Distorted Sound Magazine: Issue 121

Issue 121 of Distorted Sound Magazine is now available!

Well, festival season is here and its in full swing! Across all aspects of heavy music, the best time of year is here and we are living for it! And to accompany this wonderful time, it’s been another staggering month for quality new music.

I’m stoked to welcome THE CALLOUS DAOBOYS to our cover for the very first time. After making major waves in 2022 with Celebrity Therapist, as they double down on the excellent I Don’t Want To See You In Heaven, we welcome one of the unique sounds of heavy music to our cover as we dive into their next bold chapter!

Elsewhere, we welcome back shock rock icon WEDNESDAY 13, Swedish masters of melancholic metal KATATONIA, and feature new interviews with the likes of TETRARCH, EPICA, LORD BELIAL and CRYPTOPSY! Plus, we report from the spiritual home of black metal, Norway, where we experienced this year’s Inferno Metal Festival, and have a heap of new reviews to get stuck into. Enjoy!

James Weaver – Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Distorted Sound Magazine: Issue 121 cover

DS121 Contents

  • 1 Cover
  • 4 Editor’s Note
  • 5 Contents
  • 6-7 DS Photography Showcase
  • 10-13 INTRODUCING: Higher Walls
  • 14-17 INTRODUCING: Cwfen
  • 18-21 HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: From Under The Cork Tree – Fall Out Boy
  • 22-25 The Wildhearts
  • 26-29 Nite
  • 30-35 Wednesday 13
  • 36-39 GhostSeeker
  • 42-47 The Callous Daoboys (COVER)
  • 48-51 Tetrarch
  • 52-55 Beddy Rays
  • 56-59 Lord Belial
  • 60-63 Dawn Of Ouroboros
  • 64-67 EYES
  • 68-73 Katatonia
  • 74-77 Cryptopsy
  • 78-81 Epica
  • 82-89 FESTIVAL REVIEW: Inferno Metal Festival 2025
  • 90-93 Lead Album Reviews
  • 98-105 Filler Album Reviews

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James Weaver

Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Distorted Sound Magazine; established in 2015. Reporting on riffs since 2012.