Mind Equals Blown

Mind Equals Blown staffer Shaun Tan recently had the opportunity to interview two members of Japanese Metal/Electronica band, Crossfaith. He spoke to vocalist Kenta Koie and Terufumi Tamano, who handles sampler/panorama duties, through band manager/translator Rew Kubayashi.

I have never gone up into space (heck, I’m no astronaut), but I always dream of feeling the sensation called weightlessness. Being a strong physics student, I know that weightlessness occurs when there’s no gravitational force, thus you’re just floating there. I can’t think of any experience that would be as freeing as that. With

It has become quite the standard in the metalcore world that any band that releases records annually tends to be one of those bands that’s more about quantity than quality. A Plea for Purging is not one of those bands. Although they only brought us their last record The Marriage of Heaven and Hell about a year

Lace up your combat boots. Just five seconds into This is Hell’s Black Mass, you cannot sit still as vocalist Travis Reilly screams, “It burns like acid rain”(go ahead and try, but you won’t make it). It is so loud, so aggressive, and the necessity to thrash around is so high that one will welcome

Boy oh boy, what’s happened to Maylene and the Sons of Disaster? Having spent years building up their reputations as stalwarts of the southern metal scene, the quintet have continued to display their ever-evolving sound on their latest effort, IV. Shifting away from the southern metal/hard rock vibes displayed on their first two albums, I and II, Maylene have further developed the softer approach taken on the band’s 2009 album, III. So, has the shift to a lighter, more mainstream sound worked for the band?

Progressive metal may just be slowly climbing its way up my “favorite genre” list. The intricate musicianship involved is simply staggering (any doubter need only look to Protest the Hero as evidence to the claim). What’s more, however, is that progressive metal implements all the tiny things that make metal great (breakdowns, screamed vocals, etc.)

For those of you who don’t frequent death metal, think Cookie Monster ate a frog, only on a whole new level. That’s a basic summary of Pathology’s new record, Awaken to the Suffering. The forefront problem with this record is the guitar, bass and drums are fantastic. The vocals, however, are horrendous. I have no

If the first thing you thought upon reading the title of this article was that “it must have been a brutal show,” then believe me, you were right. This lineup included some of the most devastating performances I have witnessed in some time, but also a performance that was laughable. Now from the very start,