Interview

Meeting doom metal’s ultimate weapon of mass destruction MONOLORD.

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MONOLORD. A name that evokes nothing but fabulously majestic heaviness. Monolord is this sonic undertaking that has induced either numerous bleeding ears paired with...

Rock fever, bikes, independence: this is THE PICTUREBOOKS.

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Music lovers from all over the continent will never be grateful enough to Kadavar for inviting their German fellows THE PICTUREBOOKS on their European tour this fall. Also, none...

10 minutes with Thomas Brenna and Stian Helle of LONELY KAMEL

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Celebrating the release of their new album “Shit City” this fall, Norway’s bluesiest fellas LONELY KAMEL naturally went on a mission to invade Europe with...

THE MIDNIGHT GHOST TRAIN: “24 hours a day we’re putting work into our band”.

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It’s not everyday that you get to see a live band that plays so loud and gives so much energy on stage, that you feel like a fucking storm is being unleashed on an enclosed...

Introducing you to UK’s doom tornado WOLFSHEAD

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I remember the first time I heard of WOLFSHEAD. I was touring Spain in a van packed with British dudes, when one of them told me « if you have to check out one band, it’s...

10 silly questions to Oslo’s finest blues product LONELY KAMEL

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“You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns, and those who dig“. Oslo’s badass rockers LONELY KAMEL definitely...

Jason Shi of ASG: “What pop means? It means writing a good fucking song.”

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For a long time, ASG has remained one of North Carolina’s best kept secrets. Active since 2011 among the heavy rock scene, the American foursome has earned a solid...

WEEDEATER: “We could handle ourselves if a zombie apocalypse was happening”

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There’s no other southern sludge band like WEEDEATER. I mean, they’ve been marking the music world with their trademark sludge metal filled with that filthy yet...

12 silly questions to RED FANG

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As there’s no reason we would put an end to such a pleasant habit, it’s time for our yearly chatter with the RED FANG boys. I don’t think they need to be...

Peder Bergstrand confesses on LOWRIDER’s (exciting) future

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At a time when the term “stoner rock” is overused when it comes to labeling any band who basically uses Orange amps or Big Muff pedals, getting back to basics is...

LORD DYING: celebrating metal the darkest, heaviest and loudest way ever.

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With their pounding dirty riffs and uncompromising energy, there’s no doubt Portland’s foursome LORD DYING has established themselves as one of the most promising...

Behind the scenes of DESERTFEST LONDON with promoter Reece Tee.

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As a heavy music fan, attending Desertfest in London for the first time this year turned out to be the most exciting and memorable weekend of my life, without overstating things....

RADIO MOSCOW “We’re too heavy for the new psychedelia, and we’re not stoner rock either.”

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If you’ve ever had the chance to see RADIO MOSCOW on stage, then you’d acknowledge that the San Diego based trio is one of the worthy successors of psychedelic blues...

BLACK TUSK : “Basically, we hustle.”

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There’s no other band in the world quite like BLACK TUSK. Not only these three blend punk, hardcore and sludge metal like no one else, spreading a greasy and corrosive...

PALLBEARER “We’ve seen people crying in the crowd before.”

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Arkansas based doom band PALLBEARER was definitely one of my greatest finds of 2012. Their first album entitled “Sorrow and Extinction” (released on Devouter Records)...