Jazz. Da's niet bepaald het eerste waar je aan denkt bij metal. Maar onderzoeker en drummer Luis Mora Matus laat in Dood & Verderf horen dat beide genres enorm veel raakvlakken hebben. Het resultaat klinkt minimaal vernieuwend, en maximaal geweldig.

The moment I heard that someone was doing his PhD regarding the way that metal and jazz influence each other, I knew that there would be an edition of Death & Decay about this topic. I love both genres, and I especially love the tracks that move between the two.

It is therefore my great pleasure to introduce Luis Mora Matus to the show. Luis is currently doing research at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels in Belgium. There he figures out how, and I quote, “technical tools from progressive metal can be translated into the contemporary jazz practice”.

Furthermore, Luis plays drums in Quantum Trio, a hardcore jazz act that incorporates influences from metal to sound even more impressive.

In this episode, Luis will explain what these relationships between metal and jazz are, which acts make use of them, and why the world would be a better place if more acts did so.

Dream Theater - Learning To Live (Images and Words, 1992)

Derek Sherinian - Atlantis Part 1 - Apocalypse 1470 BC (Planet X, 1999)

Meshuggah - Bleed (Obzen, 2008)

Tigran Hamasyan - The Glass-Hearted Queen (Red Hail, 2009)

Quantum Trio - No Way Out (No Way Out, 2025)

Puteraeon - The Land Of Cold Eternal Winter (Mountains of Madness, 2025)

Sweden's Puteraeon releases its fifth album with Mountains of Madness, which is thematically inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. A super solid oldschool death metal record, according to Zware Metalen editor Michiel Hoogkamer. Or, in his own words:

“Absolute strength of the record is the ‘flow’. The record is brutal where it should be brutal and compelling where it is called for, keeping you listening spellbound throughout. 

“Dan Swanö, who handled the master, was quite impressed. He says that Mountains Of Madness might go down in the books as one of the best ‘Swe-death releases ever’. Time will tell, but for now, there's also no doubt in my mind that Puteraeon brings a fine record here.”