Harmony Dies are intense, sweaty and powerful

H.D. is an Death Metal band and was founded in 1992 in Berlin (Germany). Since that time we work in the Underground to become one of the most brutal bands here in germany. The first two Demos came out in ’92, “living corpses” and “slope”. After that the split single with Krisiun from Brasil were released by Morbid Rec. Next there came...

26/11/2003

Ophiolatry and the puppets in God's carnival

OPHIOLATRY began his art in 1998, with Antonio Costa (bass), Jorge Duarte (drums), Fabio Sperandio (guitar) and Tiago Nunes (vocals). In 1999 the band release the Demo Tape called ’Opposite Monarchy’ that also was re-released by Mutilation records (BRA) and by Relapse records(USA) in Brazilian Assault Compilation. In 2002 the band releases his first full length album called ’ Anti-Evangelistic Process’ by...

25/11/2003

The joint venture of Tartharia

TARTHARIA was formed in November 2002 to play fast death/black music based on heavy guitars and tender keyboards. It took the band just about four months to prepare own material. In April 2003 TARTHARIA appeared in ASTIA-A Studio, Lappeenranta, Finland to record a debut with famous Anssi Kippo as sound producer (Children Of Bodom, Impaled Nazarene, To/Die/For, Entwine). Kippo did his keen...

24/11/2003

Attila Csihar interview

For seventeen years, Attila Csihar has been involved in music. Since then he has become one of Extreme Metal’s most prominent and admired figureheads. Whether he’s writing or recording with his own bands, or guesting on other bands’ records, he is, and always has been, heavily involved in the Metal scene in some way. When he formed Tormentor in the mid-80s, in...

16/11/2003

Malefic are lazy bastards

Malefic is the brainchild of long-time musical Collaborators Stuart Pendergast and John Ridler. Originally formed in 2000 as an outlet for a number of songs written by Stuart, they immediately set about recording a demo with which to recruit new members. The demo turned out very well, and attracted many positive responses, but it proved too difficult to find other musicians of...

15/11/2003

Cenotaph interview

CENOTAPH was created by vocalist Batu Cetin in the summer of 1994 with the aim of performing some piece of the most brutal and the sickest music that has ever been played in Turkey and the world so far. After performing with different line-ups for some time, CENOTAPH recorded their debut demo ’Life Immortal’ in 1995 with Batu (vocals), Bulent I.(bass), Coskun...

12/11/2003

The magician Circe

March 1999 witnessed the creation of Circe. Choosing the Black/Dark path with symphonic tendencies, the band has relentlessly striven to refine their compositions whenever they hit the stage. First demo got recorded in August of their debut year. Although it was issued in small quantities, the enthusiastic welcoming stimulated them to rework this recording in order to meet the public's demand and...

04/11/2003

Coalition interview

Coalition was created in July 2001 in the South of Belgium. Back then, it was Yoan (guitar), the initiator of the band, Simon (bass), Vincent (vocals) and Guy (drums). Soon thereafter, the line-up had to be changed on musical grounds and they stumbled into Céline who was looking for a new band after she left her previous Brutal Death surroundings. From the...

04/11/2003

Lord Klopek of Vladislas likes beer that looks like motor oil

Vladislas is the brainchild of Lord Klopek. The band started as a three piece in September of 1999 under the name First of the Fallen and included Necro Dan, Klopek and Reaper. The band dissolved within a few months as Necro Dan went on to start a one man project known as Burning Winds. At this time Klopek formed Shemhemforash with another...

04/11/2003

Nightward stays out of politics

Nightward were formed in 1997 as a Melodic Death Metal band. In May 1998 the first demo tape, ’Beyond The Golden Gates’, was recorded. The style of the 3 songs, Swedish Death Metal was reminiscent of bands like In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, as well as Death or Carcass. The demo got very good reviews, reaching also the ’Top Demo’ of the...

04/11/2003

Prostitute Disfigurement is alive after the drumcomputer

Prostitute Disfigurement started spreading their horrifying deathmetal near the end of the year 2000. At that moment the band consisted of 3 members, a week before the recording of the first Cdemo guitarist Roel decided to join the band. At that moment the band’s name still was Disfigure. The Cdemo was filled with brutal deathmetal, sick intro’s, a shocking cover and shocking...

26/10/2003

Trivium has his funeral music chosen

Eloquence in Medieval idealism was defined through the Trivium. The three basic liberal arts of grammar, logic and rhetoric once combine to give grace and credibility to those who sought to rise above in society. Transcending this conceptual dynamic the trio from Florida are leading the modern charge and in turn redefine their own name in modern linguistics through music. By combining...

24/10/2003

Defiled if you like it brutal and bizarre

Hailing from the land of ’The Rising Sun’ Tokyo's DEFILED was birthed in 1992. Being based in such a big crazy city, the DEFILED sound is a product of their surroundings. Technical, brutal and precise the band manages to stay unique in a genre that is typically dominated by the western world. The earth witnessed the release of two demos in the...

01/10/2003

Greenfly and their hidden pleasures

Greenfly was formed in 1992, from that original line up there’s only a few members left Dani (drums) and Mon (bass), they are drummer and bass player of the goregrind band Haemorrhage (Morbid Records) too. After years of line up problems, without having a stable one, at least, in 1994 they get to record a demo, but the bad results obtained and...

26/09/2003

Spiral Madness lifts the mug

The germ of SPIRAL MADNESS appeared in 1996, when a band called VINEGAR (existing since 1992 in Warsaw) had been on decline. After breaking up, Zephyr and Lysy (Baldhead) were left alone and tried to reactivate the band. They met Chmura (Cloud), had a pint and almost reached an agreement, but due to a bad fortune they didn't play together. After three...

14/09/2003