Interviews Tattoo Stories: Employed to Serve’s Justine Jones on First, Most Painful Tattoo March 26, 2019 12:37pm The members of fast-rising U.K. post-hardcore outfit Employed to Serve wear their hearts on their sleeves. The quintet’s last album, 2017’s The Warmth of a Dying Sun, pulls no punches, hitting intense emotional chords with the […]
Interviews Tattoo Stories: Okkultist’s Beatriz Mariano on First, Worst, Most Painful Tattoos March 19, 2019 12:09pm As singer for Portuguese death-metal act Okkultist, Beatriz Mariano is no stranger to extreme expressions — from her powerful, wicked growls to the demonic, blood-spattered theatrics of the band’s latest, eye-catching video “Sign of the […]
Interviews Tattoo Stories: Venom Prison’s Ash Gray on First, Worst, Most Painful Ink March 12, 2019 10:49am Rising U.K. death-metal outfit Venom Prison wear their hearts on their sleeves. The band’s last album, 2016’s Animus, pulls no punches, hitting intense emotional chords with the musicians themselves and their fans alike, and the group’s […]
Interviews Tattoo Stories: Kings Destroy’s Robert Sefcik on First, Worst, Most Painful Tattoos March 5, 2019 1:06pm The title of Brooklyn grunge/doom outfit Kings Destroy’s first full-length in four years, Fantasma Nera, is an Italian term meaning “Black ghost.” For the band members, the phrase serves as a metaphor representing the dark […]
Interviews Tattoo Stories: Wristmeetrazor’s Justin Fornof on First, Worst, Most Painful Tattoos February 26, 2019 2:51pm Screamo revivalists Wristmeetrazor wear their hearts on their sleeves. The band’s new album, Misery Never Forgets, pulls no punches, as heard on the single “In Line for Halos,” an excoriating tell-off to “a person who […]
Interviews Tattoo Stories: Spotlights’ Sarah Quintero on First, Worst, Most Painful Tattoos February 19, 2019 12:52pm It’s been a whirlwind few years for Brooklyn “DreamSludge” crew Spotlights — they’ve been handpicked for tours with the Deftones and Melvins, and signed to Mike Patton’s label Ipecac, which released 2017’s Seismic and 2018’s […]
Interviews Tattoo Stories: Wage War’s Seth Blake on First, Worst, Most Painful Ink February 12, 2019 1:48pm Floridian metalcore outfit Wage War wear their hearts on their sleeves. The band’s last album, 2017’s Deadweight, pulled no punches, hitting intense emotional chords with the musicians themselves and their fans alike, and the group’s […]