Canada
Anvil – 45 Years of Passion and Impact
The following interview was conducted backstage Friday, May 12 at Legends Bar & Venue in Cincinnati with co-interviewer Jacqueline Perrin. Staying power for any band is important. It’s a historical statement showing drive, desire, determination and heart. The glue for Canadian veterans Anvil has always been passion. Passion for making heavy music and that’s what’s motivated guitarist/vocalist...[Read More]
Anvil – Impact Was Imminent in Cincinnati
Due to Anvil on site interview Midnite Hellion was not covered. Friday, May 12 Canadian metal veterans Anvil stormed into Cincinnati, marching around the stage of Legends Bar & Venue bringing over four decades of music, metal and experience to the headbanging fans and brethren. The 20+ date trek started on March 31 in Rhode Island, finishing in Grand Rapids Michigan May 13. Southern Ohio lan...[Read More]
Fall of Stasis – A Brutal Chronology Begins
From the heights of Canada comes a new force of blistering cold and northern darkness in the form of Montreal’s Fall of Stasis. The fall was formed in 2014 with intent of creating unidentifiable original music with an eclectic, progressive, symphonic punch to the ears. Their demo came in 2017 with this year’s new full length The Chronophagist teetering with black metal influences and heavy prog. J...[Read More]
Anarcheon – Scary Tale
Vancouver’s vampiric valets to the heavy and musically macabre, Anarcheon have released their new story-telling EP Scary Tale A three-song effort narrating the blood lust fueled tale of a familiar waiting for her dark lover to turn her with horrific, violent results. The creepy, groovy brood, take their lyrics describing the change from luring lady to savage beast. Seduced by the idea/fantasy of s...[Read More]
Sanguine Glacialis – Blackening the Depths
From the chilling woods of Montreal, Quebec comes the five-person experience known as Sanguine Glacialis. Helmed by modern day scream queen, growler and operatic virtuoso Maude Théberge they’ve experimented on two albums, Dancing With A Hanged Man and their Pitch Black Sight EP, along with recent release 2018’s Hadopelagic. They’ve brought all manner of influence, slamming together uncomfortable b...[Read More]
Phantom High – The Band Behind the Mask
Take your favorite ‘70s or ‘80s masked movie killer, add a few bloody drops of true crime, some In This Moment visuals, the inspiration of Father Alice and a very creative, perhaps over active imagination and you have Toronto’s masked musician Peril Erinyes and the macabre energy and imagery of Phantom High. Though she could be Michael Myers non-cinema sibling, for the life she’s had and sto...[Read More]
Raider – Guardian of the Fire
Canada has unleashed the newest thrash onslaught in Waterloo Ontario’s five-piece Raider. Their new full-length “Guardian of The Fire” is eight tracks of raw, old-school thrash modernized for today’s hungry headbanging youth holding the ingredients of their ‘80s and ‘90s forefathers. Perpetual speed, noise and a nuclear assault on the ears and senses was the goal attained. With first single “Boun...[Read More]
Annihilator – Ballistic, Sadistic
Annihilator has spent the last three-and-a-half decades churning out consistent, adrenalized thrash ready and worthy of any pit since the VHS and cassette days of ’84. Despite lineup changes, the name has been kept alive by Jeff Waters keeping vintage fans and gaining new ones. Ballistic Sadistic is the newest thrash serving from the Canadian veterans. It’s a fast, technical throwback to earlier w...[Read More]
Necronomicon – Unus
The sounds and audio spells from Canada’s extreme music benders Necronomicon have carried into late 2019 with a new stirring opus combing styles, structures and genres molded into their world venturing down new pathways, producing a unique product all their own. They’ve gone Beyond Thunderdome so to speak on new record Unus. They’ve made a career pulling the teeth from traditional death metal usin...[Read More]
The Child Remains: You’ll Wake Up Screaming Like a Baby
The Child Remains is Michael Melski’s newest horror movie/crime drama/psychological thriller. Based in part on the Butter Box Babies book and the Ideal Maternity Home open from the late ‘20s to mid ‘40s. The movie is partial fact mixed with fiction as an expecting couple takes a weekend retreat to an old-fashioned bed and breakfast getaway where they immediately encounter the creepy groundskeeper ...[Read More]
Terrifier – Weapons of Thrash Destruction
Vancouver BC’s, Terrifier marked 2011 with their thrash debut Destroyers of the Faith. They may have borrowed a few words from Priest but they adapted their sound according to the rules and ramming speed pits of early West Coast thrash. They’ve sounded their war cry grabbing handfuls straight from the white hot molten furnace, hurling fistfuls of liquid metal lava to any and all non-believers and...[Read More]
Insatia – Phoenix Aflame
High-spirited, high-flying female fronted symphonic metal from Tuscan by way of Montreal, QC comes from the four members of Insatia. Like the flowing astral angel in the cosmos on the cover, Zoë Federoff, ascends listeners up with heavenly operatic vocals, melding a sound intertwining Siobhán Fahey (Shakepeares Sister) and Anette Olzon (Nightwish). The music plays with a ballerinas grace as her v...[Read More]