two bands from the state of Washington:

Introtyl Cadaveria Eden Weint Im Grab Einherjer

Alltheniko Draconis Infernum Primordial Smirking Revenge

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— tomfoolery death is Introtyl’s style. The current -— members are Rose, Mayra, Kary, Morgan and metal on the radio/internet (Pacific Time) Sariux. They have songs on Facebook and ReverbNation. Let’s hope the EP is just the Sweet Nightmares (Houston, TX): beginning. www.facebook.com/IntrotylMx Thursday night www.reverbnation.com/introtyl 9pm-12am KPFT 90.1 fm www.kpft.org Cadaveria (Italy): Silence (Scarlet Records) Excuse All the Blood (Olympia, WA): Cadaveria the band started in 2001, after Friday night Cadaveria the vocalist and Flegias the 11pm-1am www.kaosradio.org drummer departed the gothic/melodic black metal band Opera IX (Flegias is also since Metal Shop (Seattle, WA): 1998 the vocalist for veteran thrashers Saturday night 11pm-3am Necrodeath). “Silence” is Cadaveria’s fifth KISW 99.9fm www.kisw.com album, and this 2014 album follows 2012’s — “Horror Metal,” which is also the self-assigned Heathen Washington term that Cadaveria uses to describe its Heathen Washington is stoner doom sludge music. As to this album, the band has taken a from Olympia, Washington. They write songs major step towards a sound that seems more against Oregon, against Norway and against identifiable as its own. Part groove metal, part you. “Angry drone stoner doom sludge” might uptempo gothic metal, and part melodic not be such an inaccurate description. Well, metal, “Silence” coherently holds together a they are from Washington, so the “angry” part bit of variety of songs. The band shows a is more like “sarcastic.” Heathen Washington sensitivity to writing memorable songs, and a wants you to know that the trees are song like “Carnival of Doom” is a probably a poisonous here and that the people have a song that this band could close concerts with. mean scandihoovian way of being passive I would think that this track would be a aggressive. Stream and download for favorite amongst followers of the band, given free/name your price. the catchy nature of the tune. However, it’s www.heathenwashington.bandcamp.com not just one song that is that way; the www.facebook.com/heathenwa complete album flows well and it looks like the band has found its way towards establishing Darkness Avowed an atmosphere for the album and for the Forget about all the tree hugging, and get band’s own sound of groove-focused “horror back to the only thing that matters in life: metal.” Cadaveria the vocalist has become death. Darkness Avowed is from Olympia, very capable, going from dark metal Washington, according to Metal Archives. screaming snarls to melancholic/melodic They have a self-titled EP from 2013. If you gothic metal vocals, which takes the band’s want to hear band that sounds fiendish and sounds into various areas rather smoothly, not sick, you’ve come to the right place. to mention that the musicianship itself www.facebook.com/DarknessAvowed transitions easily from one segment to the next. Overall, “Silence” is one savvy album Introtyl (Mexico) that seems primed for success in the European The origins of this death metal band go back market for modern, catchy “extreme metal” to 2008. In 2013 they released an EP titled from Dimmu Borgir to Arch Enemy to gothic “Several States of Violence” and with it metal. www.scarletrecords.it announced themselves to the death metal www.facebook.com/cadaveria world. Cannibal Corpse-style of no-musical- Eden Weint Im Grab (Germany): beyond the pressures of crass commercialism. Geysterstunde II: Ein jenseitiges To listen to the album is to embark upon a Kuriositätenkabinett (Einheit Produktionen) wondrous travel back to an imagined time, to Given that this German-language band has imagined places where the night, madness been active since 2000, and that this 2014 and the spirits coexist in an album as a album makes it a total of six albums and one complete work, one that demands time, and EP, it is likely that listeners into gothic/folk discourages “casual” listeners with short- metal and horror metal are already aware of attention spans who are not cut out to be the excellence and elegance of Eden Weint witnesses to EWIG. As highly recommended as Im Grab (“Eden Weeps In Its Grave”; also possible in 2014. If you are new to the band, abbreviated as “EWIG”, which means this will be a new, exciting experience for you. “eternal”). EWIG is known for high-end www.edenweintimgrab.de elegantly mad Bohemian metal that runs the www.facebook.com/edenweintimgrab gamut of carnival, circus, folk compositions www.einheit-produktionen.de joined to violin, with components of classical music, dark metal, horror soundtracks, with Einherjer (Norway): Av oss, for oss (Indie themes of the night, madness, ghosts, poetry Recordings) and dark romanticism. Einherjer’s excellent melodic, midtempo “pagan”/“viking”/folk metal causes diametrically opposed reactions. Now, the negative views on this album, as well as past albums, focus on some recurring themes. Perhaps the biggest one is that some listeners do not like that Einherjer does no blasting; the music stays midtempo/uptempo throughout, and at no time does the band launch into fast music. Related to this issue, Einherjer is seen as

Metal Bulletin Zine has in the past published not “extreme” enough because the band an interview with this band’s songwriter insists on sticking with the midtempo/uptempo Alexander Paul Blake’s other band style. Aethernaeum, a black metal band. This zine In some ways, it is necessary to call this has also reviewed Aethernaeum’s forerunner, Einherjer MKII, the Einherjer of 2008-present. when the band was simply named Alexander The 1993-2004 version of the band was known Paul Blake. Therefore, it is quite a pleasure to for changing styles from album to album, report about the album by EWIG. Of course, which also caused frustration for some the lyrics are in German and if you understand listeners. Nowadays the band has settled into no German, really, don’t let that prejudice a midtempo/uptempo style with growled you against this wonderful band. This album vocals that emphasizes big riffs and melodies. lasts about an hour and ten minutes, which To the point: this is one of the best gives an idea of the mentality of the band albums that I have heard in 2014 for its about its own art and the work that goes into creativity and its difference. It is refreshing to it. hear Einherjer stay the course of their style and EWIG prides itself in high quality hear them grow as songwriters through the art songwriting and creating an art that sounds of making memorable music that is rather devoid of formulaic expectations, like speed 3 to please some short-attention-span public. Alltheniko is a keep-it-true, true-as-steel, metal- Einherjer is digging deeper, cultivating the on-metal metalhead’s dream come true. If post-2008 musical direction of somber-yet- you have ever thought: Are there no memorable “viking metal,” which is folk metal traditional heavy metal bands that have with prog elements. heard songs like “Painkiller,” “All Guns It is plain to see that some people Blazing,” “Freewheel Burning” (by Judas Priest) cannot get it out of their heads that Einherjer and “Angel in Black,” “Kiss of Death,” and is its own sound, its own band, and that to “Back from Hell” (by Primal Fear)—and said to compare Einherjer to Enslaved, Bathory, themselves, “That’s the way I want my heavy Moonsorrow or some other band is asinine. It is metal! Fast, shredding, screaming and with no as if some people are upset that Einherjer has stupid time-wasting ridiculous nonsense like not called up Moonsorrow or Enslaved on the ballads,”—Alltheniko’s new album “Fast and phone and consulted with those bands. “I Glorious” is exactly that! Name-taking, no- don’t like Einherjer because it is different from prisoners, no-fat, no-filler, glass-breaking, door- Moonsorrow” is not an observant way to down-kicking heavy metal. If you like the way assess this album, yet it is an “accusation” that Judas Priest and Primal Fear often start thrown at the band. Supposedly, there is albums with songs that embody the definition much better “viking metal” out there. It does of heavy metal, but you also kind of think that not enter some people’s heads that the they ruin it by slowing down for a ballad, then members of Einherjer know what they want. this album is for you. Why?! Stop for nothing! This is what they do, and they happen to be Pedal to the metal; fire up the double bass, very good at it. get the shredding on, and start the fire, and Einherjer has become more confident in end it only when the album is over with its style and more consistent in the projection silence. You might feel like saying, “Finally, a of the desired atmosphere. Nowadays the metal band that understands! Finally, a band band sounds very experienced, skilled and that knows how a metalhead actually thinks!” knowledgeable about how the music should Alltheniko takes the fast elements of Judas be. The band does not lean on any crutches, Priest and Primal Fear and runs away with the like playing fast, and it appears that any sense speed. This band has been around since 2002 of trying to be more successful-popular and has five albums. If you want your heavy through being more aware of the times-trends metal fast and shredding, start with this album. is gone for good, and what remains is grown, By the way, if you like thrash, but you don’t like adult men with realistic expectations about the punk-like vocals of thrash bands, you the eventual popularity of their should hear this fast metal band that has somber/prog/folk Norwegian-language music singing. Alltheniko is not a thrash/speed metal for intelligent listeners that know that some band per se, but they sure are fast heavy metal takes time to understand, and takes metal. www.puresteel-records.com even longer for the band to make. www.facebook.com/alltheniko www.facebook.com/einherjermusic www.sites.google.com/site/alltheniko/ www.einherjer.com www.indierecordings.no Draconis Infernum (Singapore): The Sacrilegious Eradication (Ketzer Records) Alltheniko (Italy): Fast and Glorious (Pure Steel In the forbidden underground sewer cities of Records) ancient Singapura or Lion City in the year 3666 before the times of modernity there existed a 4 mighty clan of necro black metal invocators the same band in name only, given the who lived apart from the masses, always gigantic changes in musical direction. suspicious of the authorities and their desire to Primordial 2014 stubbornly plays midtempo, change the ways of antiquity’s guardians, rendering Primordial 2014 a melodic, with names such as Donatello and Raphael. melancholic doom band. The band leaves no The authorities would send messengers to the room for doubt: They appear to excel at the underground sewer cities and told them: various genre changes, and as the years go Change your music so that the people by, the band seems to receive more and respect you! The necro black metal clan more ridiculously positive acclaim, making would respond: We follow the black metal one wonder whether the band members ways, and not you! In time the respectable have enlisted their moms, dads, sisters, society decayed and the time was ripe for brothers, cousins and best friends to write black metal to find the followers of the cult. outrageously positive reviews all over the Splinter, as was the name of the master of the internet. Here’s a challenge: Can you find a black metal cult, predicted that the day band more universally praised than would come. It did. It has. Primordial?! Now, millennia later the dunes of the One would think that it is the Lion City have for a decade been invisibly doom/sludge/“post-metal” crowds that are ruled by the necro black metal alliance of really enjoying the doom of Primordial. The Draconis Infernum. In 2008 they launched vocals are melodic-melancholic, and the “Death in My Veins,” and followed with “Rites guitar works with the “less is more” philosophy of Desecration and Demise” in 2011. In the of riffs, while the drummer patiently labors year 2014 the incursion is called “The away. The few places where the band shows Sacrilegious Eradication.” With this signal, some speed, like on the song “The Seed of Draconis Infernum pledges to maintain their Tyrants,” it really sounds out of place with the allegiance to blasphemous, fast, tremolo, slow vibe of the album as a total work. Why necro black metal. For 37 minutes Draconis do it? To appease some people? The band Infernum wields the black metal calling out to obviously doesn’t enjoy it and it sounds the four points of horizon in search of the forced. sibling souls of dedication to Thornspawn, Many, many people seem to love the Impiety, Sarcófago and the other ones that band’s current musical direction. For instance, understand such language as invitations to the reviews on Metal Archives of the 2007 enter this recondite world of metal. album “To the Nameless Dead” do not www.ketzer-records.de hesitate to call that album the greatest or the www.draconisinfernum.com best and things like that. Now, this new www.draconisinfernum.com/facebook “Where Greater Men Have Fallen” continues that course and the band’s feet are firmly Primordial (Ireland): Where Greater Men Have planted in the slow music. The band has Fallen (Metal Blade Records) mastered the latter-day direction and now it’s There are so many different eras of Primordial only question of whether this album will be that it is only appropriate to ask which called a greater masterpiece than the others. Primordial is the one that a person is referring On the other hand, if you are the type to when discussing the band. The truth is that of listener that would love to see Primordial Primordial 2014 is very, very far from the black play less monotonously slow metal, and would metal/pagan metal sound of the 90s, and it is like a more balanced combination, as on the 5

2000 album “Spirit the Earth Aflame,” then you U.S. The album should appeal to total thrash will be so, so, so disappointed and truly fanatics that want thrash to sound the classic wasting your time. This band is so far gone style of speed and tightness. This is not a from that, that only if they sense a great demo-quality recording, either. If you like to frustration amongst the listeners, would they go back and discover forgotten thrash this will possibly reconsider dialing back the be a good one for that old repetitively, monotonously slow doom Forbidden/Testament pace of thrash. direction they enjoy so much. In that sense, www.store.shadowkingdomrecords.com Primordial sounds very now, very 2014, at a time when doom/sludge/slow/post-metal Incubus (U.S.): Incubus (1987 demo) seems so popular. As already mentioned, the This 1987 Incubus demo was recorded after current musical taste seems to prefer the slow Mike Browning and Sterling Scarborough left Primordial by a large margin. Morbid Angel. This is rough, early death metal, Therefore, which Primordial do you making the thrash of that time sound tame in prefer in 2014? www.primordialweb.com comparison. This recording is definitely for www.facebook.com/primordialofficial those into old death metal demos. Expect www.metalblade.com dirty death metal. www.vicrecords.com

Smirking Revenge (Canada) Terminal Death (U.S.): Terminal Death Formed in 2012, Smirking Revenge mostly falls (compilation of 1984 and 1985 demos) under the category of death metal, with a Terminal Death was a Chicago band that style that emphasizes heaviness in the played early death metal. This is a compilation uptempo and midtempo, with a chugging of a 1985 demo and a 1985 rehearsal session. feel. You can stream their 2014 EP at This band is pretty much almost forgotten, as Bandcamp. This band is probably new to you. you will notice that it basically never gets It is new to this zine, too. mentioned when people talk about early www.smirkingrevenge.bandcamp.com/releas death metal. These recordings are rough. It es sounds like demo recordings and the quality is www.facebook.com/smirkingrevengeband garage-style. As you can imagine, the songs are ferocious, raw; for demo fanatics. www.store.shadowkingdomrecords.com

Mefisto (Sweden): The Megalomania Puzzle (compilation of two 1986 demos) When it comes to 80s black and death metal from Sweden people think of Bathory, but Mefisto formed in 1984 as Torment and in 1986 had two demos as Mefisto: “Megalomania” Smirking Revenge and “The Puzzle.” As someone who had never heard this band, I think these demos sound very good. I don’t know where Vic Records old obscure metal will not die finds these bands, but it is nice to hear “new” bands like this one. Vic Records does a great Powerlord (U.S.): The Awakening (1986) service to people into cult metal by releasing Powerlord was a thrash band from Oklahoma, these recordings. www.vicrecords.com 6

Morthra (Holland): Desecrated Thoughts occult metal. Morthra’s “Desecrated Thoughts” is a Manilla Road is alive today and compilation of the 1991 and 1993 demos, plus continues the path of cult heavy metal. live tracks. This is prime-time early 90s death www.store.shadowkingdomrecords.com metal. Young listeners will love the genuine www.facebook.com/ManillaRoadOfficial feel of real-deal death metal, when death metal was just death metal, and did not need subgenres. “Brutal, heavy and sick,” would be how people described this sound. It is mostly uptempo and midpaced death, along the lines of Obituary and Grave, more or less, and definitely not the Morbid Angel/Suffocation speedy death. www.vicrecords.com

Pentacle (Holland): The Fifth Moon…Beyond Manilla Road and Back (2014 expanded edition) Personally, I don’t think that death metal gets much better than Pentacle, particularly this “neo-old death metal”: retro recording and the follow-up album “Rides the Moonstorm …” This “new, improved, and or tradition-minded? expanded” reissue will appeal to the Pentacle fanatics. Pentacle exhibits a huge early Celtic Ending Quest (Sweden): The Summoning (FDA Frost/early Death vibe and it is very proud of Rekotz) those influences. The band started in 1989 and Neo-Stockholm-style old time death metallers the original version of this recording is from Ending Quest (name tribute to old Gorement’s 1996, and the new version is from 2014. If you “The Ending Quest”) say that the death metal live for “ancient death metal” as Pentacle from today doesn’t have the same soul. For calls it, don’t forget Pentacle, and as the this band it’s about that old time death metal. band says, “Don’t forget the ancient feeling.” From the sounds of this album, if you run into Remember that Pentacle is not a dead band. these lads in Sweden, don’t even invite them Pentacle is very much alive and has recent to a modern metal show because you won’t recordings that continue “ancient death even get them to the mosh floor. The cynics metal” today. www.vicrecords.com will say that Ending Quest is retro, but of course, the cynics will say what they will. Sure, Manilla Road (U.S.): Out of the Abyss (1988) Ending Quest loves the sounds of the past, but Manilla Road is a cult name, of course. The the band is not over the hill. They started in band started in 1977 in Kansas, U.S. This was 2009 and the members were born in 1986 and the band’s seventh full-length album and it is 1984. Some might call it retro, but in metal it is considered the band’s most “dark and called respect for tradition and playing the thrash” album. Personally, I think that you metal that you love and being proud of it. If can’t go wrong with this album, if you like 80s your interest is peaked by the idea of a young cult metal. Recommended for those into cult band presenting its interpretation of golden- metal like Mercyful Fate, Brocas Helm, Cirith age death metal, give this a band a chance. Ungol or more recently a band like Slough I have been listening to this 2014 album, their Feg. Manilla Road is the personification of cult debut, a lot and I like what I hear and am 7 curious to hear what the future brings for no one should confuse Rude with the non- Ending Quest. www.fda-rekotz.com stop blasting style of other bands. Incidentally, www.facebook.com/EndingQuestOfficial the drum sound is rather attractive on this album, contrasting a lot with the Rude (U.S.): Soul Recall (FDA Rekotz) clicky/plastic/soft sound so common in metal. It’s taken a long time for death metal Rude to Impressive album by a band that is very have its 2014 album out and about in the good students of death metal, and are world since the band started back in 2008. becoming teachers themselves. Let’s hope The music showcases how the band has that they don’t begin to feel the need to be studied classic death metal for years and “more” than death metal. It is a-ok to be years, and in the process the band has put death metal, this type of death metal. Don’t together one super impressive debut that change the style, Rude. You don’t have to sounds like a potent mix of the classics in a “jazz it up” or “core it up” or “math it up” for particular way specific to Rude. us. Love the Rude metal. Rude must have come up with the idea www.facebook.com/pages/Rude/391039200 of playing death metal the following way: 987363 www.fda-rekotz.com The vocals should be in the style of “Leprosy”-era Death and “Consuming Horrendous (U.S.): Ecdysis (Dark Descent Impulse”-era Pestilence. The enunciation has Records) fundamental Schuldiner/van Drunen Horrendous seems to get a kick out of tripping characteristics. The result? Sounds great! By people’s expectations. Horrendous was far, one the most recognizable and beloved known for playing “old school Swedish death forms of growling in all of death metal: metal” when they formed in 2009, with their extended syllables and aggressive delivery, demo and with the 2012 album. Now in 2014 not the cupped-microphone/low-murmur, the band’s new album has busted out with fearful-of-throat-injury style. melodic guitar solos all over the place and it’s got people making all sorts of ridiculous statements. I read somewhere that Horrendous sounds like Def Leppard (and Venom, I think they said). If you say it that way people won’t want to hear this band! In all seriousness, Horrendous still sounds very much like 90s death metal from Sweden. The guitar tone, the riffs, the vocals and the overall spirit are similar to certain sounds from The guitar work should combine the Sweden. It is true that the solos are very memorable parts/riffs of “Leprosy,” and “Altars melodic, but they work within the context of of Madnes”-era Morbid Angel, and leave the songs. Now, of course, it is also true that room for other golden-era death metal the album suggests that Horrendous may be sounds, like classic Pestilence and the others. getting a bit antsy about remaining within a The drum sound should be like Morbid certain style, and it’s totally possible that in the Angel’s “Covenant,” and the style/speed of future Horrendous will sound like a totally the drumming should be a bit like different band. There’s a bit of that vibe that “Covenant,” but with more segments of seems uncomfortable with this style as a total uptempo (non-blasting) beats, so it’s fast, but identity, probably because the band has read 8 that some people dismissed them a retro disappoint, Balls to the Wall and Metal Heart band from the U.S. trying to sound like a band were an all time classics! from Sweden. However, many other people who have heard this new album like it very Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls much and I have even read that it was listed Ignore the hype this is not one of Priest best as the top album of 2014 by some publication. ever albums but it still kicks ass! KK has left the I remember which one now, but I don’t think I fold, however his replacement Richie Faulkner am making that up. So, the album has been does a fine job. They are still evolving and appreciated by lots of people. keep on delivering the goods, long may they In summary, Horrendous seems to have continue to do so. made a move towards more melancholic, doomier sounds while still remaining in part Hammerfall - ( r ) Evolution death metal. The guitar solos point to Swedish metallers Hammerfall has the perfect melancholic doom, and now I’m sure that we blend of old school and the best that power don’t have a clue what will happen next. This metal has to offer. Great solos and vocals are band might turn out to be as unpredictable as throughout this release and the song Sentenced (I know, not Swedish) was from arrangements are cool too. 1990 to 1996, when they finally started to settle down into a predictable style. The next Iced Earth - Plagues of Babylon Horrendous album is going to have some Plagues of Babylon is an excellent album that people running down street all confused: will please the fans of traditional metal, thrash “What genre is this, please? Tell me! I can’t and power metal. Stu Block is a great vocalist think for myself! I need to know what genre it and Jon Schaffer has really dug deep to is before I declare that I like it!” make an outstanding opus. The band will just sit back and smile. “We are Horrrendous, and we like your Cloven Hoof - Resist or Serve ‘hysteria’.” www.darkdescentrecords.com Well excuse the bias but it is a really cool www.facebook.com/HorrendousDeathMetal album so buy it you metal maniacs!!! Every song has it's own unique identity and style. top metal albums of 2014, by Ace producer Patrick Engel has really brought our true dynamics out on this one. Joe's guitar Lee Payne from Cloven Hoof playing and vocals are awesome and there Metal Bulletin Zine asked Lee Payne, founder are some really good individual performances of NWOBHM veterans Cloven Hoof to name from everyone. So we are really proud of it; all his top metal albums of 2014 and this is Lee's killers and no fillers! response: Here are my favourites so far from 2014 in no Take care and see you in 2015 everyone! particular order... Yours in metal Lee / Cloven Hoof Accept - Blind Rage www.facebook.com/clovenhoof1979 This is the best album with Mark Tornillo on lead vocals. Accept is able to take traditional metal elements and integrate it with a somewhat updated style. I have loved this band since the 1980's and they never 9

The life of a metal music and all the bills? Yes, this is my full-time job. Some months are publicist: Dewar PR better than others, but between myself and Curtis Dewar is a metal music publicist whose my wife, we are keeping the bills paid :) job it is to get press coverage for bands. Curtis Again, choosing extreme metal as your is always contacting publications about chosen field to promote isn't exactly a bands, and he’s on Facebook and Twitter a lucrative field. You have to do this because lot, too. His job is not as glamorous as being a you love the music. rock star and sometimes people don’t understand what a publicist does. To explore Do you work with bands whose music you do the mysteriously secret life of that person that not like? Will you be branching out into more works to get reviews, interviews and more for popular forms of "metal" like hardcore? metal bands, Metal Bulletin Zine sent Curtis I always like the bands I work with. If I did end some questions. up working with a more popular form of metal, it would have to be with a band I Hi, Curtis. How long have you been a publicist thought had potential. for metal music? How did you get started? I've been a publicist for two and a half years. Should your company branch out into all Basically, I started doing publicity by genres, like country and rap? accident. I was writing for a few heavy metal I don't like country or rap so I can't see myself sites and I ended up becoming friends with branching out into those genres. I do like other Rick Scythe (ex-Usurper). I did an interview genres however, so if there was something I with him about his new band Scythe and then liked and the band wanted to work with me, started helping him to spread the word. Things sure. just took off from there, to be honest. I didn't start doing this full time until Are there some things that are unethical to January of 2014, however. A job I was working you, that you would not do? at ended and instead of looking for full-time I never make any promises that I can't keep employment I decided I wanted to do and I would never oversell my services. something from home so I wouldn't be away from my kids while they were growing up. I Do you reject some bands? They want to work decided to see if I could make this work and with your company and are ready to pay and while sometimes it *can* be tough making everything, but you reject the band because ends meet, it is definitely worth it. it's not the style that your company does? Yes, I have rejected some bands either due to How has 2014 been for you in terms of the fact that I don't like their music or I don't business? Do you have too many bands or agree with what they represent. would you like to have more? I don't look at this as a business. This is my job, If I remember correctly, you also write for but this is something I actually enjoy doing, so some publications and you get paid for it. Do it never feels like work. In terms of number of you write any reviews that you are not paid people I've worked with this past year, things for? How do those publications make money, have been fantastic. if there is no money in the metal music business, like some people say? Is this your full-time job? Does it pay the rent I have written for pay and without pay. I have 10 no idea on the financial state of any Marrow of Earth is the new name of publications I write for. Divulgence (2008-2013) from South Carolina, U.S. For this reason, the recording sounds like a What do you think are some common band that has experience, as opposed to a misconceptions that people have about you young band recording the first demo. Marrow or your field? Do bands badmouth you if you of Earth is a type of mix of death/black/thrash do not get them lots of coverage? that is most concerned not with genre, but The main misconception that I've run into is with headbanging tunes. The EP is free/name that bands think they can promote your price below. themselves and the fact is most can't. There www.marrowofearth.bandcamp.com are so many bands who don't know how to use social media or how to contact a Observer (Brazil) publication. The ones that do, will be fine, but Observer is a black metal from Brazil whose many bands think that spamming their concept revolves around the panopticon, YouTube video on someone's FB page is where control and power are everywhere in promoting themselves! society. The band plays fast black metal and I've never had a band badmouth me uses some melodic vocals, too. This three-song that I'm aware of. Also, most publicity people I EP is very impressive, and if you are looking for know of in metal are good people. Michel Foucault-inspired intellect in black metal, you might enjoy this band’s take on the Do you advise young bands on how to do concept of power. Obtain their 2013 EP for interviews? Some young bands seem surprised free/name your price below. that they get asked "the same questions over www.thetrueobserver.bandcamp.com and over again." What else are people www.facebook.com/observerbrasil?fref=ts supposed to ask, if not about the band? Yes, I have had to advise some bands on how Dismemberment Torture (Indonesia) to do interviews, as many will just do one word Dismemberment Torture focuses on the "yes" or "no" answers to all of their questions. I fastest, blasting ultra death metal that you think as they get used to doing them they sort can imagine with guttural vocals and of get the hang of it, you know? increasing the frenzy as much as possible in order to take death metal to its very limits. Anything else on your mind? They have free downloads. Thanks for doing the interview and I www.reverbnation.com/dismembermenttortur appreciate all of the support you've given the e bands I work with :) Also, if anyone wants to work with me or Girlzeroth (Indonesia) has any questions please contact me on Girlzeroth is nothing but ultra death metal of Twitter as @dewarpr or on Facebook: the fastest, heaviest kind. The free downloads www.facebook.com/cdewarpr at ReverbNation make it obvious that with this THE END band you have to be alert to keep up with this blasting speed. www.reverbnation.com/girlzeroth FREE METAL MUSIC www.facebook.com/GIRLZEROTH Marrow of Earth (U.S.): EP 2014 Formed in 2013 and this is their first recording. December 28, 2014 11