Elliot Leaver, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

EP REVIEW: Hot Topic – HANABIE.

Tokyo punk upstarts HANABIE. have made a real name for themselves over the past few years. The self-proclaimed ‘Harajuku-core’ quartet are

You don’t have to look far to find horrors in the world, but what if you had to endure them

Here’s a take that shouldn’t be as hot as some in the metal community will have you think – bands

There is no correct way for a band to handle a member’s passing. Whatever decision they make, chiefly whether they

Alexander von Meilenwald has been performing under the moniker of THE RUINS OF BEVERAST for over twenty years now, and the atmospheric, doom-laden

Nikita Kamprad reaches forward on his desk and picks up a thin, tan coloured book. To any other pair of

British nu-metal upstarts PROFILER are beginning to cause a stir. Born out of the creative mind of Bristol’s Mike Evans, the four

Concept albums are tough. It’s one thing to write a song, let alone a full record, but when you then

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung coined the term ‘wounded physician’ – later evolving to ‘wounded healer’ – not long before his death

There is only one Metal Queen. For over forty years, DORO has sat upon her throne as heavy music’s matriarch of mayhem,