Articles by Sander van den Driesche

Multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creator, and unrepentant volume addict Timo Ellis from Netherlands talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

Exdestrier are a new progressive blackened sludge band on the underground heavy music scene of Scotland, and are about to unleash the brutal debut EP, Glorious Barbarism. Guitarist/vocalist Tommy Concrete picked 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

Matterhorn Well | Facebook With the help of effect pedals and various playing techniques, Imre De Cauter (Myrddin & Imre De Cauter) and Matthias Dewilde (Nagløed) merge the acoustic and electronic sound worlds. Coincidence, improvisation and minima …

Bruxa Maria | Facebook | Bandcamp Bruxa Maria are back on their third full length; be grateful. Build Yourself A Shrine And Pray is 45 minutes of pummelling, punishing fury as unrelenting and all-consuming as your anger at coming up short for the …

Emerging out of the nordic experimental music scene, Fågelle is a wild collision of lyrical beauty and unhinged, raw expression. Ahead of her new album release next year we asked her about 3 releases that have influenced her a lot.
We talked to power metal band Judicator’s frontman John Yelland about 3 releases that have played a huge part in the making of their new album ‘The Majesty of Decay’.

Irish avant-garde mathrock band God Alone will release their new album ‘ETC’ through Prosthetic Records soon. Check out some of the band’s influences here…

Ryan Michael Patterson | Bandcamp With his latest solo album Apocalypticism, Ryan Michael Patterson (who is also the frontman in brilliant post-punk band Fotocrime and founder and frontman of the similarly brilliant hardcore band Coliseum) has created …

Innerwoud | Website | Facebook | Bandcamp Innerwoud is a one-man-band by Belgian double bass player and composer Pieter-Jan Van Assche. After playing in several bands, from folk to neoclassical, he started to perform mostly solo, giving the double bass …

Mike Sullivan from Chicago based post-rock/post-metal band Russian Circles talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

Ryan Lockheart from Funeral Chic talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

Molder vocalist / guitarist Aaren Pantke talks to us about 3 huge death metal classics that have influenced the Molder sound a lot.

A.A. Williams has been on our radar for a while now, so all the more reason to ask her about 3 releases that have influences her musically.
Drummer/vocalist Alasdair Dunn from Scottish avant-garde black metal band Ashenspire talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

The Bobby Lees drummer Macky talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced them a lot.

Pilgrimage To Pleroma | Facebook | Bandcamp Ashtoreth | Facebook UR is the upcoming collaboration between Pilgrimage to Pleroma (the solo-project of Mattias M. Van Hulle from Pothamus), Ashtoreth (Peter Verwimp), Stratosphere (Ronald Mariën) and Marko …

Abronia are experimental psych six piece based in Portland, Oregon USA. Ahead of the band’s Supersonic Festival appearance we asked them about 3 influential releases.

Volcandra are a melodic black metal band that draws a lot of influence from video games and sci-fi / fantasy fiction. The band’s vocalist Dave Palenske talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced them a lot.

Guitarist Emilio Toreggiani from Italian stoner rock powerhouse Tenebra talks to Echoes and Dust about 3 releases that have influenced the band a lot.

Tómarúm is a US-based atmospheric black metal and technical death metal band who just released their debut album Ash in Realms of Stone Icons on Prosthetic Records. Singer/guitarist Kyle Walburn talks to us about three releases that have influenced him a lot.