The Devil's Mouth

It’s always a pleasure to welcome Ben back at the show. It’s been a while since he went through our sacrosanct Ten Rounds challenge, and he also participated in the special stuff we did for episode #100 of this thing. He hasn’t been back more often simply because Khemmis did take their own sweet time to come up with the successor to 2021’s ‘Deceiver’. However, with this band, there is always the c...

After a career of almost 40 years, ever since joining Napalm Death in 1987, Shane still has a lot to say - including with a brand new solo album.

There Were Wires are back! New album ‘Vessel’ , their first after 2003' 'Somnambulists' and a long absence period, was announced a couple of months ago, it’ll be out on June 26th, and you can already listen to two of the ten songs. Without going too much into it, because we will be revisiting it properly in due time, I can tell you that regardless of your expectations, it will be bette...

Steve Austin of Today Is The Day has finally gone ahead with his long-awaited outlaw country project, of course we had to go talk to him about it!

It’s been a long road for dälek, formed in 1998 already (despite a short hiatus in the 2010s), and central figure Will “MC dälek” Brooks is showing no signs of letting up the fight. ‘Brilliance Of A Falling Moon’, out since late March on Ipecac Recordings, is their tenth full-length album, a nice and full round number, which the band has been playing in its entirety (plus a few choice cuts from th...

Karin Park has been pushing away at the boundaries of pop/synth/electronic/industrial/(we could go on) music for quite a while, and is now preparing to enter a particularly fascinating cycle in her discography. On May 8th, she will release the ‘EVO’ EP, via Size Records, and this EVO is but the start of a complete… EVOLUTION. We stand on the edge of a forthcoming planned trilogy, the full musical...

Not to toot our own horn or whatever, but we were one of the first to call it - Volores are the real deal. So we said, when Shelby and Nathen were on the podcast for the first time (episode #117, time flies!), around the release of the first album, and now we reiterate, even more fiercely, after having lived with the amazing sophomore effort ‘Shores Of Scorpio’ for a while and still being totally...

In just a few days, the new The Magus album, 'Daemonosophia', will be available, and we’re in for a real treat. The Magus is, of course, the artist formerly known as Magus Wampyr Daoloth, a crucial pioneer of the Greek black metal scene, one of the most important in the whole movement. He was the figurehead for the legendary Necromantia for over three decades, as well as a prominent partic...

Been a long time coming, this one - I’ve been an admirer of this fine gentleman for a long time, over twenty years in fact, ever since I heard him scream on the self-titled Coliseum debut. Fotocrime obviously didn’t even exist at the time (‘Principle Of Pain’ dates from 2018), and the four brilliant albums - now five - Ryan’s made with this band have only reinforced the admiration. So now that the...

News just broke that Eugene is tackling some 20th century Great American Songbook standards on a forthcoming album, so we naturally rang him up, plus producer John Getze, to know more about the EUGENE SINGS! project.

After a long hiatus, Jesse Sykes has fortunately overcome a rather dark period in her life and returned to music, with her band Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter's new album 'Forever, I've Been Being Born' emerging as a clear highlight of 2025. A masterpiece of ghostly, evocative folk, it will lead you into the woods with it and leave you lost in there forever. This chat with Jes...

How big can stickers be, on album covers? Because if this new band, Master’s Ashes, decide to bring out all the awesome bands their members will be in, the actual artwork might be completely covered. Straight up, we have Afzaal himself, our guest, the guitarist and songwriter for the absolutely legendary Crisis, which should be enough to already make you sit up and take notice. He comes armed with...

Viva Sounds is one of the most exciting events happening in Europe, equally welcoming regardless of your genre preferences or depth of knowledge. Are you more into more metal stuff and you know zero bands on the bill? That’s fine, I can guarantee you’ll have a great time and come back with a bunch of new favourites. You an open-minded indie explorer and a lot of these bands are already familiar? T...

Last time we hung out with Sivert Høyem ( episode #129 ), aside from his extraordinary ten picks of songs that we nerded out about, we were excited about his first solo album in a few years (the last had been 2016’s ‘Lioness’ , of course with the Madrugada reunion album+shows in the middle of that period), the wonderful ‘On An Island’ , which was about to be released. That chat wasn’t that long ag...

When we last caught up with Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella ( episode #106 !) , the two “ symbiotic animals ”, as Bruno himself describes their musical relationship during our conversation, who make up the unique beast that is OvO , they were just beginning the cycle for their previous album ‘Ignoto’ , which took them on a lengthy and inspiring journey of almost three years. Now, we caught the...

The Atlas Moth is one of the most awesome bands out there, as well as one of the most underrated. So we obviously have had Stavros on the podcast already, doing the ten rounds when the last The Atlas Moth album came out. A few years have gone by since, his main band has been a little asleep (but they’re back! And we talk about them on this episode too), but Stavros is back in action with another e...

Leo Ashline and Shaun Ringsmuth are back with the amazing Street Sects , and they made up for their recent absence by creating another brand new band, Street Sex - and both are releasing albums tomorrow! We sat down with the boys, who let us in on all the secrets behind these two masterpieces of pain. (pic: Ismael Quintanilla III)

Yeah, immediately calling Zak up for a chat was the very definition of a no-brainer after the new Clawfinger album was announced - which is interesting, because their music, for all its direct impact, has nevertheless always been about using your brain. And shit, the pun is not even necessarily intended though they do have that kickass album called ‘Use Your Brain’ . But yeah, eighteen long years...

Swedish singer/songwriter Christian Kjellvander is on tour right now, so before we do a full ten rounds with him in a couple of months, we thought we'd check in from the road with the great man - quite literally, as it turned out, as our call caught him driving between shows on an Italian highway. We discussed how the current tour is going, the new trio line-up, the forthcoming album to be rec...

Two new Amenra EPs just released, a new bassist in the band, the forthcoming full-length album already being written, a beautiful ongoing collaboration with Tonnie Dieleman, a mountain of live shows... Colin sure has a lot going on, so we called our old friend for an update on his many current activities.

The first Young Widows album in eleven years is out now! 'Power Sucker' is a hell of a record that we have been massively rocking out with, so we sat down with frontman Evan Patterson to discuss all about it, like the motivations and thoughts behind it, the relationship between Young Widows and Jaye Jayle, future plans, and of course some cool details on some of the new songs.

Josh Graham is back, and surrounded by some of the finest gentlemen around - like Intronaut ’s Sacha Dunable , Generation Of Vipers ’ Billy Graves and guitarist Dan Hawkins who played on the last A Storm Of Light record - under the name of Guiltless , he is now ready to unleash this new band's debut full-length. We sat down with the musician and visual artist to talk a bit more not just about this...

Singer/songwriter Paula Lombardo and her husband, legendary drummer Dave Lombardo, discuss the soon-to-be-released second album of their deeply emotional dark pop project Venamoris, 'To Cross Or To Burn'.

In terms of Steve Von Till 's musical output, this year has been all about Harvestman . The three parts of ‘Triptych’ , by far his most ambitious project under that guise, were annouced as set to be released via Neurot Recordings on three of 2024’s full moons – April 23rd’s Pink Moon, July 21st’s Buck Moon , and October 17th’s Hunter Moon . So, in anticipation of the conclusion of the full piece w...

Mental issues rarely manifest themselves in a visible way to others. In fact, rarely do they “make sense” to an outsider’s perspective, even. How often, for instance, have we all been shocked and surprised when something tragic happens with a public figure because of something related to depression? Even outside of public figures as such, and in other, not art-related professions, in these days of...