The album "Once Entombed..." Is presented with considerable weight and firmly. of the original band from Athens, Greece, a band that will break down this sick album below. ABYSSUS incredible band formed in 2011 that pays tribute and tribute to that sound of the late 80s and early 90s. This band usually includes in its discs and splits covers of legendary bands and adapting the sound of those bands to their own truth that they are executioners, they know how to do it and it makes it too bestial. 19 songs 5 of them covers make up this huge album that from start to finish takes you through an old school sound so brutal that it never disappoints. I am very excited that these old school sounds are preserved and greatly renewed in bands like that. You must listen to this album to understand its description. Powerful vocals always without fainting and without halftones, incredible brutal riff bass and guitars that do not faint and of course a battery that is a true demolition machine. I recommend this incredible album if you are an external follower.
Again we have here the Greeks severe and incredible in sound. Crushing, powerful and mega bestial is the sound of this band with such a trajectory. The next ep "Unleash the Storm" is a real truck passing over all the force of death metal annihilating your bones, perhaps that is the feeling that this brutality of music transmits. I would like to review with you the set list of the ep that included two separate covers including one of the glorious Bathory: - Operation Ranch Hand -Unleash the Storm -The Rite of Darkness (Bathory cover) -Open the Gates (Manilla Road cover) -Warhead (Venom cover) Athens gave birth to this beastly band and it truly represents in an excellent way the sound of the old school extreme something very rich and virtuous that never loses its primitive and direct touch kicking your face again and again. Dedicate minutes of life to this ep you will not regret.
The legendary Greeks faithful to old school metal and delivering a dose of brutal death. You can check out his 2019 Split "Sign of the Covenant of Death" for an excellent incredible sound just like it came out of your old tape deck. Diabolic and very virtuous guitars, a lot of brutal riff and a lot of solos that dictate teaching. A battery that has an extreme brutality that blends with the sickest and most powerful voice that you can simply have an exquisite split for all those lovers of old school death metal. Let us remember for those who do not know the creators of this bestiality, I will refresh you here: Kostas Analytis Vocals, Lyrics Panos Gkourmpaliotis Guitars, Songwriting Coasts Ragiadakos Bass Christos Liakos Guitars Jan Westermann Drums If you like Obituary, Bolt Thrower and you are a follower of the old death school you will really enjoy this split.
R: I have always wanted to have a solo project. Complete creative control with music has always been something that I yearned for. When I was in my previous band Astaroth Incarnate, I was working hard on writing what would be my first solo album. After they kicked me out of the band, I had more free time to continue working on the album and to decide on a band name for my upcoming solo project.
T: Why the name Malice Divine? Any special meaning?
R: I wanted a name that reflected both the music and the lyrical content of the music. The music is aggressive, and the lyrics combine the themes of inner strength, resilience, revenge, and confrontation with themes of a more “spiritual” and “abstract” nature. After contemplating numerous band name ideas, it was clear that “Malice Divine” fit the music and the lyrics the best.
T: What influences did they have from the beginning?
R: Do you mean what influenced Malice Divine from the beginning? My influences include Dissection, Immortal, Watain, Death, Kreator, Slayer, Destroyer 666, Behemoth, etc.
T: How much time do you dedicate to music in your life?
R: I dedicate a huge portion of my time in my life to music. I teach guitar for a living, so automatically I spend a large amount of time outside of writing my music playing guitar. Music is my biggest passion by far, and I have dedicated my life to it.
T: How has the process of recording your CD."Everlasting Ascendancy" been?
R: It was enjoyable, but quite challenging at times. Some of the parts were more demanding on a technical level, so overall I’d say it was a little more challenging to record than the first album. Fortunately, there weren’t any delays with the recording of “Everlasting Ascendancy”. There was with the self-titled debut album because of the pandemic.
T: What are your musical influences? What is the music you listen to the most?
R: The influences that I already mentioned are still strong influences of mine. Black metal, death metal, And thrash metal is my favourite, and what is what I listen to this most. Lately it’s been bands such as Bathory, Necrophobic, Ninkharsag, Blasphemy, Archgoat, Lord Belial, Absu, Sodom, Kreator, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse, etc. I also listen to a lot of the “classic” metal bands such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Motorhead, etc.
T: Ric it is very difficult to play all the instruments in a band to make the band work, how do you do it?
R: I played most of the instruments, not all of them. I hired a session drummer by the name of Dylan Gowan to perform the drum parts that I wrote. Dylan played drums on both albums. However, I did perform all of the vocals, guitars, and bass.ss
T: How much time do you dedicate to the composition and structure of an album like CD."Everlasting Ascendancy"?
R: I dedicated the majority of the year 2021 to the composition and structure of “Everlasting Ascendancy”.
T: Your band's sound is very special with extreme sounds and old school sounds or how would you define it?
R: I would define it as a melodic combination of black metal, death metal, and thrash metal. With that said, I don’t care much for labels.
T: What do you think about the current underground metal scene in Canada?
R: I think the current underground metal scene is strong. There are lots of bands that are doing very well for themselves and have seen a considerable amount of success.
T: What do you know about the South American underground metal scene?
R: I know that the South American metal scene consists of many classic bands! Metal is alive and well in South American.
T: What is the band preparing for its immediate future?
R: Right now I’m preparing the 3rd Malice Divine. I’m working towards being able to start recording the next album very soon.
T: Thank you very much for your time and I ask you to greet your followers of The Legion of TchorT 'Zine, thank you very much.
R: You’re welcome and thank you for the interview! Cheers!
CD."VII: The Chariot" 8 songs are the number of songs that make up this album that is enormous and deep within the archetype of Greek black metal "VII: The Chariot" (Order Of The Ebon Hand) Let's remember that the extreme Greek metal is always very brutal and powerful that always takes us much further from the extreme and takes us into very deep universes both in sound and lyric and generate an atmosphere that transports you beyond. . (Aiantas, Bael, Wings) called my attention considerably. Maybe you do not know this band. I invite you to investigate more about it and to listen to this album. Here I leave the protagonists of it: Merkaal in Vocals work, Phlaigon playing Guitar, Baron Bonisagus running Bass, Øbsidian in charge of the Keyboards and the beast We are responsible for the Drums. Recall that it was an album recorded in June 2019 at the Woodshed studios. If you are a fan of extreme Greek metal do not miss this band.
Graz continues to provide everything in metal, especially power. Norikum new generation metal practitioners are a big sample of this genre. The melody and ensemble they manage to do with the brutality of music is sublime, this adhered to the great performance in each of their instruments. His album "Ad Nauseam" is a real extreme wildness and melody together and with too bestial energy. In some moments making me remember The Haunted and some other legends of the genre. "Occupation, Pyramid, Prey, Grind" some songs that really perplexed me in the face of so much brutality embodied in a few minutes and a lot of technicality that I had not heard for a while. Austria continues to provide enough talent for the world metal scene and even more so on the melodic and death metal side, if you feel like it don't lose sight of this album and this great band.
Vienna is the city that embraces the violent thrashers of Mortal Strike. Much violence in each of the songs that make up this great musical plaque that is "For the Loud and the Aggressive" performed on November 29, 11, 2014 Themes make up this long duration and are a frantic dance with death from beginning to end. I do not need to break down songs from the album or recommend any, since it is an album to place and open your best beer, you just have to let it play until the end, while you shake your neck from one side to another. They have some influence from the Germans Tankard and logically take advantage of their physical album to add a cover of them the super classic "Zombie Attack". Austria gives us more and more talent in each style and if you are a true fan of the impossible thrash that you do not enjoy this great band, you will be revitalized and wanting to kick enough skulls after hearing them, guaranteed, health and metal.
The great German band Menschenfresser presents us with a very brutal and experimental sound where I can first denote the industrial and doomy also the death and black and even an atmosphere of horror in the proposal which becomes something very interesting. Slow but very solid themes become hymns that take you to a great climax and a very pleasant experience to the hear. Remember that his album "Sterben" is from 2018 and offers many interesting nuances that walk around by various styles. I can get very furious guitars a bass direct to your head and very changing voices, it is a real journey that makes you take the band and I can recommend it to each of those followers who like these bands that manage to innovate and make you have a great experience when listening to this album something very different from everything you are finding along the way with these bands that want to raise a sound different different and daring being something special. This great band formed in 2006 signed by the label Boersma Records and integrated by Christian "Knegge" Knechtel on guitars. Holger "Holli" Rodammer on vocals and drums. Robert Trierweiler on bass.
And up the darkest they can transmit, Recommended.
T: Why the name EverdeaD? Any special meaning and who chose it?
Mat: Hello, Tchort. Greetings to all Metalheads readership of "The Legion of TchorT" 'Zine.
The main idea of the band was to perform metal classics. It was meant to be a cover band with me on guitar and a couple of friends from BESTIAL local Brutal Death Metal act.
Due to that concept the name was supossed to be an invertion of Evergreen. Evergreen meaning immortal classic songs I thought, what better name than EverdeaD then?
T: What bands and styles have influenced you since you decided to form the band?
Mat: Since early 90's I was inspired by the Death Metal scene. My greatest influences from that era are bands like: VADER, DEATH, MORBID ANGEL, OBITUARY, BENEDICTION, ASPHYX, PESTILENCE and CANNIBAL CORPSE. As for younger bands: NECROPHAGIST, DYING FETUS, SCEPTIC. I love this kind of expressive, raw sound and a kind of primitive brutality even if there are bands that play more technical kinds of metal.
T: What was your biggest influence from the beginning when deciding to form the band?
Mat: As I mentioned before the Death Metal scene especially in the late 80's and early 90's. Besides I think that my other inspiration are Thrash Metal bands like: SLAYER, OVERKILL, late EXODUS, late TesTamenT, early METALLICA, early SODOM, early KREATOR. I must confess, I am not that open minded. I prefer to stick im my comfort zone ;)
T: What do you hope to achieve with your musical proposal when they are heard in other countries throughout the world?
Mat: Well... I don't have high expectations. Being so self-conscious I acknowledge that there are and there will always be bigger and more influential bands in the Metal Scene.
Keep in mind the main idea of EverdeaD was to play for fun and that stays true to this day. I don't think that being in the band is a competition.
EverdeaD is not challenging anyone.
We're just trying to do our best. We would be very happy if EverdeaD reached a bigger audience, but we still have fun playing regardless. As I mentioned before, we have our comfort zone. Me (Mat) and Daro (rhythm guitar) are 48 and 50 years old. Kowal (bass) is 35. The time for us to establish ourselves in the scene passed us by years ago. Now we are Metal Oldboys still followers and keepers of the Metal Scene. And we're content with that.
T: Why did they enter the world of metal and what keeps them motivated?
Mat: For me (and I suppose for Daro and Kowal) Metal is not only a music genre. Speaking for myself beeing a metalhead is also a kind of lifestyle. You become attached to something more than a company label and a formula. Entering the Metal Scene is a kind of escape from a killing pattern. You know: wake, eat, shit, work, sleep, and repeat. And life passes by...
You're obviously entering another pattern: precise aggresive music style, outfits, gigs, skulls, bones, new relationships and many more. Some may say "O! What a cliche boring as hell!!!" but I love it. And I don't expect anyone to follow my steps, you're either a metalhead or you're not.
T: How would you define your music?
Mat: In short words EverdeaD is Death Metal inspired by The Death Metal scene of the late 80's and early 90's. For instance: VADER "The Ultimate Incantation", DEATH "Spiritual Healing", PESTILENCE "Testimony Of The Ancients" and many more... I think you will find many more influences from bands of that era in EverdeaD.
T: Who is in charge of the art for your T-shirt designs?
Mat: Well... The first graphics I made myself. Cover art for the 2nd demo and T-SHIRT "Resurrected Into Plagues" was a processed photo by Helen Fyles from England.
I was looking for a picture of a winged skull and I've found one. Helen granted my request and let me use it. But the next pieces were made mostly by independent artists. Most of them I've found on facebook groups. The art for the 2nd single "Inhuman Devolution" was made by artist Ley Art. "Slashing Madness" cover art was made by artist Ukie Bloodart. "Spiritual Revival" cover art was made by my son Wincenty Judasz. He has made art directly commissioned by me. 5th single's cover art "Released From The Grave" which will be released on september 24, 2024 was made by Pileworm Art.
T: How did the pandemic affect you to continue developing your career as a band?
Mat: I must admit, that the pandemic worked fine for me. While I was stuck at home, I had so much time to play guitar. As I remember it, it was the very first time in my adult life I didn't have to sacrifice time from my day to play and practice. So exactly at the time the idea to transform EverdeaD from a cover band was born. I remember a while practicing (MACHINE HEAD's) "Davidian" I played my first riffs. At the time I composed and recorded first versions of "Plague 19" and "World's Greatest Saviour".
The last one is still and I believe will always be in our set list.
T: What can you tell me about the experience of recording your CD."COVID Sessions" during the pandemic?
Mat: The time was strange. I remember people felt insecure and very confused.
We started the band in 2020 so we had only 4 songs back then: "World's Greatest Saviour", "Alternating Misinformaion" and "Global Myth".
"Plague 19" was not planned for that recording session. As I remember it, we were recording "Covid Sessions" in beetween of november and december 2020. All of my guitar parts and bass I've recorded at home (which I am still doing). Czes the 2nd guitarist and Lewy the drummer recorded their parts at our rehearsal place. I've recorded my vocals at the same place as well.
We've made the recordings just to let Metalheads know that there is new act in the Metal Scene. Demo was put on some streaming platforms. There were also 200 physical copies.
T: How have they been achieved reinvent with the pandemic theme, what do you think of the world situation?
Mat: As I mentioned before it was wierd. But Covid19 did not affect EverdeaD that much. Even if there were no gigs because of pandemic restrictions we didn't have enough songs in our setlist to play gigs. We were encouraged by the response to "Covid Sessions", so we focused on making more material. Obviously we had some breaks for holidays and stuff like that. Anyway we were still making songs for the 2nd demo: "Resurrected Into Plagues". We also hoped, the medical situation will normalize and we will finally hit the stage. In beetween we had released our first single: "Wings Of Horror".
T: What are the lyrics of your Single "Wings of Horror" about?
Mat: This song was the first one written for "Resurrected Into Plagues". But it was released in 2021 as a single as inauguration of Metal Radio Mordor. A kind of special support from EverdeaD for the radio.
What are the lyrics about? You know the world of EverdeaD is mostly made up. It is filled with zombies, skulls, bones, sickness, living dead and scenarios of horror. There's not much space for interpretation or poetry it's as simple as it gets. "Wings of Horror" is about nightmares. In short words it says: never fall asleep, because you will be trapped by your nightmares.
There is no hidden meaning. Just a simple story.
T: What currently inspires the band to continue working in the underground death metal scene?
Mat: You know we have good responses from metalheads (thank you all) it is the real strongest purpose and inspiration one could ask for. This I think: is the real fuel. Of course another purpose is musical self-realization, but being a part of the metalhead community is very important to us.
T: What motivated you to venture into the world of metal and what keeps you motivated to continue?
Mat: The biggest motivation for me is to be a part of Metal Society. I think all my motivations that I mentioned before also apply here. Stuff like: high fiving, headbanging,vv photos, gossiping about music, etc. I believe those are the charms of being a metalhead that inspire me.
T: How did your latest CD, "Resurrected into Plagues" go? I hear a very technical evolution in sound and more brutal at the same time. What do you think about it? Was it also recorded in times of COVID?
Mat: About technical evolution I am a great fan of Chuck's Schuldiner guitar style. I'm also inspired by: Muhammed Suiçmez, Trey Azagthoth, Marek Pająk and Jacek Hiro's guitar styles. So if I have time I try to develop my style. As you might know I am the only composer of EverdeaD. Still, I don't want to go too deep into thehg technical aspets of our music.
The other aspect is that I dont want EverdeaD to be too technical in riffing, I would rather write more technical solos. About "Resurrected into Plagues". It was recorded a year after "Covid Sessions". All my guitar parts were recorded during my rehabilitation in a sanatorium.
Vocals were recorded by our past vocalist Paweł Piaskowaski, the brutal sound and production was achieved mostly by Paweł. He is a very talented vocalist and sound engineer as well.
I was more experienced but together we combined for the final mix. After Paweł left EverdeaD I produce all recordings myself.
T: What can you tell us about the Polish scene and why is it somewhat less known than other scenes in Europe?
Mat: In the Polish scene there are still active classics like: VADER, BEHEMOTH, DECAPITATED, BETRAYER, PENDEMONIUM and a few more.
I am not an expert, market specialist or authority figure in regards of the music scene, but I see plenty of bands like EverdeaD. I mean Metal Old Boys who gather to play for fun.
Still there is few new blood bands for I can't see them. Cannot tell why that is. I remember my younger days full of metal acts. They were always forming and disbanding... There were times of constant motion in the scene.
And why Polish Metal is less known in Europe? I think the reason is that there are so many bands, it's hard to be seen between those huge numbers and names in Europe. To be honest, it takes a lot of time and money to be seen. I guess younger bands don't have much to support their name, so they try their best with what they have.
T: What other bands in Poland see future projection on the local scene?
Mat: I am convinced that BAALZAGOTH, MORTIS DEI and DAMMNATORUM are one of those who may get the recognition they deserve.
As you already know, I am into Death Metal, but I see that Black Metal is very strong in Poland. But I feel there is hope in Death Metal Youngsters from: GODSLUT, CRY OF THE NILE, ESCALATION, VITUR and MORRATH.
T: What do you think of the national death metal scene in your country?
Mat: I think I said everything I can on this topic. There's a lot of talent out there waiting to be seen.
T: What continues to motivate the band to stay active on the Poland and world extreme scene?
Mat: The want to be a part of the scene is the greatest purpose. Performing gigs, hugging Metalheads, photos, recordings no matter of financial cost...
As You might know Metal Musicians in Poland have regular jobs. I for example do pest control. So being in a band is purely out of passion.
T: Would you like to come to South America one day? And to be able to publicize his music more?
Mat: Gigs sure. If there's a good time and place. Recordings also sure. At the 23rd of september I plan to start recordings for debut album "Sick Compilation". It will contain 10 songs probably from first 2 demo's and 3 singles re-recorded with new sound.
There will be new intros and outros between verte song. I plan to release it via independent label or just myself.
Only matter are the release conditions, so I am opened for offers if we get them.
T: What is the new thing that EverdeaD is preparing to record?
Mat: As of recently (25.08.2024) I am setting up stuff to record a new single: "Released From The Grave". It will be released 24.08.2024 via our streaming platforms. It will be the first song recorded in a new key.
I decided to tune 2 steps upper from C to D. It will sound more vintage, I think. Recently most bands are tuning to C which is fine for groove but they lose definition.
If you plan to play more technical stuff, I think upper tunings sound better.
T: Mat, thank you very much for taking the time to answer the interview about your band EverdeaD and to let us know a little more about the Polish underground scene. Where can we buy your merchandise?
Mat: Thanks so much for your interest in EverdeaD!
You can buy our merch at our gigs (we are performing once or twice a month all around Poland) and also via our mail/facebook.
All the death, thrash and progressive metal comes with everything to lash out at the world under. The natives of Peiting Germany present us with their album "The Last Day on Earth" with a sound wrapped in the old school and a large number of strident sounds as brutal as their vocal register, sick and vibrant riff on each of their guitars and basses and of course an incredible and brutal crushing battery. An album that was recorded between the United States and Germany by Engineered by Roland Weihmayer and Dani Zizek. Recall that the most important german information on the album was Mixed by Paul Fig at "Dave's Room" USA Mastered by Dan Swanö at "Unisound Studios" Sweden. I highly recommend this album.
"Enter the Gate" is the name of the towering record of the old Cemetery schools. Again the old school Germans come knocking on the table very brutal as always. The authority presented by this band is so brutal and direct that they go straight to the point. Hardly driving an unpublished sound that always hits. His renowned guttural voices that tear apart each song, very direct and at the same time quite well performed guitars, a lot of virtuosity, and a level of percussion that is enormous and of great impact. I need you to know the creators of this great band: Dani Zizek - Vocals / Guitars Roland Weihmayer - Guitars Robert Mayer - Bass Michael Bolz - Drums / Backing Vocals Three themes that caught my attention a lot: Cremation, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, At Dark Places. I invite you to listen to the entire album and that you can give the verdict yourself but it really seems to me that it is a very important and very brutal album, I recommend it.
Written in Blood ( Netherlands )
CD."Written in Blood"
Written in Blood the Dutch death metallers give us a fairly well-worked, solid and forceful sound, it also presents melodic sounds and of course they manage to amalgamate everything extreme with a melody that becomes such an exquisite and brutal sound at the same time. The self-titled album "Written in Blood" gives us nine songs, each one more brutal than the next one achieved in its gestation in December 2022, with a sound that I can recommend for all those lovers of the most classic sound of melodic death and great invoice when you manage to appreciate all this disc. If you are looking for some melodic death sound standard, here you will be able to find it and you will have added sounds as dark and abysmal as well as a misanthropy that is not disdained, making this whole album a sublime integral sound. Before I go I recommend songs like "Germánic" "Wilde Jacht" and "Return of the Ancient Gods" brutalities embodied in the audio of this great album recommended for deathlovers.
W: The plan to start a new band was already in my head for years but I kept pq moving this plan forward because I thought I had no time for a new band. At a sudden point it was enough, and I called a few guy's which whom I played before. And so Written in Blood was started.
T: What influences did they have from the beginning?
W: I did not have really a band in mind to get influenced by. One thing was clear , that we wanted to make Deathñ Metal with some melodic parts in it. The music ended up with mainly Swedish death metal as influence I think. But from the moment I started writing the first song there was not a master plan or something like that.
T: How much time do you dedicate to music in your life?
W: After I quit God Dethroned I did nothing for years besides listening to metal of course. Later I tried some small projects, but that ended up nowhere. For now, running the band it takes many hours. It's not only writing songs but also do the promotion and trying to get gigs.You must see it like a second job almost.
T: How has the process of recording your CD."Written in Blood" been?
W: Most of the songs were written during the "corona pandemic" so I had plenty of time to write the songs. The drums where recorded in the same studio as where we recorded the first few God Dethroned albums. Guitar, Bass and vocals we did at home, as many bands do nowaday's. Later we did the mix and mastering in the same studio as were we recorded the drums. The owner is a good frienf of us so it was a pleasure to work there once more.
T: What are your musical influences?
W: Personaly I prefer the European metal above north American metal in general. Specific if we talk about death metal. I often listen to bands like, Hypocrisy, At the gates, Carcass. But also some black metal bands like Watain, Immortal and so on.
T: What is the music you listen to the most?
W: Like I said in my answer to the band that influence me. But I probably listen even more to bands where I grew up with, like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Venom and so on.
T: How much time do you dedicate to the composition and structure of an album like "Written in Blood"?
W: I really don't know how many hours this takes. But for me the arrangement of the songs are important. It can take a few day's before I am satisfied with the structure of a song. But with some songs it is done in a matter of hours.
T: Your band's sound is very special with extreme sounds and old school sounds or how would you define it?
W: I think Rock Hard Magazine from Germany described it the best way. Death metal, rough, dark, abysmal, misanthropic, dismissive.
T: What do you think about the current underground metal scene?
W: Difficult to give an opinion about that. From one side there are maybe too many bands. From the other end, can there be too many bands? I can say, the scene is not like it used to be but things change and it is supposed to be like that. Did it change for good or bad? everyone can have their own opinion about that.
T: What do you know about the Latin American metal scene?
W: To be honest, almost nothing. The only thing I know is that metal is popular in Latin America and there are many young followers compared to for example Europe. Maybe you Latin Americans can tell the young Europeans to change into metalheads.
T: How about the support of Trollzorn Records with the making of your CD. "Written in Blood"?
W: Their support was realy good. They spend a good deal of time and effort in Written in Blood, and we thank them for that.
Not in making the album of course, but the promotion I mean.
T: What is the band preparing for its immediate future?
W: We are working to release some singles in the near future, from half of July. With this we want to make another approach to promote our music. Instead of having a full CD every 1 1/2 or 2 years we want to try to keep the focus from the fans on the band by releasing a single every 2 months or so. And then in the end release a hard copy album for the collectors.
T: Thank you very much for your time and I ask you to greet your followers of The Legion of TchorT 'Zine, thank you very much.
W: Thank you very much for the interview. All hails to the Latin American fans from Written in Blood. One day we hope we get the chance to come over to you guy's and play some live shows. Cheers!! Best regards and cheers, z
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