All MetalKult QA Posts
Interview: Shane Mclachlan of Phobia
For over 20 years, Phobia have been deploying crushing, anarchistic grindcore and lacerating eardrums across the globe. Since forming in 1990 in Orange County, CA, Phobia have released a multitude of singles and splits with such bands as the legendary Corrupted and Plutocracy, as well as several full-lengths on such labels as Slam-a-Ham, Crimes Against [...]
Enforcer: The MetalKult Interview
When asked about playing an old-school music style, Olof Wikstrand—singer and founder of young Swedish speed/heavy metal band Enforcer—answered, “heavy metal is timeless.” Fittingly, one listen to the band’s latest release, Diamonds, isn’t a throwback to 1983, but rather a documentation of five classicly-minded dudes playing classic heavy metal in 2010. Formed in 2004 as [...]
LIVE EVIL FESTIVAL: The MetalKult Interview
What do you get when you give a legendary Norwegian black metal artist and veritable extreme music tastemaker free reign to curate a heavy metal festival? You get Live Evil: a weekend of sonic brutality from underground bands handpicked by Darkthrone’s Fenriz. The festival jumps off on October 23 in the northern London neighborhood of [...]
REPUGNANT: The MetalKult Interview
From left: Gottfrid Åhman, Emil Svensson, Mary Goore and Adam Zaars “When we started out in 1998, death metal bands all had the same ‘macho’ and ‘brutal’ feeling: thick beards, huge guys, shaved heads, seven-string guitars…it was so bad that it was unbelievable,” says Repugnant’s sole original member and principle songwriter Mary Goore. One listen to [...]
AUTOPSY: The MetalKult Interview
Photo by Jenny Cowan As many of you true death metal fanatics know by now, the highly influential Bay Area masters of gore, Autopsy, are back from the dead and out to slaughter us once again. After spending 15 years in the grave, Autopsy—drummer/vocalist Chris Reifert and guitarists Eric Cutler and Danny Coralles—have returned in [...]
Notes From The Underground: IN SOLITUDE
In Solitude 2010: (from left) Niklas Lindström, Uno Bruniusson, Pelle “Hornper” Åhman, Gottfrid Åhman and Henrik Palm The definition of “Black Metal” is an often debated topic amongst metal fans worldwide. Is it defined by the music alone? Or does black metal transcend musical boundaries and need to be defined by its feeling instead? Gottfrid [...]
Notes From The Underground: SONIC RITUAL
Sonic Ritual singer/guitarist Henrik Palm isn’t your typical metal-punk character. In fact, he’s quite far from the stereotypical bullet belt, denim-and-studs-wearing, Motörhead-worshiping punk rocker. Now that it’s cool for underground bands to call themselves metal-punk, Palm sees it differently. “I think ‘heavy metal punk’ is a cheesy description for Sonic Ritual’s sound. I’d rather say [...]
Notes From the Underground: HELVETETS PORT
“Heavy metal is a clenched fist.” – Oscar Thunder (far left) I still remember the first time I came across the young Swedish classic metal band Helvetets Port. My friend and I were skimming through the vast metal section at New Jersey’s music haven, Vintage Vinyl, and Exodus To Hell, Helvetets Port debut full-length, caused [...]
EVILE: The MetalKult Interview
(From left) Ol Drake, Joel Graham, Ben Carter and Matt Drake If you’re discovering (or in some cases, rediscovering) the new sounds of classic thrash metal these days, you’ve most likely heard of the Huddersfield, England, five-piece Evile. Their latest Russ Russell-produced record, Infected Nations (Earache Records), established the band—vocalist/guitarist Matt Drake, lead guitarist (and [...]
PESTILENCE: The MetalKult Interview
In 1992, Dutch death metal band Pestilence were riding high. The success of a trio of heavy-hitting albums—Malleus Maleficarum (1988), Consuming Impulse (1989) and Testimony of the Ancients (1991)—had secured their position in the European extreme metal underground and they were poised to become one of the major players in the death metal genre. But [...]
