Interview: ELUVEITIE

Eluveitie, Lacuna Coil and Infected Rain joined forces for a European tour by the end of 2019. One of their last stops was Oslo, so some hours before the show, we met their vocalist Fabienne Erni, who joined the band in 2017 and already recorded two albums with them, “Evocation II – Pantheon” (2017) and the recently released “Ategnatos” (2019). We discussed all things Eluveitie but also her other projects, her past, childhood, dreams and a lot more!   RISE!: – I guess you haven’t been in such a long…

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Interview: MOONSPELL

Moonspell has recently toured Europe together with Rotting Christ and the Swiss outfit Silver Dust. One of the stops was Oslo, Norway, and RISE! was there, so it was a great opportunity to meet the keyboardist/guitarist Pedro Paixao and discuss their latest album “1755”, the new biography book “Wolves Who Were Men”, his personal opinion on the music business as well as many other topics, even memories from their childhood!   RISE!: – You’ve just released a new biography book called “Wolves Who Were Men”. How did you come up…

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Concert Reviews: ELUVEITIE / LACUNA COIL / INFECTED RAIN at Vulkan Arena (Oslo, Norway)

ELUVEITIE / LACUNA COIL / INFECTED RAIN at Vulkan Arena (Oslo, Norway) Wednesday, December 18, 2019 by Jorge Patacas   When Eluveitie, Lacuna Coil and Infected Rain announced they were going to tour together to promote their respective new albums, fans got really excited and in some cases (Norway included), the tickets went sold out some weeks before the show. The first band who took the stage was Infected Rain. They come from Moldova and built up a name doing everything by themselves, getting a lot of fans around the…

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Interview: HEX A.D.

From Eternal Terror Webzine (https://www.eternal-terror.com): Saturday, 7th of December, we were invited for a listening session at Kniven bar in Oslo where we got the chance to sit down and listen to the upcoming release by the Norwegian riff monster act HEX A.D., named “Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden” and out in the beginning of 2020. Today, December 13th, is also the day when the band releases the first single from the album, “Astro Tongue”. Hopefully this first insight into the upcoming release will transpose you in the same…

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RISE! on Inferno Festival Magazine 2020

Jorge Patacas, editor-in-chief and writer of RISE! has recently been involved in the Inferno Festival Magazine 2020 doing an interview with the Norwegian band VREID who will be playing at the festival this year. The other interviews were conducted by Gunnar Sauermann (Metal Hammer) and Roy Kristensen (Imhotep / Scream Magazine). Check out the online version below! https://issuu.com/infernometalfestival/docs/inferno_mag_2020_lowres_single_pages

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