Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 13, 2017
Swedish black metal giants Marduk are on their way to perform a few gigs in Australia. Black metal gigs such as these don’t always hit that side of the world and it peaked Metal Wani’s interest. Over the weekend, they interviewed guitarist Morgan “Evil” Steinmeyer Håkansson, discussing these dates and the recent incident during their […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on February 18, 2017
Since President Donald Trump stepped into office, musicians have shared their fears, launched anti-Trump songs, protested, and taken full advantage of the first amendment. We even have a collection of Donald Trump tweets as an emo song within a month of him being in office. Political tension is currently dividing America causing several protest groups fighting in […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on April 1, 2016
As death metal continues its decade-long rebuild from the ground up, more and more acts are taking the genre on long and strange trips, often times, making highly successful forays back to whence it once came. Enter Oakland’s Necrot and their new (not so new) album The Labyrinth. Not so new because it’s been culled […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on January 29, 2016
Somewhere, deep amid the thorny brambles of the metal world there exists a dimension of pure atmospherics. A place where some of the most talented acts in the metal world spend their days slow-cooking multiple genres in a cauldron of the ethereal. It’s deep within this dark side of the genre that Oakland’s Lycus consistently […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on September 11, 2015
Labeling something “atmospheric” has become, over the last two decades, a favorite device of metal music writers and bloggers alike. Everything with a twinge of doom, with a snifter of black metal, with pinch of post-metal bombast gets the ‘atmospheric’ tag. It’s not a bad thing, and it’s certainly something that has been done in […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on June 12, 2015
Throughout the course of human history there have been certain phenomena that have blessed us with a mesmerizing array things you could set your watch to. In the metal world over the last decade plus one of those phenomena is a new High On Fire album. Matt Pike and company fire off albums like the […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on September 27, 2013
Metal, in all its glorious forms, has always been the type of music that is built upon pure, unadulterated, raw emotion. Whether that emotion is anger or sadness or something else equally trying to the human psyche will go a long way towards just what brand of metal a band will deal in. For certain […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on July 1, 2013
Let us not mince words here. Lycus, hailing from Oakland, CA, are a doom band. If you want to get cute and call them “funeral doom” that would be completely acceptable. But make no mistake that if you were to look up “doom” in Noah Webster’s lasting gift to mankind that a picture of the […]
