Left to right: Stelios Pavlou, Kostas Salomidis, Vangelis Yalamas

(Today we present Comrade Aleks‘ interview of Kostas Salomidis, founder of Sorrows Path and of the now-ongoing Distorted Reflection, whose debut album Doom Rules Eternally was released earlier this year on Iron Shield Records.)

All of us come from traditional metal in many of its forms; thus, sometimes we publish here the stories of very clean singing bands, and it never hurt anyone (as far as I know). Although our readers are rather into Hellenic Black Metal, a well-known cultural phenomenon, today we have for you an example of Hellenic Doom, a rare thing in itself.

Distorted Reflection’s essence is rooted in the code of the first Greek epic doom band Sorrows Path, as its founder Kostas Salomidis left Sorrows Path two years ago in order to start something new and still traditional. As a result, Distorted Reflection’s first album Doom Rules Eternally serves as a good representative of traditional yet quite epic doom.

Kostas (guitars, vocals) joined his efforts together with Stelios Pavlou (drums) and Vangelis (bass, synths), but if it was a sort of declaration, he invited three guests to take part in the creation of this album, and one of them is the now 70-year-old Ross the Boss, Manowar’s original guitarist.

Now you know what to expect from Doom Rules Eternally, and I invite you to learn more through this interview with Kostas. Continue reading »