A long long time ago, in a galaxy far away, metal was a place where you smoked dope, drank bourbon, got laid and then woke up the following day and did it all again. Today the relationship between drugs and metal exists but it’s more profound, more acute. Bands like Kryophere make a kind of … READ MORE
Kryophere is a Welsh young beast on wheels that appeared out of nowhere at the dawn of this year’s summer with their debut album Hiraeth (“longing” in Welsh). They have a multi-layered sound blending various references from melodic and technical death metal to hardcore and infuse groovy elements alongside a sense of atmosphere that overruns … READ MORE
Wales might be mostly known for coal mines, Gaelic and small villages but this place also manages to produce bands that make it big. Kryophere makes me think of… I don’t know what. There is something so familiar to their techno-death(?) that it starts to get annoying. I shouldn’t really like it but somehow I … READ MORE
Every so often a band comes along out of the blue that throws you right off your track. UK metallers Kryophere were one of those bands – an innocuous email received in our inbox pricked our attention enough to check out their latest video, which we duly did, and immediately fell in love with these … READ MORE
Kryophere are being played on BBC Radio Wales Adam Walton’s show TONIGHT, so make sure you tune in between 10pm and 1am to catch one of the most prominent and influential heavy metal artists to grace the welsh hills this year. Every Sunday night at 10:00 PM, Adam Walton is live from Wrexham with his … READ MORE
If there were still any active volcanoes in Wales, along with ash and molten lava, Kryophere would most definitely also be expelled. They’re large, attention grabbing and oh so volatile sounding in their spanking new debut album, Hiraeth. But what makes them so different from other metal bands? At first impressions it seems not much. … READ MORE
This Cardiff-based and strangely monikered act delivers an ambitious and eclectic debut album, throwing elements of death, industrial, thrash and even nu-metal into a framework that for the most part fits the deathcore standards, however the end result seems a bit more confused than it does inventive. The effort to make their growls and screams … READ MORE
Death Metal can be a lot of fun to listen to at times, with it’s loud sound, fast beats, heavy lyrics, and vocals that scream out at you, it’s hard not to have enough energy in the songs to get people moving. For the most part this is exactly what you get with the band … READ MORE
Listen to Hiraeth HERE: http://altsounds.com/kryopherehiraeth/ A ferocious mixture of speed, hardcore, technical and death-infused groove metal, ‘Hiraeth’ certainly has a dark, sickly side that blurs edges; dulls the senses. – Metalteamuk.net It’s ruthless and mean. Is it masochistic to be so in love with an album so full of hate? – AltSounds.com Looking for full-on … READ MORE
Golwg, which is Welsh for ‘view’, is one of Wales’ leading glossy Welsh language weekly magazine, which covers an array of topics, ranging from news, to the arts, to sports, to music. It boasts a readership of 12,000 every month, which is the largest circulation of any magazine in Wales. Kryophere were approached to be … READ MORE
