Murder Made God Interview

1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the band since the recording of the new album?

The  recordings of the new album were completed in December 2015.  Since  then we have released some new songs and we are working on some upcoming shows.

2.You  have a new album coming out in April, how would you describe the  musical sound that is presented on the recording and also how does it  differ from the stuff you have released in the past?

Yes, we have our new album “Enslaved” coming out on April 15th via Comatose Music.  I think the album sounds clear, aggressive and  really tight.  We did our best and this time we have a little more  different sound than our previous releases, maybe more organic, besides  we used different equipment.  Musically, we added some different elements but still everything sounds extreme and brutal.
Stelios Koslidis is again our sound engineer and the cover artwork was made again by Colin Marks.


3.This  is the first album to be released in 3 years, can you tell us a little  bit more about what has been going on during that time span?

“Irreverence”  album was released in 2013, since then we have changed drummer, and  quickly arranged some shows and a UK tour as well.  We had a break for a few months and after that we signed to Comatose Music for a  new release that we worked with new material.


4.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the newer music?

Lyrically,  with this release we explore the slavery that the human beings are  into.  From our daily jobs, from our governments, from our religions etc.  All of them want us to obey in every inhuman must.


5.What  are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and  also how would you describe your stage performance?

Probably  the UK tour had some of our best shows and I remember also a gig in  Athens a few years ago. The venue was full and the crowd was insane!
We try to give our whole energy on stage even if there is one person or more in the crowd.


6.Do you have any touring or show plans once the new album is released?

We  are rehearsing for some shows around Greece at the moment. We don’t  have any touring plans but we are going to organise something later on.


7.The new album is coming out on 'Comatose Music' how would you compare working with
them to your old label 'Brutal Bands'?

I  can say that Comatose Music is the best label that we have worked with  so far! We have an amazing support and feedback from them.  In my  opinion this is how an underground label has to be.  Brutal Bands supported us  in the beginning but then they stopped working.  I think our previous  album was their last release.


8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of brutal death metal?

The  feedback is much better than what we expected. Some fans around the  world really support our music.  This is the best payment for a band but I can say that the more you get your band on tour and work on  promoting campaigns the more worldwide recognition you will have for  sure.


9.What is going on with some of the other bands or musical projects these days that some of the band members are a part of?

All  the MMG members have also other bands except me.  At this time our  drummer is up to release a new album with his other band called Erectus.  You should keep your eyes open for this release.


10.Where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?

I can’t be sure.  All I want is to play the music that we love!  Ideally, I‘d like every album to be a little bit different.


11.What  are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on  your newer music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

We are heavily inspired from bands like Decapitated, Origin, Dying Fetus but I think we have created our own character in MMG.
I can say that we are listening to different genres of music but mostly metal.

12.What are some of your non musical interests?

I am a dad now and I try to spend as much time as I can with my family.   That’s the best for me.

13.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?

I call out all the extreme metal fans to listen to our music and support all the extreme metal bands!
Thanks for the interview.

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Mythrias/Absolving The Treacherous/2015 EP Review

  Mythrias  are  a  band  from  Ohio  that  plays  a  melodic  mixture  of   death  and thrash  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2015  ep  "Absolving  The  Treacherous".

  A  very  heavy and  melodic  death/thrash  metal  sound  starts  off  the  ep  along  with  some  blast  beats  and  all  of  the  musical  instruments  sound  very  powerful  and  the  vocals  they  use  are  high  pitched  screams  which  also  add  in  growls  at  times  and  the  guitar  solos  and  leads  use  melodies  that  are  very  close  to  traditional  metal.

  Throughout  the  recording  there  is  a  great  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  the  thrash  influences  add  a  touch  of  80's  metal  to  the  bands  musical  style while  the  high  pitched  screams  have  a  black  metal  feeling  to  them  and  why  the  music  has  an  old  school  vibe  it  still  sounds  very  modern  and  one  track  brings  in  a  brief  use  of  spoken  word  parts  and  they  close  the  ep  with  a  cover  of  the  Offspring's  "The  Kids  Aren't  Alright".

  Mythrias  plays  a  musical  style  that  takes  mid  90's  melodic  death  metal  and  80's  thrash  and  mix  them  in  with  some  modern  elements  to  create  a  style  of  their  own,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  for  being  a  self  released  recording  while  the  lyrics  cover  Conquest,  The  Occult  and  Mythology  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Mythrias  are  a  very  great  sounding  melodic  mixture  of  death  and  thrash  metal  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  those  musical  genres,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Absolving  The  Treacherous" and  "Lamia".  8  out  of  10.    

  

The Ward/Part Of Humanity/Metal Scrap Records/2015 CD Review

  The  Ward  are  a  band  from  Moldova  that  plays  a  very  atmospheric  and  melodic  form  of  death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2015  album  "Part  Of  Humanity"  which  was  released  by  Metal  Scrap  Records.

  Symphonic  synths  start  off  the  album  and  after  the  intro  the  music  gets  more  heavy  along  with  some  death  metal  growls  and  melodic  riffs  while  also  mixing  in  the  atmospheric  elements  that  where  present  on  the  intro  and  when  the  music  speeds  up  a  great  amount  of  brutal  blast  beats  can  be  heard.

  Throughout  the  recording  there  is  a  great  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  when  guitar  solos  and  leads  are  utilized  they  bring  of  a  technical  death  metal  style  to  the  bands  musical  style  and  some  songs  also  bring  in  a  small  amount  of  clean  playing  and  you  can  also  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  the  album  and  the  music  can  also  be  very  progressive  in  some  parts  of  the  songs  and  they  also  bring  in  one  track  that  is  very  long  and  epic  in  length  while  one  track  also  adds  in  a  brief  use  of  female  vocals.

  The  Ward  plays  a  style  of  death  metal  that  takes  the  melodic,  symphonic,  technical  and  atmospheric  sides of  the  genre  and  mixes  them  together  to  create  a  style  of  their  own,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  themes.

  In  my  opinion  The  Ward  are  a  very  great  sounding  atmospheric, melodic  death  metal  band  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  this  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Megiddo"  "Death  Monastery"  "In  the  Depths  Of  Theories"  and  "Flakes  Of  Rapture".  8  out  of  10.    
 

Verment/Death's Domain/2016 EP Review

  Verment  are  a  band  from  Ohio  that  plays  a  mixture  of  death  metal  and  deathcore  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  self  released  2016 ep  "Death's  Domain"  which  will  be  released  in  April.

  A  very  heavy  and  melodic  sound  starts  off  the  ep  along  with  some  death  metal  growls  and  all  of  the  musical  instruments  sounding  very  powerful  and  when  the  music  speeds  up  a  great  amount  of  blast  beats  can  be  heard  and  high  pitched  screams  can  also  be  heard  in  some  parts  of  the  songs  while  the  solos  and  leads  bring  in  a  great  amount  of  melody.

  Throughout  the  recording  you  can  hear  a  great  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  the  songs  also  bring  in  a  touch  of  both  melodic  death  and  black  metal  while  some  songs  also  mix  in  slam  and  deathcore  elements  and  the  music  is  also  perfectly  balanced  between  both  old  school  and  modern  extreme  metal  influences  and  a  couple  of  the  tracks  also  bring  in  a  brief  use  of  atmospheric  sounds  and  clean  playing  while  some of  the  heavier  riffs  add  in  a  touch  of  thrash.

  Verment  plays  a  musical  style  that  takes  the  brutal,  technical  and  melodic  sides  of  the  genre  and  add  in  a  touch  of  black  metal,  thrash  and  deathcore  to  create  a  style  of  their  own,  the  production  sounds  very  professional  for  being  a  self  released  recording  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  and  violent  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Vermont  are  a  very  great  sounding  mixture  of  death  metal  and  deathcore  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  those  musical  genres,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Amon's  Wrath"  and  "Parade  Of  Filth".  8  out  of  10.

Epitome/Auteo'ROT'icism/Engulf The Decrepitude/Deformeathing Productions/2015 CD Compilation Review

  Epitome  are  a  band  from  Poland  that  plays  a  mixture  of  grindcore  and  death  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2015 compilation  album  "Auteo'ROT'icism/Engulf The Decrepitude"  which  was  released  by  Deformeathing  Productions  and  consists  of  both  their  1994  and 1998  demos.

  A  very  fast  and  heavy  grindcore  sound  starts  off  the  compilation  along  with  some  blast  beats  and  a  mixture  of  both  death  metal  growls  and  high  pitched  screams  and  the  songs  also  bring  in  a  great  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  and  you  can  also  hear  all  of  the  musical  instruments  that  are  present  on  the  compilation.

  Some  of  the  riffs  utilize  morbid  sounding  melodies  and  the  vocals  also  get  very  guttural  at  times  while  some  of  the  screams  add  in  schizophrenic  sounds  and  there  are  also  some  electronic  elements  in  the  music  in  some  of  the  tracks  which  also  gives  the  music  more  of  an  avant  garde  feeling  and  one  track  also  adds  in  a  touch  of  drum'n'bass  and  the  tracks  from  1994  bring  in  more  of  a  raw  death/grind  style  while  also  bringing  in  the  early  style  of  slam  and  when  guitar  leads  are  utilized  briefly  they  remain  true  to  an  early  90's  style  of  death  metal.  

  Epitome  played  a  style  of  death/grind  that  was  very  brutal  for  the  90's  and  also  was  a  few  years  ahead  of  their  time  bringing  in  guttural  and  slam  elements  which  where  rare  back  in  those  days,  the  production  on  the  98  demo  sounded  professional  while  the  one  from  94  sounds  more  raw  and  the  lyrics  cover  violence  and  gore  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Epitome  are  a  very  great  sounding  brutal  mixture  of  death  metal  and  grindcore  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  those  musical  genre,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "The  Surgeon's  Complex"  "Hermetic  Flesh  Capsule"  and  "Incarnated  Of  Morbidity".  8  out  of  10.

     

Mangled Interview

1.For those that have never heard of you before, can you tell us a little bit about the band?
Mangled began as an aggressive reaction to obnoxious "metal" trends that were dominating Atlanta and the surrounding cities at the time. There were tons of us really in to the old school, but there weren't that many shows happening catering to that, and the ones that were happening were kind of sparsely attended because there weren't many local acts to properly support them.
There wasn't much happening in the way of extreme metal bands that were fast, gross, or really high-energy, so we started one. We like to make nasty noise that sounds like horror movies and inspires moshing and headbanging.

2.How would you describe the musical sound that is presented on the recordings?
We aim to blend the overwhelming, extreme sounds of gore and medical-themed metal with a heavy dose of thrashy speed and tongue-in-cheek punk rock fuckery.
We personally like to call this hybrid "Gore Punk", or "Sewer Metal". We don't write with the intention of emulating any certain sound, we just write what we think sounds bad ass. This 7" is by far the heaviest, most brutal stuff we've recorded. Its fast, its heavy, its kind of weird, its the audio equivalent of nausea.

3.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the band explores with the music?
I'd be lying to you if I told you we wrote about anything more profound than creatively killing people in horrible ways and playing with their guts. We've always set a lot of our songs down in a subterranian sewer lair, and write them out a bit like horror vignettes stemming from that concept.

4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name 'Mangled'?
It was short, violent, memorable, easy to draw a logo for, a cool Cannibal Corpse song, and no one was using it at the time.

5.What are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and also how would you describe your stage performance?
We have played a ton of shows that stick out in my mind as unforgettable. The inaugural Blood of the Wolf fest in Lexington KY was a blast. Any shows we've ever played in Philly have been unbelievably fun.
But my all time favorite show was an Atlanta house show with Ghoul in 2012 ... Absolute chaos! By the end of the night the PA was fried and the basement looked like a goddamned slaughterhouse.
Our live performance is as energetic as we can make it. We ham it up, wear the blood-soaked butcher's aprons, we fucking headbang.
95% of the time we are able to get any room pumped up and violent and we just feed back and forth off of that energy. We grab people, kick front row chests and yell in your face.
We don't have a budget for any gimmicks or stage productions, we just firmly believe that if you are going to play a live show then standing around like boring assholes is just a waste of everyone's time.

6.Do you have nay touring or show plans for the future?
We will definitely be doing some shows to promote Involuntary Organ Donor.

7.The 7 inch is coming out on 'Boris Records', can you tell us a little bit more about how you came in contact with this label?
We had all known Sam [Leyja] who operates Boris for a while through local shows. The man is somewhat of a legend- killer artist, great musician, and enthusiastic supporter of the underground. Whenever our band starting really picking up, he approached us about recording a release for Boris, which at that point had only released a single by Spewtilator, our guitarist Rafay's other band.
That ended up being our first vinyl release "Sewer Metal". Since then Boris has gone on to release a seriously kick ass catalogue of releases, mostly Atlanta based, but even stuff out of South America.

8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of extreme metal?
I don't really know how we are recieved worldwide. We seem to get a lot of support thrown at us from all over the globe. Someone told us they were playing Sewer Metal at a bar in Italy. We have a ton of support in our hometown and on the East Coast it has been incredibly rad everywhere we've gone.

9.What is going on with some of the other bands or musical projects these days that some of the band members are a part of?

10.Where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?
I don't imagine any giant difference in direction than you'll find on this release. We sound like we meant to when we started, but even since recording these songs we are constantly upping the ante in brutality, nastiness, and skill... just honing our craft. Any change of style past that would probably result in something not quite "Mangled"

11.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
We wear our more obvious influences on our sleeve- Carcass, Impaled, General Surgery, Haemorrhage, Repulsion, but that is really only a fraction of what makes our overall sound. I personally worship The Accused. We all love the Razorback Records roster from like 2002 with early Ghoul, Frightmare, Blood Freak, Engorged, etc. John, Rafay, and I listen to a shitload of thrash metal and crossover stuff. Death and thrash metal classics that go without saying- Cannibal Corpse, Vio-Lence, Demolition Hammer, Sepultura, Cryptopsy, you know the drill. But the honest truth is we spend way more time listening to old Metallica and W.A.S.P. records than anything else.

12.What are some of your non musical interests?

13.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?
Buy our record, support your own local labels, and don't talk shit on each other in the underground!

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Make Me A Donut/Bright Side/Tenacity Music/2016 CD Review

  Make  Me  A  Donut  are  a  band  from  Switzerland  that  plays  a  progressive  mixture  of  djent  and  deathcore  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2016  album  "Bright  Side"  which  was  released  by  Tenacity  Music.

  Ambient  sounds  start  off  the  album  along  with  some  ethnic  music  elements  before  adding  in  a  very  powerful  sounding  bass  guitar  and  technical  guitar  leads  which  also  introduces  death  metal  growls,  high  pitched  screams  and  a  huge  dose  of  djent  to  the  music  and  the  songs  also  keep  the  atmospheric  sounds.

  Elements  of  modern  prog  metal  can  be  heard  quite  a  bit  throughout  the  recording  while  spoken  word  parts  are  added  briefly  into  some  of  the  songs  which  also  use  a  great  amount  of  melody  and  there  is  also  a  small  use  of  melodic singing  and  acoustic  guitars  on  some  of  the  tracks  and  as  the  album  progresses  slide  guitars  can  be  heard  in  certain  sections  of  the  recording  along  with  a  couple  of  instrumentals  and  all  of  the  music  sticks  to  either  a  slow  or  mid  paced  musical  direction  while  there  is  a  few  seconds  of  blast  beats  being  utilized..

  Make  Me  A  Donut  plays  a  musical  style  that  mixes  death  metal  with  djent,  metalcore  and  prog  metal  to  create  a  style  of  their  own,  the  production  sound s very  professional  while  the  lyrics  cover  dark  and  real  life  themes.   

  In  my opinion  Make  Me  A  Donut  are  a  very  great  sounding  progressive  mixture  of  djent  and  deathcore  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  those  musical  genres,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Skyline"  "II  Knowledge"  and  "Between".  8  out  of  10.