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    Tag: Doom

    Goodbye Ozzy Osbourne of Birmingham, a square peg in a world full of round holes!

    People who have lost someone close will tell you that no matter how much we prepare for the end, it’s still a shock. Ozzy was purportedly telling… Read more “Goodbye Ozzy Osbourne of Birmingham, a square peg in a world full of round holes!”

    23rd Jul 202524th Jul 2025 by oldmansmettle

    Rob ‘Mid’ Middleton ( DEVIATED INSTINCT, BAIT, SPINEWRENCH, HAAVAT ) talks illustration, Norse mythology, 1980s recording studios, Norwegian Black Metal, budget distortion pedals, and cats.

    Were you about in the mid-to-late ’80s punk scene, supergluing patches on your tattered trousers, tramping the streets in para-boots to the soundtrack of underproduced cassette demos… Read more “Rob ‘Mid’ Middleton ( DEVIATED INSTINCT, BAIT, SPINEWRENCH, HAAVAT ) talks illustration, Norse mythology, 1980s recording studios, Norwegian Black Metal, budget distortion pedals, and cats.”

    25th Dec 20225th Sep 2024 by oldmansmettle

    Tregor Russo of DIONISYAN on new album ‘The Last Millenium’, the Ars Antiqua, Sicilian villages, Italian Traditionalism, and what’s wrong with the modern world.

    If you like your doom to be neoclassical, dark, romantic, yet with vocals like rumbling thunder, then Tregor Russo is your man. Releasing three ornate, multi-textured albums… Read more “Tregor Russo of DIONISYAN on new album ‘The Last Millenium’, the Ars Antiqua, Sicilian villages, Italian Traditionalism, and what’s wrong with the modern world.”

    12th Jan 202217th Feb 2022 by oldmansmettle

    Paul ‘Hammerskull’ Lennon of ARCHDRUID talks 70s Doom, Medieval Reenactment, and running an Asatru Kindred…

    Ah, pagan doom…..the sound of castles, burial mounds, clinking steel, felt kick-drum beaters, 70s vocal effects and lo-fi recording techniques that filter out all but the truest… Read more “Paul ‘Hammerskull’ Lennon of ARCHDRUID talks 70s Doom, Medieval Reenactment, and running an Asatru Kindred…”

    24th Apr 202125th Apr 2021 by oldmansmettle

    RYAN of NATUR talks Old Metal, flying beer, and holding down the front row.

    Over the summer we managed to grab a talk with Ryan of NATUR, a thrash / doom / metal act with a very good ear for balancing… Read more “RYAN of NATUR talks Old Metal, flying beer, and holding down the front row.”

    9th Nov 202016th Dec 2021 by oldmansmettle

    PETE NASH ( DOOM, EXTREME NOISE TERROR ) talks Crust Punk, three stringed basses, his secret eco-project CORVUS, haunted battlefields, and the hermit life.

    What do crust punk superstars do when they are done with it all? They tramp off to the southwest and become a hermit, that’s what. Pete Nash,… Read more “PETE NASH ( DOOM, EXTREME NOISE TERROR ) talks Crust Punk, three stringed basses, his secret eco-project CORVUS, haunted battlefields, and the hermit life.”

    21st Dec 20195th Sep 2024 by oldmansmettle

    Jimmy Petkoff of RAVEN BLACK NIGHT talks Big Muffs, Guitars, and Kylie Minogue.

    Hailing from Australia and with years of guitar playing under his belt, I only heard Jimmy Petkoff’s band RAVEN BLACK NIGHT a couple of years back, and… Read more “Jimmy Petkoff of RAVEN BLACK NIGHT talks Big Muffs, Guitars, and Kylie Minogue.”

    18th Oct 201925th Jan 2021 by oldmansmettle
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