Cecil John Rhodes, colonial bastard that he was, fantasized about creating a railway linking "The Cape to Cairo" - a holy grail of trans-continental travel that back in the 19th century would have been at the pinnacle of engineering feats. It never came to be, but now more than a century later, there is a ton of metal that promises to link Egypt and South Africa on a completely different level
From the idyllic setting of a traditionally styled English pub, located near South Africa's Cape Town, we set out on an unlikely journey to explore vast expanses of uncharted science and cosmic mystique. My travel companions included Ruan Jordaan (guitarist) and Thomas Theron (vocalist) of the city's eight-stringed metal phenomenon, Megalodon. With the launch of their debut album only days away, it was time to learn more about the bands origins and to discover what energies have driven Ruan, Thomas, and their band mates, to this point in time and space
I've moaned and groaned about the genre "progressive metal" being thrown around like a university football too many times to count, so when yet another progressive metal band drops into my email inbox I already go into a review with preconceived notions. Not so with Egypt's Anarchy who certainly
Megalodon offers a unique alternative to the long-standing South African sausage-machine production. Falling under a unique genre, their debut album, Darkness in Sonance, offers plenty of variation throughout ten songs, dictating almost an hour of metaphorical terror within a tightly constructed package. Megalodon's ability to perform spectacular live shows coins them as one of South Africa's trump cards!
I first heard of Myrath from a close friend of mine. She had been researching African metal and its reach, and had stumbled across them. The first song she played me had me absolutely enthralled; I didn't realise that such well-written metal was coming from our "Dark Continent". I got in touch with them, and they were all too happy to answer the few questions I could muster.
Sindulgence is a rising star in the local metal scene, which probably has to do with the fact that they are one of the hardest working bands around. They play a unique style of metal that encompasses progressive elements as well as death metal and even some 'core thrown in. In light of their debut Metal4Africa performance at Winterfest in July and their upcoming album launch this weekend, Stentorian got a hold of the sinners and fired off some questions
Rising from the primordial seas of the local metal scene is a new band that has recently gained the attention of many. Megalodon is a five-piece, eight-string slinging experimental groove metal band hailing from Cape Town. Their recent debut show at Metal4Africa’s Summerfest ’12 was highly praised, with a full house of head bangers showing
