When the conversation turns to black metal bands that looked for artistic freedom beyond the boundaries of the genre they belong to (every one in it's own way), some of the bands mentioned are Dodheimsgard, Emperor, Arcturus, Thorns and Satyricon who will be the main topic of this review.
Our decade is the decade of occult heavy metal. Ghost, Witchcraft, Year of the Goat, all those bands have something in common; Doom metal sound, along with soft, melodic vocals and occult lyric themes.
There are many times that a second album is much more important for a band compared to the first one. It’s been many times where bands can’t produce something better than their first album, due to enthusiasm, lack of pressure and will to catch the listeners by surprise.
Metalpaths caught up with Sepultura's heart and soul Andreas Kisser who was very open to answer our questions about the new album, touring, the band's legacy and future plans.
After many contradictions through the years between band members, departures, arrivals, change of record companies and various experimentations in each album, Sepultura managed to gain back some of their former glory with their constant evolution.
Rivers of Nihil, the young band from Pennsylvania, USA, came with their very first debut record this year, aiming to deliver some solid technical death metal to the music scene.
I was really expecting the third full-length of the Dutch death metal supergroup Hail Of Bullets, as it has been pretty a while since the release of ‘’On Divine Winds’’ and the reformation and rise of Asphyx brought the band a little back.
Florida death metallers OBITUARY have completed the songwriting process for their next album, tentatively due in early 2014. The band states; "We will take our time, trim the fat and focus on making these bass boys as bad-ass as possible.
Mercenary, from Denmark, have been around for many years. Having many followers/fans of their melodic progressive death metal and their unique mixture with power metal elements, which has really placed them in one of the top bands, that someone would be curious of what will come next from their intriguing minds.
Studied Business Administration, Panagiotis is Metalpaths' founder and editor-in-chief. He still believes that can be the... guiding light to extreme music (NOT!) and he would die to see a Pantera reunion show.
