Elliot Leaver, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

You can’t do things by halves nowadays in metal: the industry is so cutthroat that unless a band throws everything

ALBUM REVIEW: In Moment // In Memory – Our Hollow, Our Home

Releasing an album barely eighteen months after your last is one thing; to do so off the back of a

They say two’s company and three’s a crowd, but try telling that to AMARANTHE. The Swedes are now a decade

AMARANTHE have managed to steer their ship through choppy waters recently with surprising ease; despite losing founder member Jake Lundberg at the

Given the status that the UK has on music as a whole across the world, it’s a rare sight to

There is something oddly satisfying about a band who, like clockwork, release an album every two or three years apart.

With the summer well and truly behind us, this is officially Gig Season; the bands coming through the UK are

Ah, October. Halloween, autumn leaves and, as made clear tonight, the cue for the weather to drop by a few

Finland’s POETS OF THE FALL are arguably one of the country’s best kept musical secrets. Formed in 2003, they’ve slowly

Ahead of their upcoming UK tour with HIGH ON FIRE, Distorted Sound sat down with ENSLAVED bassist Ivar Bjørnson to discuss touring in all its shapes