Shredding Enslaved
Enslaved is a special band, they cross so many genre boundaries and have redefined what black metal is and can be. Whether they were setting the standards for second wave black metal in 1993, or setting the standards for psychedelic black metal in 2000 Enslaved has been a major trail blazer in metal.
Swamp Suicide – An Interview with Manos Six and The Muddy Devil
Thank you for taking the time for this interview.Can you give us some quick background on how the project came to be?Manos Six + the muddy devil is my personal project along with Stamos Abatis. The two of us have been playing music together since 1999 in various projects. Our current main band is: Skull& […]
TMO’s Debut Albums of the Year
Welcome to a special edition TMO year end list, a warm-up to our final top 30, and what you can consider our Christmas present to you, our fellow readers. In the giving spirit of the holiday season, we thought to give a well earned shout-out to the special elite of up and coming bands that […]
TMO Albums Of The Month – August 2020
As summer is reduced to a memory, the last of hot sunny days have left us with another selection of equally hot releases
Shredding Carach Angren
Join us for another shredding feature, as we dive deep into the five lugubrious albums of the Dutch crowned masters of horror from Carach Angren.
Metal Archeology – Morgul Blade
With the sheer amount of metal bands out there, it is easy to get swept away by the flood of releases every month and miss some of the true gemstones. The Metal Observer will help you dig up these gemstones with less than 100 likes on Facebook in “Metal Archeology”. And our fourth installment is […]
Shredding: Windir
In a career that was all too brief, a young Norwegian man named Terje Bakken, now known as Valfar to the metal masses, took black metal to a new level of refinement that bands like Emperor and Satyricon had only hinted at before. Valfar’s vision was a unique one that melded the grandeur and mood […]
Interviewing ex-Carach Angren drummer Namtar
Some days ago, the news became official that drummer and founding Carach Angren member Ivo “Namtar” Wijers has left the band. I contacted him and he was kind enough to answer some questions on why he left the band, the metal music industry and of course, drumming.
TMO Holidays: A Headbanging Halloween
Twelve Metal Albums Embodying the Spirit of Halloween!
Metal Archeology – Medenera
And we have uncovered another hidden marvel. Through dumb luck, I came across our third feature for Metal Archeology. Considering that we find one of these gems apparently once every geological eon, I probably have to explain what exactly this is again. Metal Archaeology is where we expose unknown artists, with less than 100 […]
