Powerplay 272 April 2024
INTERVIEWS & SPECIAL FEATURES
A band that has always walked its own path, after experimenting with greater use of rap, alt, and pop on previous album ‘Circles’, San Diego metallers P.O.D. have pared their latest album ‘Veritas’ down to it’s much more Powerplay friendly metal core. “Everything about it is a bit heavier and more in your face,” says frontman Sonny Sandoval. Balance Of Power return with their first album since 2003, Feuerschwanz delight the non-German speaking world with a collection of songs in English, and we talk to new prog metal supergroup Whom Gods Destroy. Also this month are interviews with Gun, Rage, FM, Sonic Universe, Folterkammer, Nonexister, Susan Santos, Revenant, These Wicked Rivers, Final Coil, Deadaudiosaints, and Kaos Krew, plus ahead of talking to Accept next month about the release of their metal as Hell new album ‘Humanoid’ we look back on their essential-for-all-metal-fans back catalogue with an albums ranked feature.
POWERED UP
Alestorm, Gun, Korpiklaani, Tesseract, Gloryhammer, Currents, John 5, Beast In Black, Being As An Ocean, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Heidevolk, Brothers Of Metal, Connor Selby, Unprocessed, Oceans Ate Alaska, The Callous Dauboys, Sentinels.
REGULARS
AOR Underground, Tygerman’s Tales, The New Power Files, Editorial.
POWER PLAYS
Kris Barras Band, Blue Oyster Cult, Sonic Universe, Throne Of Thorns, Khirki, Electron, Feuerschwanz, Fm, Rage, Vulture, Freddy And The Phantoms, Blood Opera, The Neptune Power Federation, Setyoursails.
POWER CUTS
Gun, Dead Reynolds, P.O.D., Ayreon, Ramblin Preachers, Kickin’ Valentina, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Coffin Storm, Sebastian Bach, Korpiklaani, Millhaven, Glitter Wizard, Blaze Bayley, King Zebra, Cigar Box Band, Far Beyond, Art Of Anarchy, Kill The Lights, Anubis, About Us, Marble Ghosts, The Day We Left Earth, Waste A Saint, Deadpeach, Voyager-X, Sunday Factory, The Lunar Effect, Suldusk, Emergency Rule, Meanstreak, Datcha Mandala, Deadaudiosaints, Edit The Tide, Rotting Christ, Heavy Temple, Ashes Of Billy, Pushing Daisy, Electric Deathbeat, Conquest, Transport Aerian, Shores Of Null, Mind Control, Venus, Trafic Jam, Friends Of Hell, Mike Tramp, Moonshot, Revenant, Malphas, Drunken Swallows, Neon Rider, Ecclesia, Factory Of Art, White Dog, Asomvel, Tigers On Opium, Attic Theory, Freedom, Lucassen & Soeterboek’s Plan 9, Greywind, Stone Angels, The Quill, Under A Spell, F.K.U., Ruled By Raptors, Lesbian Bed Death, Tarot, My Dying Bride, Sami Yaffa, Cindy-Louise, Bastion Rose, Planethard, Acerus, Silveroller, Khold, Witherfall, Homecoming, Still Dusk, Apollyon Rising, Graywitch, Pat!I, Loch Vostock, Junkyard Drive, Letters Sent Home, In Autumn, Bristol To Memory, Sad Iron/Burning, Týr, Acid Mammoth, Bif Naked, Thunder, Defects, Cruzh, Traveler, Yllgen, Moonin Down, Misophonia, Omnivide, External, Nemedian Chronicles, Alice Cooper, Todd Grubs, Avi Rosenfeld, Naga Siren, Plush, Nik, Novichok, Nocturna, Ellis Mano Band, The Hate Club, Witchorious, Night King, Max Boogie Overdrive, Lie Heavy, Nebularis, Balance Of Power, Dool, Rik Emmett, Deep Purple, Rear Naked Choke, Brume, Marco Cusato, Tom Mansi And The Icebreakers, Verikalpa, Oz Hawe Petersson’s Rendezvous, Upploppet, Feed My Daemons, Autumnblaze, Haunted, Vanderwolf, Midnite Hellion, Quantum, Folterkammer, Lee Aaron, Desperate Measures, Noel Hussler.