music INTERVIEW: OneMetal talks to Xandria’s Nils Middelhauve
Nicholas Cleeve chats with Nils Middelhauve, bassist of symphonic metallers Xandria, about the writing and recording of their new album ‘Neverworld’s End’.
Nicholas Cleeve chats with Nils Middelhauve, bassist of symphonic metallers Xandria, about the writing and recording of their new album ‘Neverworld’s End’.
Danny Heaton reaches for his pipe. This time it won’t just be his teeth that are blackened as he spins the West Midlands’ newest heretics.
Decapitated unfortunately had to cancel their last scheduled appearance (Leeds’ Damnation festival) on these shores due to being involved in an emergency aeroplane landing. It’s no surprise then that excitement levels were high for their headline tour of the UK. Ryan Neal headed down to Bristol to check them out.
Danny Heaton takes an inter-dimensional journey to recover the Spear of Gan, visit Grynpholg Mountain, analyse data in the fossilised brain of the last human being and revisit the lost classics that are Timeghoul’s demos.
Dave Fensome has a chat with Paul Antonio Ortiz – creative force behind Chimp Spanner and perhaps OneMetal’s most popular interviewee – and takes the opportunity to pitch him some banana-themed merch ideas. Read on to see how that went down.
Dave Fensome chats with French progressive/technical metallers Uneven Structure about life on the road and beyond.
Rob McAuslan dusts off his doomy descriptors for the new release from Australia’s Inverloch.
Aussie djent favourites release the first single after their impressive debut The Compass. Will Eye Embedded continue the band’s success?
Dave Fensome hit the Camden Barfly to check out UK progressive/technical metal label Basick Records’ showcase evening (part of HMV’s ‘Next Big Thing’ series of gigs) and witnessed sets by Chimp Spanner, Uneven Structure and The Algorithm. Read on for his report from the front.
Hang The Bastard have a new record out. “Who?” we hear you ask. Rob McAuslan is dying to tell you about them inside…
After having caught their impressive live shows a number of times, Phil Whitehouse finally gets his hands on Birmingham-based metal act Amongst The Survivors’ debut album. Does it match the promise of their fearsome gigs? Read on to find out…
Technical death metal mentalists Blotted Science provide a frenzied instrumental soundtrack to all manner of insect-related horrors on latest EP The Animation of Entomology. Phil Whitehouse reaches for the bug spray.
OneMetal.com’s latest contributor David Keevill eases us in gently with a review of Hartford, Connecticut-based punk rock quartet Make Do and Mend’s debut full-length, End Measured Mile.
Ellie McGee contemplates the atmospheric metal stylings of carnivorous vegetation in her review of The Man-Eating Tree’s ‘Harvest’.
Onemetal’s Jack Traveller journeys to a strange, foreign land in pursuit of tech-death glory. Did the motley crew of Origin, Psycroptic, Leng Tch’e and Dictated live up to his exacting standards?
Asphyx unleash the Deathhammer on us all, and Rob McAuslan goes to find out exactly what one of those is.
After being thoroughly impressed by Essex boys Sanctorum on My Ruin’s recent tour, Dani blagged a copy of their latest album ‘Semper Fidelis’. What happens when a writer more au fait with drone and doom listens to an album full of songs with three-digit BPM? Read on…
Chimp Spanner’s second interview for OneMetal delves further into the making of his work as well as revealing what else he does to make a living.
Savage Messiah recently set tongues wagging after releasing their third album, Plague of Conscience, for free. Naturally we were up for grilling them about it, so guitarist and lead singer Dave Silver agreed to have a chat with us.
Rob McAuslan takes a listen to Ideas and wonders if Hawk Eyes will ever release a bad record.