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Interview: With One Word

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With One Word are an up and coming Metalcore band from Switzerland. They play a very aggressive style of Metalcore with a wide range of influences. Recently, Mattowarrior's Metal Madness conducted this interview with them:  How/When did With One Word start? What was the original impetus for the project? Lex: It all started in september 2015 when a friend of mine tagged me on a facebook post from Arran's former band "Bad Blood Behaviour" that said they were looking for a new guitarist. After a first jamsession I brought in Silvan as a second guitarist and we began to write songs together under the new bandname "With One Word" 2. What bands, or even films, games, or even books influenced the project)?  Arran: It's really hard to say which bands influence us, as every bandmember tends to listen to different metal-genres. I feel that Lex's favourite band Avenged Sevenfold certainly has an influence in our music. Personally I ...

Review: Guy Freedom English- American Made

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From the first beginning blast of the song “Scream”, the album American Made jumps out at you out of the speakers like a smooth classic car made in Detroit that has some rust and dirt on it, but in a way almost giving it a charm that a slick, computerized, modern car made on foreign soil would not. From the first song I heard a riff that reminded me of a slightly more modern take on The Stooges if it had Bon Scott on vocals, a punky but retro dynamic that sustains itself through the song. Indeed, it is rare to hear a band nowadays that isn’t doing something retro without sounding extremely calculated in doing so. Guy seems to be doing this in a more natural way than the bands playing occult rock following Ghost or doing Stoner Rock that sounds like an inferior version of the band  Witchcraft from 15 years ago. I immediately was taken by the drums as well, the raw sound almost reminding me of the many singles that came out of the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal. No quantizat...