The News Review:

- An Interview With Dan of Autumns Eyes
- Using darkness to see the light
- Christian band’s album about struggles

An Interview With Dan of Autumns Eyes
Metal Underground MD -
They are trying to get a feel and one up the next band it seems like they are all in competition to be louder and scream harder than everyone else and they are losing focus on the music. You know that whole loudness war I brought up before I pay a lot of attention to what bands are writing and recording up here. A lot of bands are more concerned with if their music is louder than the next metal bands than about the quality of the music. A lot of bands are trying to copy other bands that they here. Bands that are getting into black metal for the first time well their knowledge of black metal is limited to the last two Dimmu Borgir or Cradle of Filth albums. They don?t know anything about Mayhem or Burzum. They just take what they got off the shelf in the last two or three years and call it black metal.

Using darkness to see the light
Jerusalem Post Israel -
“I’m not sure how to explain it to someone who doesn’t know all these sub-genres maybe dark atmospheric metal. But if someone doesn’t know the difference it doesn’t matter they can still enjoy it” he says from his home in a soft-spoken voice that belies his guttural yowls when he sings. “We don’t really describe our music as doom metal – it’s more like a combination of gothic and doom metal. We’ve been traveling on both musical directions ever since we started. It was after the Millennium when we started focusing on more of a slower doomier sound. But we’re getting back to our goth roots. riginally formed in 1994 Draconian has always been about emotion and the band’s fourth album Turning Season Within reflects its ability to combine ornate passages featuring Johansson’s vocals with walls of darkish riffs and violent vocal interludes to create a fusion that is as jarring as it is enticing.

Christian band’s album about struggles
South Bend Tribune (subscription) IN -
After all heavy metal is the music genre made famous by performers such as zzy sbourne. For many Christians sbourne is the definition of the godlessness of rock music. However in a deeper sense it is not surprising that artists strive to put the Christian message in heavy metal music. After all contemporary Christian music has made room for rap and rock. “There is something about any genre that demands an emotional reaction” Keech says. “And any heavy music that requires the artist to use everything that is within you to create a sound is something that kids relate to. “Keech adds that Christian metal music has one thing in common with its secular counterpart both speak to a generation of children who feel alienated.
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