Nick Licata, Matt Albers The term “progressive” is thrown around a lot these days. In politics, in culture, and of course, in music. While the word suggest a forward-thinking or postmodern mindset, the concept is by no means new. In the world of heavy metal, one of the bands most cited for spearheading progressive elements…
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Band Interview: War Of Ages
Matt Albers, Nick Licata Music has always had a historical connotation to faith, spirituality, and religion in certain cases. Rock, metal, and hardcore are no exceptions. To the outside perspective, it has become stereotypically cliché to immediately associate forms of loud rock with Satanism. But in 2016, just about any subgenre of aggressive music can…
Photo Gallery: Children Of Bodom, Havok, Final Drive at The Ready Room (St. Louis, MO)
Matt Albers Damnation followers are well aware of our passion expressing the importance of various metal and other loud rock tours playing a date in our home market in St. Louis, MO. Local fans often voice their concern that few national or North American tours stop in our city, especially those featuring international artists. This…
Band Interview: Warbringer
Matt Albers Ask any die-hard metal fan from just about any time period which movement of their favorite genre of music was the most important, and chances are pretty good that they’ll at least mention the thrash movement of the 1980s. The speed, ferocity, and aggression of the music, coupled with dark, vivid lyrics of…
Band Interview: Epica
Matt Albers One of Europe’s strongest contributing scenes to metal in the past two decades has been all of the female-fronted symphonic metal acts. Bands that formed in the mid 1990s like Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Lacuna Coil started a movement of strong, beautiful, operatic female vocals and neo-classical symphonic elements juxtaposed over driving heavy metal guitar…
Band Interview: Nekrogoblikon
Matt Albers I don’t want to simply copy and paste my introduction from my last belated, overdue entry. But, if you read Angel’s interview with The Sword bassist Bryan Richie – as well as Nick’s photo gallery of their set at The Ready Room with Royal Thunder – the transition from the end of one year to the…
Photo Gallery: Nekrogoblikon, Lyluth, Absala at The Firebird (St. Louis, MO)
Matt Albers As Nick mentioned in his recently published interview with The Sword bassist Bryan Richie – as well as his corresponding photo gallery of their show at The Ready Room with Royal Thunder – the end of the year-beginning of the year transition is a bit rough for us here at Damnation Magazine. All…
Band Interview: The Sword
So December is a pretty crazy month for us at Damnation, as it is for most magazines and record labels. Our December is quite different, we don’t get to go to as many metal shows that month. Not because we don’t want to, believe us, if we could go to all the shows we wanted…
