Band Interviews

You may think Indy Metal Vault is all about heavy riffs and spooky vocals. But what would heavy metal be without its rock ‘n’ roll roots? The Vault got a chance to chat with Max Hughey, vocalist and lively frontman for one of Indy’s only [...]

Joining the ranks of the Indiana metal community is Bloomington’s metalcore act From Failure’s Ashes. They are a brand new band, and they are getting ready to begin their musical quest to greatness. Since the band’s inception, they have [...]

It wouldn’t be too inaccurate to think Dave Sherman as a legend in the doom metal scene. Having gotten his initial exposure as the bassist/backing vocalist for Wino’s Spirit Caravan, Sherman has come into his own performing various roles over the [...]

Earlier this month, Blyh’s Transparent to the World managed to earn a rare A rating from yours truly, with its combination of black metal of both the furious and introspective varieties. It’s a dense album filled with high-concept ideas, [...]

Three years after the release of their debut full-length The Voice of Reason, local melodic metal band Catalytic are back with a new album, The Fall. It’s the first of two concept albums the band plan on releasing, with the second part, The Rise, [...]

Given the amount of black metal I listen to-and then, more often than not, write about-on a weekly basis, you’d think I’d have become a bit jaded by now. After all, black metal fans do kind of have a reputation for not really [...]

The Doomed and Stoned Festival is just a couple of months away with Saturday night featuring New York’s Geezer! To me, this group is the direction I wish classic 70s rock had progressed if I could have taken out the new wave influences of the 80s [...]

So regular readers of the site have probably picked up on the fact that we tend to be pretty big black metal fans here at the Vault. One of the better black metal albums we’ve heard recently is California-based Nan Elmoth’s most recent [...]