Showing posts with label Power From Hell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Power From Hell. Show all posts

Monday, May 13, 2019

Power From Hell Interview


1.Can you give us an update on what has been going on with the band since the recording of the new album?

Sodomic - We're promote the album in different ways, we shottwo music videos and we have some gigs in Mexico and U.S.A between July/ August


2.In June you have a new album coming out, musically how does it differ from the stuff you have released in the past?

Sodomic - Almost everything, lyric themes, riffs, cover art, and of course the way that the band sounds here,  this is an album more poetic and conceptual than others.


3.Some of your lyrics cover Occult themes, can you tell us a little bit bit about your interest in Occultism?

Sodomic - We're always looking for something inside us or outside so to all this things and lack of answers I usually call it "Occultism" and I'm a person addicted on "unknown" so these themes are very important to me.


4.What are some of the other lyrical topics and subjects you have explored over the years with your music?

Sodomic - The power of human flesh, sexuality, lust, moral beliefs, etc...


5.I know that the band was named after an 'Onslaught' album, how does this name fit in with the musical style that you play?

Sodomic - Yeah the name of the band is a reference to the first Onslaught's album, I was a young kid with 18yo when I started the band and that time basically I was hearing this album all the time so the choose of the name was very natural to me, it's a classic album that had an influence in our two first records after that, the only thing in our band that reminds Onslaught is the name because our song is far far away from the song that they did back in the day, are totally different styles, and I think that the name delivery the message, the people heard or reading it and probably in the same time they know what it's about.


6.Can you tell us a little bit more about the artwork that is presented on the new album cover?

Sodomic - The cover artwork was made by Wellington Backer a friend of mine here in Brazil since the last 20 years, the idea behind the art was to show an specie of unrealistic hell a chaos place with a terrible evil presence in the middle like a "evil supreme being" that is what the giant monster in the cover represent to us, the cover is related with all the different forms of evil torment that the humans beings have in real life and our characters have inside the lyrics of album.


7.What are some of the best shows that the band has played over the years and also how would you describe your stage performance?

Sodomic - It's hard to say or choose some specific shows, but our fist show in Los Angeles in 2016 was wild as all ours gigs in South America also, on stage we try put all our energy and hate feelings in that moment, the audience identifies with this and they know when it's true.


8.Do you have any touring or show plans once the new album is released?

Sodomic - As I said before we have Mexico and U.S.A between July/August.


9.The new album is coming out on 'High Roller Records', can you tell us a little bit more about this label?

Sodomic - It's a label that doesn't work with a lot of black metal bands so along side with the good proposal that they offered to us I have no doubts that this will be a good experience to both side.


10.On a worldwide level how has the reaction been to your music by fans of black, thrash and speed metal?

Sodomic - I would say that the reactions are very good, we have followers in South America , North America , Europe, Asia, we get a lot of support of different headbangers around the world.

11.What is going on with some of the other bands or musical projects these days that some of the band members are a part of?

Sodomic - Beside P.F.H me, the bass player and the guitar player we have a Death Metal band and our drummer plays in a lot of different bands of extreme metal here in Brazil.


12.Where do you see the band heading into musically during the future?

Sodomic - We want to keep the released albums and touring this is the main plan for now.

13.What are some of the bands or musical styles that have had an influence on your newer music and also what are you listening to nowadays?

Sodomic - Bathory always will be for me the most important extreme metal band of all time, if I chose the name of the band inspired on Onslaught of course that the song and lyrics was totally inspired on the Bathory era 84-88, in nowadays we admire a lot bands like Mgla, Ascencion, Cult of fire, etc...


14.Before we wrap up this interview, do you have any final words or thoughts?

Sodomic - Yeah, if you reader likes to traditional Black Metal with all the elements needed for the genre so our new album is for you I hope that you guys join us and to contemplate the most PROFOUND EVIL PRESENCE!!!


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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Power From Hell/Profound Evil Presence/High Roller Records/2019 Full Length Review


  Power  From  Hell  are  a  band  from  Brazil  that  plays  a  mixture  of  modern  black  and  thrash  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2019  album  "Profound  Evil  Presence"  which  will  be  released  in  June  by  High  Roller  Records.

  A  very  dark  sounding  intro  starts  off  the  album  along  with  some  synths  and  classical  guitars  while  demonic  spoken  word  parts  can  also  be  heard  briefly  before  going  into  a  heavier  musical  direction.  Elements  of  thrash  can  also  be  heard  quite  a  bit  throughout  the  recording  ans  the  vocals  are  mostly  grim  sounding  black  emtal  screams.

  When  the  music  speeds  up  a  great  amount  of  blast  beats  and  tremolo  picking  can  be  heard  which  also  gives  the  songs  more  of  a  raw  feeling.  Throughout  the  recording  you  can  also  hear  a  great  mixture  of  slow,  mid  paced  and  fast  parts  along  with  all  of  the  musical  instruments  having  a  very  powerful  sound  to  them.

  A  decent  amount  of  melody  can  also  be  heard  in  the  guitar  riffing  along  with  the  solos  and  leads  also  using  a  decent  amount  of  melody.  The  music  also  mixes  in  influences  from the  first,  second  wave  and  modern  eras  of  black  metal  in  their  musical  style  and  as  the  album  progresses  a  brief  use  of  clean  playing  can  also  be  heard.  The  production  sounds  very  professional  while  the  lyrics  cover  Occultism and  Darkness  themes.

  In  my  opinion  Power  From  Hell  are  a  very  great  sounding  modern  mixture  of  black  and  thrash  metal  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of   those  musical  genres,  you  should  check  out  this  band.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "When  Night  Falls"  "Unholy  Dimension"  "Diabolical  Witchcraft"  and  "Demons  of  the  Night".  8/5  out  of  10.

https://youtu.be/VgNPvNisVb8