A prominent Calgary multi-genre music venue is celebrating its 10th year supporting the local music community on February 11th with a huge line up of well-known local bands. Among them are legendary Calgary punk act BDFM with Distortion co-owner Mark Russell on drums. Saturday, February 11, Distortion invites everyone to join...
Shark Infested Daughters is a local abnormality making waves in their hometown of Calgary, Alberta. They are one of the few local bands who manage to garner as many rabid haters as devoted fans. When expressing dislike for the band, people rarely make mention if it’s the music they dislike, or...
Never to be a band that rushes releases, we have seen a new album from Insomnium every couple years, with each release surpassing the former in ingenuity, most recently Shadows of the Dying Sun (full length) in 2014. This was an absolute masterpiece and instantly became my favorite album of...
Churning out the largest number of metal bands per capita means lots of potential pouring out of Finland these days, including Shadecrown’s Agonia. They are off to a great start with this album, even though some of the elements don’t jive the best with each other. The contrast between the vocals is...
It is not uncommon for power metal bands to incorporate video game sounds into their music, but Sweden’s Machinae Supremacy takes this influence to a new level. The quintet, avid video gamers, choose to incorporate the SID chip from the Commodore 64 with their power/industrial metal riffs, creating a very...
Dark Tranquility, one of the more prominent Swedish melodic death metal bands, has been dishing out one great album after another since their 1993 release Skydancer. For 13 years they have been defining the genre, so it is completely disheartening to hear their latest album, Atoma. The meat, albeit bland, is definitely...
Piano? Check. Growls? Check. Epic clean vocals? Check. Well-written lyrics that you’ll be singing to by the second listen? Check. Ovary exploding arrangement of guitar solos and melodies? Check. This is easily one of the best albums Amorphis has come out with. 9/10 Originally published on extrememetal.tv
Between the name, the logo and the album art and the genre listed I was anticipating some doom metal. Maybe doom metal is different in Greece, this isn’t doomy at all. It makes more sense to file it under power metal. With that considered, it’s fairly good. Vocals have good...
I think this falls somewhere into the spacy goth rock category. Maybe post grunge industrial. It’s weird in a neat kind of way, but the strained distorted vocals I could do without. Props to these guys for developing their own unique sound, something that would be at home in the...
One of my first interviews on camera, with Iced Earth! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_Jn8APy-Y?list=PL344VKyZmrHKHics4R07yg72yRz1F5chD&w=560&h=315] Originally published through Extreme Metal Television on Oct 4, 2014.