#71 January 9, 2016 (no.2 in January) Washington state, U.S. www.metalbulletin.blogspot.com www.twitter.com/MetalBulletinZn www.facebook.com/The-Metal-Bulletin-paper-zine-238441519609213

Septagon Under the Blade Flight Tribünal (free)

Blood of the Wolf Aethernaeum Maximum Carnage (free)

Maniac Abductor (free) In Glorious March (free) Living Altar (free)

concert calendar Venom, Inc., Necrophagia, Theories, Addaura Nile, Warbringer, Enforcer, Exmortus and more coming up! www.fuglymaniacs.com (issues online, videos, …)

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Metal Bulletin Zine P.O. Box 1339 Lake Stevens WA 98258 USA Metal Bulletin Zine #1-20: (2006-2009): Wisconsin #21-26: (2009-2010): Texas #27(2010)--now; Washington state All album reviews, news, updates below are by MMB, unless stated otherwise. ** NEWS: Septagon Deadhead Syndicate label: Cruz Del Sur Music release: 12 February 2016

Members of the long-running metal bands Lanfear and Atlantean Kodex formed a thrash band a few years ago and soon the album will be released. In the meantime, the following is the official information about Septagon. * CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC will release Deadhead Syndicate, the debut album from German speed/thrash metal band SEPTAGON on Feb 5

(Europe) and Feb 12 (World). Not a mere side-project but a real band, SEPTAGON will make its debut on stage on Jan 31 at Metal Assault Festival (Germany) with the likes of LIEGE LORD, VENOM INC. and RAM. SEPTAGON is the creature of LANFEAR's mastermind and guitarist Markus “Ulle” Ullrich, who joined forces with ATLANTEAN KODEX’ vocalist Markus Becker in 2013 to form an old-school band that blends the aggression of Exodus, Slayer and Testament with the melodic and technical appeal of bands like Forbidden, Heathen, Realm or Watchtower. The line-up was completed shortly after with Jürgen Schrank (LANFEAR) on drums and Alexander Palma on bass. Though Ulle is used to to play all guitars on LANFEAR, he was determined to find a second guitarist for SEPTAGON in order to make band’s sound tighter, and the choice finally fell on Stef-Binnig Gollub. With such skilled members, “Deadhead Syndicate” results thus an extremely versatile album with an amazing creative edge; constantly supported by a precise and dynamic rhythm section, the guitars draw fantastic patterns at a furious pace and the vocals sound convincing in these intense and torrid sounds as well as in the more-paced moments. In the end, as described by the band itself, “Deadhead Syndicate” is a METAL ALBUM with lots of riffs & melody. Fast, technical tracks, mid paced stuff and good hooklines. SEPTAGON live: Jan. 23, .2016 KILLER METAL NIGHT IV, Omega, Erlangen Jan, 30, .2016 METAL ASSAULT 2016, Posthalle,

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Würzburg Deadhead Syndicate tracklist: 1. Ignite the Apocalypse 2. Revolt Against the Revolution 3. Exit...Gunfire 4. Ripper 5. Septagon Conspiracy 6. Henchman of Darkness 7. Deadhead Syndicate 8. Unwanted Company 9. Secret Silver Panorama Machine line-up: Markus Becker - vocals Markus Ullrich - guitars Stef Binnig-Gollub - guitars Alexander Palma - bass Jürgen Schrank - drums www.facebook.com/septagonband www.cruzdelsurmusic.com ** Under the Blade (free) Under the Blade release: August 14th, 2015 label: independent Under the Blade is aggressive, sharp thrash with growled vocals. They have a free/name-your-price recording that sounds genuine and honest. It’s not a demo/garage recording, either. It’s a solid thrash recording that will interest diehard thrashers. Below is more information about this band from Finland. July 2014, at that time the band was formed by Heekki, Jouni and Pepe. First rehearsals they started with the covers and a little bit later band started to compose own material. Vocalist Kirsi joined to band at Fall 2014. Lasse H. was the session guitarist on "Under The Blade" EP. All members have years of experience in live shows from previous or

current bands.

1.Hell's Resurrection 04:44 2.Infidels Must Die! 02:05 3.Unnecessary Bastards 03:32 4.Prisoners Promise 03:48 5.Herd Stupidity 04:39 total time 18:48 Kirsi - vocals Pepe - guitar Juri - guitar Peachy - drums Heekki – bass www.underthebladeofficial.bandcamp.com/album/under-the-blade www.facebook.com/UnderTheBladeband **

Flight Flight is a classic-style, vintage, traditional heavy metal band from Norway. Supporters of the band really like the fact that the band insists on being as honest as possible, sounding like a real live band. Some people call them retro in the sense of late 70s and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Maybe people should just call them heavy metal. The band wants to sound like a real band. For instance, they say that they use real drums. They also

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like guitar solos and real riffs. Their self-titled debut was released in 2015. Let’s find out a bit more about them now. Hello, friends! Who is Flight?! We started the band in the fall of 2012, October, probably. We started out with Chris on guitar, Herman on drums and Jonas on bass. After only a month we had 6 out of the 8 songs for the album ready (except Lion’s Den and Devil Woman). Of course the songs changed a bit over time, adding a solo, rearranging the structure etc., but the main framework was there. In early 2013 we started looking for a singer, without any luck, of course. Heavy metal isn’t a very strong genre in Norway, so there’s not really a culture for people to sing the style we were looking for. In the meantime the instrumental section of the band was completed when guitarist Kribb (guitar/vocals in Purple Hill Witch) joined the band during the summer of 2013. We did a test-gig at Engajam in the fall, and since we didn’t have a vocalist yet Chris decided he could try himself. So he had two weeks of practicing singing before we played live for the first time. He sounded OK, but he rapidly evolved as a singer during rehearsals and we thought his style of singing was a really good match with our music so he was encouraged to continue singing. Our line-up was now complete, with Chris on guitar and vocals, Kribb on guitar, Jonas on bass and Herman on drums. We think the vocals turned out great on the album, more of a street NWOBHM style vocal, compared to the more operatic vocalist that’s usually associated with the genre. More Brian Ross than Bruce Dickinson. Our debut album was recorded in KickArse studio in the winter/spring of 2014. Produced by Arild and Kickan from Nekromantheon,

and mixed by Arild. We played some gigs in Norway, and supported Amulet in London during the year. Herman quit the band during the winter of 2014/2015, and we got Kickan (who produced the album) on drums in 2015. We’re now working on album number two, and we have about five songs ready right now. Do you have any news about your band? How is life for your band in Norway? We’ve got a few different gigs in the works, some small, some bigger, involving Scandinavia and Germany for the most part. We’ll play the mighty Muskelrock in Sweden in 2016, along with heavy weights such as Diamond Head, Sabbat, Mindless Sinner and so on. If you want merch you can hit up our Bandcamp page, or our record labels webshop. Got a few different shirts, patches as well as the full-length album and a 7” single with a cover of Legend’s “Stormers of Heaven” on the B-side. There isn’t a big scene for traditional heavy metal in Norway, we’re pretty much the only band that does the late ‘70s thing, and then you have Black Magic and Magister Templi which are more rooted in the early to mid ‘80s sound. Sweden is much better off. Loads of good bands and even more dedicated fans. Just look at Iron Maidens concert audience in Sweden compared to Norway, it’s easily thee times bigger. How would you describe the musical objectives of your band? The sound of your band is very particular. Are the drums that we hear on the album the real drums that your drummer used in the studio? Do you use vintage equipment for the guitar sound? Of course the drums are real, triggers and heavy metal don’t match. We don’t have a specific goal or anything, we just enjoy the sound of the heavy rock and heavy metal

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records of the ‘70s, everything from Deep Purple and Rush to Judas Priest and Saxon, and we’ve tried to emulate it a bit.

Clear production where all the instruments come through, turn down the distortion on the guitars to get a more Thin Lizzy-ish feel. Actually, that’s an aspect that a lot of the modern heavy metal bands forget, you don’t need to have the gain on 10, and you don’t need an excessive pedal board with tube screamers and all that. Just plug the guitar into the amp and make Gibson and Marshall do their magic. It seems like the members of Flight are in other bands in Norway, too. What are the names of those bands? How is Flight a different creative outlet? We’re not particularly keen on mentioning our other bands as we want Flight to stand on its own, but we’re also active in bands such as Gouge, Condor, Nekromantheon, Mion’s Hill, Mabuse and Purple Hill Witch, which are all rooted in the extreme metal of the 80s, except PHW which plays up-tempo doom. Flight was a necessary output as we came up with all these hooks and catchy riffs which you really can’t use in death metal and stuff like that. And of course heavy metal is the ultimate sound, so it was fun having a band like that, and it’s become the main band for a few of us.

www.flightheavymetal.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com/heavyflight/ ** Tribünal (Germany) is "Dis-Beat infected HM2 worship. Meat-free, god-free, drug-free." and "S." does all instruments and vocals. The main sound is: "Hellhammer, Discharge, Anti Cimex, Dismember, Entombed."

The following statements from S. explain more about this project. S. posted the full interview on the Facebook page. These are excerpts: "I was sick at home for a couple of days back in 2012 and I listened to all kinds of old crust- and d-beat-albums to kill some time and after a while I had so many ideas for riffs and songs and lyrics floating around in my head, that I decided to give it a try and record them and do a little bandcamp-page. So it was all a „just for fun“ thing. But immediately after the release I got all kinds of positive feedback and so I decided to try and see what might become of Tribunal." "In Tribünal the musical influences are pretty simple: oldschool swedish death metal (think of Entombed, Carnage, Dismember) and the classic d-beat sound (Discharge, Disclose, the D-Takt/Raw Punk stuff, Electric Funeral). Production-wise I really like the stuff Kurt Ballou does. It sounds massive and brutal but there are still dynamics and room for the music to

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breathe." "I play in bands for almost 20 years now and I was a lot more active in the „scene“ about 10 years ago. So I am in no way an expert for underground metal in Germany as it is today. But I still feel very comfortable being around those people I met and got to know through the years and still getting to know some new faces, there are some awesome gentlemen and ladies around." discography FTW EP 2013 (free) All Hope Is Lost EP 2013 (free) Helpless EP 2014 Watch You Suffer EP 2015 (free) www.tribunal-dtakt.bandcamp.com www.facebook.com/tribunal.dtakt/timeline ** Blood of the Wolf A few of issues ago, this publication praised the new album from Chicago extreme metal band Blood of the Wolf. This publication gave “I: The Law of Retaliation” high praise, but at the same time did not provide a whole lot of information about the background of the band because it was not available to this zine. Now it’s time to rectify this problem. Let’s find out more about the band. The guitarist “Iron” Mike put down his guitar for a few and responded to these questions. Here we go, this is Blood of the Blood! Ugh! * Hello, friends. We don’t know much about your squad. Can you give us a general outline? The band began in 2012 when I was playing in Kommandant. At first Blood of the Wolf wasn’t a band, just me writing songs. In late 2012 I had resigned from Kommandant. It was on good terms and I remain friends with those guys to this day. They had just become too

busy with tours, fests and out of state shows and I couldn’t commit to all the dates they were doing. So, a few months later, when I had written about an album’s worth of songs, I decided I wanted to get a band going with other musicians. Some guys have come and gone, I think that’s natural in a band’s formative years. The lineup right now is Max Colunga on drums, Frank Garcia on guitar, myself (Mike Koniglio) on guitar and vocals and Brandon Waszak on bass. This is the best lineup so far in terms of musical ability and commitment to the band. What is the situation of your band in Chicago at the moment? How do you feel about the future of your band? How can people support y’all? We don’t have any shows or tours lined up at the moment. But it’s winter in Chicago right now and weather can be unpredictable here. It’s pretty common for bands to “take the winter off”. We’ll be back on stage in the spring and summer. As far as merch, we have t-shirts and cds available. For $15 you can get both. That price includes shipping in the US. If you are overseas the best way to get the album is from the Bandcamp page. For pictures of the merch visit our Facebook page. This is the best way to support us; buy our album, wear our shirts and tell your friends about us. I’m sure there’s ways to get the album for free. Go get it! If you like it, buy a shirt. You can’t download those yet! As for the future, I feel good about it. The lineup is solid, the guys are dedicated, we’ve been practicing hard and really tightening up as a band. The next time we play out I think people will be more blown away than usual. There’s also another album worth of songs written that are even better than the last! So if you liked “Law of Retaliation”, keep following

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us, there’s more to come, and when it comes, it will be devastating!

You play fast, but the songs are memorable. How does one master the art of playing extreme metal really fast and really well, and then making it so that people can remember the songs? First of all, thank you for that compliment. I take that as high praise. I think good songwriting is a gift. You either have it or you don’t. Some people have the gift and are still better at it than others. I also think it takes time and experience for your songwriting sensibilities to grow and mature. So in some ways, yes, it does take years to master. Some people can spend years and not master songwriting. There’s got to be an innate sense, to start with, of what makes a good song. I think that’s my strength. I also think “mastery” is a journey, not a destination. I’ll always continue to grow musically and listen to what other metal bands are doing and be influenced by the sounds that I like. Ultimately what I do is write the metal that I want to hear. Simply put that is the objective of this band. Blood of the Wolf members are in other bands, but it’s not clear what that relation is. Will you please explain? Max and Frank are in other bands. Max plays

drums in Disinter, the Chicago death metal legends. I’m glad he plays with them. It keeps his skills up. I think he’s actually improved with us because he’s playing with them as well. Frank plays guitar in a band called Asphyxiator. They’re more of a brutal, slam-death band: very different from Blood of the Wolf. For Brandon and I, it’s just Blood of the Wolf. I’m a one-band type of guy. A real rarity in this scene! This is my band and to quote Jim Bresnahan of Kommandant, “I’m going down with the ship.” Thank you for your time and music. Thanks for your review and positive words! Keep following us, keep supporting us, keep listening to the album and stay tuned for the next one-I promise you will not be disappointed!!! www.bloodofthewolf.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/bloodofthewolfmusic ** Aethernaeum The German-language epic melodic/folk black metal band Aethernaeum has a new album “Naturmystik” that once again delivers the excellence for which they are becoming known. The band began as a solo project by Alexander Paul Blake, from the also excellent long-running “gothic metal” band Eden Weint Im Grab (EWIG). Fundamentally centered on quality, Aethernaeum’s new album rewards the listener with elegance in the execution of the music. This publication sent some time-consuming questions to Alexander Paul Blake, who fortunately made time to answer them. * I’m sure that you, Alexander Paul Blake, have observed that your 2015 album “Naturmystik” has been well received by your supporters and by quite a few reviews. That is very positive for you because the songs are long and you cross various styles, with your atmospheric, melodic black metal with folk elements. Do you feel that you are very far or

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near from your own expectations and objectives at this point? Blake: “Well, we are glad, that the album has been received so well in most of the magazines and by our fans – so it was worth all the time we spent into this album. About our status … I think it’s realistic to say we are a quite small or unknown band and I guess we have to release many more albums and tour a lot to gain a bigger fanbase. Since we haven’t played that much live in the past and also not outside of Germany, there’s still a lot to do. But I hope at least the internet helps to spread our music all over the globe and of course magazines like Metal Bulletin. My main goal is to make more such beautiful albums in the next years. I don’t think so much about success, numbers or status or things like that. That’s can be too frustrating ;-) So we are curious ourselves, where this journey leads us.” Do you feel more pressure now to play more shows? You have stated that you are not a big fan of touring: the waiting, the transporting of equipment, the driving/riding around, the food/diet issues, so on and so forth. How do you see the contradiction: the band gets more positive receptions, which leads to more offers to play shows, which leads to more possibilities for touring? Blake: “It’s not like we get lots of offers and refuse to play these shows. To be honest there are not many offers. We’re going to play a Germany tour with Dornenreich in March and we are looking forward to it a lot. I think it’s a great possibility for us. I’m more the studio guy and for me writing new songs is more fun than touring all the year, but that does not mean that I am not open for concerts or tours at all, as long as I have the feeling that it still gives me the possibility to record stuff for all my projects.”

What is going on with your studio Winter Solitude? Are you busy with the work of other bands? Do you produce, mix, master and do all those type of things for other bands? How long has the studio been active? Blake: “It’s hard to say how long this studio exists already. I recorded all the Eden Weint Im Grab albums since 2004 with my own equipment and the studio grew all the time, but we have started to do recordings for other bands not earlier than 3 or 4 years ago. Yes, we do recording, mixing and mastering – and also composing – and at the moment we always have one or two bands in the studio. Local bands. But it’s not enough to make a living from it and mainly we use the studio for our own projects. Hopefully it will grow in the future.” Let’s go back in time a little bit because I am curious about the beginnings of your journey in music. EWIG began in 2000, correct? You began it as a solo project. Metal Archives says that you were involved with Dissolute Paradise in the 1990s and the band was “gothic/death metal.” How much of that information is true? Were you in bands in the 90s? What were the reasons to start a solo project like EWIG?

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Frustration of dealing with other musicians? Lack of agreement with other musicians in terms of musical perspectives? Not finding the right people? How much did you have in terms of resources to start EWIG? Did you have access to a studio? Did you have a little studio at home? Blake: “My first band was Despairation. I joined the band in 1995 as a singer. We released a new album a while ago, but to be honest there’s not much happening in this band anymore. The idea to start a solo project came about when I finally had the recording possibilities – at that time a Cubase software on a cheap computer at home, which was crashing all the time ;-) I was just fooling around and experimenting to learn something. Eden Weint Im Grab (and also my other band at that time: Transit Poetry) arose out of that. For me it was just a fun thing to do and I had no serious expectations. That’s why I released the first album in 2004 as a gratis download only. But the reactions were so overwhelming that I continued and after some more albums I gathered a band around me, started playing live and so one. Right now we’re recording our 7th album. For me it always seemed easier to write my own music, since I was capable doing it and didn’t have to make any compromises. Despairation was a band, in which we had to make lots of compromises at that time. So I guess that was one of the reasons. And also it was easier recording everything by myself than asking other people. About Dissolute Paradise … I don’t know, why this information is still in Metal Archives. I only sung in this band for half a year without ever recording something with them. The albums they released were with a different singer.”

Was your childhood filled up with music? Did your parents listen to a lot of music? What type of music? Blake: “Well, they listened to music, but mainly to crap music ;-) Maybe that was one of the reasons why I started listening to Metal at the age of 10 already. Bands like Metallica, AC/DC, Megadeth, Skid Row or Judas Priest were my favorites back then. Later in my teenager years I also listened to lots Black, Gothic and Death Metal bands and some more years later listened to music of nearly all styles, which I still do today. Beside many kinds of Metal I like Indie/Alternative, Rock, Trip Hop, Soundtracks, Avantgarde, Folk, Singer/Songwriter and so on. I don’t like to limit myself to a certain genre, that’s why my own projects are so different from each other.” EWIG and Aethernaeum sound very far from bands like Judas Priest and Scorpions, and also from the thrash of the 80s. Did you like any of that music? Blake: “Oh yes, I like that music as well. As I said, I listened to many of these bands when I was a teenager and even today sometimes. But they haven’t influenced my music that much, that is true. Maybe the reason is that I never tried to play songs of these bands on the guitar, but always tried to do my own thing. And also that there is so much other music I like.” Now, what about the 90s? What bands made an impact on you and your desire to make music? Were you at all interested in bands like

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Trail of Tears and Tristania a long time ago? Blake: “No, I haven’t been a fan of these bands you mentioned – I’m not so much in ‘The beauty and the beast’ music with opera vocals. Especially on Eden Weint Im Grab bands like Type O Negative, Alice Cooper or Rammstein made a bigger impact, and Aethernaeum is obviously influenced by the more melodic and atmospheric Black Metal bands like In The Woods…, Emperor, Burzum, Wolves In The Throne Room, Dornenreich, Empyrium etc. I know, that some of these bands are not part of the 90s, but I don’t regard music in terms of decades anyway.” Is it frustrating to hear some metal people tell you, "I love your music!" and "Your music is awesome!" and see in your bank account that few of those people want to give you any financial support? Translation: "I love your music, but I will not support you by buying a shirt or a cd. I will pay for a movie at the movie theater. I will pay for a McDonald's meal and for things last one moment. For your music that I listen to many times and years, for that, I refuse to pay a cent." How do you feel about those "fans"? Blake: “Well, it’s a pity, that it’s so hard to earn some money with music nowadays. If I counted up, how many hours I invested in my musical career and how my bank account looks like, I would have to stop. But the reason I make music is not money, that’s why I continue anyway. Music is a mission for me. I have these creative impulses all the time. I have to write songs. I have no other choice. It’s a deep urge. So even though the way is long and stony, I need to go it. And of course music provides me with a lot of fulfillment and fun. And these fans, that don’t want to pay for music … well, I think it’s senseless getting angry about it, since I can’t change it, anyway. That’s the way the world looks like nowadays and we have to make the best out of it. And on the other hand this technologic

evolution, which made it so easy to copy music, also gave us cheaper recording equipment, so that I’m able to record all the records that I want to do in my studio without having to pay thousands of Euros to an external studio like it was in the 80s or 90s. What I want to say … of course, musicians earn less money nowadays, but making music also became much cheaper and we have more free promotion possibilities online.” How old are you now and do you see yourself making metal music when you are 55 years old? Blake: “I’m in my mid thirties. If I will be still alive in 20 years I’m pretty sure that I will still make music – but don’t ask me which kind of music, since I’m open for so many different genres and I like to explore the whole world of music rather just the Metal genre. There’s so much good stuff in various styles of music. And since I said, that making music is a deep urge for me, I can’t imagine that it will go away one day.” Do ideas for music come easier now at your current age than when you were much younger? We see that metal bands play music for 40 years or more! Blake: “Ideas are coming anyway all the time, that happens while improvising. And that hasn’t changed over the years. So it’s not easier or harder than 15 years ago. But I’d say that I became a better songwriter, producer, mixing engineer and arranger over due to the experiences I gained. Thus I can write better songs since I can get more out of the initial ideas. I believe that in terms of sound and arrangements all my releases are still getting better, since I learn something new all the time.” You have said that the music for “Naturmystik” was actually written a little while back. Maybe in 2014, I think. Nowadays you have much

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more technical experience. What is the most time-consuming aspect of making an album? It appears that coming up with music is not a problem. Is it the process of editing, changing, arranging, re-arranging, trying to find the right sound, so on and so forth? Is that what takes so much time now? Blake: “Yes, you’re right, songwriting is always a fast process here. When I have some time and rest I can write and arrange a song with lyrics within some hours and then the basic songs is there – in a demo version at least. It takes much more time to record the stuff with the rest of the guys afterwards, doing the editing (especially drum and vocal editing can be lots of work), going back and forth in mixes, mastering it, listening to it on several stereo systems, mastering it again, going back to a mix, mastering it again, haha, and then creating the artwork, doing promotion, preparing stuff for live shows, etc. So I only had to put some demo versions online I could release a new album twice or even more times a year ;-)” On “Naturmystik” there is a song that you did not write, correct? Was it difficult to make the change of allowing other people’s music on the album? Blake: “Yes, our guitar player Marco wrote the song ‘Im Zyklus der Jahreszeiten’. He wrote the basic music and I added the lyrics and vocals lines and suggested some changes. Well, it felt a bit strange in the beginning to leave the songwriting to someone else, but after a while it was ‘our song’ like all the rest of the album. It wasn’t important anymore after a while who wrote it. But in a way I’m a control freak in creative things, I have to admit and always like to have the last word ;-)”

Aethernaeum is a band, but you are the main composer and main engine behind it. At the same time, “Naturmystik” continues your objectives of having a full band, not a solo project. How has that process been for you, on an emotional level? Has it been difficult to accept other people’s input and ideas or has it been the thing that you wanted? Do you foresee that in the future an album might have only 3 or 4 of your songs and the rest could be by different band members? Blake: “Generally it’s not hard for me to accept other people’s input. But it always depends. If I like the idea, great! When I don’t like the idea it can be problematic since on the one hand I don’t like to offend anyone, but on the other hand of course I don’t want to release anything I don’t like. But in the end we always found a compromise. It is definitely enriching for Aethernaeum to have five people with creative minds instead of just one, since I think in the end the songs always sound better than my first versions. I can’t imagine to give so much of the songwriting to someone else in the future, to be honest, because I’m so used to it to do myself, but you never know what happens. Let’s see.”

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I know that you do not like it when people ask to explain your lyrics. So, I won’t ask you about that, but of course your beliefs do affect your lyrics. That’s obvious. How important is philosophy and literature for you? Are there particular authors that you seem to read more than others? Blake: “Yes, I don’t like to explain lyrics that much, because I think everything what needs to be said is in the lyrics already and the they shall stand for themselves. Aethernaeum is inspired a lot by spirituality and romantic poetry, of course. I like poets/writers of German Romanticism like Novalis, Bonaventura, Eichendorff or Tieck, but also English-speaking authors like Poe or William Blake. I feel connected to the Romantic philosophy somehow, which doesn’t reduce things to a material level, but sees something transcendental in the most banal aspects of life and always searches for something higher in a ongoing process, that can‘t be finished. Likewise my life is a constant search for a higher truth and that is reflected in my art in several forms.” For 2016, what plans do you have? Are there some shows that you are planning to do? Will you be busy with the work of Winter Solitude? What about EWIG? Is there anything that you would like to mention, other plans? Blake: “I have lots of plans. Recently we recorded the drums for the next Eden Weint Im Grab album and we will keep on recording stuff for the next album during winter and springtime. For Aethernaeum we are also recording something at the moment, but I don’t like to reveal any details yet. Beside that I’m working on a poetry book, which will contain 100 (German) poems and will be published in February already. And I also have two new musical projects in the pipeline, one which I’m working every now and then when I have time. They are not Metal since I like to explore new musical horizons as well. But I

guess it still needs some time till they are finished, since I always switch between different works. And yes, of course there also some productions in our studio beside our own music. So lots of thing to do, but that’s the way I love it. Thanks for the interview and the well-researched questions. Was a pleasure answering it.” www.facebook.com/AethernaeumOfficial/ www.einheit-produktionen.de THE END **

FREE METAL MUSIC ** Maximum Carnage

“Maximum Carnage is a Groove/Death metal band from Pretoria, South Africa. The band’s roots can be traced back to 2006 in Witbank, Mpumalanga where Gavin Grobler, Colin Thring and Jacques Broodryk started the foundations of the music and passion that drives the band today. The band now stands as Wouter Botha (guitar), Dale McHardy (guitar), Gavin Grobler (drums), Kyle Alers (bass) and Adri Jordaan (vocals). Through a few member changes and the help of those close friends, the band officially formed in 2009. Maximum Carnage is inspired by many bands from local to international acts. They strive to bring the best metal performances

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from the close interaction in a club, to the roar of a festival crowd. Maximum Carnage brings the heaviness to their audience and will not let them leave without the satisfaction of head banging. Maximum Carnage has released two EP's ("self titled" and "Just Die"). The band is currently writing and recording a full length album. Maximum Carnage has toured, played festivals and clubs all over Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique). The band’s goal is to spread their music and unite all fans of metal globally.” discography: Maximum Carnage EP 2014 Just Die EP 2015 www.maximumcarnage.bandcamp.com/album/just-die-2015 www.facebook.com/Maximum-Carnage-128620613821571 www.twitter.com/maximumXcarnage ** Old Wolf Old Wolf (demo) release: December 12th, 2015 (free recording) Old Wolf plays traditional heavy metal with contagious enthusiasm. This free demo is a promising recording. It’s headbanging heavy metal for rocking out and playing air guitar, or real guitar. Check it! * Old Wolf is: “Crusaders for the new wave of American heavy metal! If you like what you hear please like our facebook page and share to help spread the metal word! Long live true Heavy Metal!“ 1.Old Wolf 04:13

2.Trail of Tears 04:43 3.Your Keeper 06:28 total time 15:24

www.oldwolf.bandcamp.com/releases www.facebook.com/Old-Wolf-457056087835995/ ** Maniac Abductor Thrash Assault release date: November 28th, 2015 (free recording) Maniac Abductor is traditional, ripping thrash with the foot full on the pedal. Thrashers are gonna mosh, and the recording is free! Here is some information about the band. * “Thrash Metal band from Joensuu, Finland. This is the debut release of the North Karelian thrashers! This Demo EP will make you wish it would be the 80's again! The riffage is in your face, the drums will make your heart go to cardiac arrest, the bass is meaty as fuck, and the lyrics diverse from beer-flooded pit to the problems and idiocity of modern day society!

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LET'S GET MANIAC! 1.Thrash Assault 02:54 2.Privacy for Sale 03:40 3.First World Disease 04:42 total time 11:16

www.maniacabductorofficial.bandcamp.com/releases www.facebook.com/ManiacAbductor ** In Glorious March Path of Valor release: October 17th, 2015 Learn more about this 50-minute album by this band from Greece. It is a free recording. * ‘Founded in 2012 in Ioannina Greece, by Blastblitz, Fovos and Nikonas T. After some months G.S. and Vasilis P. joined the band to fulfil the places of rythm guitar and bass guitar. In December of 2012 the band started recording their first full length album wich contains 8 tracks of extreme metal, featuring a combination of black, thrash and melodic elements.

At the moment the band released their first EP with the title "Wholeness Of War" and currently is looking for live events to promote their music and a record deal to release their debut album "Path Of Valor"

www.ingloriousmarch.bandcamp.com/album/path-of-valor www.twitter.com/InGloriousMarch www.facebook.com/ingloriousmarch ** Living Altar Universe of Thralls release: September 18th, 2015 label: Gravplass Propaganda

The band describes itself as: "Living Altar is a black/death metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania."

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This free demo sounds great, full of energy and passion for extreme metal. The execution is tight, and the songs will make you bang your head. For extreme metal fanatics! www.living-altar.bandcamp.com/releases www.facebook.com/LivingAltarBM

concert calendar Seattle region concert calendar by Metal Bulletin Zine (Washington state). If you know of other metal concerts in the area, please get in contact with Metal Bulletin Zine. January 17 Venom, Inc., Necrophagia at Neumos, Seattle January 24 Theories, Addaura, Into Violence, The Great Goddamn at Barboza, Seattle January 30 Nile at El Corazón January 31 Warbringer, Enforcer, Exmortus, Cauldron, Oxygen Destroyer at Studio Seven, Seattle February 5 Act of Defiance at Funhouse, Seattle February 6 Black Sabbath at Tacoma Dome - February 9 Nervosa, Fallen Angels, Crud Guns, Trust Me Im Scared at Studio Seven, Seattle February 19 Fleshed Apocalypse, Carach Angren, Abigail Williams, Kill Closet, Darklight at Studio Seven - Seattle February 20 Skelator at Funhouse - Seattle February 20 Metal Church at Louie G's in Fife February 21 Coffins, Noothgrush, Lesbian at Highline in Seattle February 23 Cradle of Filth at The Showbox - Seattle February 23 Gravespell, Embryonic Devourment at Funhouse, Seattle March 3 Children Of Bodom at El Corazón, Seattle March 5 Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Cryptopsy, Abysmal Dawn at El Corazón -

Seattle March 6 Helloween at The Showbox March 7 Delain, Sonata Arctica, Nightwish at Showbox SoDo March 19 Slayer, Testament, Carcass at Paramount Theater - Seattle March 24 Y & T, Zero Down at Studio Seven, Seattle April 1 Decibel Magazinel Tour ABBATH, High On Fire, Tribulation, Skeletonwitch at El Corazon - Seattle April 11 Iron Maiden at Tacoma Dome April 14 Iron Kingdom at The Kraken Bar and lounge - Seattle April 23 D.R.I. at El Corazón, Seattle May 1 Napalm Death at The Showbox - Seattle May 08 Primal Fear, Luca Turilli's Rhapsody at El Corazon - Seattle June 5 Iron Kingdom at Tony V's Garage in Everett — metal programs (these are Pacific Times) Mosh Pit (Madison, WI): Monday night 9:30pm-12am WORT 89.9 fm www.wortfm.org Sweet Nightmares (Houston, TX): Thursday night 9pm-12am KPFT 90.1 fm www.kpft.org Excuse All the Blood (Olympia, WA): Friday night 11pm-1am www.kaosradio.org Metal Shop (Seattle, WA): Saturday 11pm-3am KISW 99.9fm www.kisw.com — This zine is available at: www.issuu.com/metalbulletinzine