WHAT’S INSIDE
DISTORTED SOUND MAGAZINE
DISTORTED SOUND MAGAZINE
EDITORS NOTE
JAMES WEAVER
JESSICA HOWKINS
Happy new year! 2017 was a killer year for heavy music and one month into the new year, it is fair to
say that 2018 is shaping up very nicely indeed. And what better way to kickstart the new year with a
band that needs no introduction; MACHINE HEAD. Arriving with their most daring and bold effort yet, the
Oakland metallers are ready to set the world alight and we got the inside scoop with the charismatic
Robb Flynn to get the lowdown on their brand new album.
Whilst MACHINE HEAD may steal your attention (and quite rightly too), we've got tons of great stuff
packed in our first issue of the new year. We've got the likes of Oriental metallers ORPHANED LAND
who are searching for peace in a time of chaos, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY are back with their brand
new opus thanks to a recharged and revitalised lineup, HEIDEVOLK are spinning a talk of folk metal
goodness and we dive into the realm of fantasy with the reserved but excellent SUMMONING. Also,
from PHIL CAMPBELL & THE BASTARD SONS, AVATAR, TRIBULATION, VALIS ABLAZE, HARM'S WAY and
much more, this first issue of 2018 for Distorted Sound is absolutely stacked. Get stuck in!
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DISTORTED
SOUND
TEAM
EDITORIAL
WRITERS
JAMES WEAVER
LAURA McCARTHY
PERRAN HELYES
EDDIE SIMS
SABRINA RAMDOYAL
JESSICA HOWKINS
DAN McHUGH
ELLIOT LEAVER
DEAN MARTIN
JAKK SMITH
PHOTOGRAPHERS
TODD WEBB
BECKY CALLAGHAN
KAYLEIGH ELSON
ABBEY PLUMB
TASHA SHIPSTON
CHRISTOPHER RYAN
HANNAH COLE
RHYS HABERFIELD
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EMILY COULTER
AYPRIL LOINES
FRAN DIGNON
EVA PARKINSON
TIM FINCH
SERENA HILL
ZOE HARRIS
JAMIE VANN-WATSON
JORDAN DARBY
Alan Faulkner
Henry Jones
Sam Dignon
Charlotte Whittingham
James Halstead
Robert Bieganski
Molly Kemp
Tim Redman
David Creamer
Mark McConville
Jack Fermor-Worrell
Laura Geraghty
Andrew Rennie
Matt Corcoran
Shaun Brown
Fred Eyre
Julia Ward
Jon White
Luke Bell
Jimmy Dean
Connor Sanders
James Croft
Jack King
Josie Faulkner
Sam Alberti
Harriet Anderson
Fraser Wilson
Stephen Fallows
Sophie Maughan
Nick Dunn
Christopher Harding
FEATURES
REVIEWS
6 - Staff Choice Cuts Corrosion of Conformity - 68
8 - Valis Ablaze
Watain - 69
12 - Orphaned Land
Of Mice & Men - 70
18 - Heidevolk
Machine Head - 71
22 - Avatar
Album Fillers - 72
26 - Summoning
Batushka - 78
32 - Tribulation
Canvas - 79
36 - Bloodshot Dawn
Dawn Ray’d - 80
40 - Machine Head
Krupskaya - 81
48 - Dawn Ray’d
Dawn Ray’d - 82
54 - Harms Way
Schammasch - 83
58 - Corrosion of Conformity Unyielding Love - 84
64 - Phil Campbell & the Bastard Sons Watain - 85
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