Exhumed--Beyond The Dead EP. Digital{Releapse Rec.} done on 9-24-23

 

Exhumed return with a brand new EP. featuring four brand new songs and four live songs.The music is played with Exhumed's traditional grinding death metal style.The vocals are putrid death metal growls and some gruff  growls and screams are used throughout a few of the songs.The guitars are played with a mix of fast and frenzied guitar passages.The guitarist does write some good mid paced patterns even adding some well played solo's.The drums are done with mainly fast blasting drum patterns that are done with powerful drums.The four live tracks are done with a great sound and production.If you  are a fan of Exhumed's  past releases then i highly recomend checking out Beyond The Dead EP. you will not be disapointed.                                                                                                                                               Exhumed                                                                                                                                                       https://exhumed.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-dead-digital-ep                                                           https://www.facebook.com/ExhumedOfficial                                                                                              https://www.instagram.com/exhumed_official/                                                                                           https://twitter.com/exhumedofficial                                                                                                              

Maze Of Terror--Into The Jaws Of Terror cd/digital{Selvajaria Rec.} done on 9-23-23

 

I remember hearing Maze Of Terror's previous full length 2021's Offer To The Fucking Beasts and really liking it.So i was extremly pleased to recieve the new EP.Into The Jaws Of Terror featuring four violent and aggressive thrash anthems.The first track is Evil Rise starting off with a short intro the music kicks into full aggressive guitars and frenzied drums.The vocals are gruff old school screams.Unholy Terror is the next track and starts off with a impressive and memorable guitar passage that is well written and performed.It doesn't take long before the guitars and drums pick up the pace to a more faster and aggressive pace.The vocals are old school powerful thrashy screams.On Blood Remains is a ripping fast paced thrash anthem.The guitars are played with intensity and skillful writing ability.The drums are frenzied and powerful drum patterns that are done with skill and aggressive drum passages,Covenant is the final song and is another ripping thrash anthem with intense guitar passages.The vocals are gruff screams that are powerful in the delievery.Maze Of Terror  has unleashed a EP. of aggressive and violent thrash  metal  that should please all fans of this band  or intense thrash metal at it's finest.                                                                                                                                          Maze Of Terror                                                                                                                                              https://mazeofterror.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-jaws-of-terror                                                             https://www.facebook.com/mazeofterrorthrash                                                                                            https://www.instagram.com/mazeofterrordt/                                                                                               https://twitter.com/Mazeofterrortm                                                                                                               Selvajaria  Rec.                                                                                                                                             https://selvajariarecords.bandcamp.com/                                                                                                      https://www.facebook.com/selvajariarecords                                                                                              https://www.instagram.com/selvajaria_records/                                                                                          https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOM-oW22P_0p5sC05DMcO8A                                                    

Interview with Thornafire done on 9-22-23

 

 1.Hello please introduce yourselves to the readers?

Hi, I´m Víctor Mac-Namara a Chilean metalhead, I come from the Hell of South America kingdom of injustices, which makes Death Metal more hateful and ugly. I'm a guitar player and a full-time metal cover and graphic artist known as MacSlaughterday for some years, so I'm very happy with that.

2.When did you first discover Metal music? And who were the first bands and artists that you listened to?

Was at the end of 1989. Metallica started to become mainstream, releasing thash to the masses. I got Ride the Lightning on tape and it turns me nuts, I never heard such good music as that besides some classic music tunes, for me it was not just follow an idiot gang stuff. Still today this is one of my favorites. After I joined the tribe, checking out fantastic albums and meeting good friends, for me was a contra culture and still it is, was absolutely fantastic.

My first bands were Death, Kreator, King Diamond, Exodus, Dark Angel, The Exploited, Dead Kennedys.

3.Was it long before you discovered death and the more extreme metal genres?Who were the first bands to catch your attention? Who are some current bands that you have been listening to?

I'm a weird person I'm into fanatism too, but I like freedom, a complex I guess as mostly of humans, but even like that and overall the violence that I experienced in my childhood and nonacceptance from society. I feel more comfortable in this bizarre arts field. To me, it is another world and a way to express. In metal, I found that unreal real-world happening somehow. Extreme and more bizarre styles were my fascination. I did jump into that and looking for that constantly, I dislike mainstream metal bands, that use metal elements, pure weekend entertainment, no risk, no more meanings just aesthetics, complacent with the establishment, just entertainment.

The first bands were Morbid Angel, Nocturnus, Exmortis, Fatal, Slaughter. Cryptic Slaughter, Invocator, Dark Angel, Eucharist, Autopsy, plus some punk acts like The Exploited, Discharged, G.B.H. The Misfits, Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits, and some goth, industrial bands, and classic composers. Currently, I'm into Funeral Mist, Krypts, Dead Congregation, Agnes Obel, Blodtâr, Insect Warfare, Venenum, Funeral Chant, Cattle Decapitation, Katharsis, Blood Incantation, Concrete Winds etc.

4.Thornafire was started in 1998 what gave you all the idea to start this band?How did you choose Thornafire as the name of the band?

I was playing on other Santiago bands, and I wanted to release faster material do the band's activities more fast, and manage better my music target, a bit away from the North American metal that ruled the head of people in Chile back then.About the name, back then in ‘98 good names with one world were empty so many bands as At the Gates, Night in Gales, In Flames, started to appear, so just we jumped into that tendency, The name was chosen by Anthorn former singer that managed the half of the band's concept, he drawn the amazing logo too.

5.Who would you say are the bands biggest influences and have they remained the same over the years?For the reader's who have never heard the band how would you best describe Thornafire's musical style?

For me Eucharist, Entombed, Bathory, Autopsy, Morbid Angel, Hypocrisy (old) I do like Bulldozer sound, fat and massive and evocative with sensibility. As a player I`m much into barbarism, bloodshed, and cruelty of od Sodom, Katharsis, early Krisiun, and Angel Corpse but I love it as a listener.

6.Leprosario Lazareto is the bands latest full length how long did it take the band to write the music for this release?Does the whole band take part in the writing process or does one member usually write everything?

Oh, after some European tours, and a Magnaa album I was trying to see the repercussions of these latest magik and hard work times with the band, so after two live albums, Live in Berlin and Live in London I was ready to keep making more music. I did the whole album by myself with the help of drums and arrangements from Tomas Garcia, There were super hard times, everything against, but in my opinion, metal is a force against the odds too.

7.Who usually handles writing the lyrics and what are some subjects written about on the new release?Which usually comes first the music or the lyrics?

Lyrics are poetic representations of forces beyond this world, sometimes bitter, sometimes serious. First of all, is the music, I'm not a lyric writer, but sometimes we do use a poetic alchemist book writer from Chile, Patricio Araya, I just wrote “El coro de los hambrientos en tus oidos conchetumadre” which is my freewill and ambiguous astrophysical representation of these low vibes and distorted civil values there in Chile.

8.Besides the Leprosario Lazareto release are the bands previous releases still available for the readers to purchase?

Besides physical releases is their anymore merchandise currently availible for the reader to purchase?If yes what is availible and where can the readers purchase it?

Yes, all the productions are along with Umbrium records (umbrium.cl) by now And Leprosario is available here in Europe under Great Dane records.

9.What does Underground Metal mean to you?

Is a magik music out of this world, the tunes and the esthetics and lyrics sometimes are a unique grotesque expression, for many is just music to make friends and entertainment after the job, for me, many times speaks louder about the organization and hypocrisy of the societies, how they lie to you, terrifies you, organize you under their reality representation, for me many times this music vomits back all the same uglyness and anger that society brings to you day by day. Is Catharsis too. This expression is there, free, without a leader, and is not a sophisticated circle, like reading fancy writers or other expression forms, that demands you enter some sophisticated circle. Underground caught my attention

And what is it that keeps you motivated to keep going in the underground scene over the years? 

Cause always i have the freedom to choose it, very different from other life aspects where I have to adapt and follow rules.

10.Thornafire comes out of Chile's death metal scene what is your opinion of the scene in Chile over the decade's?

’80s and 90’s this scene was outstanding and fantastic, we had the Pinochet regime, so many musicians said that they just did a copy of a foreign artist, for me was a unique, rudimentary and morbid escene, mid of 90’s when the underground became accessible, started to change. But still, you can find some jewels there.

11.Who are your all-time favorite bands coming out of Chile?Are their any new bands that you could recomend to the readers?

Pentagram (old) is twisted and cacophonic but wicked, and weirdly have ver raw folklore roots. Warpath, Atomic Aggressor, Sadism, Melektaus, Dominus Xul, Wrathprayer, Atomicide.

12.When you need to take a break from working on new music or band business what do you enjoy doing in your spare time?

Wow, is hard, I must work most of the time,

but I do like to speak from people and hear their meanings, sometimes I watch documentaries and from time to time enjoy nature.

13.Besides Thornafire do any of the members currently work with any other bands?If yes please tell the readers a little about them?

By now, Cristian Cardenas is playing in a porno grind band called Ñiache, and I`m playing in a Polish black metal band called Secfremist.

14.Thank you for taking the time to fill this interview out do you have any final words for the readers?

Yes, keep an eye on the underground scene and support your talented local acts.                                        Thornafire                                                                                                                                                      https://thornafire.bandcamp.com/                                                                                                                https://www.facebook.com/thornafire                                                                                                         https://www.instagram.com/thornafire_official/                                                                                           Great  Dane Rec.                                                                                                                                           https://www.greatdanerecs.com/eshop/web/                                                                                                 https://greatdanerecords.bandcamp.com/                                                                                                     https://www.facebook.com/GreatDaneRecords                                                                                             https://www.youtube.com/user/GREATDANERECORDS                                                                          

Interview with Tyranex done on 9-18-23

 

1. Hello please introduce yourselves to the readers?

I am Linnea Landstedt, singer and guitarist in the thrash metal band Tyranex. We are from Sweden and I was involved in starting the band already in 2005 and am the only member left since then.

2. When did you first discover speed and thrash metal music and who were the first bands and artists that you listened to? Who are some of the current bands that have caught your attention?

It was in my teenage years that I started listening to heavy metal and it didn't take very long until I found the thrash metal genre. It was mostly Megadeth and Kreator that I listened to, but I got hooked on the European thrash rather than the American and that influenced my early attempts to write heavier songs. A newer band that I noticed a few years ago is Phrenetix who I think are worth mentioning.

3. What is it about these genres that you enjoy so much? Besides speed and thrash metal do you listen to any other metal genres? If yes what are some of your favourite genres and bands?

I like the intensity and sense of youthful anger in thrash. It is energetically exhausting to listen to and to play. It requires precision and stamina and it's damn fun to play thrash metal on guitar. I've always liked playing riffs instead of chords and challenging myself to sing to the riffs. But it doesn't have to be complicated all the way through. It is important that the songs also have good melodies, whether it is in vocals or guitar/bass.

I love Iron Maiden, they remain the greatest for me. I am very influenced by heavy metal when I write songs. Early Tyranex was meant to be a mix of Angel Witch and Sentinel Beast but we quickly moved on to writing harder songs.

4. Tyranex was started in 2005, what gave you all the idea to start this band? How did you choose Tyranex as the name of the band?

Yes, we started Tyranex late that year. Then it was me and a girl named Paloma who started the band. It was she who suggested the name of the band. At that time I was in another band but we played more rock than metal. I had always wanted to play harder music and was looking for others who wanted to do the same, so Tyranex was born. The first line-up did not last long. Paloma was the singer in the beginning but she left the band only after one year and then I started singing instead.

5. What is the current line-up of the band? Who would you say are the bands biggest influences and have they remained the same over the years? For the readers unfamilar with Tyranex's music, how would you best describe it?

I play the guitar and sing, then we have Will Tomao who also plays the guitar. Martin Petersson on bass and Pontus Pettersson-Gull on drums.

We play thrash with elements of speed metal and heavy metal. It goes fast and sounds aggressive. In the beginning we were definitely more influenced by old heavy metal and the first songs were not as hard as the songs we have now. I don't think our influences have changed that much anyway since the beginning but the more songs we have written the more distinct our sound has become. I can't say that the songs on the new album have been inspired by any specific other band or genre. I have mostly sat with the guitar and tried to write good riffs and build a song from there.

6. “Reasons For The Slaughter” is the band’s newest full-length release. How long did it take to the band to write the music for the new release? How long would you say it usually takes to complete one song?

We wrote most of the songs during the summer of 2022 and worked on them in the rehearsal room during the autumn. In the winter of 2023 we started recording the album. However, some of the songs are much older. We had started writing some songs already in 2017 when we had recorded our third album. They sound a bit different now in the end, but the draft of those songs was already there. So some songs have taken several years to complete but most of the new songs are written in a few hours spread over several days. If you have something good going on, it is usually not so difficult to get on with the song.

7. Where does the band draw inspiration for the lyrics? What are some subjects written about on the new release? Which usually comes first, the music or the lyrics?

Music always comes first. During the process I sometimes think about how to organise the song, melody and rhythm. Sometimes I write lyrics long after the music and arrangements are finalised. It depends on how much inspiration I have. The songs have to be aggressive and the vocals have to be aggressive as well. I take inspiration for lyrics from different places, it can be anything from horror films to real events or something I come up with myself that fits in. Reasons for the Slaughter is not a concept album so the lyrics have no connection to each other.

8. Has Tyranex had the chance to play very many live shows over the years? What have been some of the bands most memorable shows? Who are some of your favourite bands to share the stage with?

Yes, we have been playing live since 2006. We have played everything from small local clubs to big festivals around Europe. For a while we went to Finland often and played and before the pandemic we drove down to Germany several weekends in a row to play at local metal clubs. I clearly remember some of the first really big gigs we did at festivals with a big stage. It was a challenge to fill the stage floor which was open and big compared to smaller clubs where you are crowded together on stage. Jalometalli in Finland was such a gig and Metal Assault in Germany. Also the first gigs outside Swedenhave been special. First you tour in your home country and play for family and friends. Then when you build up a small fanbase and get to go to new places and know that people have listened to your music, it's an incredible feeling. We've shared the stage with a lot of great bands, like FKÜ and Armory, who are our close friends.

 9. Are there any tours or shows planned in support of “Reasons For The Slaughter”? If yes, where will the band be playing?

Yes, we are working on it. However, there are many good bands releasing records this year that also want to play. Thrash in Sweden has grown bigger in recent years and I think that's great for the future. But it also means that there will be more competition for the gigs. We hope that we can come to new places and countries and play now that we are releasing a new disc. Keep an eye on our social media for upcoming gigs.

10. Besides the “Reasons For The Slaughter” release are the band’s previous releases still available for the readers to purchase? Besides physical releases does the band have any other merchandise currently available? If yes, what is available and where can the readers purchase it?

Yes we sell our own merch and the previous records on our bandcamp. https://tyranex.bandcamp.com/

11. What does Underground Metal mean to you?

It is a living movement of its own that is so important. Rarely does anyone make money from it, band members, promoters, fanzines and others who help keep it alive. People do it because they love it and want to contribute to the scene in some way. I wish even more people would get involved and make the underground scene grow even more. I am so grateful for all the enthusiastic people we have met over the years, who have listened to our music and helped us with everything from gigs to spreading our music.

12. Tyranex comes out of Sweden's speed and thrash metal scene what is your opinion of Sweden's Metal scene over the years?

When we started the band there were many young thrash bands in Sweden, we had our own little community where everyone knew everyone and shared demos between each other. After a few years there weren't so many bands left but now it's starting to open up for thrash again. There are new bands with young guys doing a great job like Atonement, Sarcator and Eternal Evil. However, I long to see more women playing thrash. It would be incredibly fun.

13. Who are your all-time favourite bands coming out of Sweden? Are there any new bands that you could recommend to the readers?

Difficult question, we have many great bands from Sweden that are already considered legendary. Most of them are already well known. I would rather recommend people to keep their eyes open for the relatively new thrash bands I already mentioned.

14. When dp you need to take a break from working on new music and band business, what do you enjoy doing in your free time?

Right now I love going to the forest and spending time in nature. Swedish nature is amazingly beautiful and accessible. If you ever come to Sweden, get out to the forest.

15. Thank you for taking the time to fill this interview out do you have any final comments for the reader's?

Thank you and thank you for reading this. We are not braggarts but I really think the latest album we made is really good and I hope you take the time to listen to it. Stay metal!                                                Tyranex                                                                                                                                                          https://tyranex.bandcamp.com/                                                                                                                    https://www.facebook.com/tyranexofficial/                                                                                                https://www.instagram.com/tyranexofficial/                                                                                               https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFCRkWaK26kckbqv_6ZYrwQ