Category Archives: The Player’s Room

Voices of Metal will return for a new installment this Wednesday with a whole new slate of brutal axe grinders. Check out the video below for more information. Know a guitarist you think should be on Voices of Metal? Let us know in the comments below.

Last week in our continuing search for brutal tone, we talked with Suffocation’s bass player Derek Boyer. In this weeks edition, we turn to Guy Marchais, the brutally fast guitarist for Suffocation. How did you get started playing guitar? “I started playing guitar when I was 16, so about 27 years ago. I was always…

On our continuing search for brutal and heavy tone we turn to Emil Alstermark of October Tide to find out how he achieves his expansively dark tone. Tell us about your band October Tide. “Well, the band history is a story to be told by Fred since he’s the only original member of October Tide,…

Each week, we go on a search for some of the hardest hitting and brutalest heavy metal we can find. In this weeks edition of Voices of Metal, we turn away from the guitar and turn towards the brutal stylings of Suffocation’s bass player Derek Boyer. From Long Island, New York – Suffocation has defined…

Siberia is known as a large remote expanse of the earth that is unforgivingly cold. Even among this cold landscape, there can be hard metal with a brutal tone. This week we discover dedication, drive and death metal in Siberia with Dmitry Sukhinin of Defect Designer. In 2007 Defect Designer started with their 4-track promo…