- Green Carnation NEW
- Interview with Tchort around the time that the amazing Light of Day, Day of Darkness single-song opus was released. First appears in Unrestrained! #18.
- Souldivider NEW
- Stompin' hard stoner rock from Sweden. First appears in Unrestrained! #19.
- Theory In Practice NEW
- Those crazed tech death freaks are at it again! This interview conducted ca. Colonizing the Sun. First appears in Unrestrained! #18.
- Averse Sefira NEW
- Averse Sefira's Battle's Clarion could be among the finest statements of USBM. First appeared in Chaotic Critiques #13.
- Battery
- Emotional industrial with mesmerizing programming, powerful female vocals, and great lyrical content. Anger, pain, despair transformed into sound.
- Blackmail
- Hard rockin' Swedish band that is deservedly taking the music scene by storm.
- click.
- Ultra-catchy hard rock that will pound you into submission with its infectious choruses, thick guitars, and cool vocals.
- Covenant (Swe)
- Grim electro-industrial technopop from Sweden that is brilliant, in that post-Apocalyptic kinda way.
- The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
- Vancouver-based, Lovecraft-fueled punk with infectious vocals.
- Deadguy
- Brutal, noisy hardcore on Victory Records.
- Dead Silent Slumber
- A great side project from Jens Ryden of Naglfar, described as "symphonic horror death metal".
- Deathline International
- Electronic band on Cop International with diverse influences, a distinctive sound, and excellent songs.
- DHI
- Get the scoop on this long-lived and highly innovative Canadian industrial act's transformation into Transformantra.
- Dystopia-One
- Fuzzy bass, cheesy keyboards, psycho vocals, sense of humor and two nifty albums of great tunes.
- Edge of Sanity
- An interview with Dan Swano shortly after his departure from this killer Swedish death metal band.
- Emperor
- An interview conducted with Ihsahn shortly before the release of Prometheus, the band's monumental finale. This is the original, never-before-published transcript from an interview that appeared in article form in Unrestrained! #17.
- Epoch of Unlight
- Extreme, complex, violent, technical. Need I say more? First appeared in Chaotic Critiques #13.
- Estuary of Calamity
- Terrific "dark metal" band with diverse instrumentation and excellent songwriting adorning a blackened death metal songwriting template.
- Front 242
- The infamous breakthrough electro-industrial band from Belgium is back at it again with a new tour, Reboot: 98. Article contributed by Jorge C. Galban.
- The Gamma Men / NKVD Records
- Old school punk rock influenced by the great bands of the seventies and playing music as it should always be played - with energy, melody, and guts.
- godhead
- Interview with intense industrial music madmen godhead, who just spawned the excellent Power Tool Stigmata.
- Grade
- They mix emo, punk, and metal like you've never heard before.
- Helloween
- Conducted shortly after the release of Better Than Raw. Traditional power metal at its finest!!
- Index
- Inspired post-modern industrial with a twist. If you coated Skinny Puppy in a layer of microchips and then placed it into a vat of hydrochloric acid, you would be half way to explaining this phenomenal band on Cop International.
- Katatonia
- Probably one of the most moving melodic doom rock bands ever. This discussion with guitarist Anders took place shortly after the release of Last Fair Deal Gone Down.
- Lowrider
- Interview with the fine folks from Swedish stoner/doom rockers Lowrider. First appeared in Chaotic Critiques #13.
- Malevolent Creation
- Utter death metal stalwarts serving up what just might be their best platter of brutal death metal yet - bon appetit!
- Millenia
- Hard and heavy - the way it should be done - from an up 'n coming metal/hardcore act.
- Millencolin
- Infectious melodic skater punk from Sweden. Attitude, great songs, and depth.
- Numan, Gary
- Jorge Galban of Forge Ahead Productions contributes an excellent interview with Gary Numan about his new album, Exile.
- Opeth
- Incredible death metal with the perfect combination of aggression and restraint, brutality and melody.
- Opeth
- Another interview with the band, done around the release of the phenomenal Blackwater Park album.
- OS101
- Upbeat hardcore punk. For hardcore punk fans, by punk hardcore fans. Catchy choruses, plenty of heavy, catchy riffs, and rhythms that will have you hopping!
- The Razor Skyline
- Electro/gothic music on Cop International that is emotional, evocative, and musically compelling.
- Samael
- Black metal taken to new heights with Samael's incorporation of unique rhythms, keyboard melodies, and phenomenal songwriting on Passage.
- Savior Servant
- Memorable and melodic heavy metal on Dominion Records. Thick, crunchy guitars, passionate vocals, and excellent songwriting.
- Shadows Fall
- Phenomenal mixture of extreme musical forms by this great young group. Melodically brutal guitar riffs, extreme hardcore growls juxtaposed with dynamic melody, and plenty of heavy riffs and rhythms.
- Sister Machine Gun
- Phone interview conducted with Chris Randall shortly after the release of Metropolis. Very in-depth!
- Slave Unit
- Vicious guitar-driven industrial that can be devastatingly heavy one moment, moody and harsh the next.
- Soil & Eclipse
- Required listening for fans of electronic gothic music. Food for the soul that lurks in the darkness. All three members participate.
- Suffocation
- An interview with the singer of one of the most influential death metal bands, just before the band broke up.
- Testify
- Hard-edged electro-industrial with pounding guitars, nasty vocals, and plenty of attitude. Interview conducted ca. the Crack the Mind remix album.
- Theory In Practice / Mutant
- Theory In Practice is the ultimate in death metal technicality. Prepare to be wasted by this insane band. Also discussed is Mutant, a black metal side-project formed by T.I.P.
- Type O Negative
- In-depth interview with Type O's new drummer, Johnny, shortly after the release of the acclaimed October Rust.
- Waiting For God
- Angry industrial with a hard edge and melodic female vocals.
- Witchery
- Ripping old school deathrash with killer vox, shredding guitar riffs, and aggressive rhythms. This band is all the rage lately, and deservedly so.
- Xysma
- Gritty hard rock on Relapse Records that can't be stuffed into a single category.
Old Press Releases
- Iron Maiden
- Press release announcing Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith's return to Iron Maiden.
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