OldMansMettle

13/10/2024

Dead drunk and dying in a ditch....

21/04/2024

Finally....a review of SENTRY 'Sentry'. 8.5 / 10. Link in comments.

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…

18/05/2022

https://oldmansmettle.com/2022/05/18/jonny-maudling-of-kull-and-bal-sagoth-on-composing-exile-epic-fantasy-metal-escapism-long-standing-fans-and-new-shows/

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…