Keenan Oakes is no stranger to the Cape Town metal scene, having fronted seminal death metallers, The Horror Cast and now handling bass and vocal duties for one of the more innovative bands on the Cape Town metal scene, Heathens. Below he shares his views on the Cape Town metal scene, and more exclusively, bands
Balyios is a relatively young and unknown band on the South African metal scene, having only formed in 2010. Nonetheless, they are making waves and gaining cred with their melodic folk metal that sounds like it fell straight from the skies of Finland (and not the flats of Pretoria, Balyios’ home). André Venter of Tyrannic
My weekend at Thornfest 2011 in Gauteng Province was a bit of a blur, I must admit. I arrived with co-pilot Karen (she was watching for road signs – while I was watching for potholes) and hospitality-manager Donovan (operating the cooler box) on Thursday sometime after dark and we dug into the party vibe straight
With the coming of Crow Black Sky's debut album launch this coming Saturday (18 Dec, 2010) at ROAR in Observatory, Cape Town, we thought it a nice opportunity to have a chat with the guys. Besides introducing this relatively new name on the scene to our readers, we wanted to also acquire a little insight into what we can expect from the album, 'Pantheion'
On behalf of M4A, Tyrannic Assault went in pursuit of this legendary guitar meistro from Sweden during his SA visit. Although there was no time to conduct an interview during that time, Mattias welcomed an interview via email
With one of Cape Town metal's most premier calendar dates just days away, we decided to go in and get some inside info on WHIPLASH
METAL4AFRICA brings an account of the recent Ensiferum tour to South Africa as a conversation piece between two locals: Tyranic Assault (official tour photographer) and Steven (Keyboardist for Riddare Av Koden). Words by Andre Venter of Tyranic Assault, on behalf of
Whilst "on the road" during the M4A 2010 Promo Tour via Johannesburg, we were fortunate enough to squeeze in a few meetings with some interesting players in the local metal community... one of which was Emalyth! The purpose of our visit was to discover more about what Emalyth represents - to meet the team - and to explore the bigger picture behind this growing entity that now forms a part of the South African alternative landscape. Since that day we have remained in touch and would now like to share some of what we've learned, and how Emalyth and M4A hold many of the same ideals and common goals
We caught up with William Bishop on August 7th, at this years Oppikoppi Festival. It was hard to pin him down... between the 5 stage appearances he was committed to with various bands and musicians, but we found him eventually. Best known amongst Metallers as the rowdy bassist for Architechture Of Aggression, William reveals to us some of his other musical pursuits and philosophies
On the eve of WinterFest'10, just three weeks away and the line-up already well known, it was my duty to start chasing down some of the bands to gather interviews. I finally got the boys of Mind Assault cornered so that they could give me the low down on the scene and it's movements as seen from their point of view
