Back then, he had released the first album “Denied by Reign” and while you could head-bang to it, there were a few things that could have sounded better, like the drums. “Nightmares by Design” has a much better production and also steps into more “thrashy” than “deathy” lands — the album’s opening song, “Foretold Revelation” leaves a “Master of Puppets” feeling with its acoustic guitar. While I am a big fan of Death metal, this change of style also makes everything sound better to me.

This time Jono got some help to keep the project going with 3 musicians joining the band. This enabled Severed Fifth to pass from the studio to the stages and they are giving some concerts in California.

So let’s all hope that Severed Fifth keeps succeeding.
If this sounds good, go listen to Severed Fifth and check out how you can help the band record their next album.

In the middle of this past week we returned to Coruña as we had stuff to take care of but yesterday we went with our friends Victor, Edu and his wife Silvia to the “Festival de Pardiñas”, a very Galician folk music that started 30 years ago. We were supposed to spend the night in the camp but it had been raining a lot and the humidity and mud convinced us it was better to take the invitation of Silvia’s friend Fernando and sleep at his home which was 10 minutes from there.
The music was nice, we were late for the first band and tired for the last one but we could watch the great performances of “La Belle Image Fanfare” (France) and “Hedningarna” (Sweden). Although I think everyone of my party liked the French folks much more, I really enjoyed “Hedningarna”! Some of its songs reminded me of some metal bands I like from Scandinavia and I think it makes sense…

Now, back at home, I upgraded my WordPress successfully and will watch a movie and relex a bit so I’m all set for tomorrow’s work.

He’s created a solo project – Severed Fifth – a while ago to explore the new way of distributing music and I’ve been following his updates on it.

Today, he released his debut album Denied By Reign which I am gonna listen to right away.

Get your copy here and let your hears enjoy free metal!!

To my surprise there is a 3 page report on the Portuguese Metal scene with an overview on our main metal bands.
They wrote good things about Process of Guilt, a very good doom metal band from my city – Évora.

Great stuff!