Šakal is a Serbian black metal band formed in 2021. Since the band was founded by experienced members of the Serbian metal scene, it didn’t take long for the quartet to release their first songs. After a few singles, the first album entitled Yav, Prav, Nav followed along with their first live performance. In Slovenia, we will have an opportunity to see the band live soon, as the band is currently preparing for its live performance at the Brutal Janez Fest festival.

Avtor fotografij je Espen Ixtlan.

Letos sem na Inferno Metal Festivalu dobil priložnost govoriti z Espenom Ixtlanom. Espen je bil dolgoletni fotograf skupine Satyricon, rezultat tega sodelovanja je izid knjige Satyricon In Europe 2006–2022, prve in edine avtorizirane knjige o Satyricon. Najin povsem spontan pogovor je bil kolaž več prejšnjih pogovorov v prvih dneh festivala. Prebrali boste torej lahko različne zgodbe o tem, kako je Espen spoznal band, kaj dobrega in vznemirljivega je doživel z bandom in kakšne načrte band še ima.

Photos by Espen Ixtlan.

At the Inferno Metal festival this year I got the chance to talk to Espen Ixtlan. He was Satyricon's band photographer for many years, the result of this collaboration was the publication of the book Satyricon In Europe 2006-2022, the first and only ever authorised book about Satyricon. Our conversation was completely spontaneous and was a collage of several previous conversations on the first days of the festival. So you’ll read different stories about how Espen got to know the band, what good and exciting things he experienced with the band and what plans the band still has.

Photos by Chantik Photography.

The first thing I ever heard from Tsjuder were the words: “Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?” After that there was no way back for me. So it's no surprise that it was with great pleasure that I accepted Sonja's invitation to the listening session of Tsjuder's forthcoming album, which will be entitled Helvegr and released on the 23rd of June. In Oslo I also couldn't miss the opportunity to do an interview with Tsjuder after the listening session where Sonja from Season of Mist gave us some information about the album, the recording process, and so on. And so it happened... Half an hour of fun, laughing, and discussing.

Avtor fotografij je Chantik Photography.

Prva stvar, ki sem jo kdaj koli slišal od Tsjuder, so bile besede: »Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?« Po tem zame ni bilo poti nazaj. Zato ne preseneča, da sem se z velikim veseljem odzval Sonjinemu vabilu na poslušanje oziroma listening session prihajajočega albuma od Tsjuder, ki bo nosil naslov Helvegr in bo izšel 23. junija. V Oslu pa tudi nisem mogel izpustiti priložnosti za intervju po listening sessionu, ko nam je Sonja v kratki razpravi posredovala nekaj glavnih informacij o albumu, snemanju itd. In tako je bilo … Pol ure zabave, smeha in razprave.

Photo by Joao Fitas.

On the third day of this year's Inferno Metal Festival, Gaerea headlined at John Dee. The show was very intense and the audience reacted very positively to the band's performance. Since the concert was a great success and was subsequently followed by a standard after party, Žiga and I were a bit sceptical whether the early Sunday morning date for our interview was really the best. However, the singer and frontman of the band, Guilherme Henriques, found the time and energy to calmly answer our questions in the hall of his hotel, drinking his morning coffee. In this interview we mainly talked about the feelings the band conveys through the music, both on disc and live.

Avtor fotografije je Joao Fitas.

Tretji dan letošnjega Inferno Metal Festivala so Gaerea kot headlinerji nastopili v dvorani John Dee. Koncert je bil zelo energičen in občinstvo se je na nastop zasedbe odzvalo zelo pozitivno. Ker je bil koncert velik uspeh in mu je posledično sledilo standardno praznovanje, sva bila z Žigo nekoliko skeptična, ali je zgodnji nedeljski termin za naš intervju res najboljši. A kljub vsemu je pevec in frontman skupine Guilherme Henriques našel čas in energijo, da je v avli svojega hotela ob jutranji kavi sproščeno odgovoril na vsa najina vprašanja. Govorili smo predvsem o občutkih, ki jih band prenaša skozi glasbo, in sicer tako na ploščku kot v živo.

Metalsteel je slovenska heavy metal zasedba, ki bo drugo leto praznovala 25 let delovanja. V tem času je skupina, katere člani so že bolj ali manj od vsega začetka skupaj, posnela in izdala že sedem studijskih dolgometražcev, medtem ko je osmi na poti. Ta bo nosil naslov Spomenik in bo sestavljen skorajda izključno iz priredb skladb slovenskih hard n` heavy skupin iz 80. in 90. let ter enega avtorskega komada. Kaj je o albumu in njegovi predstavitvi v živo povedal Rok Tomšič, ustanovni član in kitarist banda, boste izvedeli v tokratnem intervjuju.

V začetku decembra, tik pred pričetkom »mini« turneje, sem se pogovarjala s članoma mednarodne, a skoraj že domače progresivne metal zasedbe Seventh Station. Fantje so lansko leto izdali studijski album Heal The Unhealed, kot omenjeno pa so sredi decembra koncertirali v Sloveniji in bližnji okolici. Z odličnim predstavitvenim koncertom in energijo so me prepričali v obisk dveh zaporednih nastopov. Glede na to, da idejni vodja in kitarist Dmitri Alperovich živi v meni sosednjem mestu, smo intervju izvedli v živo ob skodelici kave in pivu. Pridružil pa se nama je še vokalist Davidavi »Vidi« Dolev, ki sicer živi in ustvarja v Izraelu.

Deprivacija so blackened sludge metal zasedba iz Litve, ki je pred kratkim izdala drugi album pri slovenski založbi On Parole Productions, potem ko so ga najprej izdali samostojno. Konec januarja prihaja v Slovenijo na krajšo turnejo (predvideni so štirje koncerti), zato smo se odločili, da jih povprašamo, kaj lahko pričakujemo.