1 Up with The Last Martyr's Vin

The Last Martyr are Melbourne's newest melodic metal sensation and on August 9th will released their new EP 'Creatrix" officially in North America. 

The band's previous singles ‘Into The Black’, ‘Stay Awake’ and ‘Fear’ saw the band achieve national radio play on Triple j (Stay Awake on both The Racket and Home and Hosed) and rotation on The Faction. ‘Stay Awake’ also attracted the attention of Butcher Babies’ Heidi, who added them to her ‘Sisters That Slay’ playlist alongside the world’s best female voices in heavy music.

Check them out on Bandcamp.

Glacially Musical: My first system was a pong clone, the yellow and black Odessey 300. What was your first Console?

1 Up with Casket Robbery's Troy Powell

Casket Robbery

Wisconsin has some pretty cool stuff up there. New Glarus Brewing for one...

There's also a goodly number of great metal bands and Casket Robbery is definitely one of them. 

Check out their BANDCAMP for an expanded edition of their EP, The Ascension.

Now let's talk video games!

Glacially Musical: My first system was a pong clone, the yellow and black Odessey 300. What was your first Console?

Troy: The first console I ever played was the Super Nintendo. My friends showed me Super Mario and I got hooked. But the first Console I actually owned was the original Playstation.

1 Up With Forever Autumn

Honestly, it's been a minute since we've heard from Forever Autumn.

They're acoustic doom or neo folk.

If that's got you curious...check out their BANDCAMP page. Head into their woods. You'll be glad you did.

But of course.

Let's get to the meat of this and the total antithesis of this band....electronic games.

Glacially Musical: My first system was a pong clone, the yellow and black Odessey 300. What was your first Console?

When I waes a little girl, my grandmother had an Atari 2600 that all of us kids would play.  I remember in 1980-something when she brought home the NES and how in awe we were of this amazing technology.  

1 Up with Hosemen

Hosemen

If you're anything like me, right now your entire family is sitting in the sweet (not cheap) seats watching the St. Louis Baseball Cardinals, St. Louis's second best team. 

Yeah, I took the shot...do somethin' so called Best Fans In Baseball!

They're at the stadium, and I'm sitting at home listening to Iron god damned Maiden's Book of Souls live record...

And please don't tell my daughter...this is her favorite Iron Maiden album and she'd be straight pissed if she knew I was spinning it without her.

So, I'm doing my best to drink too much beer tonight for medical reasons and catch up on all these interviews I have to transcribe and publish. So many amazing bands have gotten back to me, and I'm still working on getting through.

Today, we're checking in with Stamford, CT's Hosemen. Am I alone in thinking that this is the Hoitiest of Toity cities?

Is it even a city? Anyway, Hosemen get on that stage and punish their guitars for you.

Find out why on BANDCAMP.

Now, let's talk video games, natch.

1 Up with Blaine Gordon of War Curse

War Curse

In case no one has told you lately, Thrash isn't dead.

In fact it's remained so metal that it's basically eating other genres alive. If you find yourself needing more and more thrash metal, don't worry, because Ohio's got you, my friend.

From those reddened shores of landlocked excess comes War Curse.

It has to be said that your ears must come into contact with their newest record. You can pick up Education on CD or LP over at the SVART Records page.

Now, let's find out how they game.

Glacially Musical: My first system was a pong clone, the yellow and black Odyssey 300. What was your first Console?

The original NES.