Samskaras – Lithification (EP Review)
Every now and then, you come across a band whose inspirations are immediately evident, but somehow manage to maintain their own identity. Sometimes, you can…
Author Gonzalo Pozo
Thoren – Gwarth I (Album Review)
Blotted Science proved with their debut album, “The Machinations of Dementia,” that the single most distinctive element of death metal, the obligatory death growl, was…
Henry Derek Elis – The Devil is My Friend (Album Review)
It seems Henry Derek Elis has as many pseudonyms as he does musical directions. His twenty-year long career has seen him use such variants as…
ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN Talks Her New Album ‘Symphonized’: “The Most Important Thing Is to Share Energy, and I Do It with My Voice”
Anneke van Giersbergen burst onto the scene in the mid 90s when the Dutch progressive death metal band The Gathering decided to start doing things…
TESTAMENT’s Guitarist ALEX SKOLNICK: “At Some Point I Needed to Get Away From the Bay Area. It Suddenly Felt Like a Small Town”
Alex Skolnick first gained attention as the teenage wizkid whippersnapper super-shredder in the legendary thrash band Testament. But his musical passions have always had a…
BEHEMOTH, AT THE GATES, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM @ The Aztec Theater, Texas (October 23rd, 2018)
Mere weeks following the release of the crushing I Loved You at Your Darkest, Polish metal uber-beasts Behemoth have commenced their current trek across the…
ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO @ Fitzgerald’s Bar & Live Music Venue – San Antonio, TX (October 20th, 2018)
Live Perspectives is back, once again brought to you by Gonzalo Pozo. This time around he witnessed the Alex Skolnick Trio show @ Fitzgerald’s Bar &…
NOTHGARD’s Guitarist and Singer DOM R. CREY: “We Define Ourselves as Epic Melodic Death Metal and I Like to Write Songs that Touch Me”
Dom R Crey made a splash when he joined the German bier-loving metalheads Equilibrium, but his own band Nothgard had been making some damn fine…
Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest (Album Review)
Four lengthy courses has the earth made around our Sun since the last Behemoth record, the none-too-subtle indictment “The Satanist,” was loosed upon us. That…
WINTERSUN, NE OBLIVISCARIS and SARAH LONGFIELD @ Alamo City Music Hall, Texas (September 20th, 2018)
Metal fans are known for their dedication, but few are as fanatical as devotees of pagan metal. While tours such as Paganfest and Heathenfest certainly…
