Sotiris Anunnaki V. from the symphonic death metal band SEPTICFLESH spoke to Metal Oda on the verge of their İstanbul concert to be held on February 16, 2024. The concert venue is IF Beşiktaş and the concert is organized by Vera Müzik and Black Label Events.
This Lovecraftian short story “Somnium” by the young and talented writer Can Giray Velioğlu is on metaloda.com: discover the dark and nightmarish universe he has created, full of vivid and genuine characters. All illustrations by Can.
16 yaşındaki genç yazar Can Giray Velioğlu’nun, H.P. Lovecraft evreninden kopup gelmiş ve mükemmel bir İngilizce ile kaleme alınmış “Somnium” adlı karanlık, cehennemi ve fantastik öyküsüne metaloda.com‘da yer verdik. İllüstrasyonlarının da Can’a ait olduğu “Somnium”, ağzınıza layık bir okuma olarak sayfamızda.
Birmingham: the birthplace of heavy metal music, where the legendary bands Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Duran Duran were formed and where the greatest story teller and philologist J.R.R Tolkien was raised.. The second major UK city where the industrial revolution started and which has seen the birth of Watt Steam Engine. Some members of the famous rock band Led Zeppelin and metal bands Napalm Death and Godflesh all originate from Birmingham, not forgetting UB40 and Steve Winwood.
Metal Oda and the Classical Music Clinic met once again on Clubhouse, exploring the subject of “Death” in heavy metal and in classical music. The subject of death is a popular one in music and literature and as the two best music clubs in their specific genres, we have come up with rich and deep content from different composers and metal bands.
Turkish power metal band Saints’N’Sinners released their second album entitled ‘Rise of the Alchemist’ in April with their own record label SNS Records. The first singles from the album caused a sensation in the genre when they started to appear on digital platforms. It seems like Deniz Tuncer who wrote the lyrics and the music keeps the secrets to the ancient science of alchemy and has the power to turn “metal” into gold, as Saints’N’Sinners made one of the most outstanding power/melodic metal albums of 2022 so far.
Amorphis, the melodic death metal masters from Finland, released their new album HALO in February 2022. As I was suffering from Covid-19 in February, the issue of this article was postponed to March. Like the previous albums of the band “Tales from the Thousand Lakes”(1994), “Tuonela”(1999) and the “Skyforger” (2009) HALO is about the Kalevala, the Finnish mythological epic. HALO topped the Finnish metal charts as soon as it was released in February. Now it is the right time to take a closer look at this spectacular album.
Shocking, unsettling and obscene are the poems by Till Lindemann, lead vocalist of industrial metal band Rammstein.
Annabel Lee
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.