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Arch Enemy interview

God I hate Sundays. The day of rest? The day of boredom, more like. Being a full blown Satanist (I kid, I kid) means I also hate the religious connections that link to Sunday, as a day of worship. I guess I could sacrifice a goat or two, but that gets boring too after a while.

By now, assuming you’re still reading and haven’t got bored, you’re probably wondering what my little opening rant has to do with an Arch Enemy interview. Well, nothing to be honest. It’s just that Sunday is also a boring day for Metal news and I just hate this fucking day.

Arch Enemy were recently interviewed by CraveMetal.com. Who cares though? Yawn. If you’re really, really, really bored, then check out the interview in the video above. Otherwise, just go ahead and wait for the awesome Weak Recap to make your Sunday a better one.

Witchery are cursed

Swedish Death Metal supergroup Bloodbath Witchery have parted ways with vocalist Legion (formerly of Marduk) and announced their new vocalist: Emperor Magus Caligula (Masse Broberg), formerly of Dark Funeral and early Hypocrisy.

Legion only sang on the latest Witchery album, Witchkrieg. You can view the video of the titlesong above. Before Legion took over in 2010, the band was fronted by Seance guitarist Tony Kampner for 13 years. That makes Emperor their third singer. Oh, I’m a math genius.

According to Witchery guitarist Patrik Jensen, the band is “saddened to announce the departure of Legion, singer of last year’s Witchery ear-crusher Witchkrieg. Unfortunately, conflicting schedules made a continued collaboration impossible. We are very thankful for Legion’s input and work on our latest album, and we wish him only the very best for the future.” He goes on to add that “Witchery will, however, not remain without a leader to take them through the netherworlds and beyond. None other than Emperor Magus Caligula has decided to once again adorn his armor, and go off to battle for the better of darkness and evil.”

Sounds like a plan. Emperor Magus Caligula makes his live debut with Witchery later today at the Hultsfred Festival.

Stillwell stillsuck

iKorn (who? What?) recently conducted an interview with Stillwell, and well, they kind of still suck. The band feature Fieldy of Korn fame and a bunch of Nu Metal has-beens that really shouldn’t have been offered another chance at making it in the music industry.

Their album apparently is already out (released May 10th), which means it successfully managed to come out without me even realizing. That’s great news for myself.

If you stillcare about Nu Metal (Why?) then have a read of blabbermouth.

Matt Heafy talks Lady Gaga

Being the frontman of a band as a mediocre and overhyped as Trivium, it comes with  no surprise to learn that Matt Heafy has taken great inspiration from Lady Gaga for the new album, In Waves.

Trivium sinking lower into the depths of Pop? No surprises here.

Ok, admittedly I’ve completely twisted his words and the new album will probably be as ‘Metal’ as any of their other albums. Check out the full interview with Amy Harris here if you’re idea of a fun night is spending the evening knitting with your grandma.

P.S. That’s not Matt Heafy above, I just don’t want his name tarnishing my search history, getting in the way of all my porn searches.

Phil Demmel reviews the new Machine Head album

Machine Head have a new album, Unto the Locust, coming out in September and Phil Demmel, who totally isn’t biased (not like he’s actually in Machine Head or anything), was nice enough to give a track-by-track review of the new album.

The verdict? That it’s the most epic, most heavy and strongest Machine Head album yet, of course. At least that was my interpretation, not that I’m cynical at all.

I don’t have the time nor effort to write some of Phil’s descriptions here (and yes I’ve heard of ‘copy and paste’), so why not head over to Blabbermouth and check it out for yourself?