I finally caught up with the Brazilian guitar giant, Andreas Kisser of Sepultura! One of my most brutal metal letdowns was the loss of an interview with this man some three years ago, when we spoke about their then-latest album Dante XXI, based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. I am proud to share my redemption interview with you all! Their most recent album, A-Lex, is yet another concept album based on a novel (Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange). Not only that, Andreas released his first solo effort, Hubris I & II, this year via Mascot Records and has been further broadening Sepultura‘s sonic palette with bossa [...read more]

I got some new reviews up for ya: Darkthrone, Castrofate, Abigail Williams, Book Of Black Earth, Kreator, Viking Skull, Becoming The Archetype, Sepultura, and The Bakerton Group. If you click on the “reviews” category, you can see all of em, nice and convenient-like. I’m still restructuring the site, and eventually they will also be accessible from the “Album Reviews” tab. For those curious, I had made everything pages instead of posts over the last several months … this is what I am currently correcting.  I hope I’m right this time. Hails!

Sepultura – “A-Lex” released January 20, 2009 by SPV/Steamhammer The first word in Brazilian Metal returns with another opus based on a piece of literature, now focusing on a modern novel (Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange) rather than classic poetry (Dante’s Divine Comedy).  There is palpable energy throughout the album, the band’s eleventh (fifth with Derrick Green, now a distinguished voice in his own right), and the first without Igor Cavalera on drums (newcomer Jean Dolabella is a strong replacement).  They really touch all bases here:  breakneck thrash (2, 3), moody grooves (4, 9), instrumental “chapter starters” (1, 6, 12, [...read more]