If you still haven’t heard of Moonloop, you’re missing out people. About a month ago, I just listened to their new album Deeply From The Earth and fell in love. Formed in 2001 in Barcelona, Moonloop specializes in progressive death metal in the vein of Opeth and Gojira. In fact, you can hear a new Read More
In 2010, Ihsahn — the former frontman for the almighty Emperor — released what would end up being one of the year’s best albums: After. What struck me about the release, initially, was how brilliantly they wove jazz saxophone into a crushing, dismal progressive metal record. Ihsahn’s forthcoming follow-up, Eremita, is just as brilliant an Read More
For drummer Kenny Grohowski, manning the kit for progressive death metal act Hung may be merely the pinnacle of what’s been an impressive, nearly 15-year musical career. Not yet 30, Grohowski has been touring with all kinds of bands since he was 15. “My first tour was with a salsa band,” Grohowksi tells Gun Shy Read More
Today, Vancouver’s own 3 Inches of Blood have a killer new album in stores called Long Live Heavy Metal. I have been listening to this monster for a couple of weeks now, and must admit…the album’s a fucking winner. As such, 3 Inches frontman Cam Pipes has been doing phone interviews from the road, as Read More
It’s been a minute — or 1,577,844, to be exact — since we’ve heard from God Forbid. The band’s last album dropped in 2009, and since then, members have come and gone. One of them was Dallas Coyle, the brother of God Forbid’s Doc Coyle, who spoke with Gun Shy Assassin two weeks ago…before the Read More
Last June, Jungle Rot released Kill On Command, the Wisconsin death metal band’s seventh studio offering and first to be issued as part of a new partnership with Victory Records. I recently spoke with Dave Matrise — the band’s frontman — as Jungle Rot were arriving in West Virginia for the first date on their Read More
It was almost a year ago that Infernaeon and former singer Brian Werner parted ways in a bitter, very public separation that led to all kinds of drama, threats of lawsuits, and allegations being flung from both sides. A few weeks back, Infernaeon’s manager contacted me, asking me if I wanted to talk to someone Read More
On January 20, heavy metal supergroup Hail!Hornet will be heading out on its inaugural U.S. headlining tour. Actually, it’s their first tour period. And drummer Erik Larson (a member of the now-defunct Alabama Thunderpussy and the very much alive Birds of Prey and Parasytic) is a little nervous. “We played a show once with Deadbird Read More
So, last week, I had the opportunity to speak to Obscura’s Steffen Kummerer and since he’s German, I spared him my American silliness. No questions about gloryholes, no questions about cartoons or movies or comic books. We just talked about Obscura, his progressive death metal band, and how their fourth album, Omnivium, was one of Read More
I don’t know if you knew this, but Iced Earth happen to have a new, straight-ahead ballsy fucking metal album out called Dystopia that has easily worked its way onto my top five of 2011 list within the last couple of weeks. The record is phenomenal, and proof that Iced Earth have returned better and Read More