Tomas Lindberg of At The Gates: The Heavy Blog Is Heavy Interview

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After nearly two decades of silence and side projects, Sweden’s melodic death metal maestros At the Gates dropped 2014’s seamless At War With Reality and have been assaulting the entire globe with a touring schedule as relentless as the riffs ever since. With a confidence and chemistry most full-time bands would kill for year after years of relentless practice, At the Gates really do seem like one of the most proficiently savage and insanely-catchy bands to ever emerge (and then re-emerge) from this subgenre.

Feared – Synder

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Just like football players, there are countless musicians who blossom through setting roots and letting them grow and there are those who only thrive on constant change. The Stockholm-based death metal project Feared has evolved over the past eight years to become a creative outlet for two musicians who never…

The Haunted Are In The ‘Eye Of The Storm’

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The Haunted’s comeback is consistently impressive for me. They meandered for a while and got a bit less heavy, but with the return of vocalist Marco Aro and drummer Adrian Erlandsson; and joining of guitarist/Youtube legend Ola Englund, they’re fresher than ever. Don’t believe me? They just put out a…

The Haunted Are Cutting Teeth In New Video

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So, in case you’ve missed it, The Haunted are back. I know they didn’t really go anywhere, but they’re back to their roots. While I liked former vocalist Peter Dolving’s take on the band and their slower, groovier albums; The Haunted were always about aggressive thrash to me, and Marco Aro…

The Haunted Are ‘My Enemy‘

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So it would seem the old-school version of The Haunted are undoubtedly back with the release of a new EP Eye Of The Storm and a new/old lineup to boot. If you’ve followed the band’s trajectory from the beginning, through visceral and thrashy death metal to more melodic and subdued territory, you’ll…