Comrade Aleks News Today

  (This time Comrade Aleks interviews one of the members of the unorthodox Peruvian metal band Kranium, whose roots go back to the early ’90s and whose new album Uma Tullu (which you can stream below) was released on December 1st, 2020.) Kranium is a legend of the Peruvian underground. The band was formed in 1985 as Murder but since 1986 it’s been known as Kranium. Their early material tended towards savage a thrash/death meta, but years passed, some members left and others joined the b...

My Shameful. Jürgen was able to focus on his doom/sludge band Absent/Minded, and Sami was occupied with his solo project Kadotettu. However, both of them reunited in order to channel a mix of creativity and negativity through a new collaboration – Oakmord. As Sami confesses, it is on a different range of emotions, and as musicians they have naturally changed over the years, “grown if that term fits here…” I agree with that, and you can make sure yourself while reading this inter...

  (In this new interview Comrade Aleks put questions to the two main members of the Italian band Mourning Mist, whose second album Amen was released last November by BloodRock Records.) Mid. (drums, vocals) and Echerual (violin). A year later Kvasir (bass, vocals, guitars) joined and the crew started to explore the skills they had, playing different sorts of black metal in new territories. Their self-titled debut appeared in 2015 and I’m still bewildered with this blackened eclectic mix ...

The Dying All, an album partly based on Cormac McCarthy’s devastating novel The Road. We had a nice chat with the band’s founder T. Black metal, covid, apocalypse, black metal….   Salute T! How are you? How do you spend your quarantine? Greetings Aleksey, we are doing good enough. Since rehearsing in public rehearsal-rooms and live shows were not options, consider the outlines for the new album made. Let’s say I had some time left for new songs.   Despite all of this Auric Records...