𝕴𝖕𝖘𝖎𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖒𝖆 𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖇𝖆 - 𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖘

     A few days ago, I had the honour of getting in touch with one of my favourite bands of doom metal spectrum, Evadne, the legends of Spanish metal scene, and one of the best doom metal bands over the past decade. From reason and challenge, to life and sentence, here you can read the story of a legacy born in Valencia...   Ipsissima verba - Shadows :  Greetings.  Thank you for this interview.  It's an honour to have this opportunity. Can you tell me more about yourself? Who are you above the legacy you've built in these 17 years since Evadne was born? I'd like to meet the men behind your music.   Albert Conejero Ferrer :  Hello, and thanks for your interest. We are regular people making our dreams come true. We are workers of this magical world called music that fight against their lacks with effort and passion. Close people with our feet in the ground and truly enjoying our musical journey.    Shadows :  I know the project w...

    As well known, Italian land has always brought us  amazing metal bands, from various sub-genres of our beloved life style.    As of today, i had the chance to take a closer look within the Lombardy's metal scene, and I've discovered Norsemen, an amazing death/black metal band, who's got its musical roots in an the ancient Nordic traditions and, as the Latin sun has been warming up my soul, dark ink has been filling these pages.    Therefore, I bring you one of the most promising death/black metal bands of Italian metal scene...     Ipsissima verba - Shadows :  Greetings.  Thank you for doing this interview. I'd like to know more about you, as a band, as a team. Who you are and how your story has begun.?     Norsemen :  Hi! Norsemen here... Our story begun back in 2014 when Beppe and Anto decided to put together a death metal band.    They started to write the first tracks (which would eventually end...

   The other day, as I was working on a new poem, while losing myself within the melancholy of gayageum's sound, I had the honor of meeting miss Ea, an amazing vocalist, composer and lyricist, and through her kindness, I learned about her alternative/melodic rock project E'Sha Band, with deep origins in the mesmerizing town of Bucheon, South Korea.     More than surprised I've been when, spellbound by her ethereal vocals, I've found myself listening to her songs again and again.    Shining in the cosmic void created by the guitar dark yet gentle riffs, impeccably handled by her colleague, Ash, waltzing under the spell of the keyboards and awakening the doe of spiritual self-healing, miss Ea is showing us all, once again, that South Korea has got a powerful rock/metal scene, full of passion and skilled musicians.    Truth is, for quiet a while I've been studying the metal scene of the Korean land, but up to this point, I haven't hear anything ...

   In a land where life seems stagnant, and the shadows of the few leaves wither in the hidden silence of the day, a young artist, Olga Kann, gave life to what we know today as Withered Land, an epic black metal music project, masking its roots in the cold winter winds of esoteric symbolism. Listening to what she created in long nights of impatience, I was transported into a wild universe, beyond what nature gave birth to before our eyes.  Therefore, I have brought to you the artist itself...     Ipsissima verba - Shadows :  Greetings. Thank you for accepting this interview.  Before we start, I'd like to know more about you.  About whom you are beyond your artistic career.  Where and how did your story begin?     Olga Kann :  I have a pretty musical family (male part of it). Music surrounded me everywhere. Cassettes, vinyl, cds, the whole house was littered with this stuff. Hard rock from my father and metal from my brothers. I...

     I recently had the honour of getting in touch with Andrea Chiodetti, a guitarist whom I greatly appreciate, for his musical career with the well-known Italian ambient gothic doom project, The Foreshadowing, and the Italian black metal project, Grimness.  Below you can read what was discussed, under the shadow of a thought…    Ipsissima verba -   Shadows :  Greetings.  First, I want to thank you for your time. Tell me, in the light that the whole planet seems to be gradually sinking into misery, in what way / level your artistic side has been affected, or, in other words, how have you been fighting against isolation, as a response to a seemingly unprecedented situation?     Andrea Chiodetti :  Hi, thank you. The honour is mine. Surely isolation was one of the main consequence of this pandemic. As everything else in life, you can see in isolation both negative and positive aspects, well, instead of fighting against it, I’d s...

    The vulture of the Royal County of Berkshire, carried by shadows and gloomy shades of the past, for over two decades, has been leaving behind, with each of her feathers, another song...   Somewhere there, in her antagonistic flight towards eternity above the mortals, Forever Autumn band has been born.    And as a mother vulture, she breathed life into the old streets of her town, as a gift of sorrow and penitence.    Acoustic Doom, Blackened Doom. Bodhran and balalaika. Death and Darkness. Where the tears become an ocean, while grief is nothing more than a misty morning within our steps.     This is how I've met "mother Vulture", lady Dubhghaill, and her mesmerizing yet soul-piercing art. Therefore, it has been my duty to bring to you, at least a part of her surreal reality...     Ipsissima verba - Shadows :  Greetings. Thank you for accepting this interview. Before anything else, I would love to listen to your story. ...

Since its birth under the scorching sun of Italy, they have gone through various evolutionary stages, starting with a progressive metal sound, meanwhile developing more gloomy, darker, and doom'ier characteristics. The four artists who are forming Veil of Conspiracy at the moment,  Alessandro Sforza- voice, Luca Gagnoni - guitar, Emanuela Marino - guitar and Davide Fabrizio - drums, have worked together to release one of the best progressive / doom metal albums of the Year: Echoes of Winter. Inspired by the endless winter that darkens the judgment of mortals when it collapses on the still-reclaimed ground, and accompanied by the delicate sound of Sforza's voice, only to transcend three-dimensionally into growl vocals, more like a storm of burning ashes, and the guitar's sorrowful riffs tamed by Luca's gentle yet colder hand, these are some of the reasons why Veil of Conspiracy cought my interest. And as music brings us togheter, around the fireplace, in our longest wint...