All posts by Sarmad Ahmed

“Rise up, Sons of Salem! Your Mothers have cursed you at birth! The dead will inherit the earth!” A band that stays true to the raw guts of what extreme music represents is the band that prevails, regardless of what they have to play. The fancy ol’ [...]

When I first started delving into the realms of Satanism a few years ago, what I interpreted it to be was an open defiance to the institutions of organized religion. While that may not be wrong, it did happen to represent so much more; realism, freedom of [...]

“In this after. Emptiness. Always nothing. Consciousness. Now that I have you right where I want you to be. Giving you new breath. Raven again flying free.” Earthless is easily one of the biggest psychedelic rock bands of the 21st century. Riffing their [...]

Hello me mateys! Gather around and grab an ale, for today we parley about the new swashbucklers walking the plank, Rumahoy! Rumahoy, (“hell yeah, we found alcohol guys!”, for those of you who don’t speak the pirate tongue), is one of the debut bands [...]

Slipknot has been notorious in the scene since 1999, shattering every stage they set foot on from the days of the “Sic” red jumpsuits to the black clad nine piece grooving to ‘Custer”. And now after 5 studio albums and a massive near psychotic fan [...]

Female fronted metal bands, regardless of  how popular in the scene today, still are minorities in a male dominated sphere. But it doesn’t matter what goes where, because Butcher Babies really don’t give a shit (no really, they don’t) as long as you have [...]

Instru-Metal has always been the underdog through the generations of metal scenes that the world has witnessed. While bands with front people and vocals dominated the spotlight, the instrumental component of heavy metal took it’s time in building a [...]

  Metal Wani’s Editor in Chief Owais ‘Vitek’ Nabi and Sarmad Ahmad caught up with Chrigel Glanzmann, frontman of folk metal juggernauts Eluveitie. He discusses the upcoming acoustic album ‘Evocation II: Pantheon’ (Read [...]