21/04/2024
Finally....a review of SENTRY 'Sentry'. 8.5 / 10. Link in comments.
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03/03/2024
...pummel riffs into oblivion as the real world turns to dust and new doorways open….....
If one had to describe the sound of SATURNALIA TEMPLE, it would be like a blend of the songs Dopethrone, Sacrificial Su***de, The Dance Of Eternal Shadows, Welcome to Planet Mo********er and possib…
21/01/2024
"SKARDUS hail from Schleswig-Holstein and play heavy black death with catchy, angular riffs and an organic but very clear production. Where, you say? You’ve heard of ‘Holsten Pils’…but? What? Schleswig-Holstein is in the far north of Germany – it’s an important place for the Anglosphere, because in the fifth to seventh centuries a huge bunch of bastards from there decided they’d prefer to live in England, to farm pigs, cause trouble, give us crucial everyday English words ( like ‘ale’ ) and their reward….to become peasants for a millenia under an even bigger bastard, William of Normandy. The smart ones, then, perhaps stayed behind, and spent the next centuries trying as hard as possible to hide from all the Germans in the south with their lederhosen and yodelling, so they could just be left alone to play northern black metal with their Baltic allies. We talk to M.B, J.S and Herr Jürgensen about the band’s first CD release Stormriek, influences, obscure Germanic dialects, and moving away from the world of the underground cassette to a record deal".
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14/01/2024
Good morning!
Would you believe it if we told you there is a group of amateur archaeologists and ex-musicians called the ‘Punk Rock Metal Detectorists Club’ operating across the southwest of England,…
27/11/2023
Very sad to hear that the big man with the big sound Kevin ‘Geordie’ Walker has gone…my condolences to his family, friends and fellow artists. He was certainly an early hero of mi…
16/10/2023
Harking from deepest Cornwall, The Emerald Dawn could just be the prog band that will convert any of the remaining resistance with their timeless keyboard-driven music.
Harking from deepest Cornwall, The Emerald Dawn could just be the prog band that will convert any of the remaining resistance with their timeless keyboard-driven music. We passed their live perform…
25/12/2022
Merry yule! Here's our solstice interview with Mid of Deviated Instinct.
Were you about in the mid-to-late ’80s punk scene, supergluing patches on your tattered trousers, tramping the streets in para-boots to the soundtrack of underproduced cassette demos with xer…
21/12/2022
Probably the sloppiest article ever...
We interview a lot of technically good bands on OMM, but there’s always a space in our heart for the more chaotic ones. Not everyone is so impressed when people succeed despite their apparent…
04/05/2022
" “I used to listen to a lot of old bands…..I always loved female vocals, it just sounds better and kicks ass….”"
We thrive on inspirational tales, and who doesn’t like a good old D-beat love story? Katri of the superb crust punk outfit HAAVAT tells us about moving from small town Finland to the UK, and …
21/04/2022
A chat with Mayhemic Destructor of ENDSTILLE.
It is our pleasure to catch up with Timm aka Mayhemic Destructor of the relentlessly pummelling black war-metal act ENDSTILLE, a band who everyone should see live for the full effect of their blist…
07/04/2022
Interview with kariti. Includes guitar tab for the track 'Sky Burial'.
kariti released the dark-folk LP ‘Covered Mirrors’ a while back and we really liked it: nine tracks that are slow, deliberate – perhaps you could even say they are a little awkwar…
12/01/2022
Interview with Tregor Russo. Includes fingerpicking guitar tab!
If you like your doom to be neoclassical, dark, romantic, yet with vocals like rumbling thunder, then Tregor Russo is your man. Releasing three ornate, multi-textured albums of hypnotic doom-death …
01/01/2022
INCLUDING FREE GUITAR TAB!
Grendel’s Sÿster released Myrtle Wreath only a couple of years back – yes, just before everything started to go wrong – here at OMM we heard it for the first time during lockdown,…
31/12/2021
Hello! Apologies for the quiet here for the last couple of months...the editor moved into a very nice 'period house' ( in plain English - a cold and draughty one, besieged with issues ) and then started doing a regular 'normie' job with lots of out-of-hours demands. But, none-the-less, OMM had a very good ten-month year, with 45k views, and plenty of coverage on news aggregators, thanks no doubt to some of the popular four-figure interviews we did with the likes of Rick of Manilla Road, Jim of Cirith Ungol, Midgaars of Lugubrum, Jürgen of Bethlehem, Marta of Crystal Viper, Chaos of Chaos UK / F.O.T.K., Lars of Dødheimsgard, Rat of Statement, Kjetil of Mayhem / Order, and Matt of Sieben. Thanks for your time, guys! And thanks to all the other great bands we interviewed, Hungry Wolf, Crypta, Seven Crowns, Count Beetle, Claymorean, Legendry, Void, Alkerdeel, Throne of Iron, and Ice Howl. The only way is up! And yes, new interviews are on the way – the first one due tomorrow January 1st 2022. Get your guitars ready, because we are going for FREE TABS, straight from the artists themselves throughout the coming year. Any requests? Drop us a line. Now, do excuse us, one needs to get back to their middle-class English existence and find the stethoscope to check the beehives. Happy new year!
10/11/2021
Another heavy metal day...
Over the summer we managed to grab a talk with Ryan of NATUR, a thrash / doom / metal act with a very good ear for balancing tension and melody in its compositions. A few years back they gave us th…
07/10/2021
Morning all...
Autumn, or the Fall, is here, and for those particularly connected with nature then you’ll no doubt be relishing the melancholia that the darker seasons foist upon us, and taking your pick of…
30/09/2021
A chat with Mannheim of MAYHEM and ORDER....
Kjetil ‘Mannheim’ was the original drummer of MAYHEM during the phase that culminated in the legendary Deathcrush EP of 1987. Now, that release was a real beast of a recording, and some…
18/09/2021
New interview with Lars of INI and DHG!
Lars Emil Måløy is a talented composer living in Norway and is involved as bass player in the avant-garde-for-want-of-a-better-word-for-it extreme music scene that evolved from the more progressive…
06/09/2021
A nice chat with Erin Bennett on her involvement with Hawkwind thanks to her band EBB's cover of 'The Demented Man' that is so good, Dave Brock himself joined in!
Every now and then you hear a cover version that really adds something to the original and today that band is Erin Bennett’s EBB, and the recipient is English spacerock mega-giants of awesome…
05/09/2021
It is our pleasure to chat with Patrick ‘Rat’ Poole, known primarily for STATEMENT and UNBORN, two underground vegan thrash/punk acts that would chime with the US straight edge movement…
05/09/2021
Serbian act CLAYMOREAN have been about for a few years, but have recently matured into quite a formidable heavy metal band with their upcoming release Eulogy for the Gods. Keep It True festival & #8…
23/06/2021
Chaos UK were / are a rather noisy punk band from Bristol who, alongside Disorder and perhaps Amebix, were proponents of the now world-famous ‘crust punk’ scene, and Kaos is one of thei…
27/05/2021
Exclusive interview with Jim Barazza of epic heavy metal act CIRITH UNGOL. Check it out!
Jim Barraza has played guitar for cult epic heavy metal outfit CIRITH UNGOL since the late ’80s, and as lives go, that’s probably achievement enough for most of us. But how did he get t…
20/05/2021
CIRITH UNGOL 'Half Past Human' review and Jim Barazza interview news.....follow us for updates. Cheers!
OK…so, we said we only did interviews these days, but you know what, we might just have some good news for fans of CIRITH UNGOL, so do read on. First of all, indeed, you can find here our rev…
03/05/2021
'Who knows, ‘Bruyne Kroon’ may be our ‘L.A. Woman’. Midgaars, 2021.
If you like the work of artists who have either a healthy disdain for their instruments, or wade into them in the same way as would an enthusiastic teenager ( ahem, cough, cough…), then maybe…
25/04/2021
Sunday morning doom...
https://oldmansmettle.com/2021/04/24/paul-hammerskull-lennon-of-archdruid-talks-70s-doom-medieval-reenactment-and-running-an-asatru-kindred/
Ah, pagan doom…..the sound of castles, burial mounds, clinking steel, felt kick-drum beaters, 70s vocal effects and lo-fi recording techniques that filter out all but the truest of ears. If y…
21/04/2021
CRYPTA dropped a bombshell a few days ago with their new track From The Ashes. We were all wondering what the other half of the Nervosa split ( full interview with Nervosa in link ) would come up w…
07/04/2021
Swords, ruined castles, funny coloured sunsets, escapist 70s hard / heavy rock music with long instrumental passages and flanging effects ….are you in? We grab a chat with VIDARR of epic heav…
27/03/2021
Straddling first wave punk and NWOBHM like the boss he is, Algy Ward confounded the press and scene police in the 80s with his pre-crossover project TANK, a band that would release several unsung &…
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