comes to questions from Hammer’s own readers. How much of an impact do you think releasing on the cusp of COVID-19 impacted on you as a band? Would you do anything different with the release with hindsight? Mark Baker (Facebook) Jami: “No, we wouldn’t do anything different. I’m hard on ourselves and everyone in this group knows it, I think we handled it the pinnacle of how…

WHO’D WIN A BATTLE ROYALE?

WHO’D WIN A BATTLE ROYALE?

“IF WE KEEP FOCUSING ON OLD MUSIC, THAT’S NOT GOING TO GET US ANYWHERE” REBA MEYERS THIS YEAR HAS been one for the books for Code Orange. Seeing their latest album release almost shatter beneath them from an unexpected lockdown, they had to act fast. Launching themselves into the digital world at rapid speed, the Pittsburgh natives proved that they’re prepared for anything – especially when it comes to questions from Hammer’s own readers. How much of an impact do you think releasing on the cusp of COVID-19 impacted on you as a band? Would you do anything different with the release with hindsight? Mark Baker (Facebook) Jami: “No, we wouldn’t do anything different. I’m hard on ourselves and everyone in this group knows it, I think we handled it…

WHO’D WIN A BATTLE ROYALE?

“MINOR THREAT WERE the first band that made me want to pick up a microphone. Hearing the smashing bottles at the start of Bottled Violence, then having the bass line hit along with those crunchy guitars… it’s like getting punched in the face. As a 14-year-old kid it was one of the coolest things I’d heard in my life - my only frame of reference at the time had been Metallica and this was just intense. I’m pushing 42 and it’s still my favourite kind of music… I’m a lifer and this is a lifestyle, not just music. If you were to ask me to tell somebody what punk is without them having a clue, I’d point to GBH’s Generals as it’s absolutely classic. The attitude, his voice, the guitars……

“MINOR THREAT WERE the first band that made me want to pick up a microphone. Hearing the smashing bottles at the start of Bottled Violence, then having the bass line hit along with those crunchy guitars… it’s like getting punched in the face. As a 14-year-old kid it was one of the coolest things I’d heard in my life - my only frame of reference at the time had been Metallica and this was just intense. I’m pushing 42 and it’s still my favourite kind of music… I’m a lifer and this is a lifestyle, not just music. If you were to ask me to tell somebody what punk is without them having a clue, I’d point to GBH’s Generals as it’s absolutely classic. The attitude, his voice, the guitars… it…

BARNEY GREENWAY

AS THE FRONTMAN of Brummie grindcore pioneers Napalm Death, Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway has become one of the most important and recognisable voices in the world of extreme music. Since joining Napalm in 1989, Barney has watched his band grow from noisy underground curios to a genuine cult phenomenon, his frenzied vocal style and impassioned political stance a key factor in their success. We spoke to him to find out what he’s learned in his years of service. ALL HAIL LEMMY “Motörhead were the first band that encapsulated everything that music could be for me. They didn’t toe the line with anything, they always did what they did. There was a bit of music snobbery at that time about how well you could play, and they just didn’t care about that…

BARNEY GREENWAY

BARNEY GREENWAY

AS THE FRONTMAN of Brummie grindcore pioneers Napalm Death, Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway has become one of the most important and recognisable voices in the world of extreme music. Since joining Napalm in 1989, Barney has watched his band grow from noisy underground curios to a genuine cult phenomenon, his frenzied vocal style and impassioned political stance a key factor in their success. We spoke to him to find out what he’s learned in his years of service. ALL HAIL LEMMY “Motörhead were the first band that encapsulated everything that music could be for me. They didn’t toe the line with anything, they always did what they did. There was a bit of music snobbery at that time about how well you could play, and they just didn’t care about that at all;…

BARNEY GREENWAY

A DECADE AGO, it seemed unfeasible that the funereal sounds of doom could so emphatically capture the hearts and imaginations of metal fans and press alike, much less breach international charts, but heavyweights Pallbearer achieved just that on Heartless, their third record. It broke the Top 200 Stateside (peaking at No.187) and Top 100 (No.98) in Germany, while also landing high spots on numerous critics’ end-of-year lists. Frontman Brett Campbell tells us the band aren’t resting on their laurels and may just have completed their most ambitious and emotionally cathartic record yet. On each release you’ve developed and expanded your sound. How does this new record fit in with that trajectory? “I’d say this album is an amalgam of everything we’ve done so far. We haven’t pushed so far in the technical…

A DECADE AGO, it seemed unfeasible that the funereal sounds of doom could so emphatically capture the hearts and imaginations of metal fans and press alike, much less breach international charts, but heavyweights Pallbearer achieved just that on Heartless, their third record. It broke the Top 200 Stateside (peaking at No.187) and Top 100 (No.98) in Germany, while also landing high spots on numerous critics’ end-of-year lists. Frontman Brett Campbell tells us the band aren’t resting on their laurels and may just have completed their most ambitious and emotionally cathartic record yet. On each release you’ve developed and expanded your sound. How does this new record fit in with that trajectory? “I’d say this album is an amalgam of everything we’ve done so far. We haven’t pushed so far in…

ONLY FOR THE WEAK BY IN FLAMES

“I HAVE SO many memories of this song,” In Flames frontman Anders Fridén smiles when asked about his band’s signature anthem, Only For The Weak. “The first one that comes to mind is when we played it at a festival in Gothenburg [Metaltown 2010]. It was being held next to a bridge between the city and the nearest island. We played the song and then the earthquake alarms on the bridge started ringing! They had to move the festival the next year because of that.” Anders’ voice is bright with perverse pride as he nears the 20th anniversary of a track so powerful that it nearly destroyed millions of pounds’ worth of 1930s architecture. “That’s what you call a heavy song!” he quips happily, showing none of the apathy that some…

ONLY FOR THE WEAK BY IN FLAMES

I don’t think someone could fuck up a cover more than the Puddle Of Mudd guy did with About A Girl @ElianLPH Great White should apologise for their entire musical output @Metaldad66 Can someone please cover Ain’t No Skinheads Allowed In Mohawk Town by The Vandals? I think it’s well past time that we mosh pit this problem of white supremacy. @asa_coe I think St Anger should be a reminder that you should stop having reality TV therapy and instead write another Puppets album @jmaloney998 Man, I’ve always loved The Crusade. I can see why people would dislike it but for me it’s god-tier. Better than Silence In The Snow imo @TairaKruspe…

I CAN’T TAKE DRIVE-IN GIGS SERIOUSLY

OUT THE DRIVE-IN Sorry, I just can’t take this ‘drive-in gig’ stuff seriously. I know everyone’s trying their best but are you really telling me the future of gigs is inside a car beeping our horns like it’s rush hour? Not for me. Stephen McAhren (Facebook) Well, we’re a little short of options for gigs right now, so these will have to do, alright? Anything that gets bands some money and means we can at least pretend we’re moving towards normality works for us. QUESTION TIME I enjoyed the ‘metal out of lockdown piece’ in the last issue. Some other questions I’d like answering, though: how do we make sure independent venues survive and it’s not just the ‘big boys’ that go on after this? How do we get metal back in the mainstream again?…

I CAN’T TAKE DRIVE-IN GIGS SERIOUSLY

ONLY FOR THE WEAK BY IN FLAMES

“I HAVE SO many memories of this song,” In Flames frontman Anders Fridén smiles when asked about his band’s signature anthem, Only For The Weak. “The first one that comes to mind is when we played it at a festival in Gothenburg [Metaltown 2010]. It was being held next to a bridge between the city and the nearest island. We played the song and then the earthquake alarms on the bridge started ringing! They had to move the festival the next year because of that.” Anders’ voice is bright with perverse pride as he nears the 20th anniversary of a track so powerful that it nearly destroyed millions of pounds’ worth of 1930s architecture. “That’s what you call a heavy song!” he quips happily, showing none of the apathy that…

ONLY FOR THE WEAK BY IN FLAMES

SHE SAID “Despite the derision fired at it over the years, nu metal’s longevity is no longer a surprise. Now, almost two decades since its initial demise, it’s risen again to fire the imaginations of a new generation, who are pushing its legacy in a brand-new direction.” YOU SAID Trust me kids, you don’t want to do this. I know the trousers seem cool but you wait ’til it rains. Maximilian Ellis (Facebook) People will slate it relentlessly for a few years. Then emo will come back and all of a sudden the return of nu metal won’t seem so bad. Samuel Smith (Facebook) Anything that helps bring rock and metal back to the forefront of music I’m game for! Loved the 80s glam metal culture. Steve Connelly (Facebook) As someone who spent her high school years drowning in…

METALLICA S&M2 “Reliving one of the most magnificent live shows I’ve ever seen. Long live Metallica” MERLIN ALDERSLADE EDITOR OCEANS OF SLUMBER Oceans Of Slumber “An epic expression of life’s highs and lows” ELEANOR GOODMAN DEPUTY EDITOR IHSAHN Pharos “Following Ulver’s latest, it’s clearly glorious progressive pop by black metal pioneers month” JONATHAN SELZER REVIEWS EDITOR OCEANS OF SLUMBER Oceans Of Slumber “Utterly mesmerising” VANESSA THORPE PRODUCTION EDITOR BUSH The Kingdom “Bush are back and at their most confident” LOUISE BROCK ART EDITOR…

I CAN’T TAKE DRIVE-IN GIGS SERIOUSLY

SLIPKNOT: ALEXANDRIA CRAHAN CONWAY/PRESS OUT THE DRIVE-IN Sorry, I just can’t take this ‘drive-in gig’ stuff seriously. I know everyone’s trying their best but are you really telling me the future of gigs is inside a car beeping our horns like it’s rush hour? Not for me. Stephen McAhren (Facebook) Well, we’re a little short of options for gigs right now, so these will have to do, alright? Anything that gets bands some money and means we can at least pretend we’re moving towards normality works for us. QUESTION TIME I enjoyed the ‘metal out of lockdown piece’ in the last issue. Some other questions I’d like answering, though: how do we make sure independent venues survive and it’s not just the ‘big boys’ that go on after this? How…

I CAN’T TAKE DRIVE-IN GIGS SERIOUSLY

“I THINK GENRE lines are blurring all the time,” says Montreal-based rapper Backxwash. “Experimentation is crucial for every genre these days. I think back to someone like Screaming Jay Hawkins and wonder what it would be like to see a modern equivalent of that now and try and make it happen. He was melding all genres, never apologising for it, and scaring people at the same time.” The conversation about what defines ‘metal’ has raged on since it was invented back at the start of the 1970s. Is metal just defined by a sound? Or can it also be defined by an attitude: an unwillingness to compromise yourself, no matter the cost? If the latter is the case, then Backxwash is the most metal artist you’ll hear in 2020. “I started making…

I don’t think someone could fuck up a cover more than the Puddle Of Mudd guy did with About A Girl @ElianLPH Great White should apologise for their entire musical output @Metaldad66 Can someone please cover Ain’t No Skinheads Allowed In Mohawk Town by The Vandals? I think it’s well past time that we mosh pit this problem of white supremacy. @asa_coe I think St Anger should be a reminder that you should stop having reality TV therapy and instead write another Puppets album @jmaloney998 Man, I’ve always loved The Crusade. I can see why people would dislike it but for me it’s god-tier. Better than Silence In The Snow imo @TairaKruspe…

SHE SAID “Despite the derision fired at it over the years, nu metal’s longevity is no longer a surprise. Now, almost two decades since its initial demise, it’s risen again to fire the imaginations of a new generation, who are pushing its legacy in a brand-new direction.” YOU SAID Trust me kids, you don’t want to do this. I know the trousers seem cool but you wait ’til it rains. Maximilian Ellis (Facebook) People will slate it relentlessly for a few years. Then emo will come back and all of a sudden the return of nu metal won’t seem so bad. Samuel Smith (Facebook) Anything that helps bring rock and metal back to the forefront of music I’m game for! Loved the 80s glam metal culture. Steve Connelly (Facebook) As…

“WE’RE TRYING TO prove the point that metal doesn’t have to be angry all the time,” Deadthrone vocalist Chris Bissette tells Hammer. “Growing up as a man, you get taught not to express yourself. I think that’s why a lot of male- driven music tends toward aggression, because that’s the only emotion you’re allowed to express.” The band’s beginnings take them back to being plucky, fresh-faced university graduates who just loved music. Chris attributes his own desire for starting a band to his childhood: “I’ve wanted to be in a band since I was four years old. I found an old Black Sabbath tape in my dad’s bedroom, listened to it and it fucking blew my mind. I just knew from that age I wanted to be in a band and…

WHEN YOU ASK Deity’s Muse frontman Wayne Boucher what his band sounds like, his default answer is always: “If Alice in Chains and Tool had a baby with Tesseract.” A heavenly combination on paper, what this means to him is prog-metal with big riffs, fat groove and songs packed with melody. Over the past few years, Deity’s Muse have smashed UK festival slots at Bloodstock and Techfest as well as supporting Jinjer across the country. However, in their home of South Africa, the band are presented with something of a glass ceiling: the music scene is small, there aren’t many venues and few international bands tour the country. “It’s very easy to oversaturate your market here,” says Wayne. “Last year we played more shows in the UK than South Africa!” It’s…

METALLICA S&M2 “Reliving one of the most magnificent live shows I’ve ever seen. Long live Metallica” MERLIN ALDERSLADE EDITOR OCEANS OF SLUMBER Oceans Of Slumber “An epic expression of life’s highs and lows” ELEANOR GOODMAN DEPUTY EDITOR IHSAHN Pharos “Following Ulver’s latest, it’s clearly glorious progressive pop by black metal pioneers month” JONATHAN SELZER REVIEWS EDITOR OCEANS OF SLUMBER Oceans Of Slumber “Utterly mesmerising” VANESSA THORPE PRODUCTION EDITOR ALESTORM: PRESS. INSET: BIG JOHN/YOUTUBE BUSH The Kingdom “Bush are back and at their most confident” LOUISE BROCK ART EDITOR…

BOSTON CREW WILDERUN formed in 2011, on a mission to inject a US twist, inspired by traditional American folklore and bluegrass, into the Euro-centric folk metal genre. But since their 2012 debut, Olden Tales & Deathly Trails, they’ve thrown off the confines of genre, transmogrifying into an intriguing, cinematic proposition that’s ripe for exploration. Their third album, Veil Of Imagination, baked our noggin when we heard it. Maintaining their organic folk roots, the band helter-skelter between melodic death and symphonic metal, and the progressive inclinations of Opeth, probing the trade-offs between melody, tension and release. “One of our main drivers is boredom – or impatience,” says vocalist and guitarist Evan Berry. “There’s so many different feelings, themes and worlds of colour to explore. We don’t like to get tied down in one…

“I THINK GENRE lines are blurring all the time,” says Montreal-based rapper Backxwash. “Experimentation is crucial for every genre these days. I think back to someone like Screaming Jay Hawkins and wonder what it would be like to see a modern equivalent of that now and try and make it happen. He was melding all genres, never apologising for it, and scaring people at the same time.” The conversation about what defines ‘metal’ has raged on since it was invented back at the start of the 1970s. Is metal just defined by a sound? Or can it also be defined by an attitude: an unwillingness to compromise yourself, no matter the cost? If the latter is the case, then Backxwash is the most metal artist you’ll hear in 2020. “I…

THOUGHTFUL, HOARY AND above all heavy, Kansas City metallers Hyborian have crafted a delectable mix of headbangable riffage and ambitious, progged-out noodling. “Too much prog gets annoying and too much chug gets boring,” says Martin Bush (vocals/guitars/synths) of the band’s careful recipe. “We just try to keep ourselves interested and hopefully that works for the listener too.” It’s a question of balance and contrast, with the music’s progressive futurism nudging up against atavistic themes inspired by Conan The Barbarian author Robert E. Howard. Most bands might be content to keep their themes to their lyrics, but not Hyborian – Martin penned an entire novel (The Traveller: A Hyborian Tale) outlining the album’s story before recording even began. “Writing a concept record based on a book I wrote was a little hairy,” he admits.…

“WE’RE TRYING TO prove the point that metal doesn’t have to be angry all the time,” Deadthrone vocalist Chris Bissette tells Hammer. “Growing up as a man, you get taught not to express yourself. I think that’s why a lot of male- driven music tends toward aggression, because that’s the only emotion you’re allowed to express.” The band’s beginnings take them back to being plucky, fresh-faced university graduates who just loved music. Chris attributes his own desire for starting a band to his childhood: “I’ve wanted to be in a band since I was four years old. I found an old Black Sabbath tape in my dad’s bedroom, listened to it and it fucking blew my mind. I just knew from that age I wanted to be in a band…

IDA MAE “THEY USED TO be in a rock band, they’re not really heavy anymore, but it’s more of a duo. It’s kinda like if Jeff Buckley and Fleetwood Mac got together. They’re a married couple and it’s the kinda thing you have to see live. They both sing, so they have incredible harmonies, the wife is on percussion and the husband sings, and it’s so incredible. His voice is otherwordly, I can’t even describe it. They’re actually from the UK! They moved to Nashville just before lockdown.” LZZY HALE: PRESS/JIMMY FONTAINE. IDA MAE: PRESS/DEAN CHALKLEY.…

WHEN YOU ASK Deity’s Muse frontman Wayne Boucher what his band sounds like, his default answer is always: “If Alice in Chains and Tool had a baby with Tesseract.” A heavenly combination on paper, what this means to him is prog-metal with big riffs, fat groove and songs packed with melody. Over the past few years, Deity’s Muse have smashed UK festival slots at Bloodstock and Techfest as well as supporting Jinjer across the country. However, in their home of South Africa, the band are presented with something of a glass ceiling: the music scene is small, there aren’t many venues and few international bands tour the country. “It’s very easy to oversaturate your market here,” says Wayne. “Last year we played more shows in the UK than South Africa!”…

THE OCEAN PHANEROZOIC II: MESOZOIC | CENOZOIC - WOODEN BOX SET METAL BLADE/PELAGIC £188 NEVER ONES TO let a good idea go to waste, Germany’s post-metal voyagers The Ocean have a knack for bringing out eye-wateringly beautiful box sets to flesh out their high-concept albums. From the bolted, revolving dials gracing the Heliocentric/Anthropocentric collection, detailing the movements of the planets and zodiac signs, to the layered levels of Perspex detailing the various strata of, well, the ocean, for Pelagial and beyond, the band are masters of the elite edition craft. Their latest is breathtaking, too. Complementing Phanerozoic I, this second, fossil-themed part comes in its own, embossed wooden case, featuring the album in original and instrumental versions on coloured and mottled clear vinyl, as well as wooden USB stick, an engraved slate rock plate,…

BOSTON CREW WILDERUN formed in 2011, on a mission to inject a US twist, inspired by traditional American folklore and bluegrass, into the Euro-centric folk metal genre. But since their 2012 debut, Olden Tales & Deathly Trails, they’ve thrown off the confines of genre, transmogrifying into an intriguing, cinematic proposition that’s ripe for exploration. Their third album, Veil Of Imagination, baked our noggin when we heard it. Maintaining their organic folk roots, the band helter-skelter between melodic death and symphonic metal, and the progressive inclinations of Opeth, probing the trade-offs between melody, tension and release. “One of our main drivers is boredom – or impatience,” says vocalist and guitarist Evan Berry. “There’s so many different feelings, themes and worlds of colour to explore. We don’t like to get tied down…

“WE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING”

“That tour was just incredible for us. Sold- out stadiums, we had such a good time, so much fun. Really, it was amazing. Then, literally two days after we got home, we got the message.” You can practically hear Robert Trujillo shaking his head in disbelief as he recounts the moment that Metallica found out James Hetfield was returning to rehab. It was in September 2019, a matter of days after the band had just pulled off two of the most epic shows in their near-40-year history: S&M2, a spectacular double-header of Metallica gigs backed by the San Francisco Symphony, taking place over two nights at the city’s newly opened Chase Center. The shows were spectacular. They were a triumph. They were even more surprising than the original S&M 20 years…

“WE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING”

LZZY HALE: PRESS/JIMMY FONTAINE. IDA MAE: PRESS/DEAN CHALKLEY. THOUGHTFUL, HOARY AND above all heavy, Kansas City metallers Hyborian have crafted a delectable mix of headbangable riffage and ambitious, progged-out noodling. “Too much prog gets annoying and too much chug gets boring,” says Martin Bush (vocals/guitars/synths) of the band’s careful recipe. “We just try to keep ourselves interested and hopefully that works for the listener too.” It’s a question of balance and contrast, with the music’s progressive futurism nudging up against atavistic themes inspired by Conan The Barbarian author Robert E. Howard. Most bands might be content to keep their themes to their lyrics, but not Hyborian – Martin penned an entire novel (The Traveller: A Hyborian Tale) outlining the album’s story before recording even began. “Writing a concept record based…

PULLING THE STRINGS

WHAT WAS IT LIKE FINALLY GETTING TO GET UP THERE AND PLAY THESE SONGS WITH METALLICA AFTER ALL THOSE MONTHS OF PREP? “It was a blast. I think we’d been able to rehearse it together pretty well, so it was fun by the time we got to the actual shows. We worked out the circular stage and people being able to hear each other in the mix, and the band were happy. There were definitely some nerves all round, of course, but if you do your preparation right, the performances become fun, and credit to everyone involved that we were able to do that.” WHAT WAS THE MOST CHALLENGING THING ABOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS? “The whole thing was a challenge! I think just being able to get the live mix to work in…

PULLING THE STRINGS

IDA MAE “THEY USED TO be in a rock band, they’re not really heavy anymore, but it’s more of a duo. It’s kinda like if Jeff Buckley and Fleetwood Mac got together. They’re a married couple and it’s the kinda thing you have to see live. They both sing, so they have incredible harmonies, the wife is on percussion and the husband sings, and it’s so incredible. His voice is otherwordly, I can’t even describe it. They’re actually from the UK! They moved to Nashville just before lockdown.” LZZY HALE: PRESS/JIMMY FONTAINE. IDA MAE: PRESS/DEAN CHALKLEY.…

SETTLE THE SCORE

THE ECSTASY OF GOLD The orchestra gives Metallica’s hallmark intro piece a whole new lease of life, while composer Ennio Morricone’s passing earlier this year gives it some extra sentimental value, too. KIRK: “That track has been played at every single Metallica gig since I’ve been in the band, so to see the orchestra play it was huge. Ennio was the master: a masterful composer and an incredible musician, and he will definitely be missed. May he rest in peace.” THE CALL OF KTULU Metallica’s big, epic instrumental was the perfect choice to open the original S&M – and it worked so well they decided to repeat the trick 20 years later. EDWIN: “I think it features the orchestra so strongly, it’s such a gradual build, and it’s one of the more busy, virtuosic charts…

THE OCEAN PHANEROZOIC II: MESOZOIC | CENOZOIC - WOODEN BOX SET METAL BLADE/PELAGIC £188 NEVER ONES TO let a good idea go to waste, Germany’s post-metal voyagers The Ocean have a knack for bringing out eye-wateringly beautiful box sets to flesh out their high-concept albums. From the bolted, revolving dials gracing the Heliocentric/Anthropocentric collection, detailing the movements of the planets and zodiac signs, to the layered levels of Perspex detailing the various strata of, well, the ocean, for Pelagial and beyond, the band are masters of the elite edition craft. Their latest is breathtaking, too. Complementing Phanerozoic I, this second, fossil-themed part comes in its own, embossed wooden case, featuring the album in original and instrumental versions on coloured and mottled clear vinyl, as well as wooden USB stick, an…

“HE HAD A HEART OF GOLD”

The acclaimed singer, guitarist and actor Lynda Kay was born in Dallas, Texas and resides in Los Angeles, appropriately so as she has been a regular on the music scene and on TV shows such as Amazon Prime’s Goliath for many years. Along the way, she struck up a close friendship with the late Motörhead frontman Lemmy, a hero in our world – not just for his unique bass playing, but also for the sheer force of his intellect and personality. Kay’s latest album, Black And Gold, features a beautifully heartfelt duet with the man himself called The Mask – required listening for anyone interested in his more introspective side. Here, Kay recalls her many memories of life with the last true rock star. How did you first meet Lemmy, Lynda? “My husband…

“HE HAD A HEART OF GOLD”

THE CIRCUS LEAVES TOWN

Agilded throne rises up from Download’s main stage, bearing Avatar guitarist Jonas Jarlsby, AKA The King. The man at the centre of the band’s carnivalesque Avatar Country concept album, he surveys his subjects as he riffs, and a huge cheer goes up. It’s mad, it’s Avatar literally taken to the next level, and it’s warmly received by a festival crowd who are here to let loose. This Friday afternoon in June 2018 feels like a real moment for the Swedes, who have significantly increased their audience since playing the same stage two years earlier. “The Avatar Country stage show was very pornographic in that it was very in-your-face, and didn’t leave much to the imagination,” singer Johannes Eckerström grins today, sitting on his sofa at home in Helsinki, with chihuahua Jacob…

THE CIRCUS LEAVES TOWN

“WE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING”

“That tour was just incredible for us. Sold- out stadiums, we had such a good time, so much fun. Really, it was amazing. Then, literally two days after we got home, we got the message.” You can practically hear Robert Trujillo shaking his head in disbelief as he recounts the moment that Metallica found out James Hetfield was returning to rehab. It was in September 2019, a matter of days after the band had just pulled off two of the most epic shows in their near-40-year history: S&M2, a spectacular double-header of Metallica gigs backed by the San Francisco Symphony, taking place over two nights at the city’s newly opened Chase Center. The shows were spectacular. They were a triumph. They were even more surprising than the original S&M 20…

“WE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING”

PULLING THE STRINGS

PRESS/ANTON CORBIJN. INSET: PRESS/ BRETT MURRAY. WHAT WAS IT LIKE FINALLY GETTING TO GET UP THERE AND PLAY THESE SONGS WITH METALLICA AFTER ALL THOSE MONTHS OF PREP? “It was a blast. I think we’d been able to rehearse it together pretty well, so it was fun by the time we got to the actual shows. We worked out the circular stage and people being able to hear each other in the mix, and the band were happy. There were definitely some nerves all round, of course, but if you do your preparation right, the performances become fun, and credit to everyone involved that we were able to do that.” WHAT WAS THE MOST CHALLENGING THING ABOUT THE WHOLE PROCESS? “The whole thing was a challenge! I think just being…

PULLING THE STRINGS

“WE ASKED THE FUCKER TO WHISTLE!”

HOW DID COREY TAYLOR END UP IN THE STUDIO? “He came to visit with his wife, who was also a fan of Avatar, and we have opened for Slipknot before. And a million years ago, we opened for Stone Sour as well. Aside from that, he’s also worked with Jay [Ruston, producer] a lot and they have become good friends, so it was a, ‘Hey man, we’re gonna be in town, mind if we swing by and say hi? And actually I can lay something down on something if they’re interested.’” WHY DID YOU ASK HIM TO WHISTLE ON A SECRET DOOR? “We are huge South Park fans, and in season one, George Clooney plays a dog and Jay Leno was a cat. So what do you do if you bring in this…

THE 20 BEST DOWNLOAD SETS EVER

Since launching in 2003, Download Festival has become a firm fixture in every metal fan’s diary. Sadly, this is the first year the annual pilgrimage to Donington Park didn’t happen. But rather than sit around and mope about it , we asked you to cast your minds back and vote for your favourite ever performances from the festival’s illustrious history. The fact that we could have doubled the number of legendary moments says it all. But here are 20 greatest ever Download sets, as voted for by you. 20 AVENGED SEVENFOLD MAIN STAGE, 2011 At the start of the 00s, the metal world wondered who was going to step up and become part of the next generation of headliners. Bullet For My Valentine? Trivium? Bring Me The Horizon? But it was a deal…

THE 20 BEST DOWNLOAD SETS EVER

SETTLE THE SCORE

THE ECSTASY OF GOLD The orchestra gives Metallica’s hallmark intro piece a whole new lease of life, while composer Ennio Morricone’s passing earlier this year gives it some extra sentimental value, too. KIRK: “That track has been played at every single Metallica gig since I’ve been in the band, so to see the orchestra play it was huge. Ennio was the master: a masterful composer and an incredible musician, and he will definitely be missed. May he rest in peace.” THE CALL OF KTULU Metallica’s big, epic instrumental was the perfect choice to open the original S&M – and it worked so well they decided to repeat the trick 20 years later. EDWIN: “I think it features the orchestra so strongly, it’s such a gradual build, and it’s one of…

FROM THE DEPTHS

Between 2018 and 2019, all the original members of Oceans Of Slumber left, bar drummer/ songwriter Dobber Beverly. He’d been he self-professed ‘shot caller’ of the band since they started in 2011, and later insisted they bring in female singer Cammie Gilbert, against two of his bandmates’ wishes (“there is a stigma in metal towards a boys’ club,” he notes). But with Cammie on board, they evolved from a loose, directionless project into a slick, soulful, progressive proposition that deftly incorporated extreme metal. Dobber and Cammie are now the heart of the band, and are also engaged to be married. Together with keyboardist Mat Aleman (who joined in 2018) and new members Jessie Santos guitar/backing vocals), Alexander Lucian (guitar/backing vocals) and Semir Ozerkan (bass), they are about to release their fourth…

FROM THE DEPTHS

“HE HAD A HEART OF GOLD”

The acclaimed singer, guitarist and actor Lynda Kay was born in Dallas, Texas and resides in Los Angeles, appropriately so as she has been a regular on the music scene and on TV shows such as Amazon Prime’s Goliath for many years. Along the way, she struck up a close friendship with the late Motörhead frontman Lemmy, a hero in our world – not just for his unique bass playing, but also for the sheer force of his intellect and personality. Kay’s latest album, Black And Gold, features a beautifully heartfelt duet with the man himself called The Mask – required listening for anyone interested in his more introspective side. Here, Kay recalls her many memories of life with the last true rock star. How did you first meet Lemmy,…

“HE HAD A HEART OF GOLD”

Blue is the New Black

When asked where the melancholy in her beautiful, downbeat songs comes from, singer-songwriter A.A. Williams casts her mind back to primary school. “I think I’ve always been like that, to be honest,” she says. “Everyone has it to an extent, and for me it was prominent for quite a long time. Your average child falls over in the playground and screams and shouts, and dinner ladies come running. But I would literally run off and hide in the toilet to try and fix it myself, so I didn’t show it to anyone. It’s an odd choice of action for a five-year-old, but that was how I was. I couldn’t bear anybody noticing me.” A.A. Williams is fast gaining a reputation for writing introspective songs that spiritually align with metal. She signed to…

Blue is the New Black

THE CIRCUS LEAVES TOWN

Agilded throne rises up from Download’s main stage, bearing Avatar guitarist Jonas Jarlsby, AKA The King. The man at the centre of the band’s carnivalesque Avatar Country concept album, he surveys his subjects as he riffs, and a huge cheer goes up. It’s mad, it’s Avatar literally taken to the next level, and it’s warmly received by a festival crowd who are here to let loose. This Friday afternoon in June 2018 feels like a real moment for the Swedes, who have significantly increased their audience since playing the same stage two years earlier. “The Avatar Country stage show was very pornographic in that it was very in-your-face, and didn’t leave much to the imagination,” singer Johannes Eckerström grins today, sitting on his sofa at home in Helsinki, with chihuahua…

THE CIRCUS LEAVES TOWN

“WE ASKED THE FUCKER TO WHISTLE!”

HOW DID COREY TAYLOR END UP IN THE STUDIO? “He came to visit with his wife, who was also a fan of Avatar, and we have opened for Slipknot before. And a million years ago, we opened for Stone Sour as well. Aside from that, he’s also worked with Jay [Ruston, producer] a lot and they have become good friends, so it was a, ‘Hey man, we’re gonna be in town, mind if we swing by and say hi? And actually I can lay something down on something if they’re interested.’” WHY DID YOU ASK HIM TO WHISTLE ON A SECRET DOOR? “We are huge South Park fans, and in season one, George Clooney plays a dog and Jay Leno was a cat. So what do you do if you…

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO START THE SERIES? “My manager has been trying to get me to do a live stream on Instagram for forever. And I keep saying, ‘No, the sound quality’s going to be awful, and it’s gonna be done on an iPhone, and I just want it to be better. So I thought, ‘Let’s just see if I can make it a little bit smart around the edges.’” HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE SONGS? “The initial idea came slightly accidentally from me putting on Instagram, ‘Hey, I wanna do some piano videos, would anybody like to hear anything in particular?’ and I didn’t think to specify that it needed to be one of my own songs. So suddenly people started suggesting Radiohead and Deftones and all sorts of stuff. And…

The Roots Of All Evil

The awe has its own force of gravity. The three members of Mystifier have made a pilgrimage to the Cemitério do Bonfim in Belo Horizonte, nearly 800 miles south of their hometown, Salvador, that sits on Brazil’s east coast. Amid row upon dense row of gothic gravestones and mausoleums stands a structure that has become the most potent epicentre of the country’s underground metal scene and beyond. Flanked by two dark pillars holding up an imposing arched shrine, a contrasting white marbled, crucified Christ looks down, as if in mourning for the act of blasphemy that was carried out under its shadow. It was here in 1987 that four bullet-belted, ghoulishly made-up teenagers shot the cover for the album without which Mystifier, and a host of other bands now sworn…

The Roots Of All Evil

“Sometimes reality can be too complex to be conveyed by the spoken word. Legend remoulds it into a form that can be spread all across the world”– Alpha 60, Alphaville If New York is the city that never sleeps, then the chances are that it’s going to lose some of its bearings. It’s become both iconic and a product of our collective, cultural imagination – its towering mesh of grime and grandeur has been the inspiration for almost a century’s worth of fantastic visions, from Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent Expressionist masterpiece, Metropolis, to Tim Burton’s scarab-like, steampunk Gotham City. It’s the natural home for cinematic, extradimensional destruction, and in novels like Paul Auster’s groundbreaking New York Trilogy or albums such as Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, a city as an internal state…

THE 20 BEST DOWNLOAD SETS EVER

Since launching in 2003, Download Festival has become a firm fixture in every metal fan’s diary. Sadly, this is the first year the annual pilgrimage to Donington Park didn’t happen. But rather than sit around and mope about it , we asked you to cast your minds back and vote for your favourite ever performances from the festival’s illustrious history. The fact that we could have doubled the number of legendary moments says it all. But here are 20 greatest ever Download sets, as voted for by you. 20 AVENGED SEVENFOLD MAIN STAGE, 2011 At the start of the 00s, the metal world wondered who was going to step up and become part of the next generation of headliners. Bullet For My Valentine? Trivium? Bring Me The Horizon? But it…

THE 20 BEST DOWNLOAD SETS EVER

THE BEAT GENERATION

WHAT’S YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT? Tomas: “Kenny Grohowski, the drummer of Imperial Triumphant, is someone I got to know first through my girlfriend, as Kenny was previously a drummer in her band and they’ve been friends for many years. She played me some Imperial Triumphant songs and I was immediately blown away by Kenny’s drumming skills and the vibe of the band. I have since seen them a few times live and they do not disappoint!” HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED PLAYING TAIKO DRUMS ON CITY SWINE? “Kenny reached out and asked if I had ever played Taiko drums, to which I answered, ‘No, of course not, are you high?!’ He asked if I would be into recording some Taiko drumming with him and the other guys, Zach [Ilya Ezrin, vocals] and Steve…

THE BEAT GENERATION

FROM THE DEPTHS

Between 2018 and 2019, all the original members of Oceans Of Slumber left, bar drummer/ songwriter Dobber Beverly. He’d been he self-professed ‘shot caller’ of the band since they started in 2011, and later insisted they bring in female singer Cammie Gilbert, against two of his bandmates’ wishes (“there is a stigma in metal towards a boys’ club,” he notes). But with Cammie on board, they evolved from a loose, directionless project into a slick, soulful, progressive proposition that deftly incorporated extreme metal. Dobber and Cammie are now the heart of the band, and are also engaged to be married. Together with keyboardist Mat Aleman (who joined in 2018) and new members Jessie Santos guitar/backing vocals), Alexander Lucian (guitar/backing vocals) and Semir Ozerkan (bass), they are about to release their…

FROM THE DEPTHS

S&M 2 BLACKENED San Francisco’s thrash titans revisit their symphonic landmark AN INSATIABLE APPETITE for risk and a commitment to innovation stand as the defining characteristics of all great artists. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that Metallica sit comfortably atop the heavy metal pantheon as its most successful sons. Not satisfied with pioneering thrash metal and selling tens of millions of records along the way, the San Francisco-based quintet have spent the ensuing years ever-experimenting with their trademark sound to dramatic and often polarising results. On one side sits the commercial juggernaut known as the Black Album and to the other sits the bitterly savaged Lulu. In 1999, they performed a set of Metallica classics accompanied by the San Francisco Symphony (SFS), which they released later that year as S&M. Sceptics be damned, the…

Blue is the New Black

When asked where the melancholy in her beautiful, downbeat songs comes from, singer-songwriter A.A. Williams casts her mind back to primary school. “I think I’ve always been like that, to be honest,” she says. “Everyone has it to an extent, and for me it was prominent for quite a long time. Your average child falls over in the playground and screams and shouts, and dinner ladies come running. But I would literally run off and hide in the toilet to try and fix it myself, so I didn’t show it to anyone. It’s an odd choice of action for a five-year-old, but that was how I was. I couldn’t bear anybody noticing me.” A.A. Williams is fast gaining a reputation for writing introspective songs that spiritually align with metal. She…

Blue is the New Black

OCEANS OF SLUMBER

Oceans Of Slumber CENTURY MEDIA Houston’s finest deliver a dark masterpiece for our times IT SEEMS PRETTY likely that we will all remember 2020 as one of the most unrelentingly shitty years we have ever experienced. But while we bemoan the incompetence of our leaders and the idiocy of our sunbathers, new and glorious music continues to light the way forward. Oceans Of Slumber have already done plenty to convince fans of progressive and melodic heaviness, particularly since the arrival of vocalist Cammie Gilbert and the band’s subsequent creative blossoming. With Gilbert’s charismatic presence and rich, soulful voice leading the charge, both 2016’s Winter and 2018’s The Banished Heart had significant impact, at least among discerning metalheads, and established the Texans as one of the most distinctive bands to salute the darkness in…

OCEANS OF SLUMBER

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO START THE SERIES? “My manager has been trying to get me to do a live stream on Instagram for forever. And I keep saying, ‘No, the sound quality’s going to be awful, and it’s gonna be done on an iPhone, and I just want it to be better. So I thought, ‘Let’s just see if I can make it a little bit smart around the edges.’” HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE SONGS? “The initial idea came slightly accidentally from me putting on Instagram, ‘Hey, I wanna do some piano videos, would anybody like to hear anything in particular?’ and I didn’t think to specify that it needed to be one of my own songs. So suddenly people started suggesting Radiohead and Deftones and all sorts…

God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It GRIMALKIN Thrilling, trap metal dispatches from the battlegrounds of self-identity ASHANTI MUTINTA KNOWS how it feels to be an outsider. A trans, trap-metal rapper born in Zambia but based in Montreal since the age of 17, her story is almost as unique as her music. On this, her third release as Backxwash, she has crafted a sound that blends her loves of hip hop, industrial and metal in a way that sounds unlike anything else you’ll hear this year. From the opening seconds of the album’s title track, it’s clear that tearing genre conventions to shreds is forefront on Backxwash’s agenda. It samples the song that first brought us heavy metal as we know it - Black Sabbath - but leaves it…

The Roots Of All Evil

The awe has its own force of gravity. The three members of Mystifier have made a pilgrimage to the Cemitério do Bonfim in Belo Horizonte, nearly 800 miles south of their hometown, Salvador, that sits on Brazil’s east coast. Amid row upon dense row of gothic gravestones and mausoleums stands a structure that has become the most potent epicentre of the country’s underground metal scene and beyond. Flanked by two dark pillars holding up an imposing arched shrine, a contrasting white marbled, crucified Christ looks down, as if in mourning for the act of blasphemy that was carried out under its shadow. It was here in 1987 that four bullet-belted, ghoulishly made-up teenagers shot the cover for the album without which Mystifier, and a host of other bands now sworn…

The Roots Of All Evil

Mara METAL BLADE Icelandic debutants rip up the tech death rulebook ICELAND’S MAGNIFICENT VISTAS and bleak isolation lend its musical artists an identifiable common individuality, which makes madcap newcomers Cult Of Lilith an even more appealing oddity, with debut Mara another unexpected treat from a country used to throwing up the unexpected. Having largely gone it alone on 2016’s Arkanum EP, guitarist Daniel pÞr Hannesson has assembled a crew of likeminded visionaries to combine cutting-edge technical death metal’s fretboard acrobatics and chunky bite with all manner of progressive, classical and technicolour influences and surprises that dart in from the leftfield. Opening its account with a harpsichord, Cosmic Maelstrom lives up to its billing with a flurry of notes, shattering drums, multiple rhythmic and tempo changes and an uncanny underbelly that’s as precise and devastating…

CONAN/DEADSMOKE Doom Sessions, Vol. 1 HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS Doom metal heavyweights Conan and Deadsmoke prove the ideal tandem. After the former slowly entice you with a constant, otherworldly allure, the latter then draw you from the catatonia with their gradually erupting energy. MATT MILLS HINAYANA Death Of The Cosmic NAPALM Mastered by Swallow The Sun’s Juho Raiha, these Texans’ five-track EP is awash in adventurous dynamics, but their lush, vaulting doom-death is held back by inflectionless vocals lacking the catharsis this music deserves. JONATHAN SELZER RIKET Öfarder VICISOLUM Featuring Netherbird’s Johan and Tobias, Riket mix melodeath and death/ thrash over three tracks without quite hitting the urgency of either. The main bite comes from the raspy, staccato, Alfahanne-esque Swedish-language vocals. JONATHAN SELZER FLESHDRIVER Leech REDEFINING DARKNESS Armed to the teeth with HM-2s, this Florida duo are clearly big Entombed fans, welding eerie Swedeath riffs to hulking hardcore grooves…

“Sometimes reality can be too complex to be conveyed by the spoken word. Legend remoulds it into a form that can be spread all across the world”– Alpha 60, Alphaville If New York is the city that never sleeps, then the chances are that it’s going to lose some of its bearings. It’s become both iconic and a product of our collective, cultural imagination – its towering mesh of grime and grandeur has been the inspiration for almost a century’s worth of fantastic visions, from Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent Expressionist masterpiece, Metropolis, to Tim Burton’s scarab-like, steampunk Gotham City. It’s the natural home for cinematic, extradimensional destruction, and in novels like Paul Auster’s groundbreaking New York Trilogy or albums such as Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, a city as an internal…

Pharos CANDLELIGHT/SPINEFARM Melodic magnificence from Norway’s chief maverick IF THE PURSUIT of beauty doesn’t seem to be a particularly metal occupation, it’s only because we spend so much time listening to music that revels in aggression, ugliness and darkness. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but if the steady rise of progressive ideals in heavy music proves anything, it’s that people genuinely do enjoy some light with their shade. Ihsahn knows this better than most, having amassed an extraordinary catalogue of solo albums over the last 15 years, every one of which has offered as much finesse, elegance and melodic refinement as it has riff-driven intensity. Pharos is undoubtedly the zenith of those more restrained musical urges, as Ihsahn explores the mellower, more overtly melodic side of his songwriting. It…

KILL THE LIGHTS

The Sinner FEARLESS Modern metal allstars go in search of groove and glory BULLET FROM MY Valentine drummer/founder Michael ‘Moose’ Thomas’s departure from the band back in 2017 would unwittingly bring together four individuals with the collective intent of combining the tried’n’tested metal of times past with modern-day relevance. Having already crossed paths many times over their respective careers, a simple text message from Thomas resulted in the creation of Kill The Lights: an amalgamation of current and former members of Still Remains, Throw The Fight and Threat Signal. Debut The Sinner represents that vision. Straight out of the blocks, Shed My Skin raids the senses with a devastating combination of riffs, maintaining massive groove without abandoning ferocity or skill, its accompanying spoken-word sample of ‘There will be no mercy, there will be no…

KILL THE LIGHTS

THE BEAT GENERATION

WHAT’S YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT? Tomas: “Kenny Grohowski, the drummer of Imperial Triumphant, is someone I got to know first through my girlfriend, as Kenny was previously a drummer in her band and they’ve been friends for many years. She played me some Imperial Triumphant songs and I was immediately blown away by Kenny’s drumming skills and the vibe of the band. I have since seen them a few times live and they do not disappoint!” HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED PLAYING TAIKO DRUMS ON CITY SWINE? “Kenny reached out and asked if I had ever played Taiko drums, to which I answered, ‘No, of course not, are you high?!’ He asked if I would be into recording some Taiko drumming with him and the other guys, Zach [Ilya…

THE BEAT GENERATION

Nija SEEK & STRIKE Eclectic Swedish metallers forge a thrilling, therapeutic whole AFTER BEING AROUND for the majority of the last decade, and with a couple of decent albums under their belt, eclectic Swedish metallers Orbit Culture have really dug deep to make their third album the best of their career. Nija was, by all accounts, inspired by vocalist/guitarist Niklas Karlsson’s crippling OCD issues, which makes sense when listening here, as it’s tightly packed and methodically crammed full of almost every strand of metal. It’s almost as if Niklas felt compelled to compartmentalise all of the glory of our beloved genre in a mere 44 minutes. From the second At The Front explodes to open the album with a catchy death metal-goes-sci-fi riff and Karlsson’s deep, gruesome, growling vocals, your attention is grabbed, and…

DEATHNOISEFREQUENCY Horrid Dirge SELF-RELEASED On hiatus from Saudi death-doomsters Grieving Age, Ghassan Al Fudail and vocalist Ahmed Mahmoud wade knee-deep in sludge across two tracks with echoes of Triptykon, Lord Mantis and Killdozer (RIP). SPENCER GRADY KEKAL Quantum Resolution EASTBREATH Indonesia’s Kekal observe 25 years with their most ‘out there’ release to date, having evolved from extreme metal/punk crossover to avant-garde exhortations of musical and philosophical evolution. TOM O’BOYLE SIGHT OF EMPTINESS Redemption SELF-RELEASED Opening with industrialised overtones and taking an approach that affixes grandiosity and pulsing electronica to extremity, these Costa Ricans assert their idiosyncratic brilliance on their fourth album. RICH HOBSON…

SKELETAL REMAINS

The Entombment Of Chaos CENTURY MEDIA LA’s death metal harriers bring the power of the old school to the present IF SKELETAL REMAINS have been plagued with accusations of being Pestilence clones over the past nine years, The Entombment Of Chaos is the moment where they’ve finally offered a thorough defence. Not only have the Californians outgrown their main influence, but they’ve surpassed it too. Guitarist and vocalist Chris Monroy is Skeletal Remains’ sole survivor of the purge that followed the previous album/tour cycle, so this is almost a brand-new band and their fourth full-length is bigger, bolder and meaner than anything they’ve done so far. They’re still very much rooted in the classic death metal sound of the 90s, but while the music remains old school at its core, the delivery and sonic…

SKELETAL REMAINS

PRESS/BRETT MURRAY S&M 2 BLACKENED San Francisco’s thrash titans revisit their symphonic landmark AN INSATIABLE APPETITE for risk and a commitment to innovation stand as the defining characteristics of all great artists. It’s hardly surprising, therefore, that Metallica sit comfortably atop the heavy metal pantheon as its most successful sons. Not satisfied with pioneering thrash metal and selling tens of millions of records along the way, the San Francisco-based quintet have spent the ensuing years ever-experimenting with their trademark sound to dramatic and often polarising results. On one side sits the commercial juggernaut known as the Black Album and to the other sits the bitterly savaged Lulu. In 1999, they performed a set of Metallica classics accompanied by the San Francisco Symphony (SFS), which they released later that year as…

OCEANS OF SLUMBER

Oceans Of Slumber CENTURY MEDIA Houston’s finest deliver a dark masterpiece for our times IT SEEMS PRETTY likely that we will all remember 2020 as one of the most unrelentingly shitty years we have ever experienced. But while we bemoan the incompetence of our leaders and the idiocy of our sunbathers, new and glorious music continues to light the way forward. Oceans Of Slumber have already done plenty to convince fans of progressive and melodic heaviness, particularly since the arrival of vocalist Cammie Gilbert and the band’s subsequent creative blossoming. With Gilbert’s charismatic presence and rich, soulful voice leading the charge, both 2016’s Winter and 2018’s The Banished Heart had significant impact, at least among discerning metalheads, and established the Texans as one of the most distinctive bands to salute…

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TOMORROW’S RAIN

Hollow AOP Israeli death/doom crew chart their struggles with a stellar guestlist THE STORY OF Israeli death/doom sextet Tomorrow’s Rain makes for a convoluted tale fraught with personal struggle. They were formed as Moonskin in 2002 by singer Yishai Sweartz and producer Maor Applebaum who later moved to LA, establishing himself as a successful producer with a diverse roster of clients from Yngwie J Malmsteen to Mayhem. Sweartz remained in Israel, becoming a successful promoter. With personal circumstances taking him increasingly further from the band, it was on the advent of his 40th birthday that he finally scratched a lifelong creative itch with the release of Hollow. It’s a record filled with sorrow. Mournful to the last, with huge, vengeful riffs permeating ponderous gloom. For a relatively unknown band, Sweartz’s professional connections came in…

TOMORROW’S RAIN

TYNESIDE TERRORS VENOM occupy a special place in our hearts, effectively birthing extreme metal with their gloriously crude, wild racket. Demo collection Sons Of Satan (BMG) [8] reveals the infernally ordained Cronos/Mantas/Abaddon line-up in their earliest, crudest, wildest form, joined by a short-lived vocalist named ‘Jesus Christ’, whose belched ejaculations effectively represent metal’s first death grunt. The boombox-taped 1979 Church Hall rehearsals sound abysmally primitive, but remaining sessions ring out loud and clear. Filled with raw, embryonic takes on future OTT classics, the whole experience feels akin to handing round thrash’s blurry baby photos. The Geordie trio’s impact was particularly profound on Japan’s avant-masters SIGH; four live Venom covers are included on Peaceville’s two-disc reissue of 1993 debut, Scorn Defeat [9], one of the era’s most singular black metal artefacts. Already…

God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It GRIMALKIN Thrilling, trap metal dispatches from the battlegrounds of self-identity ASHANTI MUTINTA KNOWS how it feels to be an outsider. A trans, trap-metal rapper born in Zambia but based in Montreal since the age of 17, her story is almost as unique as her music. On this, her third release as Backxwash, she has crafted a sound that blends her loves of hip hop, industrial and metal in a way that sounds unlike anything else you’ll hear this year. From the opening seconds of the album’s title track, it’s clear that tearing genre conventions to shreds is forefront on Backxwash’s agenda. It samples the song that first brought us heavy metal as we know it - Black Sabbath…

Mara METAL BLADE Icelandic debutants rip up the tech death rulebook ICELAND’S MAGNIFICENT VISTAS and bleak isolation lend its musical artists an identifiable common individuality, which makes madcap newcomers Cult Of Lilith an even more appealing oddity, with debut Mara another unexpected treat from a country used to throwing up the unexpected. Having largely gone it alone on 2016’s Arkanum EP, guitarist Daniel pÞr Hannesson has assembled a crew of likeminded visionaries to combine cutting-edge technical death metal’s fretboard acrobatics and chunky bite with all manner of progressive, classical and technicolour influences and surprises that dart in from the leftfield. Opening its account with a harpsichord, Cosmic Maelstrom lives up to its billing with a flurry of notes, shattering drums, multiple rhythmic and tempo changes and an uncanny underbelly that’s…

Flowers Of Evil JESTER Norway’s post-black adventurers head deeper into 80s pop nirvana DARKTHRONE DIDN’T GO disco. Mayhem never went funk. Of all the classic bands spewed from Norway’s second wave of black metal, Ulver are the most experimental, and the most successful at it. Any tosser with a Roland can string a few notes together and call it ‘ambient’ – it’s so easy, Varg Vikernes did it from prison. Pop music isn’t easy, though. And following years of genrehopping, 2017’s The Assassination Of Julius Caesar saw Ulver just make a great pop album. Embracing their love for 80 hit-makers like Talk Talk and Depeche Mode, they reinvented themselves once more. Flowers Of Evil picks up where The Assassination Of Julius Caesar left off, layering eight songs with all manner of vintage accoutrements and…

What were your feelings when you realised you wouldn’t be able to tour on a brand new album due to the world shutting down? Paolo Gregoletto (bass): “I feel like we accepted early on that this was not going to be a normal year or tour cycle for this album, but maybe we’d be back on track by the summer. As things started to shut down in April in the USA it really hit home that we would not be touring this year at all and that we’d have to get creative.” Where did the A Light Or A Distant Mirror stream idea first come from? “We started to talk about doing a live stream set all the way back in early March when our Asia dates got cancelled. The plan was to…

CONAN/DEADSMOKE Doom Sessions, Vol. 1 HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS Doom metal heavyweights Conan and Deadsmoke prove the ideal tandem. After the former slowly entice you with a constant, otherworldly allure, the latter then draw you from the catatonia with their gradually erupting energy. MATT MILLS HINAYANA Death Of The Cosmic NAPALM Mastered by Swallow The Sun’s Juho Raiha, these Texans’ five-track EP is awash in adventurous dynamics, but their lush, vaulting doom-death is held back by inflectionless vocals lacking the catharsis this music deserves. JONATHAN SELZER RIKET Öfarder VICISOLUM Featuring Netherbird’s Johan and Tobias, Riket mix melodeath and death/ thrash over three tracks without quite hitting the urgency of either. The main bite comes from the raspy, staccato, Alfahanne-esque Swedish-language vocals. JONATHAN SELZER FLESHDRIVER Leech REDEFINING DARKNESS Armed to the teeth…

BLACK STONE CHERRY SEP 9 BRISTOL O2 Academy SEP 10 BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy SEP 11 LINCOLN Engine Shed SEP 13 NOTTINGHAM Rock City SEP 14 LEEDS O2 Academy SEP 16 MANCHESTER O2 Apollo SEP 17 GLASGOW Barrowland SEP 18 EDINBURGH Usher Hall SEP 20 NEWCASTLE O2 Academy SEP 21 LIVERPOOL O2 Academy SEP 23 FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall SEP 24 CARDIFF St Davids Hall SEP 25 EXETER Great Hall SEP 27 SOUTHAMPTON O2 Guildhall SEP 28 CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange SEP 29 LONDON Royal Albert Hall BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2021 DEVIN TOWNSEND, JUDAS PRIEST, SAXON, BURY TOMORROW, SKINDRED, DARK TRANQUILLITY, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, JINJER, ORANGE GOBLIN, SYLOSIS, SVALBARD, SACRED REICH, GLORY HAMMER, VIO-LENCE + MORE AUG 11-15 2021 DERBYSHIRE Catton Hall DESTRUCTION WARBRINGER CRISIX DOMINATION DEC 2 LONDON The Dome DEC 3 MANCHESTER Academy 3 DEC 4 LIMERICK Dolan’s Warehouse DEC 5 DUBLIN Voodoo Lounge DEC 6 GLASGOW Slay DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2021 KISS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, KORN,…

Pharos CANDLELIGHT/SPINEFARM Melodic magnificence from Norway’s chief maverick IF THE PURSUIT of beauty doesn’t seem to be a particularly metal occupation, it’s only because we spend so much time listening to music that revels in aggression, ugliness and darkness. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, but if the steady rise of progressive ideals in heavy music proves anything, it’s that people genuinely do enjoy some light with their shade. Ihsahn knows this better than most, having amassed an extraordinary catalogue of solo albums over the last 15 years, every one of which has offered as much finesse, elegance and melodic refinement as it has riff-driven intensity. Pharos is undoubtedly the zenith of those more restrained musical urges, as Ihsahn explores the mellower, more overtly melodic side of…

KILL THE LIGHTS

The Sinner FEARLESS Modern metal allstars go in search of groove and glory BULLET FROM MY Valentine drummer/founder Michael ‘Moose’ Thomas’s departure from the band back in 2017 would unwittingly bring together four individuals with the collective intent of combining the tried’n’tested metal of times past with modern-day relevance. Having already crossed paths many times over their respective careers, a simple text message from Thomas resulted in the creation of Kill The Lights: an amalgamation of current and former members of Still Remains, Throw The Fight and Threat Signal. Debut The Sinner represents that vision. Straight out of the blocks, Shed My Skin raids the senses with a devastating combination of riffs, maintaining massive groove without abandoning ferocity or skill, its accompanying spoken-word sample of ‘There will be no mercy,…

KILL THE LIGHTS

How have you been doing during lockdown? Schmier (bass/vocals): “We decided to release a spontaneous live record! We thought the fans might appreciate a live album and it gave us something to do. It was a win-win situation.” Have you had any personal projects on the go? “I was super-busy with the live album and I’m managing and producing Burning Witches from Switzerland. I’ve had a busy lockdown so far, but it’s kept me sane in these weird times!” Has it been frustrating seeing all your shows postponed? “Yes, but we saw that coming really fast and I accepted it and we looked for solutions. The second wave of summer festival cancellations was worse. Everybody was hopeful that Open Air events with limited capacity could maybe possible.” How’s it looking from your perspective for this UK…

TRIVIUM SYLOSIS

FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY, ORLANDO Florida’s heavy metal hitters lead the livestream into a new era LIVE STREAMS ARE quickly becoming a staple in the lives of music lovers, their online accessibility intended to fill the void felt by many missing gigs and festivals as COVID-19 continues to affect our industry. The ongoing requirement that we adhere to social distancing has resulted in restrictions when it comes to this performance format, whether it be space or logistics, with bandmembers often having to link up from their respective homes to do so. For some fans, that absent sense of occasion and camaraderie has created a certain degree of stream fatigue as we pass the four-month mark. One might argue that it’s time for that next step in this experiment - and Trivium have taken…

TRIVIUM SYLOSIS

Nija SEEK & STRIKE Eclectic Swedish metallers forge a thrilling, therapeutic whole AFTER BEING AROUND for the majority of the last decade, and with a couple of decent albums under their belt, eclectic Swedish metallers Orbit Culture have really dug deep to make their third album the best of their career. Nija was, by all accounts, inspired by vocalist/guitarist Niklas Karlsson’s crippling OCD issues, which makes sense when listening here, as it’s tightly packed and methodically crammed full of almost every strand of metal. It’s almost as if Niklas felt compelled to compartmentalise all of the glory of our beloved genre in a mere 44 minutes. From the second At The Front explodes to open the album with a catchy death metal-goes-sci-fi riff and Karlsson’s deep, gruesome, growling vocals, your…

DEATHNOISEFREQUENCY Horrid Dirge SELF-RELEASED On hiatus from Saudi death-doomsters Grieving Age, Ghassan Al Fudail and vocalist Ahmed Mahmoud wade knee-deep in sludge across two tracks with echoes of Triptykon, Lord Mantis and Killdozer (RIP). SPENCER GRADY KEKAL Quantum Resolution EASTBREATH Indonesia’s Kekal observe 25 years with their most ‘out there’ release to date, having evolved from extreme metal/punk crossover to avant-garde exhortations of musical and philosophical evolution. TOM O’BOYLE SIGHT OF EMPTINESS Redemption SELF-RELEASED Opening with industrialised overtones and taking an approach that affixes grandiosity and pulsing electronica to extremity, these Costa Ricans assert their idiosyncratic brilliance on their fourth album. RICH HOBSON…

WACKEN WORLD WIDE

WACKEN-WORLD-WIDE.COM/MAGNETA MUSIK 360 Motörhead, Maiden and Priest bring the memories as metal’s biggest festival goes virtual WEDNESDAY A slightly glitchy service doesn’t detract from a well-curated online bill of music, discussion and clinics to placate fans who are missing the world’s biggest metal festival. A feature showing how the Wacken Battle Metal competitions that take place in every corner of the globe are crucial in growing and sustaining metal’s lifeblood is augmented by songs from Spanish thrashers CRISIX, the melodic choruses of Israel’s WALKWAYS and folky pandemonium of Romania’s E-AN-NA. Power metal legends RAGE are an even longer German institution than Wacken, and mark their umpteenth appearance on the festival’s behalf by playing a sturdy nine-song set in the magnificent Balve Cave. ANTHRAX’s living room set of Time, Madhouse and I Am The Law…

WACKEN WORLD WIDE

BETTER NOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL

YOUTUBE LIVE Mötley Crüe, Five Finger Death Punch and Papa Roach make brief stands against blandness BETTER NOISE MUSIC have organised this free online event that promises “performances and unseen footage by Mötley Crüe, Five Finger Death Punch, and more.” A list of bands has been advertised, although no running order has been published. As the chat window gathers steam in the minutes leading up to the kick-off, it’s clear that a staggering number of optimistic (yet hopelessly delusional) fans are expecting Crüe to perform live – even after Nikki Sixx took to Twitter on the day before, clarifying, “For those who keep asking. NO @MotleyCrue is not playing a festival coming up. Its [sic] a record company putting bands on the label for fans to stream. They are just calling it…

BETTER NOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL

SKELETAL REMAINS

The Entombment Of Chaos CENTURY MEDIA LA’s death metal harriers bring the power of the old school to the present IF SKELETAL REMAINS have been plagued with accusations of being Pestilence clones over the past nine years, The Entombment Of Chaos is the moment where they’ve finally offered a thorough defence. Not only have the Californians outgrown their main influence, but they’ve surpassed it too. Guitarist and vocalist Chris Monroy is Skeletal Remains’ sole survivor of the purge that followed the previous album/tour cycle, so this is almost a brand-new band and their fourth full-length is bigger, bolder and meaner than anything they’ve done so far. They’re still very much rooted in the classic death metal sound of the 90s, but while the music remains old school at its core,…

SKELETAL REMAINS

SONIC PUMP STUDIOS, HELSINKI Billed as a “practice session with fans”, ENSIFERUM mark their return to live performances for the first time in seven months with a full headline show split into three parts and interspersed with a fan Q&A, covering topics from whether they have plans for an acoustic record to frontman Petri Lindroos’s choice of footwear for the event. For the record, it’s slippers. The set is a folk metal fiesta; the band debut seven songs from new album Thalassic on its release day, including a stunning Cold Northland (Väinämöinen Part III) that sees newest member Pekka Montin outshine Lindroos on vocal duties and earning unanimous plaudits from the webchat accompanying the stream. The new material is complemented by a host of classics and rarities, none scarcer than Windrider…

TOMORROW’S RAIN

Hollow AOP Israeli death/doom crew chart their struggles with a stellar guestlist THE STORY OF Israeli death/doom sextet Tomorrow’s Rain makes for a convoluted tale fraught with personal struggle. They were formed as Moonskin in 2002 by singer Yishai Sweartz and producer Maor Applebaum who later moved to LA, establishing himself as a successful producer with a diverse roster of clients from Yngwie J Malmsteen to Mayhem. Sweartz remained in Israel, becoming a successful promoter. With personal circumstances taking him increasingly further from the band, it was on the advent of his 40th birthday that he finally scratched a lifelong creative itch with the release of Hollow. It’s a record filled with sorrow. Mournful to the last, with huge, vengeful riffs permeating ponderous gloom. For a relatively unknown band, Sweartz’s…

TOMORROW’S RAIN

NIHIL ARCHIVE TYNESIDE TERRORS VENOM occupy a special place in our hearts, effectively birthing extreme metal with their gloriously crude, wild racket. Demo collection Sons Of Satan (BMG) [8] reveals the infernally ordained Cronos/Mantas/Abaddon line-up in their earliest, crudest, wildest form, joined by a short-lived vocalist named ‘Jesus Christ’, whose belched ejaculations effectively represent metal’s first death grunt. The boombox-taped 1979 Church Hall rehearsals sound abysmally primitive, but remaining sessions ring out loud and clear. Filled with raw, embryonic takes on future OTT classics, the whole experience feels akin to handing round thrash’s blurry baby photos. The Geordie trio’s impact was particularly profound on Japan’s avant-masters SIGH; four live Venom covers are included on Peaceville’s two-disc reissue of 1993 debut, Scorn Defeat [9], one of the era’s most singular black metal artefacts.…

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