Horns Up Podcast: Episode 36

One of the poster children of the modern ‘djent’ or progressive metal movement is TesseracT. After having toured India in January 2019 in support of their fourth album, Sonder, the band returns to India for a record fifth time this weekend as part of the NH7 Weekender festival.

On the Horns Up Podcast, we spoke to guitarist James Montieth about performing in India over the past decade, advice for upcoming acts and also their upcoming music.

Horns Up Podcast: Episode 35

Music knows no boundaries. A statement that can very well help the lay listener understand why Sitar Metal works as well as it does. On this episode of Horns Up, the virtuoso behind Sitar Metal, Rishabh Seen talks to us about his journey so far, and the effort, learning and work it takes to marry the two worlds.

Fistful of Metal # 9

Tracklist

Kryptos – Full Throttle

Infinite Ashes – Ignite

In Mourning – Hierophant

Paganizer –   Apocalypse Writings

Genocide Shrines – All And/or Nothing

Baby metal – Shanti Shanti

Sitar Metal  – Dreamers We never learn

Sect – Redundant Gods

Vultures – Push

Cloud Rat – Al Di La

Car Bomb – Antipatterns

Serpents Athirst – Poisoning the Seven

Serpent Column –  Mεταγενέσιν

Gatecreeper

This past year has been a great year for metal especially death metal. A quick glance at the reviews on The Metal Wanderlust in recent months will demonstrate it. At the start of this month, one more release got added to the list, Deserted by American death metal act Gatecreeper. The band play a potent blend of 80’s Florida and 90’s Swedish death metal.

I spoke to frontman Chase Manson about their sound, Deserted and more while he was touring Europe with Spirit Adrift.

Read the interview on The Metal Wanderlust

Horns Up Podcast: Episode 34

Kryptos are one of India’s oldest surviving metal bands. Over the past 2 decades they have released 5 albums and toured across Europe where they have built a rabid following.

In a candid chat frontman Nolan Lewis spoke to us about how the band has evolved over the years, their latest release Afterburner, building a fan base in Europe and what it means to be Indian on the heavy metal scene.

Horns Up Podcast: Episode 33

American act Haunt is at the forefront of the new wave of Traditional Heavy Metal. The band is bringing back the killer twin leads and harmonized vocals popularized by bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

We spoke to the mastermind behind Haunt, Trevor William Church about starting a heavy metal band, putting Beastmaker to rest, upcoming tour, releases and more.

Rogga Johansson (Paganizer)

Tower of the Morbid, the upcoming album from Swedish death metal act Paganizer is their 11th full length album. The album was highly rated by the writers on The Metal Wanderlust who reviewed it recently. One writer even wondered how Rogga Johansson managed “to churn out all that amount of Death Metal and actually live a life aside from it too?”

I caught up with the noted musician to ask him about it and a lot more.

Read the interview on The Metal Wanderlust